Climate Change & Bioarchaeology Zoom Lecture - Wednesday, September 8th 12pm-1pm (registration required by 11am)

 

What can studies of the past tell us about equitable sustainable development in the future?

Bioarchaeology (the study of archaeological human remains) has great potential to provide insights into historical, sociocultural, and evolutionary aspects of a number of these research priorities, including pandemic and endemic diseases; the meaning of resilience in human communities; and the role of social inequality, food insecurity, and socio-sanitation issues in shaping human health in the face of climate and environmental change. 

This talk will address common questions and misconceptions about human responses to climate change in the past--violence, migration, disease, and civilizational collapse--with the goal of demonstrating how anthropology is the key to creating a nuanced view of the human experience through time and to creating an equitable, sustainable future. 

Gwen Robbins Schug is a Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University in Boone and a Visiting Professor at UNCG (2020– 2022). Her research focuses on adaptive challenges for human communities, including human-environmental interactions and climate change throughout the Holocene in South Asia and more recently, in Bronze Age Oman and modern Italy. 

Her work has been funded by Wenner Gren, Fulbright, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change (2021), co-editor of A Companion to South Asia in the Past (2016), author of Bioarchaeology and Climate Change (2011), and 33 published journal articles and book chapters. 

She currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bioarchaeology International and as an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. Dr. Robbins Schug teaches a Bioarchaeological Field School at the University of Padua in Italy and she is currently teaching courses at UNCG on climate and human health in the past, the history of disease, human skeletal biology, and forensic anthropology. 

The event will take place via Zoom.
Registration is required by 11a.m. on Wednesday, September 8.

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