The University of Iowa - Department of Anthropology

Anthropology Brown Bag Speaker Series

Spring 2009

All talks are located in 118 Macbride Hall

March 13 Susie Donaldson

4:00 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

From Neighbors to Migrants: The Shifting Organization

of Agricultural Labor in East Tennessee

Jennifer Trivedi

4:30 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

Understanding FEMA: Origins, Responses, and

Perceptions

March 27 Scott Maddux

4:00 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

Allometric Scaling of Infraorbital Surface Topography

in Homo: Size Does Matter

April 3 Liz Newbery

4:00 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

Alissa Whitmore

4:30 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

April 10 Alex Woods

4:30 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

Working with Old Collections: Aurignacian Material

at the Logan Museum from the Abri Cellier

April 17 Christina Nicholas

4:00 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

Nathan Holton

4:30 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

April 24 Lavanya Proctor

4:00 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

Jill Scott

4:30 pm, 118 Macbride Hall

Chinigma: Spatial determinants of chin size in recent

modern humans

FALL 2007

September 21 Lindsay Eaves-Johnson

Biogeographic and Sex Variation in External Rib Cross-

Sectional Area and Geometry.

12:30 pm, 219 Jessup Hall

September 28 Jennifer Trivedi

Biased Voices? The Media and Hurricane Katrina.

12:30 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

October 5 Katina Lillios

Understanding Deathways - and Lifeways - at the Neolithic

Site of Bolóres, Portugal: Project Goals and (Very)

Preliminary Results.

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

Anna Waterman

An Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from the Late

Neolithic Burials of Bolóres: Preliminary Results

12:30 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

Bryan Kendall with Joe Artz

Geomorphology and Stratigraphy of the Bolóres Site

1:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

Jonathan Thomas

Social Practice in the Iberian Neolithic

1:30 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

October 12 Dan Proctor

Quantitative Shape Analysis of the Proximal

Metatarsal Articular Surfaces.

12:00 pm, 219 Jessup Hall

Nathan Holton

The Paradox of Wide Nasal Piriform Apertures in Cold

Adapted Neandertals: A Causal Assessment.

12:30 pm, 219 Jessup Hall

October 19 Eric Dickerson

Playing with Culture in the Street: a Review of Conceptual

Tools for/from Caribbeanist Anthropology and Cultural

Studies

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

                 Jill Scott

                 In vitro Study of Shock Absorption in Simulated

                 Intervertebral Disks and the Implications for Bipedal

                 Distance Running

12:30 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

October 26 Cristina Ortiz

Quinceañeras and the Catholic Church

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

Scott Maddux

A Possible Case of Hypochondroplasia Recognized from

Skeletal Remains.

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

November 2 Hannah Marsh

Cranial Vault Thickness in Hominids: The Use and Mis-use

Hypothesis

12:00 pm, 219 Jessup Hall

Susanna Donaldson

Tobacco in Transition: East Tennessee Burley Growers in

a Post-Subsidy Market

12:30 pm, 219 Jessup Hall

November 9 Nanette Barkey

Building Peace in Angola: the Role of Local Communities in

National Reconciliation

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

     Scott Schnell

     Matagi as Environmentalist Exemplars: Popular

     Images of the Hunting Tradition in Japan.

     12:30 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

November 16 Jenna Grant

Biomedicine, Ethics, Nations

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride

Angela Collins

Pipeline Archaeology: An Overview of Archaeological Sites

on the REX-E pipeline Corridor in Northeastern Missouri.

12:30 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

November 30 John Willman

Analysis of Bio-behavioral Effects on Shoulder Morphology

Using an Archaic Native American Forager Sample from the

Indian Knoll Collection.

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

December 7 Mandy Dickerson

Cannabis: A Problematic Case for Pharmaceutical

Development

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride Hall

December 14 Matthew Hill

Causes of Regional and Temporal Variation in Paleoindian

Diet

12:00 pm, 112 Macbride

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