The 2009 Hesburgh Lecture series welcomed Professor Agustin Fuentes, professor of Anthropology.
Co-sponsored by Eastern Michigan's Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Fuentes spoke on 'What Race is and What it is Not.' The 2009 lecture was a success with a record turnout, please see below for details and we hope to see you when we announce our 2010 speaker!
'What Race is and What it is Not': There are no biological races in humans, but race is a prominent social reality, especially in the United States. Humans vary in many ways, but not always in the way we think. This talks reveals the myths and the realities about human diversity and why this information is very important to all of us.
Agustin Fuentes completed a B.A. in zoology and anthropology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught in the department of anthropology, and directed the Primate Behavior and Ecology Program at Central Washington University from 1996-2002, and is currently the Nancy O’Neill Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests include the evolution of social complexity in human and primate societies, cooperation and conflict negotiation across primates, including humans, and reproductive behavior and ecology. He also is interested in issues of human-nonhuman primate interactions, disease, and pathogen transfer. Fuentes’ recent published work include the books Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology (McGraw-Hill) and Primates in Perspective (co-edited, Oxford University Press) and articles such as
It’s Not All Sex and Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and Social Complexity in Human Evolution
The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology - inspired by J.M. Coetzees’ Elizabeth Costello in the American Anthropologist
Human Culture and Monkey Behavior: Assessing the contexts of potential pathogen transmission between macaques and humans - in the American Journal of Primatology.
His current research projects include assessing behavior and disease transmission in human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar, and examining the roles of cooperation, social negotiation and patterns of niche construction in human evolution.
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