# Event Details

- **Event Name**: What Dinosaurs Mean to Us: A Cultural Anthropologist’s Eye on Paleontology in the United States Toda
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Lecture + Book signing

Join us for an insightful evening with Cultural Anthropologist Elana Shever. Dr. Shever spent more than 5 years shadowing paleontologists at work, joining museum tours, exploring paleontology parks, and trying her hand at fossil excavation and preparation. In this talk, she shares insights into the role that paleontology plays, and the meaning of fossils, in the contemporary United States.

Elana Shever is the author of Making Our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States (University of California Press, 2025), Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina (Stanford University Press, 2012), and an array of journal articles and book chapters in anthropology and science and technology studies. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University. She was Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study (2019-20), Research Fellow at the University of Rochester Humanities Center (2016-2017), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University (2008-2009). She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2008).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/denver/what-dinosaurs-mean-to-us-a-cultural-anthropologist’s-eye-on-paleontology-in-the-united-states-toda/200029791679105
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 64

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Denver
- **state**: CO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO, United States, Colorado 80205
- **lat**: 39.74837
- **long**: -104.94388
- **full address**: 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO, United States, Colorado 80205

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