A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Professor of Anthropology Eric Gable
Professor of Anthropology Eric Gable’s commentary, “Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching US slavery,” was published in The Akron Legal News. Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” Read more.
Professor of Anthropology Eric Gable
Professor of Anthropology Eric Gable contributed to an article titled “Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching U.S. slavery,” which ran in the Times Union. The article starts: “Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: ‘Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.’” Read more.
The article also appeared in other publications:
https://www.omahadailyrecord.com/content/why-separating-fact-fiction-critical-teaching-us-slavery
https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/why-separating-fact-from-fiction-is-critical-in-18388993.php
https://news.yahoo.com/why-separating-fact-fiction-critical-122605682.html
Join us ONLINE for the next Mary Talk of the 2019-20 academic year.
Next in this year’s series is Eric Gable, professor of anthropology and recipient of the 2018 Waple Faculty Professional Achievement Award at UMW, presenting “An Anthropology of Art: Images and Objects from a Cross-Cultural Perspective.”
Professor Gable’s lecture distills his current book project, which delves into anthropology’s long-standing fascination with art and what it reveals about human equality and difference. The lecture is based on an ongoing study of Western art museums and how primitive art–particularly African–has been interpreted therein, and will include material on artistic practices among the people of West Africa and Indonesia, where Gable conducted field research.
Wednesday, April 22
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Online
To watch the Talk online, register here. You then will receive a link to the streaming video, which can be watched live or at a later time. You also will have the opportunity to submit questions to be asked of the speaker at the end of the Talk.
Note: Online viewing is the only option for this Mary Talk, as we are not conducting any in-person events at this time.
We look forward to seeing you online!
Eric Gable, professor of anthropology, will present the lecture “Jefferson’s Ardor: Sex, Race, and the Invention of Cultural Relativism” at Sweet Briar College on Thursday, March 1. While at Sweet Briar, Gable will attend classes and meet with anthropology and archaeology students.
According to an article in the New Era Progress (Amherst, Va.), “the lecture will explore Jefferson’s ideas about race and culture, and how these relate to American ideals of egalitarianism and present forms of inequality.”
Eric Gable, professor of anthropology, will present a lecture at Bucknell University on Wednesday, March 21 as part of the university’s spring lecture series, “Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: An American Origin Story, Interdisciplinarily Considered.”
Gable’s lecture, “What Heritage Does and Does Not Do to Identity: The Case of Hemings and Jefferson,” will use material from his fieldwork in Indonesia, West Africa and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson.