Fall 2009 Colloquia
Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and the public are invited to join.
All Colloquium Speaking Events (eXCEPT oCTOBER 16) are held at 3:30 p.m. in 107 Carpenter Building
| August 28 | Department Meeting and Party - no colloquium |
| September 4 | Kaye Reed, Arizona State University "The Life and Times of Australopithecus: Ecology, Biogeography, and Monkeys" |
| September 11 | Kirk French "Water Management at Palenque" |
| September 18 | Ken Hirth - TBA |
| September 25 | Brian Richmond George Washington U TBA |
| October 2 | George Milner - "Paleodemography: Why we don't know more, what can be done about it, and why should we care" |
| October 9 | Adam Hartstone-Rose PSU Altoona "The Hunters and the Hunted: carnivores and human evolution" |
| October 16 | Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer, Political Science, PSU - "Evolution, Creationism and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms" in 111 Chambers Building. (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION) |
| October 23 | Jeffrey Parsons, University of Michigan "The Pastoral Niche in Ancient Mesoamerica: How did they manage without domestic herbivores?" |
| October 30 | "It's Alive! Archaeological GIS Applications in the Old and New Worlds and the GIS lab" Short presentations in 107 Carpenter Building by individuals associated with the GIS Lab followed by an open house of the GIS Lab in 101 Carpenter Building. |
| November 6 | David Webster "Backwards Bottlenecks and Ancient Maize" |
| November 13 | Erick Rochette & Ken Hirth - TBA |
| November 20 | Thanksgiving Holiday – no colloquium |
| November 27 | Thanksgiving Holiday – no colloquium |
| December 4 | Daniel Lieberman, Harvard University "Endurance Running in Human Evolution (from head to toe)" in 112 Chambers Building (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION) |
| December 11 | No Colloquium |
| December 18 | Final exam week – no colloquium |
For more information, contact the Anthropology Department at (814) 865-2509
