August 27
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Dissertation Defense
Diana Allan
Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m.
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| September 10 |
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Dissertation Defense
Lisa Bernasek
"Representation and the Republic: North African art and material culture in Paris"
Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m.
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| September 12 |
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GSAS Orientation Welcome, (President Faust, Dean Skocpol)
10:30 a.m. Sanders Theatre
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| September 12 |
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September Fest
12:30 - 4:30 p.m. GSAS Dudley House and environs
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| September 13 |
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Orientation for new graduate students in the Department of Anthropology
Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room, 9:30 a.m.
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September 13
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
SUN Hua, Peking University, Department of Archaeology
Informal Discussion on “Current Directions of Archaeology in China” (in Chinese)
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
> more information
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| September 14 |
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Anthropology Day
Yenching Auditorium, 1:00 p.m.
>> more information
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| September 17 |
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First day of classes
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| September 18 |
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Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series: Doctoral Dissertation Defense
Maureen Devlin
"Interactions of Estrogen, Strain and Bone Growth: Implications for Human Skeletal Robusticity"
12:00 p.m., Center for the Environment's Seminar Room 310, third floor of the Museum of Natural History.
All are welcome to attend.
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September 19
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Lunch Talk
Alison Brooks
“Tracking the human transition: New investigations in East Africa”
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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September 19
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
Jessica RAWSON, Oxford University
"Beads, Beasts and Gold: Interactions across Inner Asia and Transformations in China’s Burial and Ritual Practices"
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Haller Hall
> more information
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| September 24 |
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Dissertation Defense
Noor O'Neill
Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room 4:15 p.m.
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September 26
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Lunch Talk
D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
"Beads: From Foragers to Farmers in the Southern Levant"
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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| September 27 |
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Latin America Working Group
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. William James Hall, Room 6 (Basement Level)
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| September 27 |
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Micro-teaching session and Luncheon for Teaching Fellows
Registration with the GPO required
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| September 27 |
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Dissertation Defense
Guner Coskunsu
"The End of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Middle Euphrates Valley: Evidence from the Lithic Assemblage of Mezraa Teleilat, Southeastern Turkey
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m. Center for the Environment, Seminar Room 301
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September 27
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
Christopher NORTON, CUNY
"East Asian Paleoanthropology: Behavioral Perspectives"
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
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September 28
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
"Early Imperial Archaeology inChina– A conversation with Xu Guangji"
3:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14 A
> more information
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| October 2 |
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Micro-teaching session and Luncheon for Teaching Fellows
Registration with the GPO required
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October 3
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Lunch Talk
Karola Kirsanow*
"Oxygen Isotopes in Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction"
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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| October 4 |
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Lecture
Meike Kohler, Intitut de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Spain
"Homo floresiensis, a product of insular evolution"
12:00 p.m. Center for the Environment's Seminar Room 310
24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. All are welcome to attend.
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October 9
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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Susan O. Long, Professor of Anthropology, John Carroll University
"Reluctant Husbands and Kind Daughters-in-Law: What Elder Care Tells Us about Changing Japanese Families"
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Building
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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October 10
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Lunch Talk
Connie Mulligan
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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October 11
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
YUAN Jing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology
"The Origins and Development of Animal Domestication in China
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
> more information
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October 17
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Lunch Talk
Veronica Perez Rodriguez
"The Landscape of Urbanism and Terrace Agriculture of the Mixtec Civilization"
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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| October 22 |
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Monday Seminar Series
Jake Kossak
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
October 24
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Lunch Talk
Tina Warinner*
"Ancestors and Shallow Graves: Genetic and Isotopic Analysis of a Colonial Cemetery"
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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October 25
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
Lynne SCHEPARTZ, Florida State University
"Mortuary Ritual and Social Distinctions Among Shang Burials at Daxinzhuang"
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
> more information
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October 31
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Lunch Talk
TBA
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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| November 1 |
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Lecture
Susan Perry, Department of Anthropology, U.C.L.A.
12:00 p.m. Center for the Environment's Seminar Room 310
24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. All are welcome to attend.
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November 7
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Lunch Talk
Peter Magee
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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November 14
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Lunch Talk
Marta Sobur*
"The Early Dilmun Mortuary Economy and its Articulation with Domestic Behavior and Landscape in Central and Southeastern Arabian Gulf during the Third Millennium BC"
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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| November 15 |
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Lecture
Tanya Smith, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
12:00 p.m. Center for the Environment's Seminar Room 310
24 Oxford Street, Cambridge |
November 15
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
LI Xinwei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology
"Jade and the establishment of exchange networks of elite goods around 2300 BC in eastern China"
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
> more information
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| November 20 |
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AAA Practice Workshop
6:00-8:00 p.m. William James Hall Room 1550
All are recommended to attend. |
| November 26 |
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Dissertation Defense
Noelle Stout
“On the Malecón: Revolutionary Desires in Late-Socialist Cuba”
4:15p.m. William James Hall, Room 1550
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| November 29 |
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Lunch Talk
Kathryn Bard
"The Wonders of Punt. Excavations at the Pharaonic Harbor of Saww"
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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November 29
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
TANG Jigen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology
"Recent Research on Shang Archaeology at Anyang"
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
> more information
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| December 3 |
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Monday Seminar Series
Alan Klima - University of California, Davis
Strange Digitization in Postcrash Thailand: A Screening and Discussion of Ghosts and Numbers (2007:70 min)
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
December 5
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Lunch Talk
Dylan Clark*
"Isla Cerritos: New Insights and More Questions from a Maya Coastal Community in Northern Yucatán, Mexico"
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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| December 6 |
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Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series: Lecture
Paul "Jim" Roscoe - University of Maine, Orono Dept. of Anthropology
"The Evolution of Complexity in Contact-era New Guinea Forager Society"
12:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Room 5D (Putnam Lab)
All are welcome to attend.
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December 6
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
Chen SHEN, Royal Ontario Museum
"Handaxes from Northern China: Recent Palaeolithic Investigations in the Luonan Basin, Shaanxi Province"
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
> more information
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| December 10 |
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Dissertation Defense
Priscilla Song
Biotech Pilgrims and Medical Entrepreneurs: Cultural Encounters from Cyberspace to China
4:15 p.m., Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
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December 12
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Lunch Talk
Jason Yaeger
12-1:00 p.m. Peabody Museum, Putnam Lab
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| December 13 |
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Dissertation Defense
Ernesto Martinez
Border Chinese: Making Space and Forging Identity in Mexicali, Mexico
4:15p.m., Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum |
December 13
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East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series
Student Presentations for Anthropology 1210: Archaeology of Ancient China
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Room 14A Peabody Museum
> more information
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| December 17 |
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Monday Seminar Series
John Jackson
3:00 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
| December 17 |
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Annual Holiday Celebration
4 to 7:00 p.m. Peabody Museum - Third Floor Gallery |
| December 17 |
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Last day of classes
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