Spring 2013 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, January 18, 2013 - Dr. Judith Maxwell, Tulane University - “The Fourteenth B’ak’tun, or the Maya never said the world was going to end, anyway” - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Friday, February 15, 2013 - Dr. Richard Buger, Yale University - " The role of vermilion (cinnabar) in prehispanic Peruvian civilization: an exploration of its production, utilization, and exchange." - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Friday, March 1, 2013 - Dr. Takeshi Inomata, University of Arizona - " Excavations at Ceibal, Guatemala: Implications for the Origins of Lowland Maya Civilization " - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Fall 2012 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, September 21, 2012 - Marc Blainey, Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University - "A Key to Solutions: Ayahuasca Therapy & the Santo Daime Religion in Europe" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 103

Friday, October 19, 2012 - Dr. Pranjal Mehta, University of Oregon - "Debunking Stereotypes about Testosterone's Role in Social Interaction and Decision-Making" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - Dr. Gao Bingzhong, Peking University - "What Are Chinese Ethnographers of American Society and Culture Interested In?  More Than Private Property and Capitalism" - 6:30 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 305. (Please note Building and Room change. Was originaly scheduled in Newcomb Hall)

Friday, November 16, 2012 - Dr. Elizabeth Boone, Tulane University - "Pictorial Talking: the Figural Rendering of Speech Acts in Aztec Mexico" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 103

Friday, November 30, 2012 - Dr. George Mentore, University of Virginia- "Empathy and Neuroimaging Studies: The Limits of Representation and Interpretation" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Friday, December 7, 2012 - Dr. Grant McCall, Tulane University - "Two Hundred Years of Thinking about Handaxes: Retrospectives and Perspectives on the Organization of Acheulean Lithic Technology" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Spring 2012 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, January 27, 2012 - Dr. Vin Steponaitis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - "Coles Creek Mound Construction and Ritual at the Feltus Site, Mississippi" 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, February 3, 2012 - Dr.  Sidney C. H. Cheung, Chinese University of Hong Kong - "New Orleans, New Territories/Hong Kong" 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, February 10, 2012 - Dr. Beth Conklin, Vanderbilt University - "Body/Environment/Emotion: Rupture and Resilience in Native Amazonia" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, March 23, 2012 - Dr. John Verano, Tulane University - "Tombs with a View: Mortuary Site Bioarchaeology at 3800 meters in Marcajirca, Northern Peru" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, March 30, 2012 - Dr. Antoinette Alou Tidjani , University of Abdou Moumouni-Niamey, Niger and the University of Florida-Gainesville - "Sarraounia's Power Facing Islam: Gender, Religion, and National Identity Construction in Niger" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, April 13, 2012 - Dr. Gabriel Wroebel, University of Mississippi - "Cancelled"

Friday, April 27, 2012 - Dr. Kathleen Sterling, Binghamton University - " Cultural Landscapes in Late Ice Age Europe” - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Fall 2011 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, September 16, 2011 - Marc Zender, Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University - "hk'ab: Darkness and the Night among the Classic Maya" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, October 7, 2011 - Jay Johnson, Professor of Anthropology, University of Mississippi - "Righteous Rocks Revisited" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, October 21, 2011 - Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth, Director of Foundation for Latin American Anthropological Research - "Re-Identifying Flora and Fauna in Maya Art & the Popol Vuh" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, October 28, 2011 - Eduardo Williams, Colegio de Michoacan  - "Subsistence activities in aquatic environments: ethnoarchaeological research in Michoacan, Mexico" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, November 4, 2011 - Karl Widerquist "Our Imagined Past: How Misconceptions About Prehistory Cloud Our Thinking in Modern Politics, Philosophy, and Social Science" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, December 2, 2011 - John Verano, Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Tombs with a View:  Mortuary Site Archaeology at 3800 meters in Northern Peru" -   4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Monday, December 5, 2011 - David Watts, -Professor of Anthropology, Yale University - "TBA" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Spring 2011 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, January 14, 2011 - Andrea White, Regional Archaeologist of the Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program - "Layers of History: Predicting Archaeological Site location and Tracing the Development of New Orleans with GIS and Historic Maps" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, February 18, 2011 - Dr. T. R. Kidder, Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis - "Culture, Climate, and Environment at Sanyangzhuang, Henan Province, China" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, February 25, 2011 - Tricia Alexander - "Beyond Bourbon Street: New Orleans’ Carnival Season" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, March 18, 2011 - Dr. Guy L. Beck, of the Religious Studies Department, Tulane University - “Sonic Theology: Contemplating Sound, Word, and Music in Hindu Tradition” - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, April 8, 2011 - David Chicoine, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University - "Early Urban Life in Coastal Peru: Perspectives from 1st Millennium BCE Societies in Nepeña" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, April 15, 2011 - Justin M. Nolan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas - "The Ethnoecology of Cultural Heritage Conservation in the US Mountain South" - COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED

Fall 2010 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, September 10, 2010 - Dr. Mariana Mora, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Zapatismo and Decolonizing Politics in an era of Neoliberal Governance in Mexico" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Friday, October 8, 2010 -  Dr. Claire Satorelli, University of Chester - "Vocal traditions in wild spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, November 5, 2010 -  Dr. Marc Perry, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University, - “Consuming Blackness: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and New Economies of Race in Late Socialist Cuba.” - 4:00 pm in Dinwiddie 102.

Friday, November 12, 2010 - Brent Woodfill, Researcher at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, - "Salinas de los Nueve Cerros: Rediscovering 3,000 Years of History at an Ancient Maya Industrial City" - 4:00 pm in Dinwiddie Hall 102.

Friday, December 3, 2010 - Dr. Grant McCall, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Rethinking the Later Stone Age and Pastoralism in the Namib Desert and Beyond" - 4:00 p.m. in Dinwiddie Hall 102

Spring 2010 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, January 15, 2010 - Dr. William Woods and Lillian Rebellato, Department of Geography, University of Kansas - "Amazon Dark Earths in understanding of Amazon Prehistory" - 4:00 p.m. in the Freeman Auditorium

Friday, January 29, 2010 - Dr. Jonathan Haas, The Field Museum and Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Chicago - " The Agricultural Foundations of Andean Civilization"- 4:00 p.m. in the Stone Auditorium, Woldenburg Art Center 210.

Friday, February 5, 2010 - Dr. John Forest, SUNY Purchase - "How Genesis saved the Babylonian Jews from Extinction". - 4:00 PM in Stone Auditorium,  Woldenburg Art Center 210

Friday, March 5, 2010 - Dr. Harvey Bricker, Emeritus and Dr. Victoria Bricker, Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Zodical Beasts of the Precolumbian Maya" - 4:00 PM in Freeman Auditorium, Woldenburg Art Center

Friday, March 19, 2010 - Dr. Erik Trinkaus, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Anthropology at Washington University-St. Louis - "Burials, Bodies, and Behavior in the Middle Upper Pleistocene" - CANCELLED - RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 23RD.

Friday, April 9, 2010 - Dr. Benjamin Bailey, Department of Communications, University of Massachussetts-Amherst- "TBA"

Friday, April 23, 2010 - Dr. Erik Trinkaus, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Anthropology at Washington University-St. Louis - "Burials, Bodies, and Behavior in the Middle Upper Pleistocene" - 4:00 p.m. in the Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center 210

Fall 2009 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, October 2, 2009 - Dr. William Balee, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "A Comparison of Ecological and Ethnobiological Measures of "Treeness"'. 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 115

Friday, October 9, 2009 - Brian Pierson, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Facial Reproduction: How and Why It's Done". 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 115

Friday, November 6, 2009 - Dr. Nick Spitzer, Department of Communications, Tulane University -"Roots' to 'Routes': Metaphors, Ethnography, and Representation of Culture in Creole Louisiana and Beyond". 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 115

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Dr. Thomas Klingler, Department of French and Italian, Tulane University - "You Are What You Speak: Language and Ethnicity in Francophone Louisiana". - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 115

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 - Dr. Russell Greaves - Peabody Museum of Harvard University -"The savanna mind: interdisciplinary anthropological science among Venezuelan foragers".   - 4:00 p.m. in the Freeman Auditorium, in the Woldenburg Art Center Room 205

Friday, December 4, 2009- Dr. Grant McCall, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University "New Discoveries and New Modern Human Origins Research Problems in Southern Africa". - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Spring 2009 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 - Dr. Aline Magnoni, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Living in the City: Daily Practices of Domestic life at Classic Period Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico." - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 - Dr. Geoffrey Braswell, University of California, San Diego - Job Talk at Tulane University - "The Formation of Ancient Maya States: Archaeological and Epigraphic Research at Pusilha, Belize" - 5:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 115

Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 - Dr. David Beriss, University of New Orleans - A talk about the strange resurgence of culture talk in an era dominated by neo-liberal thought titled "Paris / New Orleans: Taking Culture Seriously"- 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Jan. 30, 2009 - Sara Phillips, Tulane University- "Warriors, Victims and the Merely Accident Prone:  Fracture Patterns in Moche Skeletal Remains from Northern Coastal Peru". The talk reviews Sarah's dissertation work on fracture pattern analysis (examining the frequency and location of fractures) among the Moche of Peru in an effort to understand patterns of interpersonal violence and warfare in the culture - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 - Ms. Rebecca Starr, Stanford University - "Teaching the Standard Without Speaking the Standard: Variation Among Mandarin-Speaking Teachers in a Dual-Immersion School" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Feb. 27, 2009 - Dr. Marc Perry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "¿Que Bola? Rap, Race, and a Politics of New Black Subject-Making in Cuba" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Monday, Mar. 2, 2009 - Dr. Mariana Mora, Center for Research and Advanced studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) - "Unsettled Terrains: Mestizaje, Zapatista Autonomy and the Politics of Indigeneity in Chiapas" - 5:00 p.m. in ART 201 (Woldenberg Art Center)

Friday, Mar. 6, 2009 - Dr. Kevin Groark, University of Southern California - "Fevered Heart Sickness": Emotion, Illness, and the Embodiment of Social Conflict among the Tzotzil Maya of Highland Chiapas - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Mar. 13, 2009 - Dr. Katherine Langan - "Ethnography as a tool in medical interpreting" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Apr. 3, 2009 - Dr. Paul Minnis, University of Oklahoma - "The Political Ecology of the Casas Grades Polity." Casas Grandes is a site and a regional polity (A.D. 1250-1450) for which there is archaeological evidence for extensive irrigation and field systems, widespread trade and exchange networks (including those linking the "Southwest" with "Mesoamerica"), and some interesting iconography. - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Apr. 17, 2009 - Marc Maddox, Tulane University - "Chwa'q chïq iwonojel:  Language affect, ideology, and intergenerational language use patterns in the Quinizilapa Valley of highland Guatemala." - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Fall 2008 Colloquium Schedule

Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 - Dr. Kit Nelson, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Unbundling the Chancay". A talk about her recent mummy discovery. - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 - Jim Dugan, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "A visit to the Creation Museum: Where Does That Young Earth Idea Come From Anyway?" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 - Cristina Pop, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Traditional Healing Incantations in Romania: Is Myth Susceptible to a Cognitive Semantics Interpretation?" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 - Prof. Andrea Queeley - "Somos Negros Finos": Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship Across Cuba's Tumultuous 20th Century" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 - Dr. Trenton W. Holliday, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - " Size and Its Consequences: Allometry and the Lower Limb Length of Liang Bua 1 (Homo floresiensis)" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 - Sonny Faulseit, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University - "Mapping a Mountain: Survey and Surface Collection at Cerro Danush, Oaxaca, Mexico" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 - Dr. Allison J. Truitt, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University -

"Cash in the Machine:  Digital Divides in Vietnam's Emerging Market" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119

Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 - Dr. Nathan Craig, Pennsylvania State University- "Large Late Archaic Architecture on the Peruvian Coast: A Reconsideration of Models in Light of Architectural Energetics and Context" - 4:00 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Room 119