We’re pleased to announce the upcoming 1^st Thursday presentations for fall sponsored by PSU’s Department of Anthropology and the Anthropology Student Association. Mark your calendars!   All talks begin at 4:00 pm and are in Smith Memorial Union Building (SMSU; room location varies). The winter-spring schedule is still in development.   Stay tuned….

October 8th (please note, this is the Second Thursday in October). Kelly Derr (HRA) Fire as a Complex Social Practice: A Look at Indigenous Landscape Management in Western North America.  SMSU 101

November 5th   Terry Hunt (U. Oregon).  Transporting Giant Statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)  SMSU 236

December 3rd    Michael Etnier (Portland State University) Applied Zooarchaeology: using old and new bones to address North Pacific conservation issues.  SMSU 236

Rolling mountains, women boxing & rich photography – is that what you imagine when you hear Afghanistan? Through the steady drip of war-focused news stories coming from Afghanistan, we think we know a place, a people, a history. But do we? I’m excited to let you know — a new documentary film called FRAME BY FRAME is coming to the Kiggins Theatre to show the life of four Afgan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape (one that was illegal during the Taliban Regime). This award-winning film had its world premiere at SWSW this year and since then it has only been seen in select film festivals — until now!

The film is about four local photojournalists facing the realities of building Afghanistan’s first free press before and after the fall of the Taliban Regime!

Tickets can be purchased Here:

https://gathr.us/screening/12838

Please share our facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/808676682584070/

Take a look at the trailer http://www.framebyframethefilm.com/ and mark your calendar for September 21^st at 7:30 pm at the Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main Street, Vancouver, WA.

If this looks like a film you’re into seeing, you can help the screening to happen by reserving your ticket and spreading the word. We only have 4 days left to pre-sell only 43 tickets — this ‘tips’ or reserves the theater and guarantees that it will happen.

Hope to see you there!

2015 Annual Reed College Sex, Gender and Sexuality Symposium Lecture

http://events.reed.edu/posts/2015-16/sex-gender-sexuality-symposium-cooper.html

Marianne Cooper, sociologist at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, affiliate of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, and lead researcher for Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, will speak on, “Social Class and Gendered Burdens: Motherhood and Fatherhood in Unequal Times.” The talk draws on her book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, which examines how families are coping in an insecure age.  The lecture will be held on Thursday, October 1 at 7pm in Vollum Lecture Hall.

Portland-based photojournalist John Rudoff has been on the ground for the last few weeks in Greece, on the island of Lesbos, documenting the growing influx of refugees into Europe. With the Greek economy crippled by EU-imposed austerity measures, there is little the government can do. Instead of solidarity and a continent-wide, coordinated aid strategy, the refugees—the vast majority of them from Syria, Afghanistan, and, to a lesser extent, Iraq—are arriving on Lesbos only to find Greek state services collapsing under the strain. Join us for a moving multimedia look at this escalating crisis.

For more information and event registration, visit http://worldoregon.org/events/programs/headline-and-cultural-forums/rapid-response-greeces-refugee-crisis