Academic Year 2006-07 September 14 Orientation for incoming Graduate Students September 15 Anthropology Day 1:00 p.m. Yenching Auditorium >>more information September 18 First day of classes September 18 Dissertation Defense Young-a Park 4:15 p.m. Bowditch Room PM September 25 Monday Seminar Arthur Kleinman, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University "What Really Matters: An Exploration of the Anthropology of Experience" 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 105 September 27 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series James Osborne, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University "The Archaeology of the Amuq: Ethnicity in a Cultural Crossroad" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory September 28 Dissertation Defense Yuson Jung "Consumer Lament: An Ethnographic Study on Consumption, Needs, and Everyday Complaints in Postsocialist Bulgaria" 4:15 p.m. Bowditch Room October 2 Monday Seminar Engseng Ho, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University "The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean" 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 October 5 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Lawrence Conyers, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology University of Denver "Techniques for Producing 3-Dimensional Images of Buried Archaeological Sites Using Ground-Penetrating Radar" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory October 5 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Anthony Barbieri-Low, University of Pittsburgh “A Computer-Assisted Reconstruction of the ‘Wu Family Shrines’” 4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >>> More information October 12 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Wang Binghua, People’s University of China “Bronze Cultures in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” 4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >>> More information October 13 Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Friday Morning Seminar TBA 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WJH 1550 October 15 Screening with Prof. Stéphane Breton, the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris "Them and Me" 2001, 63 mins. "Heaven in a Garden" 2004, 60 mins. 7:00 p.m. Harvard Film Archive Students, Faculty and Staff $6 October 16 Monday Seminar Prof. Stéphane Breton, the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris "The Body As A Social Relationship" 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 October 18 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Richard Pearson, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver "Debating Jomon Social Complexity" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory October 18 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Richard Pearson, emeritus professor, UBC in Vancouver “Debating Jomon Social Complexity” This presentation is in conjunction with the Anthropology Department Lunchtime Archaeology Lecture Series. The lecture will be held at 12:00 pm in the Peabody Museum, Room 59D October 19 Dissertation Defense Bryan Wells "Epigraphic Approaches to the Indus Script" 12:00 p.m. Bowditch Room October 20 Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Friday Morning Seminar Bill Beeman 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WJH 1550 October 23 Dissertation Defense Jaesok Kim "The Cultural Encounters in a Chinese Sweatshop: The Transnational Movement of South Korean Enterprises and the Creation of Borderland Factory Regime in Qingdao, China” 4:15 p.m. Bowditch Room October 24 GSAS Series Becoming Faculty: Preparation for the Academic Job Search The View from the Search Committee; panel and reception; 4:30-6:00 p.m., Dudley House, Common Room October 25 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau, The Sonia and Marco Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University "Landscapes of Rulership: A Middle Bronze Age Palace at Tel Kabri and a Fortressat Qiriat Shmona, Israel" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory October 26 GSAS Series Becoming Faculty: Preparation for the Academic Job Search Teaching Towards Your Career: Learn how best to choose your teaching at Harvard to suit your job market interests. 6:00-7:30 p.m., Dinner; Dudley House October 27 Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Friday Morning Seminar Ken Vickery 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WJH 1550 October 30 Monday Seminar Steven Feld "Gazing Through Transparency: On Virginia Ryan's Exposures: A White Woman in West Africa" 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 November 1 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Elizabeth Arkush, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology University of Virginia 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory November 2 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Lu Yang, Harvard University TBA 4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >>> More information November 3 Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Friday Morning Seminar Anne Becker 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WJH 1550 November 3 Daniel I. Rubenstein, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University "Unravelling zebra movements remotely: making the invisible, visible" 3:30 p.m. Putnam Lab, Peab. Mus. All are welcome. November 8 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Régulo Franco J., Director of the El Brujo Archaeological Project, Peru "The Brujo Archaeological Complex and the Señora de Cao" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory November 9 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Lan-ying Tseng, Yale University ”Astrology and Brocade on the Frontier of Han China” 4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >>> More information November 9 Center for Middle Eastern Studies A lecture by Geneive Abdo "Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in American After 9/11" 5:15-7:00 p.m. at the Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050 November 13 Dissertation Defense Peter Benson "To Not Be Sorry: Citizenship, Moral Life, and Biocapitalism in North Carolina Tobacco Country" 4:15 p.m. WJH 1550 November 14 GSAS Series Becoming Faculty: Preparation for the Academic Job Search Preparing for Campus Interviews: You aced the conference interview and now you are invited to campus. Find out what to expect and how to prepare! 3:00-4:30 p.m.; Dudley House Common Room November 15 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Christina Hodge,Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Department of Archaeology, Boston University "The Wood Lot, an 18th-century Domestic Site in Newport, Rhode Island: Interpretation and Conversation in Historical Archaeology" 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory November 16 Richard R. Lawler, Department of Anthropology, Boston University "Sexual selection, natural selection, and locomotion in Verreaux's sifaka" 12:00 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102 All are welcome. November 16 GSAS Series Becoming Faculty: Preparation for the Academic Job Search Getting Your Dissertation Published / Publishing Seminar: The session is aimed at graduate students who are considering their first submission of an article or converting the dissertation into a book manuscript to submit for publishing review.  4:00-5:30 p.m.; Office of Career Services, 54 Dunster St. November 30 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Liu Guoxiang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences “The Role of the Xinglonggou Settlement in Northeastern Neolithic Culture” 4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >>> More information December 1 Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Friday Morning Seminar Tom Csordas 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WJH 1550 December 6 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Jean-Denis Vigne, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory December 6 GSAS Series Becoming Faculty: Preparation for the Academic Job Search Strategies for Completing the Dissertation: The session is aimed at students at various stages of the dissertation process. Speakers are advanced graduate students. 4:00-5:30 p.m.; Dudley House, Common Room December 7 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Robert Drennan, University of Pittsburgh “Community and Region in North China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: Chifeng, Yiluo, and Rizhao” 4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >>> More information December 8 Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Friday Morning Seminar Michael Fisher 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WJH 1550 December 11 Monday Seminar Setha M. Low, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Psychology, Women's Studies and Anthropology, Director of the Public Space Research Group, President-Elect of the American Anthropological Association, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York "The Fortification of Residential Neighborhoods and the New Emotions of Home" 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 December 13 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. James Fitzsimmons, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Middlebury College 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory December 14 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Gary Crawford, University of Toronto at Mississauga “The Jomon in Agricultural Origins Discourse” 4:00 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >>> More information December 14 GSAS Series Becoming Faculty: Preparation for the Academic Job Search Real-Life Stories from the Academic Job Search: Come and hear the job search stories from recently-hired assistant professors. 4:30-6:30 p.m., panel and reception; OCS Reading Room, 54 Dunster St. December 15 Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Friday Morning Seminar Byron Good 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WJH 1550 January 10 GSAS Series Becoming Faculty: Preparation for the Academic Job Search Job Search Tough Questions and Negotiations: Have you received an invitation to interview for an academic or nonacademic job? What question do you dread most? Do you have an important personal issue that impacts on your decision to accept a job offer, such as family considerations, work visa issues? 10:00-11:30 a.m.; OCS, 54 Dunster Street January 15 Holiday - Martin Luther King Day January 31 First Day Spring Classes / Registration February 5 Karen Kramer, Anthropology, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook 4 p.m. Biological Labs Rm. 1068/1076, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge February 5 Monday Seminar Series Stan Holwitz 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 February 7 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Aline Magnoni, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory February 12 Edward Hagen, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt Univeristy "Depression: Illness or Adaptation" 4 p.m. Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge February 12 Monday Seminar Series Tejaswini Ganti 4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 February 14 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory February 15 Professionalism Seminar Peter Wissoker William James Hall 301 6-7:00 p.m. February 19 Holiday - Presidents' Day February 22 Dr. Stella Nair, Department of the History of Art, University of California - Riverside "God is in the Details: Construction and the Art of Making Tiwanaku Architecture" 5:00 p.m. in Haller Hall Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Presented by the Andean Art and Archaeology Working Group February 27 Dissertation Defense Maple Razsa Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 5:30 p.m. February 28 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Karla Davis-Salazar, Assistant Professor and Archaeology Program Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory March 2 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Sadeq Rahimi 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 March 5 Monday Seminar Series Brian Larkin William James Hall 1550 4:15 p.m. March 6 "BODILY PROOF" an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference exploring Bodies of Knowledge Special Preview Event 7:00 p.m. Room 133, Barker Center (the Humanities Center) at 12 Quincy Street. Refreshments will be served. >>more information March 8 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Kang Bong Won, Director, Gyeongju University Museum “Mortuary Practices of the Silla Kingdom in Ancient Korea” 4:30 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >> more information March 9 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Duana Fullwiley 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 March 12 Monday Seminar Series Orlando Patterson William James Hall 1550 4:15 p.m. March 14 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Caroline Davies, Director of the Environmental Studies Program, Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory March 15 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Choi Jongtaik, Korea University “The Development of Ceramic Technologies on the Korean Peninsula and its Relationships with Adjacent Regions” 4:30 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >> more information March 16 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Jeannette Marie Mageo 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 March 19 Dissertation Defense Jessica Mulligan Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m. March 21 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Charles Golden, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory March 21 Lecture Dr. Charles L. Nunn, Research Scientist, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology "Sex, Germs and Worms: Infectious Diseases in Primate Societies" 2:00 p.m. in Sherman Fairchild building, Room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue All are welcome to attend. March 21 "BODILY PROOF" an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference exploring Bodies of Knowledge Special Preview Event 7:00 p.m. Room 133, Barker Center (the Humanities Center) at 12 Quincy Street. Refreshments will be served. >>more information March 23 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Sarah Jain 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 April 2 Monday Seminar Series Patsy Spyer William James Hall 1550 4:15 p.m. April 3 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Wang Wei, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences “Results of the National Project on the Study of the Origin of Chinese Civilization” 4:30 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >> more information April 5 Lecture Dr. Rob Shumaker, Lead Scientist, Great Ape Trust of Iowa "Cognitive Flexibility by Orangutans in Separate Domains" 12:00 p.m. Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum Room 59D, 11 Divinity Avenue. All are welcome to attend. April 6 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Chikako Ozawa-de Silva 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 April 11 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Helaine Silverman, Professor Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory April 13 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Brad Lewis 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 April 16 Monday Seminar Series Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University "Monti Moments: Men's Memories in the Heart of Rome" (film premiere) 4:15 p.m. Havard-Yenching Auditorium, Room 18 >> more information April 18 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Alan Kolata "Imagining Angkor: Exploring the History and Future of Khmer Civilization" 12:00 p.m. Haller Hall April 19 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Pak Yangjin, Chungnam National University “Korean Bronze Metallurgy and Rice Cultivation: Multiple Paths and Diverse Sources” 4:30 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >> more information April 20 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Lisa Stevenson 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 April 23 Dissertation Defense Melanie Adrian William James Hall 1550 6:00 p.m. April 25 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Adam T. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory April 26 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Kim Gyongtaek, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage “Approaches to Complex Society in Ancient Korea: A Critical Review of Discussions on the Complex Society in Korea” 4:30 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >> more information April 26-27 The Office of Career Services and the GSAS Alumni Office Career Options Panels 2007 Dudley House Common Room >>More details to be posted soon on the OCS Web site April 27 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Doug Hollan 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 April 27 Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Presents A Doctoral Dissertation Defense by Katarina Mucha Sussner "The Influence of Maternal Acculturation on Early Childhood Feeding, Nutritional Status and the Development of Obesity: A Study of Latino Immigrant Mothers and Children" 1:00 p.m. in Seminar Room 310, Center for the Environment (third floor of the Geological Museum), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. All are welcome to attend. April 30 Monday Seminar Series James J. Fox, Harvard University "Genealogy and the Origins of Kinship Analysis" William James Hall 1550 4:15 p.m. May TBA Dissertation Defense Saipin Suputtamongkol Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m. May 2 Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Seminar Series Dr. Anne Pike-Tay, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Vassar College 12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum Room 59D, the Putnam Laboratory May 2 Archaeology Wing Dissertation Defense Rod Campbell, Ad-hoc: EALC and Archaeology “Blood, Flesh and Bones: Kinship and Violence in the Social Economy of the Late Shang (ca. 1250-1050 B.C.” 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Haller Hall May 3 Lecture Dr. Nathaniel J. Dominy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz "Evolution of the hominin diet: Multiple lines of evidence for the consumption of plant underground storage organs (USOs)" 12:00 p.m. in Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum room 59D, 11 Divinity Avenue. All are welcome to attend. May 3 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Le Lien Thi, Vietnam Institute of Archaeology "The Thang Long Imperial Capital: the Excavation at Ba Dinh (Hanoi, Vietnam) in the Context of East Asian Imperial Cities" 4:30 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >> more information May 4 Archaeology Wing Dissertation Defense Ann Seiferle-Valencia “Before the Eagle’s Nest: The Formative Period Archaeology of Cuauhtinchan Viejo, Puebla, Mexico” 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in Putnam Lab, 59D May 4 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Marina Yaroshenko 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 May 7 Archaeology Wing Dissertation Defense Thomas Garrison “Ancient Maya Territories, Adaptive Regions, and Alliances: Contextualizing the San Bartolo-Xultun Intersite Survey” 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Putnam Lab, 59D May 7 Dissertation Defense Katrina Moore Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m. May 8 Archaeology Wing Dissertation Defense Sharri Clark “The Social Life of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan)” 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Putnam Lab, 59D May 9 Archaeology Wing Dissertation Defense Cheryl Makarewicz “Evolution of Foddering Practices in the Southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic” 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Haller Hall May 10 Lecture Dr. Robert D. Martin, Curator of Biological Anthropology, The Field Museum, University of Chicago "Primate Brain Evolution: The Maternal Energy Hypothesis Revisited" 12:00 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street. All are welcome to attend. May 10 Archaeology Wing Dissertation Defense Ahmet Levent Atici “Before the Revolution: A Comprehensive Zooarchaeological Approach to Terminal Pleistocene Forager Adaptations in the Western Taurus Mountains, Turkey” 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Haller Hall May 10 East Asian Archaeology Seminar Yang Nan, National Minorities University "Late Neolithic Complex Society in Southeastern China" Li Fei, Guizhou Provincial Institute of Archaeology "New Archaeological Discoveries in Guizhou Province, China" 4:30 p.m. in Peabody Museum 14A >> more information May 11 Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar Conference: Disparities, Inequalities and Psychiatry 9:30 a.m. WJH 1550 May 11 Dissertation Defense Clara Han Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m. May 14 Dissertation Defense Angela Garcia Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m. May 15 Fireside Chat with Margot Gill, Administrative Dean of GSAS Do you have questions or concerns about GSAS policies?  Would you like to learn more about the projects and initiatives the administration is pursuing on our behalf?  Come join us for a special evening with Dean Margot Gill! As the Administrate Dean, she has overall responsibility for implementing Graduate School policy.  6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Fireside Room, Dudley House  Refreshments will be served May 17 Lecture Joyce Parga, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology, Boston University "Sexual Selection in the Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta): Mating Strategies and Mate Choice in a Promiscuous Primate" 12:00 p.m., Peabody Museum Room 59D (Putnam Lab) All are welcome to attend. May 23 Dissertation Defense Saipin Suputtamongkol WJH 1550, 4:15 p.m. May 28 Holiday - Memorial Day June 7 Commencement August 27 Dissertation Defense Diana Allan Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m.