The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture with guest speaker Sam Brooke from the Southern Poverty Law Center will take place January 22, 2016, at Singletary Center in the President’s Room from 2:00 to 3:30pm.
Comparing ethnographic and agricultural data collected from two neighboring Biangai villages (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea), one engaged in a small-scale conservation effort and the other stakeholders in a large industrial gold mine, this paper analyzes the linkages between alternative development regimes, agricultural transformation and human-environmental relations. Working the land is not simply about production, but also about knowing the landscape and its products as nodes in human social relations. Mining regimes disentangle the multi-species networks experienced in the garden, and reassemble them into other spaces. Thus, in the mining inspired transformations of agricultural practices, Biangai are also transforming how they experience their own multi-species community – its past, present and future.
Dr. Jamon Halvaksz is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Texas San Antonio, and a 1994 graduate of our very own department. http://colfa.utsa.edu/ant/people/full-time-faculty/bios/jamon-a-halvaksz-ii/.
The Health, Society, and Populations Program is thrilled to be the primary sponsor for Dr. Carroll's visit. In the last decade, significant global health resources have been allocated to contain the emergent and frequently co-occurring epidemics of HIV, TB, and drug use in Ukraine. A substantial portion of available treatment services for these diseases is supplied by international donors. As a consequence, integrated TB, HIV, and addiction treatment programs for 'high-risk' individuals have become quasi-experimental staging areas for standardized, directly observed treatment protocols such as monitored methadone therapy and DOTS. Based on 18 months of fieldwork throughout Ukraine, this paper explores the trajectory of opiate users through internationally funded treatment efforts and the roles they are forced to play in the morally-charged social and political distinctions at the heart of the geopolitical conflict in this region. https://health.as.uky.edu/power-struggles-addiction-war-and-other-forms…
Dr. Jennifer J. Carroll is a postdoctoral NIH research fellow at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and an affiliated researcher at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University:http://jenniferjcarroll.net/
Co-Sponsors: UKY College of Public Health Health Behavior Department, UKY College of A&S Departments of Anthropology and Sociology, UKY College of Medicine Center for Drug and Alcohol Research (CDAR).
Photo Credit: Jennifer J. Carroll
Dr. Miriam Ticktin. Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Zolberg Center on Global Migration, the New School. This talk is part of the Committee on Social Theory Spring Lecture Series. http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/?id=4d54-6379-4e44-4d35
Please come join us for coffee, tea, snacks, and pleasant conversation!
Please come join us for coffee, tea, snacks, and pleasant conversation!
