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SUMMARY:Sonic Icons: Relation\, Recognition\, and Revival in a Syriac World
DESCRIPTION:Talk Abstract: To the extent that Middle Eastern Christians register in Euro-American political imaginaries at all\, they are usually invoked to make a political point about the need for Western military intervention in places like Iraq or Syria\, or they are cited as an exemption to anti-Islamic immigration policies because of an assumption that their Christianity makes them easily assimilable in the so-called “Judeo-Christian” West. Sonic Icons argues that these views work against the very communities they are meant to benefit by tracking a diasporic network of Syriac Orthodox Christians—also known as Assyrians\, Aramaeans\, and Syriacs—in the Netherlands who intertwine religious practice with political activism to “save” Syriac Christianity from the twin threats of political violence in the Middle East and cultural assimilation in Europe. \nComing of age in a historical moment when much of their tradition has been destroyed or forgotten by war\, dispossession\, displacement\, and genocide—their story of self-discovery is a story of survival\, revival\, and reinvention. Their activism is oriented toward seeking a complex form of recognition for what they understand to be the ethical core of Christian kinship in an ethnic as well as in a religious sense\, despite living in societies that do not recognize this unhyphenated form of ethnoreligious identity as a politically legitimate mode of public identity. Drawing on both theological and linguistic theories of the icon\, Sonic Icons rethinks foundational theoretical accounts of ethnicization\, racialization\, and secularization by examining how kinship gets made\, claimed\, and named in the global politics of minority recognition. \n  \nSpeaker Bio: A cultural anthropologist by training (UCSC ’13)\, Dr. Sarah Bakker Kellogg is a sensory ethnographer whose research and writing documents minor traditions of knowledge\, care\, and relational world-making. Known for her methodological creativity\, her work centers questions of reproduction\, ethics\, and justice at the intersection of religious studies\, gender studies\, migration studies\, and political economy. The author of Sonic Icons: Relation\, Recognition\, and Revival in a Syriac World published by Fordham University Press (2025)\, she has also won numerous awards\, research grants\, and fellowships\, including the SSRC’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship\, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship\, and the Wenner Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her new research project is an ethnographic and historical investigation of interfaith activist traditions organized around immigration\, racial reparations\, and economic justice.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/sonic-icons-relation-recognition-and-revival-in-a-syriac-world/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Social Sciences 1\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:On the Margins of Empire: The Archaeology of Social Complexities in Lower Akinyele\, Southwest Nigeria Ca. 18th- 20th centuries
DESCRIPTION:Presentation Abstract: My research examines the materiality of everyday life in non-urban spaces between the 18th and 20th centuries. I seek to articulate the nature of social complexities that may have characterized these spaces\, with particular attention to the domestic domain. In my study at Lower Akinyele\, I aim to investigate how social agents negotiated their daily lives within complex historical processes such as imperial control\, conflict\, migration\, and resettlement\, and how these dynamics shape their lived experience and are reflected in the archaeological record over this extended period. \nCombining an interdisciplinary approach\, my research employs ethnography\, archaeological field survey with geospatial analysis\, and material science-based analysis. Drawing on theories of agency\, practice\, and feminist perspectives\, I move beyond a monolithic view that privileges urban centers as the primary sites for studying social complexity. Instead\, my work advocates for a more nuanced understanding that captures the varied scales of human interactions within these communities. \nAbout the Presenter: Boluwaji Ajayi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UCSC. Ajayi’s research examines the social complexities that shaped the everyday lives of settlements located on the peripheries of early cities and empires in the Yoruba-Edo region of Southwestern Nigeria from the precolonial era to the twentieth century.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/on-the-margins-of-empire-the-archaeology-of-social-complexities-in-lower-akinyele-southwest-nigeria-ca-18th-20th-centuries/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Social Sciences 1\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Field School Workshop: Why and how to get your first fieldwork exposure
DESCRIPTION:Please join Anthropology’s Field School Workshop: Why and how to get your first fieldwork exposure on Wednesday\, November 19th\, from 12-1pm in 261\, Social Sciences 1\, hosted by Prof. Vicky Oelze and Anthropology majors Annie Bleveans\, Lina Pesso\, and Jamie Sorensen. \nThe main purpose of attending a field school in archaeology\, biological anthropology\, paleoanthropology or primatology is to gain hands-on experience in the basic field methods of these disciplines\, such as survey and excavation techniques\, observational data and sample collection and data analysis\, and usually involves several weeks of institutionally organized field work under the guidance of faculty and other experts. \nAre you wondering:\nHow do I pick the right school and how do I apply?\nWhat is field school like and is it really the right thing for me? \nThen please join our conversation\, in which we will provide rich resources on how to find and select field schools and also field volunteering opportunities. We will share our very own field school experiences and what we learned. Finally\, there will be plenty of time to address questions from the student audience. \nRefreshments (pizza) will be served.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/field-school-workshop-why-and-how-to-get-your-first-fieldwork-exposure/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Social Sciences 1\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Neolithic by Sea: the social ecology of the spread of farming in the Adriatic - a view from Dalmatia
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sarah B. McClure (UC Santa Barbara) will present Neolithic by Sea: the social ecology of the spread of farming in the Adriatic – a view from Dalmatia at the Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (Arch/BioAnth) Lunch Talk on Wednesday\, November 12th at noon in 261\, Social Sciences 1. \nPresentation Abstract: The last 20 years of research have provided new insights on Mesolithic foragers and early Neolithic farmers in the Adriatic. Excavations\, material analyses\, and the application of new methodologies have characterized a diversity of late Mesolithic and early Neolithic lifeways and the role of trans-Adriatic interactions for the spread of farming. Discoveries of underwater sites have also highlighted some of the taphonomic challenges for Mesolithic and Neolithic sites presented by post-glacial environmental change. This presentation highlights our current understanding of the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition in the Adriatic and the roles played by foraging populations\, social interactions\, and environment for the spread of farming beginning 8\,000 years ago. Our research on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia seeks to characterize Neolithic farming societies and ultimately explore the processes underlying the eventual dominance of domestic plant and animal-based subsistence in the region. \nAbout the Presenter: Sarah B. McClure is a Professor of Anthropology\, Director of the Mediterranean Prehistory and Paleoecology Laboratory\, and Associate Dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Santa Barbara. She is also a National Geographic Explorer and Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project and UCSB.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/neolithic-by-sea-the-social-ecology-of-the-spread-of-farming-in-the-adriatic-a-view-from-dalmatia/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Social Sciences 1\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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