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Past Events

Oct. 8, 2025
Oct. 8, 2025
Department of Anthropology Fall 2025 Distinguished Scholar David R. Braun Presents "Exploring the Origin of Tool Use"
Campus Center - Cole Cinema
4:45 – 6 p.m.

Join the Department of Anthropology for its Fall 2025 Distinguished Scholar lecture, "Exploring the Origin of Tool Use." The origins of technology--tool use--represent a turning...

Sept. 25, 2025
Sept. 25, 2025
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Elijah Anderson presents "Race Relations Since the End of the Civil Rights Movement"
Nancy R. and Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center - Recital Hall
4:40 – 6 p.m.

The Phi Beta Kappa Zeta Chapter of Maryland at St. Mary's College of Maryland is pleased to welcome Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African...

Aug. 28, 2025
July 22, 2025, July 30, 2025, July 31, 2025, Aug. 5, 2025, Aug. 14, 2025, Aug. 28, 2025
World on the Move: Migration Journeys
6 – 7:30 p.m.
The event aims to explore diverse stories of human migration and its impact on culture, history, and society. Leslie Walker Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Topic...
Aug. 14, 2025
July 22, 2025, July 30, 2025, July 31, 2025, Aug. 5, 2025, Aug. 14, 2025, Aug. 28, 2025
World on the Move: Migration Journeys
6 – 7:30 p.m.
The event aims to explore diverse stories of human migration and its impact on culture, history, and society. Leslie Walker Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Topic...
Aug. 5, 2025
July 22, 2025, July 30, 2025, July 31, 2025, Aug. 5, 2025, Aug. 14, 2025, Aug. 28, 2025
World on the Move: Migration Journeys
6 – 7:30 p.m.
The event aims to explore diverse stories of human migration and its impact on culture, history, and society. Leslie Walker Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Topic...
July 31, 2025
July 22, 2025, July 30, 2025, July 31, 2025, Aug. 5, 2025, Aug. 14, 2025, Aug. 28, 2025
World on the Move: Migration Journeys
6 – 7:30 p.m.
The event aims to explore diverse stories of human migration and its impact on culture, history, and society. Leslie Walker Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Topic...
July 30, 2025
July 22, 2025, July 30, 2025, July 31, 2025, Aug. 5, 2025, Aug. 14, 2025, Aug. 28, 2025
World on the Move: Migration Journeys
6 – 7:30 p.m.
The event aims to explore diverse stories of human migration and its impact on culture, history, and society. Leslie Walker Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Topic...
July 22, 2025
July 22, 2025, July 30, 2025, July 31, 2025, Aug. 5, 2025, Aug. 14, 2025, Aug. 28, 2025
World on the Move: Migration Journeys
6 – 7 p.m.
The event aims to explore diverse stories of human migration and its impact on culture, history, and society. Leslie Walker Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Topic...
Oct. 22, 2024
Oct. 22, 2024
Visiting Anthropologist Lecture - Archaeologist Lisa Lucero, Oct. 22
Campus Center - Cole Cinema
4:45 – 5:45 p.m.
Tuesday, October 22, 4:45 – 5:45pm, Cole Cinema, “Maya Wisdom and Lessons for our Future.” Archaeologist Lisa Lucero shares her insights on the relevance of...
Oct. 2, 2024
Oct. 2, 2024
Visiting Anthropologist Lecture - Forensic Anthropologist Erin Kimmerle, PhD
Campus Center - Cole Cinema
4:45 – 5:45 p.m.

Wednesday, October 2, 4:45 - 5:45, Visiting Anthropologist Erin Kimmerle, PhD (USF) will give a public talk in Cole Cinema that is free and open...

Oct. 18, 2023
Oct. 18, 2023
Dr. Margaret Bruchac (Nulhegan Abenaki) Discusses Indigenous Claims to Cultural Heritage
Campus Center - Cole Cinema
4:45 – 5:45 p.m.
Feb. 15, 2023
Feb. 15, 2023
Political Instability in Sahelian Africa: Prospects for Democracy and Peace (and why Americans should care)
Anne Arundel Hall - The Blackistone Room
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

In this VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE, an international panel of African and American democracy scholars from Senegal, South Africa and Israel provide their expertise and insight into...

Feb. 8, 2023
Feb. 8, 2023
Talking Black in America: Performance Traditions by Distinguished Scholar Walt Wolfram, PhD
Campus Center - Cole Cinema
4:45 – 5:45 p.m.

A film screening of Professor Walt Wolfram's recent documentary which summarizes the vast array of African American Language use in performance styles and genres that...

Oct. 13, 2022
Oct. 13, 2022
Visiting Anthropologist Lecture: “The Land of Open Graves"
Campus Center - Cole Cinema
4:45 – 5:45 p.m.

The Department of Anthropology invites you to the Fall 2022 Visiting Anthropologist lecture by Dr. Jason De León (UCLA), “The Land of Open Graves: Raising...

Feb. 3, 2021
Feb. 3, 2021
Public Lecture with the Director of Research for the US Marine Corps University
noon – 1:30 p.m.

"THINGS GO AWRY: INTEGRATING ANTHROPOLOGY IN MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS" A lecture and discussion by Dr. Kerry Fosher, director of research for the United States Marine Corps...