News and Events

Highlighted here are newsworthy items, colloquia, lectures and events that are of special relevance and interest to anthropology.

Please see the menu to the side for regular department seminars open to the public, the department newsletter, posters on display, and other events links. All events have been posted to the Anthropology Caldendar. To access and download the public calendar please click here

Anthropology Department Calendar

UW Technology, in consultation with the anthropology department, has created a department calendar of events. If you know of events specifically related to anthropology that you would like posted to the calendar please contact Catherine Zeigler at czeigler@u.washington.edu.

To link to the calendar directly, click here

Critical Medical Humanities and Program on Values in Society
Lecture Series

The Critical Medical Humanities lecture series (in which anthropology professors Janelle Taylor, Lorna Rhodes and Rachel Chapman have been involved), with support from Philosophy Department's Program on Values in Society, is proud to announce our first of three planned lectures in 2008-2009:

Medical Complicity With Torture: Getting Out Of Abu-Ghraib

Dr. Steven Miles, MD
(Department of Medicine and Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
7:00 pm
Kane Hall room 110
University of Washington, Seattle campus

Four years ago pictures from Abu Ghraib prison confirmed that torture was occurring at US run prisons in the war on terror. Since then, we learned that similar abuses occurred throughout a global network of prisons and that these abuses were the result of a high level police that also recruited the assistance of physicians and psychologists. Dr. Miles will review how that policy was made and, more importantly, what must be done to avoid leaving a precedent by which any government can justify torture.

Critical Medical Humanities

Program on Values

Undergraduate and Graduate Track in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (MAGH)

****New****

The Anthropology Department is pleased to announce a brand new undergraduate and graduate track called
Medical Anthropology and Global Health (MAGH)

The new program provides training at both the undergraduate and graduate level via the following avenues:

* Undergraduate Track in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
* Graduate Study in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
* Concurrent MPH/PhD Program

Exploring phenomena from the molecular to the global level, MAGH integrates approaches from social, cultural, medical and biocultural anthropology into a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing local and global health issues. With anthropology faculty renowned for their scholarship on population and health, and links to programs across campus addressing global health, the area of emphasis provides a venue for new insights, new approaches and new opportunities for understanding human health and well-being.

To find out more about this exciting new program, visit the MAGH web page.

Archaeology Field School

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for the Winter Quarter 2009 Archaeology Field School in Indonesia

Earn 12 UW credits and learn archaeological field methods, including survey, excavation, field analysis, and film/video documentation, in the fascinating country of Indonesia. The course provides preliminary intensive Indonesian language training in Yoygyakarta, followed by archaeological training in the Banda Islands.

Click Here For More Information and Application Materials