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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Click the link to register for the Zoom meeting: tr.ee/Z3H6dw

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 1d

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Talk “Rot and Repair: Crafting Ecological Futures in a Broken World” with Anand Pandian, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, on Friday, October 10, at 12:00pm in Sewall 570 and on Zoom.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Read the news article and listen to Alejandra Osejo Varona share her exciting research:

"Escobar’s Hippos: How a Rice Anthropologist Is Rewriting the Story of Colombia’s Most Unlikely Ecological Problem": tr.ee/H0a2MF

riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 9d

Register for the Zoom meeting: tr.ee/m7BxH8

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 9d

JOIN US and the Program in STS for a Brown Bag Talk “Irreversible returns: Controversies Over Glacier Geoengineering in Chile” with Cristián Simonetti, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, on Friday, October 3, at 12:00pm on Zoom.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 10d

Research Relays provide a relaxed setting to allow faculty to learn about each other’s research, promote informal discussions, and stimulate collaborations. October's Research Relay will feature new SoSS Faculty who will be given 4 minutes to give a synopsis of their research.

riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 10d

Join our professor, Dr. Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, and the School of Social Sciences for Research Relays on Friday, October 3, 4:30 - 6:30 PM, Kraft Hall 130.

Other speakers include: Kevin Thomas (SOCI), Guillaume Pouliot (ECON), Jae-Hee Jung (POLI)

RSVP: form.asana.com?k=dAlNpxVjRK...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 14d

IDEAolduvai: "New AI analyses of bone surface modifications suggest Homo habilis may not have been the hunter we thought—but prey of big cats. This challenges the traditional view of their role in early human evolution."

riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 14d

New article on NYA Sciences co-written by our professor Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo:

"Early Humans and the Balance of Power: Homo habilis as prey"
Read it online: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 16d

our relations with anthropological questions and performative productions. Instead of enacting our research, we put the elements of the stage (lights, objects, sound, bodies etc.) into conversation with it. This generates surprising and often more affective analyses and relations.

riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 16d

Affect Theater is an exploration of and a cross pollination between research and narrative practices in theater and anthropology. By creating a dialogue between these disciplines in a laboratory format, we pose questions and engage techniques in ways that enrich...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 16d

We are having our first Ethnographic Design CoLab meeting of the year!

Affect Theater with Cristiana Giordano, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, September 26, 12-4pm, Location TBA.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 17d

Students asked thoughtful questions about food waste reduction, sustainability, and the balance between efficiency and care in a high-volume kitchen.

We are deeply grateful to Chef Joe and the entire Seibel Servery staff for opening their doors to us.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 17d

Our discussion explored the cultural and logistical dimensions of campus dining, from sourcing ingredients and accommodating diverse dietary needs, to the creativity behind menu planning and the teamwork that sustains daily operations.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 17d

Students in Eat Me: Food & Culture in Global Contexts (ANTH 210, Fall 2025), taught by Professor Cymene Howe, spent an afternoon at Seibel Servery in conversation with Chef Joe Stayshich, Assistant Dining Director, and the dedicated servery crew.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 23d

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 23d

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 23d

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Talk “No Malagasy Science? Politics and Paradox of Post-Colonial Sciences in Madagascar” with Quinn Georgic, PhD Candidate, Rice University, on Friday, September 19, at 12:00pm in Sewall 570 and Zoom.

Register for the Zoom meeting: tinyurl.com/5dez6v43

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 25d

JOIN US and the Center for Environmental Studies for their next lunch series on Tuesday, September 16, at 11:30 am, at the Cohen House.

Assistant Professor Huatse Gyal (Anthropology) will be one of the panelists, along with Dean Rachel Kimbro, Cassandra Diep, and Chin Jou.

riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · Sep 8

JOIN US, Dr. Günel, and Friends of Fondren for an event, The Books that Shaped My World, this Wednesday, September 10, 6 p.m., Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room, 3rd Floor.

RSVP here: riceconnect.rice.edu/fondren/BTSM...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · Sep 7

JOIN US and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies for a talk: "Spanish Speakers as Racialized Social Types: Hearing for Deficiency and Deception" by Jessica López-Espino.

Dr. López-Espino will be introduced by our professor Amarilys Estrella.

Scan QR for more info.