Monday, September 23
Speaker: Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University
Title: “The Real Generation Z: Spelling Bees and Competitive Childhood in the New Millennium"
Time: 3:55-5:15PM
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Followed by informal Q & A with refreshments, 3rd floor, RAB
Shalini Shankar Bio
Friday, September 27
Speaker: Victoria Ramenzoni, Rutgers University
Title: “Behavioral Adaptation in Highly Changing Environments: The Role of Uncertainty Estimation and Natural Variability in Fishing Captures”
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Wednesday, October 23 to Friday, October 25
3rd Lembersky Conference in Human Evolutionary Studies
Title: "Advances in Primate Nutritional Ecology, Health, and Energetics"
Location: Alexander Library Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Link to Conference details and registration information
Friday, November 1
Speaker: Carel van Schaik, University of Zürich
Title: “The Curiosity Conundrum: What Orangutan Curiosity and Intelligence Tell Us about Human Evolution”
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Thursday, November 14 and Friday, November 15
Rutgers Indigenous Languages Colloquium
• Highlights indigenous languages in and of NJ and related Rutgers research
• In honor of the UN’s Year of Indigenous Languages
• Showcasing Rutgers expertise and community commitments to indigenous languages in/of New Jersey
November 14, 7:30-9:30 pm, AB2400 – film shorts and panel discussion
November 15, 8:00-6:00 pm, Alexander Library – talks by speakers of various backgrounds, lunch from 11:30 to 1:00 pm
Co-sponsored by departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, African Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, the Center for Latin American Studies, and The Language Center
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Details about program and speakers
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pdf Indigenous Languages short films for November 14th (229 KB)
Friday, November 15
Speaker: Naomi Levin, University of Michigan
Title: "Rift basins, volcanoes and hominin diversity in Pliocene Ethiopia"
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Co-sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Buffet dinner to follow
Monday, December 9
Speaker: Savannah Shange, UC Santa Cruz Anthropology
Title: "Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco"
Time: 3:55-5:15 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Friday, January 24
Speaker: Patricia Shipman, Pennsylvania State University
Title: “Dogs and People and Dingoes”
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Friday, January 31
Book Talk: Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University
Title: "New Book Discussion - A Possible Anthropology. Methods for Uneasy Times"
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA)
Friday, February 7
Speaker: Steve Weiner, Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: "Microarchaeology and the Underlying Science"
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Friday, February 14
Speaker: Nicole Torisin, Rutgers University
Title: "Genetic Variation in Howler Monkey TLR7 and TLR8: Potential Implications for Susceptibility to Yellow Fever Virus"
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Wednesday, February 26
Dean's Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Hannah Landecker, UCLA
Title: "Anthropology of Metabolism in Epigenetic Times"
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Rutgers Academic Building, AB 2400, College Avenue Campus
Synopsis: Hannah Landecker uses the tools of history and social science to study contemporary developments in the life sciences, and their historical taproots in the twentieth century. Since its induction into scientific terminology in the nineteenth century, metabolism has been a site of dietetic, medical, chemical, and biological investigation, and a conceptual resource for political theory, philosophy and social science. In this talk Professor Landecker will present ethnographic observations from spaces of contemporary biomedical science where the relationships between industrialization, work, energy, food, and metabolic disorder are being actively rethought and redrawn. She argues that the contours of a postindustrial metabolism are coming into view, in which concerns about asynchrony, dysbiology, instability, and regulatory crisis displace the traditional concerns of labor, fatigue, caloric energy, and production.
Friday, February 28
Speaker: Jeffrey Rogers, Baylor College of Medicine
Title: “What Ernst Mayr Didn’t Know: Insights into Baboons and Other Primates from Whole Genome Sequencing”
Time: 3:45 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
Canceled due to current campus status
Wednesday, April 1
3:50 pm Speaker: Mona Bhan, Anthropology, Syracuse University
Title: "Kashmir's Hydropower & India's Settler Colonial Politics"
Location: 100 Milledoller, CAC
Co-sponsored with South Asian Studies and History
Canceled due to current campus status
Friday, April 3
Speaker: Chris Campisano, Arizona State University -
Title: "The Changing Landscape of Hominin Evolution - A View from Afar"
CANCELED due to unexpected circumstances
Friday, April 10
Speaker: Richard Wrangham, Harvard University
Canceled due to current campus status
Friday, April 24
Speaker Chris Ruff, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Title: "Locomotion and Body Size in Early Hominins"
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA)
Canceled due to current campus status
Friday, May 1
Speaker: Christina Bergey, Rutgers University
Title: “Adaptive Evolution in African Rainforest Hunter-Gatherer Populations”
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Ruth Adams Building Room 001
Sponsored by Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES)
