“Teaching Against Race and Racism: Addressing Contemporary AntiSemitism, Islamophobia and Xenophobia” with Uzi Baram

Day/Time: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 @ 4:00PM EST.

DR. UZI BARAM, born in Haifa, Israel, raised on Long Island, New York, obtained a BA in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton and MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts focused on the archaeology of the recent past. For a quarter century, Dr. Baram taught archaeology and cultural anthropology courses at New College of Florida, supervised nearly one hundred theses, created the New College Public Archaeology Lab with its commitment to radical openness and community engagement and published on the archaeology of the Ottoman Empire, the southern route of the Underground Railroad, and on heritage. Florida Humanities has Dr. Baram on its Florida Talks Speakers Series for presentations on heritage through archaeology, climate change, and the relationship of Florida with Israel. He raised his three children in Sarasota, where they attended public schools, and where he continues to live.