Colloquium speaker on the legislative battle over sacred native land in north Arizona
William Holly, post-doctoral student at the UI, presents dissertation on "The Mountain is Part of Us: Tourism, Community, and American Indian Sacred Land in Northern Arizona”

The San Francisco peaks in Arizona, which have a mediocre ski resort, according to William Holly, are the location at the heart of an on-going lawsuit between the 13 different  Native American tribes in the region who consider the mountain sacred, the state […]

Forensic anthropologist explains complexity and ethics of human remains 
Colloquium speaker discusses cultural differences in memory and relationship with the past 

Human remains are rarely just scientific evidence; they carry the power to shape politics, identity, prosecute and hold strong cultural memory long after a person dies. Forensic anthropologist and professor Katharine Kolpan discussed the ethical and cultural dilemmas surrounding human remains at the Renfrew […]

UI philosophy professor launches AI reasoning challenge
The Metaphor Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus competition will close Nov. 30 

On Tuesday, Sept. 2, University of Idaho professor Bert Baumgaertner kicked off the fall semester’s Malcolm Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium with “Easy for Humans, Hard for AI: Metaphor Abstraction and Reasoning […]