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UPCOMING EVENTS: 
 
Conner Wiktorowicz - “In Vino Veritas: Storage of Liquids and Relational Ecologies in Bronze Age Cyprus”
Monday, May 6 from 12.00-1.00pm
STON 154.

PhD defense
Jeremy Beach - “Border Relations: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of the Rise of the Xiongnu Polity”
Thursday, May 16, 2013
10.30-11:00am
STON B2

PAST EVENTS:

Diana Steele- “Geographies of Difference: Examining Race and Place through Amazonian Migrants Livelihoods in Peru”
Thursday, April 25, 2013
 3.00 PM  STON B2

Adlina Maulod - “Labor of Love: Queer Kinship and Parenthood among Female Same-Sex Partners in Singapore”
Thursday, April 25, 2013
4:00 PM    STON B2

Kyle Jones - “Creating Collective Spaces: Youth and Hip Hop in Urban Peru”
Thursday, April 18, 2013
2:30 PM   MTHW 111

PhD Final Exam Sarah Schrader
"Bioarchaeology of the Everyday: Analysis of Diet and Activity Patterns in the Nile Valley"
Monday April 22, 9:30 AM
STON 154

Anthropology Awards Reception
Tuesday April 23
4:30-6:00 PM
BRNG 2290
 
Brown Bag Lecture
Tuesday April 23rd 12:00-1:30
BRNG B268
"Stranger in Strange Land: Archaeologist meets Hollywood and Discovers Stargates and Marauding Mummies"
Stuart Tyson Smith, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology University of California Santa Barbara



The Anthropology Graduate Student Organization will be having a fundraiser at Noodles & Co. on Tuesday April 16 from 5:00- 9:00 PM. If you would like to support our organization in this fundraiser, please mention "Anthropology Graduate Student Organization"
when you purchase a meal. (dine in, carry out, or delivery) during the stated time, and the organization will receive 25% of the proceeds from your purchase.

 The Anthropology Graduate Student Organization (AGSO) and the Global Engineering Program will be hosting two talks by Dr. Elizabeth Briody.
 
"Park Brake Cable Routing Issue"
Monday April 8 at 3:30
Cafe Royale
(Corner of Stadium and Northwestern)
 
"Using an Organizations Culture Story
as a Roadmap for Change"
Tuesday April 9 at 1:30
SC 239

Engineering/Anthropology Workshop Series
"Community Needs Assessment"
Tuesday, April 9
5:30-8:30 PM
HICKS G980D 

 Engineering and Anthropology Workshop Series
"Community Asset Analysis"
Wednesday March 27
5:30-8:30 HAMP 1252

Engineering and Anthropology Workshop Series
Designing Projects that Work
Thursday February 21
5:30-8:30, FRNY 1043

Department of Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture
The (Mis)use and Evaluation of Analogy in Archaeology: The Case of Combat among the Southern Moche (AD 100 – 750) of Northern Peru
Richard Sutter, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Indiana U - Purdue U Fort Wayne
Wednesday January 30th, 12:30-1:30, KRAN G016

Public Lecture
"The Long Life of Racism and Islamophobia"
Presented by Junaid Rana
Monday, October 15
4:30-5:30 p.m.
WTHR 160

Brown Bag Lecture
"My Summer in the Amazon: Ethnography with the Kayapo"
Thursday October 4th
12:00-1:00
University Hall 101

Annual Awards Reception
Thursday, April 26
4:45-6:15
BRNG 2290

Brownbag Lunch
Ryan Plis, PhD. Prospectus
Thursday, April 26
12:00-1:00
STON B2

Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum keynote speaker
Student Conference
Ball State University April 12-13

Brownbag Lunch
MS Prospectus
Thursday, April 5
12:00-1:00
STON B2

Brown Bag Lunch
Speaker: Donald Holly, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Eastern Illinois University
"An Archaeology of the Belief Systems of the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland"
Thursday, March 29
12:00-100
REC 121

Brown Bag Lunch
Speaker: Elise Kordis, Director/Curator Miami County Museum
Bridging the Gap: From Anthropology Student to Museum Professional
Thursday March 8
12:00-1:00 pm
REC 121

IBRC Journal Club Meeting
Dr. Bryce Carlson
Date: Wednesday 2/22
Time: 12:00-1:00
STON G53

Brown Bag Lecture
Anthropology Gruaduate Student Presentations
Thursday, November 10
12:00-1:30
REC 309


Anthropology Graduate Program Open House
November 11
10:00-3:00 PM
Event begins in Stone Hall Room B2 at 10:00 AM
You can find further information on our hompage

Wiping Away the Tears Symposium:
The Battle of Tippecanoe in
History and Memory
Free and open to the public
November 3-5

Rob Wanner
Landscape of Decimation? The impact of Roman colinization on Northwest Transylvania
www.porolissum.org
Thursday October 27
REC 315 12:00-1:00

Thursday, October 13th
Richard Weld
Stress in Contemporary Japan
Stone Hall B2, 12-1:00 pm

“Tracing the Horse in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and Arabia”
Dr. Sandra Olsen
Curator and Head of Anthropology Section
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Monday August 8th at 4:00 PM
STON 217

Anthropology Annual Awards Reception
Monday, April 25th
Pfendler Hall, Rm#241
2:30-4:00 pm

Monday April 4
Blair Daverman, Purdue University
A bioarchaeological perspective on diet and health consequences of Akkadian imperial consolidation at Kish, Iraq
Stone B2 2:30

Wednedsay March 23, 2011
Dr. Linda van de Kamp, African Studies Centre, Leiden
The Making of Love: Brazilian Pentecostal Confrontational Interventions in Maputo, Mozambique
BRNG 1238 2:30-3:30 pm

The full listing of the Fall 2010 Colloquium Series can be found here.

 

 

 

Study Abroad Callout Brazil and Kenya
Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum and Dr. Laura Zanotti
Wednesday March 9, 2011 BRNG 1248 at 12:30 pm -OR- UNIV 17 at 5:45 pm

Wednesday February 16, 2011
Dr. Shanshan Lan, Connecticut College
Is this what you call racial discrimination?: Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago
RAWL 2058 2:30 - 3:30 pm

Friday February 11, 2011
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, Princeton University
Race, Hip Hop and Muslim Youth Self-Making in Chicago
RAWL 2070 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Monday February 7, 2011
Mitchell Irwin, PhD, McGill University
The Lean Season Lasts All Year: Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Primate Ecology and Health in Madagascar
PHEN 241 2:30-3:30

Wednesday January 26, 2011
Sara Busdiecker, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Performing Blackness into the Bolivian Nation: The Presencing Powers of Afro-Bolivian Saya Music and Dance
PFEN 241 2:30 - 4:00 pm

Friday January 21, 2011
Bryce Carlson, Emory University
Reconstructing consumption from the ground up: Isotopic dietary ecology of wild chimpanzees in Western Uganda
RAWL 2070 2:30 - 3:30 pm

Wednesday January 19, 2011
Fatimah Williams Castro, Rutgers University
We've Told These Stories Before": Afro-Colombian Testimonies and Challenges to Transnational Solidarity Building
PFEN 241 2:30-3:30 pm

Friday January 14, 2011
Michael Wasserman, University of California, Berkeley
Feeding on Phytoestrogens: Implications of Estrogenic Plants for Primate Ecology & Evolution
PFEN 241 2:30-3:30 pm

Wednesday December 1, 2010
Carolyn Jost, Purdue University
Multi-faceted approaches to understanding changes in wildlife and livelihoods in a forest system: A case study from the Central African Republic BRNG 1238 12:00-1:00

Wednesday November 17, 2010?
Koban Cemetery: Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Caucasian Materials from French Museum Collections
Giorgi Bedianashvili, Centre for Archaeological Studies
Georgian National Museum
BRNG 1238 12:00-1:00

Wednesday November 3, 2010
The Mississippian Boom and Bust?:
A Multiscalar & Multidisciplinary Examination of the Late Prehistoric Period in the Midwest
Jeremy J. Wilson, Department of Anthropology, IU-PUI
BRNG 1238 12:00-1:00

Wednesday October 27, 2010
The 2010 Purdue Archaeological Field
Season in Nasca, Peru: Ancient Mining,
Music, Households and a Headless Burial
Kevin Vaughn and Verity Whalen
BRNG 1238 12:00-1:00

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Conservation and Ethnoecology
in Madagascar
Dr. Douglas Hume, NKU
RAWL 3058, 12:00-1:00

Thursday, October 7, 2010
Economic Diversification and Sustainable Development
Dr. Laura Zanotti, Department of Anthropology
CLA Green Week Panel
STEW 314 1:30-3:00 PM

Friday, October 8th
Biocultural diversity and Hydrodevelopment Emerging Trends Sustainable Futures
Dr. Barbara Rose Johnston, UC Santa Cruz
Lawson 1142 12:30-1:30 pm

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce it is hosting the Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association Annual Meeting this Fall. The meeting will take place in Stone Hall and Lilly Hall from October 8-10th. Please refer to the linked flyer for more information about paper and workshop submissions, registration, schedule, and accommodations. Questions? Contact Dr. Michele Buzon barfaa@purdue.edu.

Wednesday, September 29th
Heart is Where The Home Is: Lenape/Delaware Homelands
Dr. Dawn Marsh, Deapartment of History
BRNG 1238 12:00-1:00 pm

Dr. Sharon Williams
Science on Tap
Lafayette Brewing Company
September 23rd - 6:00pm

Spring 2010 Anthropology Colloquium Series

May 28th - 30th, 2010
Sudan Studies Association
29th Annual Conference
Sudan's Elections and the Referendum: Choices, Last Chances, A Time For Change?

Thursday April 29th
Masterpieces of Ancient Metallurgy
Dr. Michael L. Wayman, University of Alberta
ME (Mechanical Engineering) 161
4:30-5:45 pm

Friday, April 30, 2010
Does Milk Make Children Grow?
Andrea S. Wiley, Ph.D.
BRNG 2280
10:30 a.m.

Friday April 30th
Ferrous Metallurgy in Ancient China
Dr. Michael L. Wayman, University of Alberta ARMS
Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering 1010
3:30-4:45 pm

Wednesday April 28
Aging in the World: Individuals, Populations, the WHO and Anthropology
Dr. Sharon Williams, Purdue University
BRNG 1222
12:00-1:00 pm

Recent Archaeological Fieldwork at Tombos, Sudan
Dr. Michele Buzon, Purdue University
Wednesday April 21, 2010
BRNG 1222
12:00-1:00 pm

Fostering reproductive health through entertainment-education in the Peruvian Amazon: The social construction of Bienvenida Salud!
Dr. Beverly Davenport Sypher, Purdue University. Dr. Sypher is Associate Provost, Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair for Leadership
Excellence, and Professor of Communications

Thursday April 15, 2010
BRNG 1238
12:00-1:00 pm