Colloquia

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia will be on Wednesday or Friday in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Room 340, from 3:30-4:30, with a reception immediately following. For more information, please contact Trish Yasolsky (trish.yasolsky@asu.edu) or Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda (takeyuki.tsuda@asu.edu).

*There will be no reception/refreshments for colloquia held in locations other than SHESC 340.

Spring 2008

Date

Speaker

Title

January 25

Steve Leigh, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Brain Ontogeny in Human and Primate Evolution

February 1

Adam Gordon, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University

Sexual Selection, Natural Selection, and Size Change: Evolution of Sex-Specific Size Differences in Living and Fossil Primates

February 22 

Martin Melosi, Department of History, University of Houston 

Some Thoughts About Path Dependence in Historical Research

*This colloquium is being held as part of the Late Lessons in Early History Lecture Series.

February 29 

Roland Fletcher, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney

Angkor: The Living City     

*Presentation will be held in College of Design North (CDN) 60

Fletcher Flyer

March 6

Peter Wells, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

Archaeology of Interaction: Rome and the Peoples of Europe       

*Presentation will be held in Social Sciences 229 

Wells Flyer

March 19

John Speth, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

How Important Were Large Mammals, Animal Protein, and DHA in Hominin Evolution? Paleoanthropology Still Ain't Heard the News

*Presentation will be held in College of Design North (CDN) 60

Speth Flyer

March 21 Seonbok Yi, Department of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University

New Data on Hoabihnian in Northern Vietnam 

Yi Flyer

April 4 

Chris McCarty, Survey Research Center, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Florida

A Personal Network Measure of Acculturation

McCarty Flyer

April 9

 John Pohl, Fowler Museum, University of California at Los Angeles

 

Children of the Plumed Serpent: Art and Ritual of Mesoamerica's Late Antiquity 

*Presentation will be held in College of Design North (CDN) 60

April 11 Peter Brosius, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia

Global Conservation and the Politics of Scale 

April 18

T.R. Kidder, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis

Is the Whole More than the Sum of the Parts? Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Complexity and History at Poverty Point, Louisiana 

April 25

Todd Disotell, Department of Anthropology, New York University

Primate Molecular Phylogeny