Academic Year 2004-05
September 6
2004
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Holiday - Labor Day
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September 13 2004
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Freshman Registration
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September 15 2004
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GSAS Registration
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September 15
2004
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Incoming Graduate Student Orientation
9:30 a.m. Bowditch Room
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September 17
2004
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Upperclass Registration
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September 17
2004
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Incoming Graduate Student Dinner
5:00 p.m. WJH 1550
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September 20
2004
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Fall Classes Begin
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September 20
2004
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Advisory Committee meetings for incoming GSs
9:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m. |
September 23
2004
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Peter Eltsov, Dissertation Defense
5 p.m. Haller Hall |
September 24
2004
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Anthropology Day
1:00 p.m. Geological Lecture Hall
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September 24
2004
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Study Card Day - All but Freshman |
September 24
2004
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Orientation for incoming GSs with Gary Urton & Richard Meadow
Peabody 59C 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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September 24
2004
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Arch Wing Welcoming Lunch
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
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September 27
2004
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Freshman Study Card Day
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September 28
2004
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk given by Prof. Zheng Ruokui, "Archaeology in the Three Gorges and the Search for Ba-Shu Culture."
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum
This talk is open to the public.
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| Week of September 29 |
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Make up Exams |
October 1
2004
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Meg McLagan, New York University
Circuits of Suffering: Human Rights and Transnational Tibet Activism
4:15 p.m., Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
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October 5
2004
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Arch Wing Faculty Meeting
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
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October 6
2004
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Faculty-Student Seminar led by Prof. Gary Urton, "The Archival Approach to the Study of Inka Khipu."
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum
This seminar is open to department faculty and students only
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October 7
2004
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Jennifer Arzt - Job Talk: "Cultural Transformations in Chalcolithic Mesopotamia."
5 p.m., Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Public is welcome.
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October 8
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good and Sarah Horton Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Medicine
On Discourses of Race and Class in Medical Practice
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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October 8
2004
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Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series
Joanna L. Mountain, Department of Anthropology Sciences and Department of Genetics, Stanford University "Testing Models of Prehistoric Human Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa through Analysis of Current Genetic Variation"
3:30 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street
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October 11
2004
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Holiday - Columbus Day
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October 13
2004
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk given by Dr. Shoh Yamada, Director, Center for Use-Wear Analysis (Komoro, Nagano Pref., Japan).
"Right or Left? Front or Back? The Use-wear Analysis of Sickles in the Biblical period in the Levant."
12:00 p.m., Peabody Mus. Rm. 14A
Free and open to the public.
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October 14
2004
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Archaeology Special Lectures
Dr. Mark Altaweel, University of Chicago
"Static and Dynamic Views of the Archaeological Landscape"
5:00 p.m., Haller Hall, 1st. floor, Geological Museum
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October 15
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Spero Manson Professor of Psychiatry, Head of American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
The Role of Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in American Indian Health Disparities
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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October 20
2004
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk given by Prof. John Darnell, Department of
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University. "Ancient Routes between the Nile and Kharga Oasis: Recent Discoveries of the Theban Desert Road Survey."
12:00 p.m., Peabody Mus. Rm. 14A
Free and open to the public.
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October 21
2004
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Archaeology Special Lectures presents
Dr. Michael Frachetti, University of Pennsylvania Regional Landscapes of Interaction among Bronze Age Pastoralists of the Eurasian Steppe and Central Asia
5:00 p.m., Haller Hall, 1st floor, Geological Museum,
The public is welcome
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October 22
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Theresa O'Nell Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon Mental Health Research in Indian Country: Culture, History, and Decolonization
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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October 26
2004
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Archaeology Special Lectures presents
Dr. Gillian Wallace, University of Durham, Department of Anthropology
"Neolithic Settlement and Landscape Use in European Wetlands and Uplands"
5 p.m.. Haller Hall, 1st. fl., Geological Museum
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October 27
2004
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Prof. Marcello Canuto, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
"Living on the Edge: The Study of Ethnicity in the Southeastern Classic Maya Periphery."
12:00 p.m., Peabody Mus. Room 14A
Free and open to the public.
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October 29
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Carolyn Rouse Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University Race and health care in the U.S.
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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October 29
2004
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Graduate Student Funding Opportunities Workshop with GSAS Fellowships Director, Cynthia Verba
3:00 p.m. William James Hall Rm. 105
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November 2nd and 3rd
2004
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Anthropology Department present:
SETTLING ACCOUNTS? TRUTH, JUSTICE AND REDRESS IN POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES
Click here for more information
Organizers:
Kimberly Theidon, Asistant Professor
Monet Uva, Conference Coordinator
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Novermber 3
2004
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Faculty-Student Seminar led by Josh Wright: "The Origins of Pastoralism in Northeast Asia."
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 52H
This seminar is open to department faculty and students only.
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Novermber 4
2004
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Jason Ur, University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
"Urbanism and Landscape in Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia"
5:00 p.m. Haller Hall, 1st. fl., Geological Museum |
November 5
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Veena Das Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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November 10
2004
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Andrew Cohen, Research Associate, Brandeis University
"Death Rituals and Ideology in Ancient
Ur"
12:00 p.m., Peabody Mus. 14A
Open to the public.
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November 11
2004
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Holiday - Veterans' Day
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November 12
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Carol Greenhouse Professor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
How concepts of citizenship inform ethnography
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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November 15
2004
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Robert Tykot, Director, Laboratory for Archaeological Science, University of South Florida.
"Understanding the Introduction and Importance of Maize in Latin America: The Contribution of Stable Isotope Analysis."
12:00 p.m., Peabody Mus. 14A
Open to the public.
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November 15
2004
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Dissertation Defense
Wu Fei
"The Elegy for Luck: Suicide in a
county of North China."
4:15 p.m.
Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum |
November 17
2004
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Susanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
"Violence and Aesthetics in an Early African City State: The Case of Ife."
12:00 p.m., Peabody Mus. 14A
Open to the public.
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November 25
2004
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Thanksgiving Recess Begins
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November 28
2004
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Thanksgiving Recess Ends
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November 29
2004
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Job Talk for the joint Africanist, Social Anthropology Search:
Rosalind Shaw "Displacing Violence: Making Pentecostal Memory in Post-War Sierra Leone."
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in WJH 1550
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December 3
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
CONFERENCE ON ACCULTURATION & MENTAL HEALTH
Latino Mental Health and the Second-Generation Decline: Comparative Perspectives
Maggie Alegría, Doris Chang, Esperanza Diaz, Peter Guarnaccia, Ladson Hinton, Janis Jenkins, Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, William Vega, Mary Waters
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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December 3
2004
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Signs of Crisis Lecture Series:
Matthew Hull, University of North Carolina
"Maps and Mosques: Secular Planning and Sectarian Conflict"
4:15 p.m., Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
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December 6
2004
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Brad Weiss, Associate Professor of Anthropology College of William and Mary
The Barber in Pain: Consciousness Affliction and Alterity in Urban Tanzania
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in WJH 1550
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December 8
2004
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Karen Tranberg Hansen, Professor of Anthropology Northwestern University: Desire and Difference: Commodities, Space and Social Relations in Lusaka, Zambia
4:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Thompson room, Barker Ctr.
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December 10
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Gay Becker Professor, Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine, University of California-San Francisco
The Long-Term Uninsured: Questions of Citizenship, Race, and Inequality
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550
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December 11
2004
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M. VICTOR LEVENTRITT SYMPOSIUM
Setting Up the Document: Anthropological Aesthetics and the Documentary Turn
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2:30-5 p.m.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street
For more information about screenings, see the HFA web site
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December 13
2004
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Henrietta Moore Professor of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Culture in a Global Age
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Thompson room, Barker Ctr.
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December 14
2004
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Social Wing Seminar
Nancy Abelman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana The Uneven Burden of Vitality: College Rank, Class, and South Korea's "New Generation"
2:00-4:00 p.m. in the Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum.
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December 16
2004
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Professor Tuross' class, A1140 Human Modification of the Landscape, presents a poster session covering student research at the Harvard Forest this fall.
4-6 p.m. Putnam Lab
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December 17
2004
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar: The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health
Lorena Rhodes Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Becoming a Case to Oneself: Supermax Prisons and the Psychiatric Citizen
10-12p.m. William James Hall Rm 1550 |
December 22
2004
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Winter Recess Begins
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January 3
2005
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Winter Recess Ends
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January 4
2005
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Fall Reading Period Begins
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January 14
2005
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Fall Reading Period Ends
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January 15
2005
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Fall Term Final Examinations Begin
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January 17
2005
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Holiday - Martin Luther King Day
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January 18
2005
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General Exam (written part)
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January 25
2005
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Sarah Jackson - Dissertation Defense: Deciphering Classic Maya Political Hierarchy: Epigraphic, Archaeological, and Ethnohistoric Perspectives on the Courtly Elite.
10 a.m., Bowditch Room, Pbdy. Mus.
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January 25
2005
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Fall Term Final Examinations End
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January 27
2005
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SEMINAR ON HEALING, SCIENCE AND CULTURE: TALKS AND DISCUSSION ON HEALING FROM THE BIOMEDICAL, SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC, AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Healing Touch: Combining Neuroscientific, and Anthropological Approaches
Christopher Moore, PhD & Catherine Kerr, PhD, McGovern Institute, MIT and Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School
4-6:00 p.m. William James Hall, Room 1550 |
February 1
2005
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General Exam (oral part)
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February 2
2005
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First Day Classes/Registration |
February 9
2005
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Study Card Day |
February 9
2005
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Andrew Kandel (University of Tubingen, Germany) will speak about his excavations at the Later Stone Age sites of Geelbek Dunes and Anyskop in South Africa. 12:15 pm, Peabody Museum 14A (first floor). Free and open to the public.
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February 11
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
LI Yungti (Institute of History and Philology - Academia Sinica, Taiwan) "The Post Shih Chang-ju Era: Recent Shang Archaeological Projects at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica,Taiwan"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
February 11
2005
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Signs of Crisis Lecture Series:
Christopher Pinney, University College London
"The Political Economy of Gloss: India 2004"
4-6 p.m., 1550 William James Hall
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February 14
2005
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SEMINAR ON HEALING, SCIENCE AND CULTURE: TALKS AND DISCUSSION ON HEALING FROM THE BIOMEDICAL, SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC, AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Community Based Participatory Research: Clinically Applied Medical Anthropology
Elizabeth Miller, MD, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
4-6:00 p.m. Osher Institute, Landmark Center, Suite 22a, 401 Park Drive, Boston
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February 14
2005
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Crisis in Southern Asia: The Tsunami and its Aftermath
A Roundtable Discussion with
Professors Byron and Mary Jo Good
Assistant Professor Ajantha Subramanian and Paula Goldman, Doctoral Student in Anthropology
4:15, Bowditch Room
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February 16
2005
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Prof. Richard Gould (Brown University) will give a talk entitled "Social History and Criminality Surrounding the Wreck of the 'North Carolina": Bermuda, New Year's Day, 1880." 12:15 pm, Peabody Museum 14A (first floor). Free and open to the public.
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February 18
2005
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Lecture by Colin A. Chapman, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
3:30 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street
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February 21
2005
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Holiday - Presidents' Day |
February 23
2005
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Cheryl Makarewicz (Harvard University) will give a talk on her recent research. 12:15 pm, Peabody Museum 14A (first floor). Free and open to the public.
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February 25
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Gideon SHELACH (Hebrew Univ. / Institute of Advanced Study,Princeton) "Economic or Identity Change? Archaeological Perspectives on the Northern Frontiers of China, ca. 1100-600 BCE"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
March 2
2005
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Archaeology Wing Faculty-Student Seminar
Alex Tokovinine will present his recent research in Guatemala. 12:15 pm, Peabody Museum 59D (Putnam Lab). Open to Archaeology Wing faculty and students.
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March 4
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Ofer Bar Yosef (Harvard University)
"Early Exploitation of Rice in South China? Excavations at Yuchanyan"
[Harvard East Asian Graduate Student Conference]
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
March 4
2005
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Lecture by Richard J. Smith, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis on "Statistical Models versus Biological Explanations: A Case Study of Sexual Dimorphism in the Human Brain"
3:30 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street
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March 4
2005
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Archaeology Wing Evening Lecture Prof. Mina Weinstein-Evron (University of Haifa) will give a talk entitled, "Dorothy Garrod and the Excavations at El-Wad" a lecture on one of the first women in archaeology. Followed by refreshments during the Archaeology Wing Wine Hour. |
March 7
2005
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The Signs of Crisis Lecture Series and the Social Anthropology Seminar Series present:
Karen Strassler, Hrdy Postdoctoral Fellow "Transparent Proofs and Internet Frauds: Visuality, Media, and the Chinese-Indonesian Rapes of 1998" 4:15 p.m. Bowditch Rm., Pbdy. Mus.
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March 9
2005
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The Weatherhead Center Seminar Series on religion, political economy, and society presents:
Smita Lahiri, Anthropology Department
The Rhetorical Native: Moral Propaganda and its Publics in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
12:30-2:00 p.m., Science Center Room 252. A light buffet lunch will be served.
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March 10
2005
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SEMINAR ON HEALING, SCIENCE AND CULTURE: TALKS AND DISCUSSION ON HEALING FROM THE BIOMEDICAL, SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC, AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
The Birth of a New Anti-Malarial Drug in Republican China: Lessons on Appreciating Non-Western Knowledge
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, PhD, Institute of History, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan
4-6:00 p.m. William James Hall, Room 1550 |
March 14
2005
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Social Anthropology Dissertation Defense:
Kathleen O'Connor
"O Outro Lado: Candomble, Psychiatry and Discourse in Bahia, Brazil"
4:15 p.m. 1550 William James Hall |
March 16
2005
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Carol McDavid, from the University of Houston and the Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum Beyond Science, Beyond Stewardship: Archaeology, Community and Civic Engagement."
12:15 pm, Putnam Lab/Peabody Museum Room 59D. Free and open to the public.
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March 17
2005
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SEMINAR ON HEALING, SCIENCE AND CULTURE: TALKS AND DISCUSSION ON HEALING FROM THE BIOMEDICAL, SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC, AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Varieties of Healing Experience
Tom Csordas, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
4-6:00 p.m. William James Hall, Room 1550 |
March 17
2005
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Afro-Atlantic Religions Lecture and Film Series Presents:
Mr. Amilton Costa, Rumbondo-High Priest of Brazilian Candomblé
5:45-7:45 p.m.
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March 18
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Josh Wright and Cheryl Makarewicz, Harvard University
"Archaeology of the Xiongnu in Mongolia"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
March 23
2005
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Archaeology Wing Faculty-Student Seminar
Kate Davis will present her recent research at Tiwanaku in Bolivia. 12:15 pm, Peabody Museum 59D (Putnam Lab). Open to Archaeology Wing faculty and students.
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March 24
2005
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Afro-Atlantic Religions Lecture and Film Series Presents:
Mr. Daniel J. Rodrigues Oriaté- Priest and Diviner of Cuban Santeria
Boston University, Geo. Sherman Union, Second Floor Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA
5:45-7:45 p.m.
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March 26
2005
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Spring Recess Begins |
April 3
2005
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Spring Recess Ends |
April 6
2005
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Archaeology Wing Faculty-Student Seminar
Cheryl Makarewicz will give a talk on her recent research
12:15 pm, Peabody Museum 59D (Putnam Lab). Open to Archaeology Wing faculty and students.
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April 7
2005
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Afro-Atlantic Religions Lecture and Film Series Presents:
Ms. Mary Bernard, Manbo, Preistess of Haitain Vodou
5:45-7:45 p.m.
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April 8
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Wangping Shao (Institute of Archaeology, CASS and Harvard University)
"What could early hominins eat in a wetland?"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
April 8
2005
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Lecture by Nikolaas van der Merwe, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town on "What Did Early Hominins East?"
3:30 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street
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April 11
2005
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Sherry Hutt, Director of the National NAGPRA Program, will give a talk on her work. 12:15 pm, Peabody Museum Room 59D (fifth floor). Free and open to the public.
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April 13
2005
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Archaeology Wing Faculty-Student Seminar Series
Rowan FLAD (Harvard University)
“Divine Specialists: Some Thoughts on the Origins and Development of Pyromantic Divination in Early China”
12:00 p.m. Putnam Laboratory, Peabody Museum Room 59D |
April 13
2005
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A Lecture presented by Karin Zitzewitz: The Modern Indian Artist as Citizen and Subject
Room 105, WJH at 6:00 p.m.
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April 15
2005
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Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology Graduate Alumni Reunions
Click here for more information
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April 15
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Geoff CUNNAR (Yale University)
"The Daily Grind: Using Experimental and Ethnoarchaeology to Understand the Production and Use of Groundstone Tools in Late Neolithic China"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
April 18
2005
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Monday Seminar Series
Paul Dresch, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
All in the Family: Marriage to Foreigners in the Arab Gulf
4:15 p.m. Bowditch Rm. Peabody Mus.
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April 19
2005
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A Lecture presented by Asad Ahmed: Marital Discord, Mystical Intervention and Moral Disorder: the Incommensurabilities of Law, Culture & Religion in Pakistan.
Bowditch room at Peabody at 4:15 p.m.
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April 20
2005
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk.
Dr. Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin) will give a talk on his recent research. 12:15, Putnam Lab/Peabody Museum Room 59D. Free and open to the public.
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April 21
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
LIU Li, Latrobe University "An Interdisciplinary Approach to State Formation in Early China"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
April 21
2005
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A Lecture presented by Pamila Gupta The Corporeal and the Carnivalesque: The Exposition of St. Francis Xavier and the Consumption of History in Goa (India)
1550, WJH at 4:15 p.m.
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April 22
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
LI Feng (Columbia Univeristy)
"Mapping out the Zhou State: Archaeology of Geopolitics in Ancient China"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
April 25
2005
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Dissertation Defense
Tahmima Anam
"Fixing the Past: War, Violence, and Habitations of Memory in
Post-Independence Bangladesh"
4:15 p.m. Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
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April 26
2005
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A Lecture presented by Anne Rademacher: The Rual in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories, and a Contingent State in Kathmandu
1550, WJH at 4:15 p.m.
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April 27
2005
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Prof. Sibel Kusimba, Northern Illinois University, will give a talk on her recent research on African foragers
12:15 pm, Putnam Lab/Peabody Museum Room 59D. Free and open to the public. |
April 27
2005
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The Harvard Anthropology Club
Women in Anthropology Lecture Series: Professor Ofer Bar-Yosef will speak on Dorothy Garrod's contributions to archaeology.
4:30 p.m. William James Hall 105
Pizza and soda will be provided following the lecture.
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April 28
2005
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Colloquium Speaker Series
Prof Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University
4:15 p.m. Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
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April 29
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Erdenebaatar (Mongolian Academy of Sciences)
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
April 29
2005
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The Signs of Crisis Lecture Series presents:
Vicente Rafael, University of Washington
'Freedom=Death': Signatures, Secrecy, and Revolution in the Spanish Philippines
Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
4 to 6:00 p.m.
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April 30
2005
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The Signs of Crisis Lecture Series Workshop:
Inadvertent Documents: New (and Old) Forms of Political and Historical Mediation
Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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May 2
2005
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A Lecture presented by Maimuna Huq: Pursuing Peace in Both Worlds: The Formulation and Contestation of a Female Islamist Subjectivity in Bangladesh
1550, WJH, at 4:15 p.m.
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May 3
2005
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Dissertation Defense
Barbara Li Smith, Ph.D. candidate
Diet, Health, and Lifestyle in Neolithic North China
10 a.m., Putnam Lab (R.# 59D in Peabody Museum). |
May 4
2005
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Archaeology Wing Faculty-Student Seminar
Ben Arbuckle will present his recent research in Turkey. 12:15 pm, Peabody Museum 59D (Putnam Lab). Open to Archaeology Wing faculty and students. |
May 4
2005
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A Lecture presented by Peggy Froerer
Wrongdoing and Retribution:
Childrens Conceptions of Illness Causality in a Central Indian Village
Room 1550, WJH at 6:15 p.m. |
May 5
2005
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TEMPLE TRADITIONS IN THE SALT RANGE (PUNJAB, PAKISTAN) DURING THE VISIT OF CHINESE TRAVELER YUAN-CHWANG (629-645 A.D.)
By Farzand Masih, Chair, Archaeology Department, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
4:00 p.m., Putnam Lab, Room 59D, Peabody Museum (5th floor - 24 Oxford St. elevator)
Free and open to the public
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May 6
2005
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Presentations by students in Anthropology 1210
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
May 6
2005
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Presents a Lecturer by
Robert L. Trivers, Visiting Professor in Psychology, Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
Selfish Genetic Elements, with special reference to Human Evolution
3:30 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 14A |
May 7
2005
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