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2012-2013 CSHO Lecture Series

SPRING 2013

• International Symposium
  Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology and Society of the First Modern Humans in Europe
  April 8, 9, and 10
  New York University
  
  In the light of important advances in knowledge over the past few years concerning the Aurignacian culture, the Partner University Fund project Aurignacian Genius, led by Randall White and François Bon, announces an international symposium entitled “Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology and Society of the First Modern Humans in Europe.” This symposium, which will take place at New York University, April 8‐10, 2013, seeks to bring together scientists engaged in primary research on the Early Upper Paleolithic of Europe, with the more specific goal of addressing the question of the social, technological and environmental contexts of Aurignacian symbolic production. Inserted between two days of scientific meetings (April 8 and 10) restricted to the broader scientific community at NYU and beyond, a session for the general public (April 9) seeks to render accessible current scientific knowledge concerning the origins of the arts in Europe.

• Emily Hammer - NYU/ISAW
  Mapping Empire in Naxçıvan, Azerbaijan
  12:00 pm
  Tuesday, April 23
  Kriser Room, Smith Hall, 25 Waverly Place
• Other events in the New York City area

Past Events

SPRING 2013

• Julia Fischer - German Primate Center and University of Göttingen
  Vervet Monkey Alarm Calls Revisited and the Question of Meaning in Animal Communication
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, February 28
  Room 101, 5 Washington Place

• Lunchtime Talk
  12:00 pm
  Tuesday, February 26
  First floor conference room, Smith Hall, 25 Waverly Place
  Amanda Melin (Dartmouth) and Chihiro Hiramatsu (Kyoto University) gave an informal presentation of their work on sensory ecology, color vision, foraging, and adaptive coloration.
• Tim Weaver - University of California, Davis
  Insights from an Evolutionary Quantitative Genetic Approach to Human Origins
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, February 21
  Room 101, 5 Washington Place

• George Perry - Penn State
  Conservation and Extinction Genomics of Malagasy Lemurs: Anthropogenic Effects
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, February 14
  803 Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South

FALL 2012

• Jenny Tung - Duke University
  Evolutionary Genetics and Gene Regulation in Old World Monkeys
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, December 6
  300 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
• Michael Frachetti - Washington University
  Bronze Age Interaction, "Participation," and the Shape of Inner Asian Civilization
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, November 29
  300 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
• Natalie Munro - University of Connecticut
  Diet and Landscape Change from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic at Franchthi Cave, Greece
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, October 11
  300 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

SPRING 2012

• Patrick Kirch - University of California, Berkeley
  Hawai'i as a Model System for Long-Term Agricultural Intensification and Sustainability
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, May 3
  Room 102, 19 University Place
• John Mitani - University of Michigan
  The Behavior of Wild Chimpanzees
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, March 1
  Room 101, 5 Washington Place

FALL 2011

• Erella Hovers - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  To Have and Have Not: Skills, Cognitive Abilities, and Oldowan Stone Tools
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, December 1
  Kriser Room, 25 Waverly Place
• Brown Bag Presentation
  Jens A. Frick - Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  The Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Eastern France: Evidence from the Grottes de la Verpillière I and II (Saône-et-Loire)
  12:30 pm
  Friday, November 18
  Room 805, 25 Waverly Place
• Anthropology Department Event
  John Polk - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Endurance Activity and Brain Size in Human Evolution
  5:00 pm
  Wednesday, November 16
  Kriser Room, 25 Waverly Place
• Chris Ruff - Johns Hopkins University
  The Evolution of Hominin Bipedalism
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, November 3
  300 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
• Yohannes Haile-Selassie - Cleveland Museum of Natural History
  Woranso-Mille (Central Afar, Ethiopia): A New Window into the Human Past
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, October 20
  300 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
• Anthropology Department Event
  Dorian Fuller - University College London
  Archaeobotany of Prehistoric Contacts Across the Indian Ocean: Crop Movements and Trade Between Africa, Asia and Southeast Asia
  3:30 pm
  Wednesday, September 21
  Room 706, 25 Waverly Place

SPRING 2011

• Eurasian Archaeology Workshop
  Saturday, April 30, 2011

• Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer - University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University
  Between superstition and science: Beads of foragers, farmers, and pastoralists in the Levant
  2:00 pm
  Monday, April 25
  Kriser Room, Anthropology Department, 25 Waverly Place
• Rod McIntosh - Yale University
  What can the Middle Niger of West Africa tell us about emerging complexity?
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, April 21
  5 Washington Place, room 101

FALL 2010

• Brenda Bradley - Yale University
  Primatology in the age of primate genomics
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, December 2
  Room 207 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
• David Strait - SUNY Albany
  Reconstructing diet and evaluating dietary adaptations in early hominins
  5:30 pm
  Thursday, November 11
  Kimball Hall Lounge, 246 Greene Street, First Floor
• Thure Cerling - University of Utah
  HAIR - History of Animals using Isotope Records: Diets on time scales of days to millions of years
  5:00 pm
  Thursday, October 7
  Room 207 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

SPRING 2010

• Nicholas Conard - University of Tübingen
  Sex, art and rock 'n' roll in the Swabian Aurignacian: Contextualizing early Upper Palaeolithic innovations within the global debate on cultural modernity
  6:20 pm
  Thursday, April 1
  5 Washington Place, room 101
• Isabelle Crevecoeur - CNRS, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Université Bordeaux
  Insights into modern human variation during the Late Pleistocene in Africa
  2:00 pm
  Tuesday, March 23
  Kriser Room, Anthropology Department, 25 Waverly Place
• Carel van Schaik - University of Zürich
  The evolution of brain size: Benefits, costs and consequences
  6:20 pm
  Thursday, March 4
  5 Washington Place, room 101
• Kaye Reed - Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
  Biogeography and paleoecology of Plio-Pleistocene hominins: Dispersals vs. isolation
  6:20 pm
  Thursday, February 18
  5 Washington Place, room 101

FALL 2009

• Melinda Zeder - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
  New perspectives on Near Eastern agricultural origins
  Thursday, November 19, 5:00 PM
  Kriser Room, Anthropology Department, 25 Waverly Place
• Rebecca Bliege Bird - Stanford University
  Why women hunt: risk and contemporary foraging in the Australian desert
  Monday, October 26, 5:00 PM
  Kriser Room, Anthropology Department, 25 Waverly Place
• Human and Primate Evolution in Context: A Celebration of Peter Andrews' Contributions to Palaeoanthropology
  University College London - Archaeology Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Institute of Archaeology, Gordon Square, London WC1
  Monday, September 21, 2009
  (Co-sponsored by CSHO and UCL.)

SPRING 2009

• Chris Stringer - Natural History Museum, London
  Leakey Foundation/NYCEP event - The AHOB (Ancient Human Occupation of Britain) project and European human evolution
  Wednesday, May 6, 5:00 PM
  Room 408 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
• Paul Mellars - University of Cambridge
  Rethinking modern human behavioural origins and dispersal
  Thursday, April 16, 3:00 PM
  Room 905/907, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
• Steven Kuhn - University of Arizona
  Archaeological perspectives on Paleolithic population structure: are there changes in group size across the Middle/Upper Paleolithic boundary?
  Friday, March 13, 5:00 PM
  Kriser Room, Anthropology Department, 25 Waverly Place
• Mary Stiner - University of Arizona
  Prey choice, site occupation intensity and economic diversity across the Middle to Early Upper Paleolithic at Üçağızlı Caves I and II (Hatay, Turkey)
  Thursday, March 12, 5:00 PM

FALL 2008

• Fred Spoor - University College London
  Early Homo in the Turkana Basin
  Thursday, November 6, 6 PM
  19 University Place, room 102 (Attendees must bring ID.)
  
  Workshop: Using CT in Paleontology
  Friday, November 7, 1:30 - 3:30
  25 Waverly Place, Room 706
• Jean-Jacques Hublin - Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  Modern Human Origins in North Africa
  Wednesday, September 17, 6:45 PM
  Room 105, 5 Washington Place

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
• 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

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

SPRING 2005

• Dr. Drew Rendal
  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