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Center for the Study of Human Origins

Department of
Anthropology

 
New York University

25 Waverly Place
New York City
NY 10003

telephone:
212.992.9785
fax:
212.998.8581

 

EVENTS & SEMINARS

FUTURE EVENTS

SPRING 2008

Osbjorn Pearson - University of New Mexico
The earliest modern humans from the Omo Kibish Formation
Thursday, April 24, 5 PM
Kriser Room, Anthropology Dept, 25 Waverly Place

PAST EVENTS

SPRING 2008

Dan Lieberman - Harvard University
Mad Dogs and Hominins in the Midday Sun: walking and running in the genus Homo
Thursday, March 13, 5 PM
19 University Place, Room 102

Colin Renfrew - University of Cambridge
The destruction of the past: Time to say no
Monday, March 10, 6PM
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

Utsav Schurmans - University of Pennsylvania
The role of North Africa in modern human origins research
Monday, March 3rd, 12:30 PM
Kriser Room, Anthropology Dept, 25 Waverly Place

Christian Tryon - Smithsonian Institution
Ancient rocks and modern humans:
Geological and archaeological investigations of hominin behavioral evolution in the late Middle Pleistocene
Thursday, February 28th, 5 PM
Kriser Room, Anthropology Dept, 25 Waverly Place

Dietrich Stout - Institute of Archaeology University College London
Making Tools and Making Sense: Technology, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution
Monday, February 25th, 12:30 PM
Kriser Room, Anthropology Dept, 25 Waverly Place

Mike Plavcan - University of Arkansas
Understanding dimorphism as a function of male and female traits
Friday, November 2, 5:00 PM
19 University Place, Room 102

Paul Goldberg - Boston University
Micromorphology, Humans, and Site Formation
Friday, September 21, 4:30
Kriser Room, Anthropology Dept, 25 Waverly Place

 

FALL 2007

Randy White - New York University
Getting beyond Venus: Contextual readings of Paleolithic female figures
Wednesday, November 14, 6:30-8 PM
19 University Place, Room 102

Amy Parish - University of Southern California
Sex and the liberated hominoid: Pleasure. bonding and female dominance in bonobos
Thursday, November 15, 4:55-6:10
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 408
co-sponsored with the Anthropology Department

Mike Plavcan - University of Arkansas
Understanding dimorphism as a function of male and female traits
Friday, November 2, 5:00-7:00 PM
19 University Place, Room 102

Monique Scott - American Museum of Natural History
Exhibiting Human Evolution in the Museum: Insights from International Audiences
Thursday, October 18, 4:55-6:10
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 408
co-sponsored with the Anthropology Department

Evolutionary Anthropology at the Interface
A workshop and symposium organized by CSHO & the Wenner Gren Foundation to celebrate and honor the remarkable career of Dr. Cliff Jolly and the field of biological anthropology.
October 6th, 2007- 19 West 4th Street, Yalinkcak Lecture Hall
NEW! Conference pictures now online Photos from both day 1 at Wenner-Gren and day 2 at NYU!

Paul Goldberg - Boston University
Micromorphology, Humans, and Site Formation
Friday, September 21, 4:30 PM
Kriser Room, Department of Anthropology

SPRING 2007

Dr. Thomas Plummer - CUNY, Queens College
Fractured bones, stones and careers: Paleoanthropological research on the Fever Peninsula, Kenya
Thursday, April 12, 6:00 PM
Kriser Room, Department of Anthropology 1st Floor

Hall of Human Origins opens at the Museum of Natural History

Dr. Bernard Wood,
George Washington University
"Paranthropus boisei: the history and prehistory of an early hominin taxon"
Friday, February 16th, 4:30 pm
Jurrow Lecture Hall, Silver Center

FALL 2006


Department of Anthropology Colloquium -
Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Society
“Afghanistan’s Hidden Past: Rediscovering the Collections of the Kabul Museum”
Thursday, November 30th, 4:55 to 6:10
Silver Center (100 Washington Square East), Room 207


Donald H. Enlow International Research Symposium:
An Integrative Approach to Skeletal Biology

November 6-7, 2006


SPRING 2006

Molecular Primatology: Progress and Promise
View and download conference pictures

March 2-4, 8:45am - 7:00pm
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center


SPRING 2005

    Dr. Drew Rendall
    "Sex, size, and social identity: Structure-function
    dimensions of primate vocalizations and their relevance to human speech
    origins"
    April 21, 6:30pm
    Kriser Room, 25 Waverly Place, NYU
    Co-sponsored with NYCEP


    Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives
    January 27-29, 9 am-5:30pm
    Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
     

FALL 2004

    Dr. Milford Wolpoff, University of Michigan
    " Why not Neanderthals?"
    December 3rd, 5:30 pm
    Silver Center Rm 206


    Dr. Steve Leigh, University of Illinois
    " Brain Ontogeny and Life History in Primates"
    November 12th, 5:30 pm
    Silver Center Rm 206

    Dr. Laurie Godfrey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    " Ghost Bones of Madagascar: Reconstructing Madagascar's Extict Lemurs"
    October 1st, 5:30 pm
    Silver Center Rm 206