[Eoas-seminar] Seminar this Friday (11/8) by Jaur Metha

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Dear All, Professor Jayur Metha in the Department of Anthropology will give a seminar 3-4pm this Friday in EOA 1050. Below are the title, abstract, and bio of the speaker. Please Let me know if you would like to meet with him before or after the seminar. Look forward to seeing you this Friday. -Ming

Title - Fighting Processes of Historical Erasure in Coastal Louisiana: Climate change, Industrial Development, and Heritage

Abstract - The Mississippi River Delta is an expansive and dynamic coastal delta that has attracted human settlement for thousands of years.  Over this time frame,  hundreds of monumental complexes were constructed amidst the marshes, bayous, and river levees. These complexes fundamentally reworked the ecology of the deltaic plain, creating topography and enhancing biodiversity, whilst also creating novel viewsheds from which to see and be seen.  These monumental places were engineered to last and they were emplaced to reflect the anthropogenic and natural worlds. In the French colonial era, the river delta became the seat of a new empire, an entrepot from which massive wealth was generated, and which rested on the backs of enslaved Africans and rapidly disappearing Indigenous communities. My most recent excavations are a community-directed effort to highlight the daily, material, and religious lives of enslaved Africans and free people of color.  Herein, I review the archaeological history of the Mississippi River Delta, showcase my excavations, and articulate a path forward for a reciprocal archaeology that reaches as far forward into the future as it does into the past.

Bio - Dr. Jayur Madhusudan Mehta is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at Florida State University. He holds degrees from the University of Alabama (M.A.) and University of North Carolina (B.A.), and earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Tulane University. His research specializes in the study of North American Native Americans, human-environment relationships, and the consequences of French and Spanish colonization in the Gulf South.

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Ming Ye, Ph.D.
Professor in Hydrogeology
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
Office: 3015 EOAS Building (1011 Academic Way)
Phone: 850-645-4987
Department of Scientific Computing
Office: 489 Dirac Science Library
Phone: 850-644-4587
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4520
Cell: 850-567-4488
Email: mye at fsu.edu<mailto:mye at fsu.edu>
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