Anthropology
Paula Dias, an Indiana University Bloomington junior, has been selected as a 2008 Beinecke Scholar. Dias is one of only 22 students nationwide to receive the $34,000 award, which supports graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. She is the fifth IU student to receive the award.
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Two international conferences taking place in April at Indiana University will apply scholarly and scientific analysis to questions of race in the U.S. and elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere. "Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean" will take place April 4-5, and "Rethinking Race in the Americas: Anthropology, Politics and Policy" will be April 17-18.
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A six-year study of Amazonian small farmers and their responses to climate change shows the farmers are vulnerable to natural catastrophes and risky land use practices, say Indiana University Bloomington anthropologists Eduardo Brondizio and Emilio Moran. The researchers report in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (now accessible online) that an increase in climate anomalies like El Nino could ultimately drive many small farmers to ruin, forcing them into Brazilian cities that may be ill-equipped to employ, house and feed them.
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The public is invited to explore pirate lore on Feb. 12 as Indiana University archeologists Charles Beeker and Geoffrey Conrad discuss their ongoing research in the Dominican Republic, including their work to study and protect what they believe is a shipwreck of notorious pirate Captain Kidd.
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The Indiana University Bloomington Anthropology Department now offers a Ph.D. in the anthropology of food. "Food studies of all kinds are increasing in popularity," said Anthropology Department Chair Eduardo Brondizio. "IU offers the first program in the world leading to a Ph.D. in the social science of food."
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An international symposium, "The Human Brain Evolving: Papers in Honor of Ralph L. Holloway," will take place April 27-28 in Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Sponsored by the Stone Age Institute and IU, the event will feature presentations by major researchers on diverse aspects of brain evolution. The range of specialties includes paleoneurology, human paleontology, archaeology, primatology and cognitive science.
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