Greg Woolf Candidate for Mellor Chair "Alien Metropolis: Migration, Cosmopolitanism and the City of Rome" October 15, 4pm Bunche 6275 Greg Woolf taught at Oxford and at the University of St Andrews. In 2015, he become Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Woolf is a cultural historian with broad interests in […]

The Health Working Group is pleased to invite you to a practice job talk!

Please join us for: Chiara Galli (UCLA): “Protecting children, excluding immigrants: how unaccompanied minors understand the law in the ambivalent US context”  

The Gender & Sexuality Working Group is pleased to invite you to our upcoming Fall Quarter event: Héctor Carillo (Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University): "Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men" Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of International Migration  

Please join the Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group for: Daniel Zipp (UCLA): "Confronting King Coal in China: The State, Capital, and Labor in a Dying Industry" and Cory Mengual (UCLA): "TBA  

TERRY DEACON, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY The BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social, behavioral, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution, including issues of cultural transmission, behavioral ecology, affect, cognition, and health.  

Established in 2001, MMAC is an interdisciplinary discussion group housed in UCLA's Department of Anthropology. In addition to hosting regular talks and discussions with scholars from UCLA and beyond, the group provides a forum for exploring recent research and classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives that inform psychocultural studies and medical anthropology. Regular MMAC participants include faculty in […]

The transatlantic slave trade era – marked by chattel slavery, racial capitalism, and exploitative plantation economies – radically transformed societies and environments in the Americas. In this talk, I expand upon a Black Historical Ecology framework with insights from recent excavations at the Estate Little Princess in St. Croix. Drawing from an array of archaeological, […]