Events
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Arizona Scitech Festival Lecture
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 12 p.m.
Pueblo Grande Museum
http://asuevents.asu.edu/development-and-integration-cultural-resource-data-geographic-information-system-innovative-model-mu
Stephen Reichardt
Development and Integration of Cultural Resource Data in a Geographic Information System: An Innovative Model for Museum Collection Management
For more information, contact Arleyn Simon.
Choosing the Good Opening Reception
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 4–7 p.m.
ASU Museum of Anthropology
http://asuevents.asu.edu/choosing-good
This exhibition is based on the research of anthropologist Daniel Hruschka and his team of international researchers, who conducted projects in six countries. The exhibition explores how people from different cultures make tough choices between the better of two goods. Faculty and students are encouraged to come and find out "what you would do" and discover how people in your community and from around the world resolve the same dilemma in choosing the good.
The exhibition runs through May 25, 2012. Museum hours: Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Challenges in Complexity Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 9
Location & Time TBA
http://asuevents.asu.edu/challenges-complexity-lecture-1
Elizabeth Bruch, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Topic TBA
The Challenges in Complexity speaker series is part of ASU's Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. For more information, contact Michael Schoon.
Sociocultural Brown Bag
Friday, Feb. 10, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
COWDN 205
Julianne Jennings
Mixed-Race Indians in Southern New England: The Power to Name
For information, contact Tae-Eun Kim.
Colloquium
Friday, Feb. 10, 3:30–5 p.m.
SHESC 340
http://asuevents.asu.edu/school-human-evolution-and-social-change-colloquium-0
James T. Watson, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
Reconstructing an Ancient Human Biocultural Ecology: How Environment, Human Biology, Technology and Social Complexity Impact Oral Health in Past Populations
For more information, contact Melissa Birling.
Challenges in Complexity Lecture
Monday, Feb. 13, 3:30 p.m.
Wrigley Hall 481
http://asuevents.asu.edu/hormonal-mechanisms-human-coalitions
Hormonal Mechanisms for Human Coalitions
Mark V. Flinn, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri
The Challenges in Complexity speaker series is part of ASU's Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. For more information, contact Michael Schoon.
Arizona Scitech Festival Lecture
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 12 p.m.
Pueblo Grande Museum
http://asuevents.asu.edu/fort-hill-evidence-yavapai-presence-perry-mesa-area
Christopher Caseldine
A Fort on a Hill: Evidence of Yavapai Presence in the Perry Mesa Area
For more information, contact Arleyn Simon.
Colloquium
Friday, Feb. 17, 3:30–5 p.m.
SHESC 340
http://asuevents.asu.edu/strange-stones
Hugh Raffles, Professor of Anthropology, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
Strange Stones
For more information, contact Andrea Ballestero.
Junior Archaeologist Field Day
Saturday, Feb. 18, 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/junior-archaeologist-field-day
For more information, contact Kim Arth.
Institute of Human Origins 30th Anniversary Lecture Series
Thursday, Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.
Carson Ballroom, Old Main
Katerina Harvati, University of Tubingen, Germany
Neandertals Revisited
For more information, contact Julie Russ.
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m.
ADMIN C 116
http://asuevents.asu.edu/amazons-roma-and-virtuous-breast
Lillian Joyce, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Amazons, Roma and the Virtuous Breast
For more information on this presentation by the Archaeological Institute of America Central Arizona Society, contact Almira Poudrier.
Sociocultural Brown Bag
Friday, Feb. 24, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
COWDN 205
Muna Ali
Generation Muslim American
For information, contact Tae-Eun Kim.
Rock Art Recording Workshop
Saturday, Feb. 25, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/rock-art-recording-workshop
For more information, contact Kim Arth.
Arizona Scitech Festival Lecture
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 12 p.m.
Pueblo Grande Museum
http://asuevents.asu.edu/many-communities-archaeology-asu-campus
Arleyn Simon, ASU Archaeological Research Institute
Many Communities: The Archaeology of the ASU Campus
For more information, contact Arleyn Simon.
Colloquium
Friday, Mar. 2, 3:30–5 p.m.
SHESC 340
http://asuevents.asu.edu/between-tradition-modernity-bororo-photographs-1930s
Christian Feest, former director, Ethnological Museum of Vienna
Between Tradition & Modernity: The Bororo in Photographs of the 1930s
For more information, contact Richard Toon.
Choosing the Good Exhibit Guided Tour & Open House
Saturday, Mar. 3, 5–9 p.m.
ASU Museum of Anthropology
http://asuevents.asu.edu/night-open-door-choosing-good-exhibit-guided-tour-open-house
The museum welcomes visitors for an open house and special guided tours of its latest exhibit, Choosing the Good, as part of ASU's Night of the Open Door. For more information, contact Peter Banko.
The Science of Water Art: A Citizen Science Project
Saturday, Mar. 3, 5–9 p.m.
SHESC, 2nd Floor
http://asuevents.asu.edu/night-open-door-science-water-art-citizen-science-project
Stop by and experience how some of ASU's top social scientists and students, working in tandem with community partners and educators, are discovering and applying critical information about the role water plays in each of our lives. For more information on this ASU Night of the Open Door event, contact Alissa Ruth.
Institute of Human Origins Guided Tours & Open House
Saturday, Mar. 3, 6–8 p.m.
SS 103
http://asuevents.asu.edu/night-open-door-institute-human-origins-guided-tour-open-house
The institute will open to the public its holdings of fossil casts and bones and provide special educational presentations on "Lucy, Queen of the Hominin Skeletons," as part of ASU's Night of the Open Door. For more information, contact Julie Russ.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center Lecture
Saturday, Mar. 10, 1 p.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/rock-art-conservation-gila-river-indian-community
Chris Loendorf, Project Manager, Gila River Indian Community Cultural Resource Management Program, and Barnaby Lewis, Tribal
Historic Preservation Officer, Gila River Indian Community
Rock Art Conservation in the Gila River Indian Community
For more information, contact Kim Arth.
Sociocultural Brown Bag
Friday, Mar. 16, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
SHESC 254
http://asuevents.asu.edu/sociocultural-anthropology-brown-bag-1
Katelyn Parady
Rattlesnakes and Reference Doses: Creating Chemical Imaginaries
For information, contact Tae-Eun Kim.
Desert Flowers Tour
Wednesday, Mar. 21, 11 a.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/desert-flowers-tour
Join educator Elizabeth Alexandar for a tour of multicolor wildflowers and flowering trees in the center's Sonoran Desert preserve. Reservations are required. Tour admission includes museum admission: Adults $7, seniors $4, children $3. Please call 623-582-8007 for more information or reservations.
Desert Flowers Tour
Wednesday, Mar. 28, 11 a.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/desert-flowers-tour-0
Join educator Elizabeth Alexandar for a tour of multicolor wildflowers and flowering trees in the center's Sonoran Desert preserve. Reservations are required. Tour admission includes museum admission: Adults $7, seniors $4, children $3. Please call 623-582-8007 for more information or reservations.
Sociocultural Brown Bag
Friday, Mar. 30, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
SHESC 254
http://asuevents.asu.edu/sociocultural-brown-bag
Catherine Nichols
Early Anthropological Theory and Museum Collections Exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution (1870-1900)
For information, contact Tae-Eun Kim.
Desert Flowers Tour
Wednesday, Apr. 4, 11 a.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/desert-flowers-tour-1
Join educator Elizabeth Alexandar for a tour of multicolor wildflowers and flowering trees in the center's Sonoran Desert preserve. Reservations are required. Tour admission includes museum admission: Adults $7, seniors $4, children $3. Please call 623-582-8007 for more information or reservations.
Sociocultural Brown Bag
Friday, Apr. 13, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
WGHL 102
http://asuevents.asu.edu/sociocultural-brown-bag-0
Jieyoung Kong
Communicating through Aikido: A Post-Humanist Project
For information, contact Tae-Eun Kim.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center Lecture
Saturday, Apr. 14, 1 p.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/art-history-arizona-cultural-encounters-southwest
Betsy Fahlman, Professor of Art History, Arizona State University
The Art History of Arizona: Cultural Encounters with the Southwest
For more information, contact Kim Arth.
Challenges in Complexity Lecture
Monday, Apr. 16
Location & Time TBA
http://asuevents.asu.edu/challenges-complexity-lecture-2
Gary Borisy, President & Director, Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab
Topic TBA
The Challenges in Complexity speaker series is part of ASU's Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. For more information, contact Michael Schoon.
Desert Flowers Tour
Wednesday, Apr. 18, 11 a.m.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
http://asuevents.asu.edu/desert-flowers-tour-3
Join educator Elizabeth Alexandar for a tour of multicolor wildflowers and flowering trees in the center's Sonoran Desert preserve. Reservations are required. Tour admission includes museum admission: Adults $7, seniors $4, children $3. Please call 623-582-8007 for more information or reservations.
Sociocultural Brown Bag
Friday, Apr. 20, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
SHESC 254
http://asuevents.asu.edu/sociocultural-brown-bag-1
Terrie Wong
Topic TBA
For information, contact Tae-Eun Kim.
Colloquium
Monday, Apr. 23, 3:30–5 p.m.
SHESC 340
http://asuevents.asu.edu/school-human-evolution-and-social-change-colloquium
William Lipe, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
Topic TBA
For more information, contact Michelle Hegmon.
Qualitative Analysis Workshop
Monday–Friday, May 7–11, 9 a.m.–12 p.m.
Lynn Ostrom Lab
Cultural anthropologist Amber Wutich will lead this five-day course for the ASU Institute for Social Science Research covering a broad range of methods for analyzing qualitative data. The course is appropriate for scholars with beginning to intermediate skills in text analysis and covers the building blocks of qualitative research, including theme development, code definition, codebook development, teamwork, plus inductive and deductive approaches to theory-building.
For more information, see the ASU Institute for Social Science Research website.
