Event Details
Friday, Apr 25, 2014
FGCU Anthro Club: Conservation, Culture, and Women Colloquium
Time: 10:00 am til 4:00 pm
Location: Florida Gulf Coast University, Sudgen Hall, Rm 114
Description: FGCU Anthropology Club to host first colloquium
Theme is “Conservation, Culture, and Women”
The FGCU Anthropology Club will be hosting its first annual colloquium. The day-long event will be held in Sugden Hall on the FGCU campus. The focus of the colloquium is on human aspects of cultural conservation. Speakers from around the state have been invited to make presentations.
Dr. Elizabeth Bird, interim chair of the Anthro Department and the director of the Humanities Institute of USF will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Bird’s presentation will describe her efforts to help conserve the suppressed history of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War.
Other speakers:
- Dr. Kate Detwiler, Anthro, FAU: Speciation and hybridization of guenon monkeys in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Dr. Nancy Stein, Visual Anthro, FAU: Observations of the use of visual rhetoric in the conservation (and creation) of a city’s history, based on experience in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Melissa Timo, M.A., Historic Arch, FPAN SW: Conservation of culture preserves a sense of community, as reflected in the use of traditional grave-marking materials by the African American matriarchal leaders of Econfina Creek,
FPAN is participating in this event.
