Department of Anthropology - Speaker Series
Fall 2008:
- October 17 - 4:00 PM, Hale Science Building, Room 230
- Dr. Robin G. Nelson: Kin as Capital: Familial Relationships and Health Outcomes in Jamaica
- November 7 - 4:00 PM, Hale Science Building, Room 230
- Professor Bernard Arps, Leiden University
Graduate Student Lecture Series
- Lectures for the 2008-2009 academic year to be announced.
Previous Speaker Series Guests:
- Frank Korom, Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology, Boston University, "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, A Global Sri Lankan Sufi Saint" (2008)
- Gerardo Gutiérrez, Centro de Investigaciones e Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, México (CIESAS), "The Archaeology of Hurricanes and Debris Flow Disasters in the Coatán River Basin of the Soconusco, México" (2008)
- Gerardo Gutiérrez, Centro de Investigaciones e Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, México (CIESAS), "Politics and Territory in the Kingdom of Tlapa on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest (2008)
- Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine, "Biocapital Downstream: The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials" (2008)
- Dr. Peter B. Gray, Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, "The Makings of a Man: Hormones, Pair Bonds and Fatherhood" (2008)
- Dr. Matthew Bandy, SWCA Environmental Consultant, "History, Process, and State Formation in Prehispanic Bolivia" (2008)
- Dr. Richard Shweder, William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago, "Rethinking Cultural Psychology and the Enlightenment Along the Way: A Personal Story" and "The Military and the Social Sciences: A Panel Discussion" (2008)
- Colonel John Cho, U. S. Army War College, "The Military and the Social Sciences: A Panel Discussion" (2008)
- Colonel Tom Rhatican, U. S. Army War College, "The Military and the Social Sciences: A Panel Discussion" (2008)
- Dr. Marcus Winter, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, "Reconsidering the Origins of Monte Albán" and "Mixes, Zapotecs, Huaves and Other Pre-Hispanic Inhabitants of the Southern Isthmus Region of Oaxaca, Mexico" (2008)
- Dr. Steven Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, "Yemen, Water, and Development Communication" (2008)
- Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, "The Ghosts of Montes de Oca: Naked Life and the Medically Disappeared" and "Into the Gray Zone: Trafficking the Organs Traffickers" (2008)
- Dr. John Jackson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, CU-Boulder, "Race, Anthropology, and Civil Rights in the 1960s" (2008)
- Dr. Cynthia Robin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, "The Archaeology of Everyday Life in Small Communities; Understanding the Ancient Maya Farming Community of Chan" and "New Discoveries about the Ancient Maya; Peopling the Past" (2008)
- Dr. Michael Smith, Professor of Archaeology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, "Urbanization in Aztec Central Mexico: Recent household excavations at the site of Calixtlahuaca" (2007)
- Dr. Bernard Wood, Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Evolutionary History, George Washington University, "Investigating Human Evolution: Problems and Opportunities" and "Recent Advances in Our Understanding of Human Evolution" (2007)
- Dr. Peter Ungar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, "Dental Microwear Texture Analysis and the Diets of Plio-Pleistocene Hominins from Africa" (2007)
- Dr. Margaret Conkey, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, "Seeking Ice Age Sensibilities: Interpreting Paleolithic Cave Art" (2007)
- Dr. Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, Columbia University, "Dispositions of Empire: Toward History in a Minor Key" (2007)
- Dr. Catherine Lutz, "Ethnography of Empire" (2006)
- Dr. Nina Jablonski, "Evolution of Skin Color" (2006)
- Dr. Timothy Pauketat, "Tangled Up in Wa-kan-da: Materiality, History, and Native American Archaeologies" and "Pre-Columbian Heroes and the Heroines in the Heartland: Where Archaeology meets History" (2006)
- Dr. Wendy Ashmore, "Settlement Patterns, Landscapes and Archaeological Space" (2005)
- Dr. Dennis Stanford, “Iberian Origins for Clovis Technology: An Alternative Hypothesis" (2004)
- Dr. Rayna Rapp, “Genetic Citizens on the Biotech Horizon” (2003)
- Dr. Peter Ellison, “On Fertile Ground Ecology and Human Reproduction” (2003)
- Dr. William A. Longacre II, “Kalinga Potters of Luzon: An Ethno-Archaeology Appreciation of Philippine Pottery" (2003)
- Dr. Alison Jolly, “The Ring-Tailed Lemurs of Berenty, Madagascar” (2002)
- Dr. Christine Hastorf, “Agriculture Follows Politics: Agriculture as Metaphor in the Andes" (2002)
- Dr. Ian Hodder, “Archaeology, Culture and Society at Çatal-höyük” (2002)
- Dr. Sherry Ortner, “Subjects and Capital: A Fragment of a Critical Documentary Ethnography" (2001)
- Dr. David Hurst Thomas, “Skull Wars” (2000)
- Dr. Patty Jo Watson, “Cave Archaeology in Norh America” (2000)
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