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Winter Colloquium Series: The Great Chernobyl Acceleration

Origins and Afterlives of Kush Conference

The origin of the second Kingdom of Kush (c. 850 BCE to 350 CE) has been the subject of much discussion and debate over the years. The kingdom that arose at Napata lasted over a thousand years, evolving over time and continuing to influence the polities that emerged after the kingdom broke apart in c. 350 CE. One of the kingdom’s legacies continues on today as an early example of an African state, allowing for an exploration of larger theoretical questions surrounding state formation, religion and ideology, political economy, identity and intercultural interaction. At the same time, the Kingdom of Kush has played an important and controversial role in the development of Black Studies, the discourse of Afrocentrism, and a consideration of the asymmetries in the racial discourse surrounding Egypt in particular and Africa more generally both in their historical and contemporary incarnations.

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Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology with support from the College of Letters and Sciences and Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.

Winter Colloquium Series: Water and Rural Political Belonging

PhD Candidate Jonathan Malindine published in Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment

Phd Candidate Jonathan Malindine's paper "Prehistoric Aquaculture: Origins, Implications, and an Argument for Inclusion" has been published in Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. His paper makes the case that the story of emerging prehistoric human agricultural developments has long focused on agriculture and domestication without mention of the early forms of aquaculture present at the time.