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