Academic Year 2005-06
September 15
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Orientation for Incoming Graduate Students
9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
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| September 15 |
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Archaeology Wing Orientation session for 1st year Archaeology GS with Wing Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Prof. C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, and Wing Tutor Richard Meadow.
11:30 a.m. Peabody Museum Rm. 57J
Welcome Lunch for Archaeology Wing faculty and students.
12-2:00 p.m. Tozzer Courtyard (rain venue in Peabody Museum 3rd floor gallery) |
| September 15 |
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Welcome Luncheon for new Social Anthropology students
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. WJH 301
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| September 16 |
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Anthropology Day
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Talks and Presentations:
1:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Reception:
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
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| September 26 |
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Dissertation Defense
Amy Elizabeth Young
"Convincing Women: Global Rights, Local Families, and the Moroccan Women's Rights Movement"
12:00 p.m. Bowditch Rm, Peab. Mus.
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| September 26 |
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Special Colloquium Series sponsored by Social Anthropology and the Department of History of Science
Helen Mialet
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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| September 29 |
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
"Harvard Archaeology Summer Field Research in East Asia"
Josh Wright and Rowan Flad (Harvard University)
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A |
| October 3 |
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Special Colloquium Series sponsored by Social Anthropology and the Department of History of Science
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
12:15 p.m. Science Center, Room 469
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| October 5 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Richard Cosgrove, La Trobe University
The Ice Age Settlement of Tasmania: human land use patterns and seasonality.
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| October 5 |
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Greek Study Group Presents:
Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
"The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value"
4:15-6 p.m., Garden Room. Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street
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| October 7 |
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James H. Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University
Lecture on "The Demography of the Gombe Chimpanzees: An Analysis of 42 Years of Vital-Event Data"
3:30 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
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| October 12 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Professor Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| October 13 |
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
"Astro-archaeology in Ancient China"
David Pankenier (Lehigh University)
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| October 13 |
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Visiting Speaker: Unni Wikan
4:15 p.m., 1550 WJH
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| October 17 |
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Special Colloquium Series sponsored by Social Anthropology and the Department of History of Science
Park Doing
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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| October 18 |
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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard presents:
Ian Condry, Assistant Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anime Fans and the Copyright Wars: What Should Japan's Content Industries Do about Online Piracy?
12:30 p.m., Bowie-Vernon Conference Room, Knafel Building, 2nd floor (Room N262), 1737 Cambridge Street
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| October 19 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
David Anderson, Tulane University
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| October 20 |
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
"Early Nomads on Chinaís Northern Frontiers" Wang Ming-ke (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| October 24 |
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Thesis Defense
Michelle Tisdel Flikke
4:15 p.m., Bowditch Room, Peabody
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| October 26 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Lloyd Weeks, University of Nottingham
The Mamasani Archaeological Project: First Results and Future Research
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| October 27 |
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
"Shang Di (High Lord) and Tian (Sky): Their identity and Relationship"
Sarah Allan (Dartmouth University)
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| October 28 |
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Andreas Koenig, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, New York:
"Ecological models of female social relationships: More than just feeding competition"
10:00 a.m.
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| October 31 |
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Special Colloquium Series sponsored by Social Anthropology and the Department of History of Science
Stefan Sperling "A Failed Experiment: The Ends of East German Science and Conscience"
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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| November 2 |
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Archaeology Wing Faculty and Student Seminar
Levent Atici, Harvard University
Terminal Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations in the Taurus Mountains,
SW Turkey: A Comprehensive Zooarchaeological Approach
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| November 7 |
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Special Colloquium Series sponsored by Social Anthropology and the Department of History of Science
Adriana Petryna "Pharmaceutical Testing and Evidence Making: an ethnography of the globalized clinical trial"
12:15 p.m. Science Center, Room 469
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| November 7 |
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Special Colloquium Series sponsored by Social Anthropology and the Department of African and African American Studies
Jim Ferguson "Governing Extraction: New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in Neo-Liberal Africa"
4:00 p.m. Thompson Rm., Barker Ctr.
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| November 9 |
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Archaeology Wing Faculty and Student Seminar
Dr. Jason Ur, Harvard University
Irrigation and Pastoralism on the Mughan Steppe, Northwestern Iran
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| November 10 |
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
“Stages in the Development of ‘Cities’ in Pre-ImperialChina”
Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles)
[Co-sponsored by the China Humanities Seminar]
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| November 16 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Professor Muge Sevketoglu, Eastern Mediterranean University (Cyprus) "Rescue Excavations at Pre-Ceramic Neolithic Settlement Sites:Cyprus and the Anatolian Connection in the 9th Millenium B.C."
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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November 18
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Dr. Mark Pagel (Professor of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, England)
"Rates of Word Evolution and the Generation of Linguistic Diversity"
3:30 p.m. Haller Hall, Rm. 102
24 Oxford Street
All are welcome to attend.
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| November 28 |
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Thesis Defense
Ahmed Kanna "'Not Their Fathers' Days': Idioms of Time and Space in the Urban Arabian Gulf"
5:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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| November 29 |
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Auron Tare, Director of the National Park in Butrint (Albania)
Butrint, 3000 Years of Mediterranean History: Protecting the Homeric Landscape
4:00 p.m. Peabody 14A
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| November 30 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr Lee Newsom, Pennsylvania State University
"American Bog Bodies: the archaeology of ancient wetland cemeteries in Florida"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| December 1 |
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Adisa Ogunfolakan, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
`Oriki' (Praise Poems) and settlement archaeology in Yorubaland'
4:00 p.m. Peabody 14A
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December 1
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Biological Anthropology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology presents:
Dr. Stephen Secor, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
"Pay before pumping: Determinants and mechanisms of specific dynamic action"
4 p.m. in Biological Labs Lecture Hall, first floor, 16 Divinity Avenue |
| December 1 |
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Arthur Kleinman, Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
"Between Narrative and Experience: From "The Illness Narratives" to "What Really Matters"
6:00 p.m. Science Center 469
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December 2
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Moira Petit, University of Minnesota
"Mechanical loading and bone development: A 10-Year Perspective"
3:30 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambrdige
All are welcome
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| December 2 |
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Paola Dematte (Rhode Island School of Design)
"Imagery and 'Religion': The case of ancient China."
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| December 7 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Katherine Moore, University of Pennsylvania
New Perspectives on Animal
Domestication: the Origins of Llamas and Alpacas in South America
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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December 9
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar
SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard University
"A Pathology of Money"
9:30a.m.-11:30a.m. WJH 1550
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December 12
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A lecture by Dr. Serge Wich, Utrecht University, Netherlands
"Sumatran and Bornean Orangutans Compared"
4 p.m. Putnam Lab, Peabody Mus. Rm. 59D
All are welcome to attend.
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December 14
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Dr. Karen Sears, Research Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Pediatrics Department, Division of Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"From bats and marsupials to primates: The developmental basis of mammalian morphological evolution"
4 p.m.in the Biological Labs Lecture Hall, first floor, 16 Divinity Avenue
This lecture is jointly sponsored by Biological Anthropology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
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| December 15 |
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Student Presentations for Anthro. 1210
3:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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December 16
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Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar
VINH-KIM NGUYEN, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University and Associate Member, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
"Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics and Therapeutic Citizenship"
9:30a.m.-11:30a.m. WJH 1550
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January 31
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The Derek Bok Center
Winter Teaching Conference: sessions on teaching for new and experienced teachers.
For more information >>click here
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February 1
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First Day Spring Classes/Registration
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| February 2 |
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Dr. Ruth Mace (University College London) will lecture on "The evolutionary ecology of human family systems"
2 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102
24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
All are welcome to attend.
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February 8
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Prof. C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Harvard University
Kingdoms of South Arabia
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab |
February 9
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Peter Lu (Harvard University) “Early Technological Advances from Ancient China”
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| February 10 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
MICHAEL D. JACKSON, Distinguished Visiting Professors in World Religions, Harvard, Divinity School "Migrant Paranoia: With Sewa Koroma In Southeast London"
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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| February 13 |
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Seminar Series
Informal Harvard Social Wing Faculty Discussion
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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February 15
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr.Robin Beck, Northwestern University Joara and Fort San Juan: Colonial Encounters in the Upper Catawba Valley, North Carolina
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| February 17 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
VINH-KIM NGUYEN, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, and Associate Member, Department of Anthropology, McGill University "Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics and Therapeutic Citizenship"
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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February 22
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Wu Xiaohong
Title TBA
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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February 23
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Lai Guolong (University of Florida) “Fluidity and Fixation: Observations on the Materiality of Excavated Manuscripts in Early China”
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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February 27
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Seminar Series
Marc Augé, Director, Centre d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (CAMC)
Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
“A Utopia for Education”
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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March 1
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Henry Wright
The Emergence of Mosopotamian Civilization: Recent research in Iran and Syria
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| March 2 |
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Lecture by Dr. Jukka Jernvall, University of Helsinski, Institute of Biotechnology, Finland
4:00 p.m. in the Biological Labs Main Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. Jointly hosted with the Department of Organismic Biology.
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March 2
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Wang Cheng-hua (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Printing, Heritage Preservation, and Exhibitionary Culture: Collotype Reproduction of Antiquities in Early Twentieth-Century China
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| March 3 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
LARRY PARK, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Inpatient Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; NIMH Fellow, Department of Social medicine, Harvard Medical School
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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March 6
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Thesis Defense
Sarah Wagner "Return of Identity: Technology, Memory, and the Recognition of Srebrenica’s Missing"
4:15 p.m., Peabody, Bowditch Room
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March 8
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard University
Prestige Drinking: Vessels with animal foreparts from Achaemenid Persia to
Greece
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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This talk has been post-poned
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
(*note thursday talk)
Dr. Steven Leblanc, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
From Ancient Mouths: Tracking a Prehistoric Migration with Teeth and Spit.Or testing the Uto-Aztecan farmer migration model with dental traits and mDNA
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| March 10 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
JONATHAN METZL, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies, and Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine, at the University of Michigan
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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March 13
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Seminar Series
Vincent Crapanzano, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature CUNY Graduate Center
The Wound that Never Heals: The Harkis, Lesion, Identity and Theatrical Representation
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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March 15
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Mary Stiner, University of Arizona
The Puzzle of Bone, Ash and Shell Preservation in Hayonim Cave, Isreal
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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March 16
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Wu Xiaohong, Peking University “Archaeological Radiocarbon Dating in China”
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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March 17
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Biological Anthropology graduate student Herman Pontzer presents his doctoral dissertation:
Hominin Locomotor Energetics and the Emergence of Homo: Integrating Morphology and Ecology
1:15 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
All are welcome.
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March 22
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Charles Stanish, UCLA "Ritual, Labor Organization, and the Evolution of Andean States"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab |
| March 23 |
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
(*note thursday talk)
Dr. Miriam Belmaker, Harvard University "Lower Pleistocene subsistence patterns - should we be looking at the environment? Analysis of human - ungulate - carnivore interactions in the site of Ubeidiya"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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| March 24 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
PAUL RABINOW, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley "Anger and Knowledge"
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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April 5
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Bruce Smith, Smithsonian Institution "The Attack of the Swamp People"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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April 10
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Seminar Series
Susan Terrio, Associate Professor of French and Anthropology Georgetown University "New ‘Savages’ in the City? Judging Juvenile Delinquents at the Paris Palace of Justice"
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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April 12
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Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk
Dr. Cameron Munroe, Washington University, St.Louis
12:00 p.m. Peabody Mus., Putnam Lab
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April 14
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Lecture by Dr. Grazyna Jasienska, Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Poland, and Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study "Genetic polymorphism, dietary phytoestrogens, and fetal programming: Forgotten factors in human reproductive ecology"
3:30 p.m. in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
All are welcome.
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| April 17 |
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Seminar Series
Duana Fullwiley, PhD
The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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April 18
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Dissertation Defense: Josh Wright
"The Adoption of Pastoralism in Northeast Asia, Monumental Transformation in the Egiin Gol Valley"
3-5:00 p.m. in Haller Hall
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April 19
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Lunch Talk
Güner Coskunsu "Mezraa Teleilat: A Neolithic Village on the Euphrates"
12:00 p.m. Putnam Lab 59D
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Aprril 20
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute of Advanced Study "Xiongnu culture within and beyond China: a comparative view of approaches to Xiongnu archaeology”
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| April 20 |
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The Islamicate Societies Workshop Professor Engseng Ho "The Two Arms of Cambay: Diasporic texts of ecumenical Islam in the Indian Ocean."
4:00 p.m. Sever Hall 103 |
| April 21 |
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Dr. David Reich, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School "Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees"
3:30 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102
All are welcome.
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April 24
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Seminar Series
Robin Nagle, Director, Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program
New York University "Picking Up: In the Field with New York’s Sanitation Workers"
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550
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| April 28 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
PETER STEARNS Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University in Virginia, "Using History to Understand American Fear"
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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| April 28 |
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Dissertation Defense
Randall Collura "Molecular evolution of genes related to primate encephalization and energetics"
2:30 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102
All are welcome.
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May 1
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Dissertation Defense
Wen-Ching Sung
"Global Science: The Convergence of Biotechnology, Capitalism, and National Development in China
4:15 p.m., Peabody, Bowditch Room
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May 4
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Irene Good, Harvard University
New Views on the Tarim Mummies of Xinjiang
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
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| May 5 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
CECILE ROUSSEAU Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University; Director of the Transcultural Psychiatry Team, Montreal Children’s Hospital
Look Me in the Eyes: Empathy & Transmission of Trauma in the Refugee Determination Process"
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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May 8
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Dissertation Defense
Jaesok Kim
4:15 p.m., Peabody, Bowditch Room
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May 8
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Wang Changsui, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Developments in the archaeology of porcelain and metallurgy
Time and Place to be Announced
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| May 9 |
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Dissertation Defense
Sonya Kahlenberg
1 p.m. |
| May 12 |
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Friday Morning Seminar Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research: Affect, Structure, and Social Suffering
ARJUN, Provost, New School University, New York
9:30-11:30 a.m. William James Hall Room 1550 >>more information
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| May 16 |
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Dissertation Defense
Benjamin Arbuckle
"The Evaluation of Sheep and Goat Pastoralism and Social Complexity in Central Anatolia"
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Haller Hall
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May 17
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Rod Campbell, Harvard University
Shang Civilization and the Social Economy of Kinship and Violence
2:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 57D
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May 18
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Jiang Bo, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Institute of Archaeology
Altars and Temples: Ceremonial Buildings of Ming and Qing Empires
4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A
>>> More information
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| May 22 |
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Dissertation Defense
Stine Rossel
"The Development of Productive Subsistence Economies in the Nile Valley: Zooarchaeological Analysis at El-Mahasna and South Abydos, Upper Egypt"
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Haller Hall |
May 25
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Dissertation Defense
Kathleen Gallagher
Too Poor to Own: Landlessness and the Politics of Survival in Rural Nepal
4:15 p.m., Peabody, Bowditch Room
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June 8
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Commencement
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