Past Events

2022 Oct 06

Department Seminar Series, "Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China", a talk by Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth)

3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

"Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves?

A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China"
... Read more about Department Seminar Series, "Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China", a talk by Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth)
2022 Sep 22

Department Seminar "Finding Prometheus: The search for fire use in our early ancestors". a talk by Sarah Hlubik (Harvard Anthro)

3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Tozzer 203, or via Zoom
"Finding Prometheus: The search for fire use in our early ancestors"

a talk by Sarah Hlubik

(College Fellow, Harvard Anthro)

ABSTRACT - The origins of human fire use is widely debated...
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2022 Sep 08

Department Seminar Series: "Insider and Outsider Views of Archaeology in the Media". a talk by Bridget Alex (Harvard HEB)

3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Tozzer 203 and Zoom

ABSTRACT - A sliver of scholarship reaches the public. When it does, mostly that’s thanks to journalists who craft news stories based on their understanding of scientific results. In this dissemination pathway, research passes from academia through media organizations to the public. But...
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2022 Jun 09

Historias compartidas en el norte del Perú: tres espacios vistos a través de tres disciplinas

9:15am to 12:30pm
Location:
Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

Please join the roundtable Historias compartidas en el norte del Perú: tres espacios vistos a través de tres disciplinas scheduled for Thursday, June 9, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT. Please note, this event will be held in Spanish....
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2022 May 06

Robert Moore, Roman Jakobson Symposium, Memes as Metalanguage: Entitlement, Citationality, Staged Infelicity

3:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Rm. 12
Robert Moore, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Memes as Metalanguage: Entitlement, Citationality, Staged Infelicity
Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
Roman Jakobson Symposium Read more about Robert Moore, Roman Jakobson Symposium, Memes as Metalanguage: Entitlement, Citationality, Staged Infelicity
2022 Apr 29

Graham Jones, Roman Jakobson Symposium, "Co-Construction as Topic and Method"

2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Rm. 12
Graham Jones, MIT
Title: Co-Construction as Topic and Method
Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
Roman Jakobson Symposium
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2022 Apr 28

Inka Kallawayas: Cuisine, identity and status negotiations in the eastern imperial fringes, a talk by Sonia Alconini (University of Virginia) Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

ABSTRACT: The Inka province of Kallawaya sat to the east of the Titicaca basin. Their residents, the Kallawayas were valued traveling shamans, traders and herbal healers of the Tawantinsuyu. Based on shared...
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2022 Apr 27

Data Storage and Management for Anthropology Research

2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Tozzer 102 or via zoom
Storing and managing research data can be a non-trivial task. In order to assist graduate and undergraduate senior thesis students in these tasks, a panel of specialists from the Digital Scholarship Support Group at Harvard are coming to give an overview of the different options that Harvard supports as well as discuss options on an individual basis to provide guidance. Please come with your questions about your types of data.

It will be hybrid, please email Kristine Richter for the zoom...
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2022 Apr 21

Water, Mud, and Mounds: Archaeology and Dynamic Landscapes of the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana, a talk by Chris Rodning (Tulane University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Tozzer 203, or via Zoom

ABSTRACT: The lower reaches of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana encompass a complex array of deltaic landforms. These landscapes and "waterscapes" were and are home to Native American groups such as the Chitimacha, Houma, and others; the...
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2022 Apr 15

Janet McIntosh, "Language, Embodiment, and the U.S. Military," Roman Jakobson Symposium

2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Rm. 12
Janet McIntosh, Brandeis University
Language, Embodiment, and the U.S. Military
Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
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Past Events

Department Seminar Series, "Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China", a talk by Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth)

Location:

"Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves?

A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China"

Department Seminar "Finding Prometheus: The search for fire use in our early ancestors". a talk by Sarah Hlubik (Harvard Anthro)

Location:

"Finding Prometheus: The search for fire use in our early ancestors"

a talk by Sarah Hlubik

(College Fellow, Harvard Anthro)

Department Seminar Series: "Insider and Outsider Views of Archaeology in the Media". a talk by Bridget Alex (Harvard HEB)

Location:

Historias compartidas en el norte del Perú: tres espacios vistos a través de tres disciplinas

Location:

Robert Moore, Roman Jakobson Symposium, Memes as Metalanguage: Entitlement, Citationality, Staged Infelicity

Location:

Graham Jones, Roman Jakobson Symposium, "Co-Construction as Topic and Method"

Location:

Inka Kallawayas: Cuisine, identity and status negotiations in the eastern imperial fringes, a talk by Sonia Alconini (University of Virginia) Pre-Columbian Archaeology Seminar

Location:

Data Storage and Management for Anthropology Research

Location:

Water, Mud, and Mounds: Archaeology and Dynamic Landscapes of the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana, a talk by Chris Rodning (Tulane University) Harvard Archaeology Seminar

Location:

Janet McIntosh, "Language, Embodiment, and the U.S. Military," Roman Jakobson Symposium

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Department Seminar Series, "Death, Empire, and Resistance on Peru’s South Coast" a talk by Jacob L. Bongers (Boston University)

Department Seminar Series, "A Herring … Furnished by Winney”: The Resilience and Creativity of Enslaved Cooks", a talk by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman (University of Maryland)

Department Seminar Series, "High Altitude Hunting and Early Pastoralism in the Mongolian Altai: New Perspectives from Melting Ice", a talk by Will Taylor (University of Colorado

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