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TxPAN Calendar of Events

We've compiled a calendar of events hosted by TxPAN as well as other organizations around the state.
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Gault Site Tour

A tour of the Gault Site will be hosted by The Williamson Museum and The Gault School of Archaeological Research on Saturday May 14, 2022 from 9am to 1pm. For more information, check out The Williamson Museum!


Wild Talk #3: Exploring Rock Art Research with the Shumla Foundation

Wild Spirit Wild Places will be hosting an evening filled with recent research and discoveries of rock art in the Lower Pecos. The event will take place at The Rackhouse at Desert Door in Driftwood, Texas on Thursday, May 19, 2022 from 6pm to 8pm. Tickets are free!


Archaeology Accelerated

 

The Museum of the Coastal Bend presents the excavation unit from McNeill Ranch Site on Friday, May 27, 2022 at 10:30am online. The event will have a Q&A from the Public Archaeology Lab. Get more information at the Museum of the Coastal Bend site!


Archaeology 101: Legacy Summer Camps 2022

A week-long summer camp for children ages 9 to 13 will take place at the Center for Archaeological Research from June 20 to 24, 2022 for the first session and June 27 to July 1, 2022 for the second session. Children will get the opportunity to learn about archaeological methods, discoveries, and so much more. If you would like to learn more about this amazing summer camp visit the CAR UTSA site!

Location:
114
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Dr. Nicole Taylor | ntaylor@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
Department of Anthropology Speakers' Series
Spencer Wells is a geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. For over a decade he was an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Director of the Genographic Project, which collected and analyzed DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people around the world in order to decipher how our ancestors populated the planet, in the process launching the consumer genomics industry. Wells graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford. He has appeared in numerous documentary films and is the author of three books, The Journey of Man, Deep Ancestry and Pandora's Seed. His work has taken him to more than 100 countries, where he has collaborated with everyone from heads of government and Fortune 500 corporations, to tribal chieftains eking out a precarious living in places as remote as Chad, Tajikistan and Papua New Guinea. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is founder and CEO of consumer genomics startup Insitome, an adjunct Professor at the University of Texas and owner of the iconic blues club Antone’s. Click here for more information
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Location:
114
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Dr. Nicole Taylor | ntaylor@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
Department of Anthropology Speakers' Series
Department of Anthropology Speaker Series'
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Gigi Taylor | Cultural Anthropologist, Luminosity Research, Austin, TX
Friday, February 7, 2020 | 3:00 pm
Evans Liberal Arts 114

Business anthropology is a well-established subfield within the discipline of cultural anthropology. Using both anthropological theory and ethnographic methods, business anthropologists help clients understand the cultural context of consumers, organizations and products. Business anthropologists can be found working in public, private and non-profit organizations as well as in academia.  In this talk, I first introduce and provide disciplinary context for the three specializations of business anthropology-consumer, organizational and design. I then illustrate each specialization using various case studies from previous client projects across industries. Special emphasis will be placed on deconstructing the practice of culturally based UX (user experience) research. Next, I discuss the value of interpretive and symbolic anthropological theories in business anthropology.  I close with a reflection on conducting anthropology for business vs. anthropology of business to illustrate the contribution of business anthropology to a literature of practice.
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Location:
250
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Contact Dr. Elizabeth Erhart at 245-8272 for more information
Campus Sponsor:
Department of Anthropology
The stunning ancient art of Chauvet Cave has captured our collective imagination since its discovery in 1994. Like Paleolithic rock art across Europe and Asia, the extraordinary imagery so skillfully rendered over 30,000 years ago invites viewers to a sense of wonder and a deeper connection to our own ancient beginnings - to people who, like us, lived, loved, and survived creatively. Now, after twenty years of scientific research, the paintings are revealing their secrets. Join Dr. Jean-Michel Geneste as he shares his discoveries on the ways these ancient artists viewed their world, the principles that governed their artistic composition, and the reasons they gave time, resources, heart and mind to communicate through art.
Location:
114
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Britt Bousman | bousman@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
Department of Anthropology
How can archaeologists make valid inferences about religion in the past? What is the foundation for inferring past religions, something that what is normally considered cultural and arbitrary? Can there be a materialist paradigm of religion that provides a basis for reliable inferences? This talk provides a basis for assessment of past religious behavior based on cross-cultural research and a biogenetic model of cross-cultural patterns. This provides an empirically-derived model for making inferences about ritual practices in the past through an ethnological analogy.

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