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| January 30 | First day of classes - Spring 2008 |
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| January 31 | Annual Sensory Ethnography Screenings 6:30 - 11:00 p.m. Main Lecture Hall / Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts FREE ADMISSION - view event poster here |
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| February 8 | Tahmima Anam reading from her book A Golden Age 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Thompson Room, Barker Center sponsored by: South Asia Without Borders: '1971 in Fiction, Film and Fantasy' |
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| February 13 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Mark Leone, University of Maryland “The Archaeology of Wye House and Frederick Douglass” 12:00 p.m., Haller Hall |
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| February 14 |
East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series Mark ALDENDERFER (University of Arizona) “The Peopling of the Tibetan Plateau: When, Where, How, and How Many Times?” 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum |
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| February 20 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Steve Wernke, Vanderbilt University “Mission Impossible? Archaeological Exploration of Religious Convergence at an Early Mission Complex in Highland Peru” 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum 59D |
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| February 27 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Stephen Silliman, University of Massachusetts Boston “Colonialism, Materiality, and Social Memory in Native New England: An Archaeology of Eastern Pequot Reservation Life” 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum 59D |
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| February 21 | Program on U.S.-Japan Relations seminar "The Last Tuna?" - Theodore C. Bestor 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lower Level Conference Room Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street |
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| February 25 | Monday Seminar Series Diane Nelson 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
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| February 28 |
East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series *Evgeniya GELMAN (Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences) “Archaeological Investigations of the Bohai (Parhae) State in Russia” 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum |
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| March 3 | Monday Seminar Series Faye Ginsburg 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
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| March 11 | Lecture Nate Dominy, Department of Anthropology, U. California, Santa Cruz "Integrative anthropology, Theodore Roosevelt, and the isotopic ecology of man-eating lions" 12:00 p.m. Center for the Environment's Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge |
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| March 12 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Kevin Smith, Brown University “Outlaws, Demons, Chieftains, Farmers and Things: Landscape and the Archaeology of Law in Early Medieval Iceland” 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum 59D |
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| March 13 | Lecture Manolis Dermitzakis, Population and Comparative Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, U.K. "Population genomics of human gene expression" 12:00 p.m. Yenching Auditorium Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge |
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| March 13 |
East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series TANG Jigen (Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, China) “Community Change on the Outskirts of the Shang Capital (of Ancient China) --- The Heihelu Road Salvage Excavations, 1997-1999” 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum |
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| March 17 | Monday Seminar Series Erik Mueggler 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
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| March 18 |
Ceridwen Dovey (Anthro Alumni) will read from her debut novel "Blood Kin" 7:00 p.m., HARVARD BOOKSTORE, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue For more information, please visit: www.ceridwendovey.com |
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| March 19 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins Uniersity 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum 59D |
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| March 21 |
East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series *LEE Song Joo (Kangnung National University) “Formation of the Early State in Southeastern Korea” 12:00 p.m., Room 59D, Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum |
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| March 22 - 30 | Spring Recess |
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| April 2 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Elissa Faro, Brown University “Exploring the Obsidian Sources of Southern Armenia: Recent fieldwork from the Vorotan Project” 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum 59D |
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| April 3 | Lecture Carlos Bustamante, Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology and Department of Statistics, Cornell University "Detecting Natural Selection and Reconstructing Demographic History from Global Patterns of Human Genomic Diversity" 12:00 p.m. Yenching Auditorium Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge |
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| April 3 | The Office of Career Services, the Graduate Student Council and the Office for Postdoctoral Affairs present: "Finding Careers Outside Academia with your PhD" with speaker Susan Basalla May, PhD (co-author of So What Are You Going to Do with That?) 5:30-7:00 p.m., Jefferson Hall, Room 250 Copies of So What Are You Going to Do with That? will be available for purchase at the event. |
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| April 7 | Lecture George Zhang, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan "Molecular dissection of primate evolution and human origins" 12:00 p.m. Geological Lecture Hall Room 100, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge |
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| April 7 | Monday Seminar Series Nurit Bird-David "Children of the Forest: Notes on Feeding Nayaka Children and English Reader" 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
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| April 9 | Archaeology Lunch Talk Prof. Rowan Flad, Harvard University "Augering Ancient Sichuan: Methods and Intentions of the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 59D, Putnam Lab |
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| April 9 | Dissertation Defense Prista Ratanapruck 5:30 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| April 10 | Invitation to Graduate Students and Postdocs from the Office for Postdoctoral Affairs SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Peter Fiske "Putting Your Science to Work" >more information |
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| April 10 |
East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series MA Xiaolin (Henan Provincial Institute of Archaeology) “Development of House Structures and Settlement Organization in the Yangshao Period (ca. 4900-3000 BC)” 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum |
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| April 14 | Dissertation Defense Lilith Mahmoud 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| April 15 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Prof. Douglass Bailey, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cardiff "Prehistoric Architecture and 1960s Art: archaeologies of ground and dissection" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 59D, Putnam Lab |
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| April 16 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Jeffrey Brantingham, UCLA 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum 59D |
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| April 17 | Lecture Saurabh Dube, Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, and Visiting Professor in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University "Witnessing Lives: Conversion and Life-History in Colonial India" 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| April 17 | Lecture Pierre Lienard, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Memory and Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Washington U. St. Louis "Ritual and Vigilance in an Unstable Environment; a Case for Precaution Biases" 12:00 p.m. Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum Room 59D |
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| April 17 |
East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series Jeffrey Brantingham, UCLA “A Short Chronology of Human Occupation of the Tibetan Plateau” 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum |
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| April 21 | Dissertation Defense Lin Idrus 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| April 23 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Heather Miller, University of Toronto 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum 59D |
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| April 24 |
Lecture Meghan Howey, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire "Creating Ritual, Constructing Monuments: A Study of Tribal Organization in the Upper Great Lakes, AD 1200-1600" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 59D, Putnam Lab |
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| April 24 | Dissertation Defense Miriam Shakow 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| April 24 |
East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series Jeff Moser (Harvard University) “Antiquity Reburied: The Medieval Hordes of Sichuan Province” 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum |
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| April 25 | The Gender Studies Workshop invites you to the following talk: "Revalorizing Self-Worth and Love in China's New Age of Private Property" Li Zhang, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis with discussant, Rubie Watson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard 4:00 p.m., CGIS South Building, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University, Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies For more information, please call: (617) 495-4046; or email us at fairbank@fas.harvard.edu |
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| April 28 |
Lecture Matthew Liebman, Assistant Professor College of William and Mary "Now the God of the Spaniards is Dead": The Archaeology of Pueblo Revolution and Revitalization in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 59D, Putnam Lab |
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| April 28 | Dissertation Defense Lindsay Smith 2:00 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
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| April 28 | Monday Seminar Series David Howes 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
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| April 30 |
Latin America Working Group presents Maria Elena Garcia, Tufts University "Indigeneity, Graduate Training, and the Contradictions of Intercultural Politics in the Andes" 9:00 a.m. WJH 301 > more information |
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| April 30 |
Archaeology Lunch Talk Dr E. Banffy, Head of the Archaeological Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences "The Transition to the Neolithic in Central Europe" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 59D, Putnam Lab |
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| April 30 | Dissertation Defense Mary Prendergast "Forager variability and the spread of food production: Kansyore and Pastoral Neolithic economies in East Africa" 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Putnam Lab 59D |
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| May 1 |
Lecture Catherine Foster West, University of Washington "Kodiak Island's Prehistoric Fisheries: Human Dietary Response to Climate Change and Resource Availability" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 59D, Putnam Lab |
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| May 2 | Last day of classes |
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| May 5 |
Latin America Working Group presents Lisa Laplante, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton "Bringing Justice Home: The human rights trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori" 12:00 p.m. WJH 301 > more information |
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| May 5 |
Lecture Scott Ortman, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Colorado "Genes, Language and Culture in Tewa Ethnogenesis" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 59D, Putnam Lab |
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| May 8 |
Lecture Lisa Frink, University of Nevada, Las Vegas "The Social Role of Technology in Coastal Alaska" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
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| May 12 | Dissertation Defense Alex Tokovinine "The Power of Place: Political Landscape and Identity in Classic Maya Inscriptions, Imagery, and Architecture" 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Putnam Lab 59D |
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| May 12 | Dissertation Defense Zahra Jamal 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| May 19 | Dissertation Defense Sepideh Bajracharya 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| May 20 | Dissertation Defense Omar Al-Dewachi 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| May 20 | Talk on Asian Medicine |
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| May 21 | Lecture William Hylander, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University "Canine reduction in hominins: functional links between jaw mechanics and canine height" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 52H, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge All are welcome to attend. |
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| May 21 | Dissertation Defense Hyojin Kim 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| May 28 | Dissertation Defense Campbell P. Rolian "Morphological integration and the evolution of human hands and feet" 1:00 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge All are welcome to attend. |
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| May 29 | Talk on Asian Medicine "Trials and Tribulations of Sham Surgery in China presented by Pricilla Song, PhD, Department of Anthropology, Yale University 4:00 p.m. Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Boston |
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| June 2 | Dissertation Defense Emily Zeamer 5:15 p.m. WJH 1550 |
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| June 5 | Commencement |
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| June 14 | Boston International Film Festival This Much I Know (Itna Mujhe Pata Hai) by Bridget Hanna 1:30 p.m. (SESSION 38) Boston Common Loews/AMC Theater Tickets are 10$ for the session and can be purchased online |
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