Anthropology

Journaling the Pandemic: What 25,000+ Journal Entries Can Tell Us about the COVID-19 Pandemic – and Ourselves
How can a trove of first-person reflections on the changing texture of pandemic life – created with the ordinary tools of 21st century digital life – enrich, and challenge, our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact close to home and around the globe?

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “The Pandemic Journaling Project.”

A talk by Maria Luz Garcia, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Crimonology, Eastern Michigan University.

David Napier and his colleagues at the University College London are developing health inclusivity indicators that improve our analysis of the social determinants of health. Some 40 countries are being assessed, 20% of which deny care to stigmatized groups. Judging from research thus far, low-income countries which lack the resources for universal health coverage often do better at the level of community engagement and inclusion than higher-income countries.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program for Global Health and Medicine, in collaboration with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Jan Knippers Black Fund, and Middlebury College Departments and Programs of Anthropology, Global Health, Black Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity warmly invite you to a public lecture by Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke.

Departments of Anthropology and Political Science joint reception for graduating seniors and their guests in the McCardell Bicentennial Hall Great Hall.

Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in McCardell Bicentennial Hall room 220 followed by a joint reception in the Great Hall in McCardell Bicentennial Hall at 4:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Anthropology Department

The Anthropology Department presents Bennington College’s Dr. David Bond, who will talk about his research with victims of PFAS contamination not far from Middlebury. Toxicity is a hot topic in anthropological theory, as a window on impending experimental, planetary and queer futures. Are these theories of any use to working-class Vermonters and New Yorkers in their struggle for justice?

An interdisciplinary team at the University of Vermont has been awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health grant.

Biologist Richard Goldsby and anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson discuss their new book on the genetic and social structural aspects of race and racism.