Past Colloquia
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 30 | Zenobia Jacobs, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa) and Researcher, University of Wollongong (Australia) | |
| October 14 | Sharon Gursky - Texas A&M | Predator Mobbing in the Spectral Tarsier |
| October 21 | Harold Dibble - University of Pennsylvania | What We Don't Know About Paleolithic Stone Tools |
| November 4 | Bob Martin - The Field Museum | Determining dates for primate origins and diversification |
| November 9 | Henry Wright - University of Michigan | New Research on the Emergence of States in Mesopotamia |
| November 18 | Dwight Read - University of California - Los Angeles | Kinship Theory: A Paradigm Shift |
| December 2 | Jean-François Berger - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France | |
| December 9 | Sarah Green, University of Manchester, UK | Unnatural fractals: Or, how to become extraordinarily ordinary in the Balkans: an ethnographic note from the Greek-Albanian border |
Spring 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 21 | Will Harcourt-Smith, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History |
The evolution of bipedalism: new evidence using geometric morphometrics. |
| January 28 | Joseph A. Tainter, Rocky Mountain Research Center, US Forest Service | Ecological vs. social complexity: an anthropological perspective on a science of sustainability. |
| February 1 | Rasmi Shoocongdej, Asst. Prof., Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. | Archaeology in the mist of the borderland between Thailand and Myanmar. |
| February 2 | Alan Sandstrom, Indiana-Purdue University | Blood sacrifice, curing, and ethnic identity among contemporary Nahua of Mexico |
| February 2 | James Taggart, Franklin and Marshall University | Nahuat ethnicity in a time of ire. |
| February 3 | Frances Berdan, California State University, San Bernardino | Ethnicity and class in Aztec-period Mexico. |
| February 4 | panel session | Interpretations of ethnicity, state, and class in Mesoamerica: archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography. |
| February 4 | Jon Sandor, Professor, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University | Soil Indicators of Diversity, Productivity, and Environmental Impact of Ancient American Agriculture |
| February 23 | Michael Smith, Professor, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Albany | Four ways to look at ancient cities. |
| March 2 at 4:00 | Marco Janssen, Assistant Professor, Indiana University | Governing social-ecological systems |
| March 7 at 4:00 | Mark Altaweel, Research scientist, Argonne National Laboratory | Simulating interactions of natural and social systems: examples from ancient Mesopotamia |
| March 9 at 4:00 | Deborah L. Nichols, Professor, Dartmouth College | Farmers, Feathered Serpents and Royal Baths: Political Economy and Early Water Management in Central Mexico |
| March 28 at 12:00 | Antonieta Jerardino, University of Cape Town | Human Impact on the West Coast Marine Environments of South Africa |
| March 28 at 4:00 | Deborah Crooks, Assoc. Professor, University of Kentucky | Child Growth as a window onto society: case studies in the social determinants of health |
| April 11 at 4:00 | Magdalena Hurtado, Assoc. Professor, University of New Mexico | The evolutionary cultural ecology of disease susceptibility and Asthma: lessons from natives of lowland South America |
| April 14 at 4:00 | Alexandra Brewis, Professor, University of Georgia | Biocultural bases of health and well-being in early-middle childhood: recent field studies from the Americas |
| April 21 at 4:00 | Alan Smart, Associate Professor, University of Calgary | The Hong Kong/ Pearl River Delta transborder region: 1950, 1979, 1997 |
| April 22 | Michelle Goldsmith, Scientist-in-Residence, Emerson College | Practical and Ethical Implications of Field Research and Ecotourism On Wild Great Ape Populations |
| April 25 at 4:00 | Takeyuki Tsuda, Associate Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, Univ. of California, San Diego | Migration and alienation: Japanese Brazilian ethnic return migrants and the search for homeland abroad |
| April 26 at 4:00 | Maria Cruz-Torres, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Univ. of California, Riverside | The political ecology of coastal northwestern Mexico: from prehispanic to the global present |
| April 28 at 4:00 | Christopher Boone, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University | Dynamics of Environmental justice in Baltimore, Maryland |
Fall 2004
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 3 at 1:40 | Robert Bolin, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, ASU |
Vulnerable People, Hazardous Places: A Political Ecology of Environmental Risk in Phoenix |
| September 17 | Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, Asst. Professor, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton | Forensic Anthropological Investigation of Human Rights Atrocities: A Comparison Across Three Continents |
| September 23 at 4:40 | Lori Wright, Assoc. Professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M | Isotopic Studies of Tooth Enamel: Evidence for, and Against, Migration among the Maya |
| October 1 | Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, ASU | Disrupted Bodies: History, Identity and Reproduction |
| October 8 | David Whitley, Director for the ICOMOS International Rock Art Committee, and Instructor, UCLA Extension, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities | Ritual intensification, social evolution and climate change: the Carrizo collapse in the far west. |
| October 15 | Mari Lyn Salvador, Executive Director, Museum of Man, San Diego | The art of being Kuna: collaboration, long-term research and the development of a traveling exhibition. |
| October 29 | Serge Cleuziou, Director of Research, CNRS | Integrated regional research on the south coast of Oman:the Ras al Junais Project |
| November 4 at 7:30 in Lattie Coor Bldg, Rm. 170 | Leonardo Lopez Lujan, Professor, Museo del Templo Mayor, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City | The two faces of the Aztec God of Death |
| November 5 | Laura Filloy Nadal, Senior Conservator, National Museum of Anthropology | Image and Essence of Lord Pakal |
| November 12 | Nathaniel Dominy, Asst. Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz | Behavioral chains and the sensory ecology of primate food selection |
| November 22 | Sharon L. Harlan, Assoc. Professor, Department of Sociology, ASU | Environmental complexity in urban neighborhoods. |
| Edward Hackett, Professor, Department of Sociology, ASU | Essential tensions: identity, control and risk in research | |
| December 3 | Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, Asst. Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona | Eurasian Domestic Animals, Colonization, and Native American Subsistence Change in Southeastern and Southwestern North America |