Bristol Anthropology and Archaeology Research Seminars (BAARS)

Bristol Anthropology and Archaeology Research Seminars (BAARS) is a weekly seminar series hosted by our department, where we invite academic staff and lecturers across the four fields of anthropology to present their current and ongoing research.

Each talk is followed by a Q&A.

Seminars take place every Wednesday during term time from 13.00-14.30.  Location: G10, Department for Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol 43, Woodland Road, BS8 1UU, ground floor.
Access information: https://www.accessable.co.uk/university-of-bristol/access-guides/43-woodland-road

Please join in for an informal lunch with the presenter, staff and students beforehand (12.00–13.00), bring your own lunch. Non-alcoholic drinks, nibbles and tea/coffee with biscuits are provided. All welcome!

Conveners: Theresia Hofer (Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology) and William Tantam (Lecturer in Anthropology)


Autumn  2024, Wednesdays 1.00-2.30pm

18th September

Lorena Becerra-Valdivia

Climate influence on the early occupation of South America during the late Pleistocene

2nd October

Jolynna Sinanan

Infrastructuring Everest: Disrupting Iconographies of Heroic Mountain Travel

9th October

Turi King

Title TBC

16th October

Branwen Spector

Inclusive Ethnography: How can we make fieldwork healthier, safer, and more ethical?

30th October

Garima Jaju

Isha's wait: money, love and kinship in the wake of domestic violence in India

6th November

James Wright

Historic Building Mythbusting – Uncovering Folklore, History and Archaeology of Mediaeval Buildings

13th November

Paula Sheppard

The behavioural ecology of the family

20th November

Elena Liber

“Memory Work”: Silence, Traces, and Eliciting the Past in Lviv, Ukraine.

 

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