Past Speakers and Discussions

Sept. 20, 2002: Jacqueline Urla (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"The Voice of the Street:  Basque Oppositional Radio and Language"

Oct. 4, 2002: Kay Warren and Timothy J. Smith (Harvard University and University at Albany, SUNY)
"Shaping Democracy:  Identity and Politics in and Beyond the Defeat of the 1999 Indigenous Rights Referendum in Guatemala"

Oct. 9, 2002: Michael Blake (University of British Columbia)
"Mesoamerica's Oldest Ball Court" (Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America)

Oct. 18, 2002: Marcello Canuto (Yale University)
"Living on the Edge: The Study of Ethnicity in the Southeastern Classic Maya Periphery"

Nov. 8, 2002: June Nash (City College, CUNY)
"The Maya Quest for Autonomy Across the Mexico-Guatemala Border"

Dec. 6, 2002: David Anthony (Hartwick College)
"The Archaeology of the Indo-European Origins"

Jan 24, 2003: Faculty Forum
Discussion of Jared Diamond's book, Guns, Germs and Steel.

Feb 14, 2003: Patricia Gabany (University of Connecticut, Mexican Environmental and Cultural Research Institute)
"New Research on the Ethnohistory and Archaeology of the Sierra Purepecha"

Feb 28, 2003: Charles R. Cobb (Binghamton University)
"Migrating Mississippian Symbols in the Lower Ohio Valley"

Sept 5, 2003: John Relethford (SUNY College at Oneonta)
"Mostly Out of Africa: The Origin of Modern Humans"

Sep 12, 2003:  Peter Kroefges (University at Albany, SUNY. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies)
"Prehispanic Politics and Economy in the Chontalpa de Oaxaca, Mexico: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Approaches"

Sep 19, 2003:  Laurel Bossen (McGill University. Co-sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Studies and History)
"The Demise of Footbinding in Early Twentieth Century China"

Oct 17, 2003:   Rosemary Gianno (Keene State College)
"Women are not brave enough": Semelai Men-Midwives in the Context of Southeast Asian Cultures"

Oct 24, 2003:  Sharon Steadman (SUNYCortland)
"Reliquaries on the Landscape: The Creation of Near Eastern Mounds"

Nov 12, 2003: Steven Samuels (University at Albany)
"Menarche and Menopause in Seveso: Statistical Problems in the Study of Life Transitions"

Nov 14, 2003:  Stuart Swiny (University at Albany)
"Cows, Copper, Corners and Cult: A Current View of the Cypriot Early Bronze Age"

Dec 5, 2003: Javier Urcid (Brandeis University)
"A Forensic Approach to Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica: The Mexica Case"

March 5, 2004: Dominique Raby (Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University at Albany)
"The Wrath of the Cave-Dweller Maiden: Gender, Violence and Oral Literature in a Nahua Community of Guerrero, Mexico"

March 13, 2004: Nina Glick-Schiller (University of New Hampshire), "Transnational Migrations and Human Security"

March 18, 2004: Brian Rose (University of Cincinnati) Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
"Monumental Tombs Near Troy: Recent Discoveries"

March 26, 2004: Ralph Garruto (Anthropology Dept., Binghamton University)
"High Incidence Foci of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinsonism-Dimentia in the Western Pacific: New Research Directions"

April 16, 2004: Rachel Dressler (Art Dept., University at Albany)
"'Objet d'art' or Object of Use: the Knight's Tomb Effigy as aTest Case for Medieval Visual Culture"

April 30, 2004: Laurie Miroff (Public Archaeology Facility, Binghamton University, and Anthropology Dept., Skidmore College)
"An Iroquian Village, One Household at a Time"

Sep 10, 2004: Annabeth Headrick (Art History and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)
"A Masterplan for Success: Another Look at the Tepantitla Murals of Teotihuacan."

Oct. 5, 2004: Martín Antonio (Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura in Toluca, Mexico)
"Teotenango: Its History and Archaeological Problems."

Oct. 21, 2004: Rita Wright (Anthropology, New York University)
"Rediscovering the Indus Civilization: New Views on Urbanism."

Oct. 22, 2004: David Carey (History, University of Maine)
"¿Que es Indio si la Nación es Indígena?: Ethnic Violence, Gender and Nationalism in Guatemala, 1944-1967."

Oct. 27, 2004: Sophocles Hadjisavvas
"New Light on the Late Bronze Age of Cyprus."

Oct 29, 2004: Stacey Zamudio (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
"Ancestry, Altitude and Placental Development: What Causes Population Differences in Fetal Growth at High Altitude?"

Dec. 3, 2004: Forum on Anthropology as a Four-Field Discipline

Feb. 11, 2005: Leslie Sharp (Anthropology, Barnard College), "Memorializing the Dead in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer in America"

Feb. 25, 2005: Ray Bromley (Geography, University at Albany), "The Global Crossings of Rural Reconstruction"

Mar. 4, 2005: Christopher Ruff (Functional Anatomy and Evolutoin, Johns Hopkins University)
"Mechanical Influences on Skeletal Development"

Mar. 11, 2005: Graduate Student Research Symposium (Anthropology, University at Albany)

April 1, 2005: Dirk Marcucci and Andrew Clark (Landmark Archaeology Inc. and Anthropology, University at Albany)
"Recent Excavations at the Maritje Kill Site, Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York"

April 8, 2005: Kenneth Feder (Anthropology, Central Connecticut University)
"'Halfway Between a Woodpile and a Log Fence': Life at the Lighthouse, Barkhamsted, Connecticut."

April 15, 2005: Paul Kockelman (Anthropology, Barnard College), "Inalienable Possessions and Personhood among the Q'eqchi'-Maya."