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Anthropology Department

Speakers Series

The Anthropology hosts a variety of speakers every year for the benefit of its students and UAlbany community in addition to putting on an anthropology graduate student research symposium to enable current students to get presentation experience.

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are Friday at 3:00 in Humanities 354.

For more information on IMS or NutMEG events, go to http://www.albany.edu/ims/imsevents.html.

Fall 2007:
October 12
Pamela Gaber
(Lycoming University)


3:30pm in HU 354
October 26  
Ricardo Perez
(Eastern Connecticut State University)
Topic: “The Political Economy of Tourism Development in Cuba: Sustainability, Environment, and the State”
   
November 2  
Chaise LaDousa
(Hamilton University)
University Hall 110 3:00pm
   
November 9  

Chris Pool
(University of Kentucky)

"Polity and Placemaking at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz Mexico"
   
November16
Katy Gonder
(University at Albany)
“Genetic history of chimpanzees in Nigeria and Cameroon”
   
   

 

Spring 2008:
March 7
Christian Wells (University of South Florida) "The Cornfield
Spirits: Nonmaterial Motives for Cultivating Landscapes in the Ancient Maya World."
March 14
Harvey Weiss
(Yale University)
Topic: What Happened in the Holocene – Did Abrupt Climate Changes Drive Societal Collapse?
April 25  
Jim Wood
(Penn State University)
Household Demography, Orkney Islands, Scotland

 

TBA:
 

Additional  lectures and other events may be added to the schedule.

     For more information, contact:
        Dr. Sharon DeWitte
        Department of Anthropology
        University at Albany, SUNY
        (518) 442-4715
        sdewitte@albany.edu


Department of Anthropology
Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
Phone: (518) 442-4700; Fax: (518) 442-5710

Please send questions or comments to: anthro@albany.edu


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