Past: Red Light Night - “Materiality within the Arts”

"Material Expressions of Migration, Violence, Community-building, and Childhood in the Pre-Columbian Central Illinois River Valley"

February 15, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.

Jennifer Bengston, assistant professor of Anthropology at Southeast Missouri State University, will discuss her research of the Morton Village and Norris Farms #36 archeological sites near Havana, Illinois. Drawing on analyses of ceramic styles, skeletal trauma, and children's burials, she suggests that Morton Village residents from different cultural backgrounds created and expressed novel community identities within the contested social landscape of the 14th century Central Illinois River Valley.