Past Anthropology Department Colloquium Presentations

 

Date Speaker Affiliation Title/Topic
Fall 2007
Dec. 7 James Kari University of Alaska Fairbanks, ANLC Bibliographic Background to the Dene-Yeniseic Hypothesis: Historical Linguistic Connections Between Northern Asia and North America
Oct. 12 Susan Kaplan Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College From Forested Bays to Tundra-Covered Passes: Inuit and Transformation of the Labrador Landscape
Spring 2007
April 20 Henry Delcore California State University, Fresno Reflections on Tradition and Knowledge from Thailand to Alaska
April 13 James Wood Pennsylvania State University "Hidden" Extended Households and their Demographic and Economic Implications, Orkney, Scotland, c. 1851-1901
April 6 Greg Hare Yukon Heritage Branch Yukon Alpine Ice Patches - Update on Recent Investigations: 2004-2006
March 30 Elena Piterskaya Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow Cultural Interaction in Alaska During Russian Rule
March 23 David Koester University of Alaska Fairbanks The Power of Women's Words - Reputation and Deliberate History in Saga Iceland
Feb. 23 Charles Schweger University of Alberta Lost Civilizations Based on the Fermentation of Cabbage: or, Perhaps My Unfinished Research Will Inspire a Student or Two
Fall 2006
Nov. 17

Sherry Hutt

Manager, National NAGPRA Program, NPS

Native American Cultural property Law and the NAGPRA Process

Nov. 10

Tom Gillispie, Robert Sattler and Tom Gamza

Tanana Chiefs Conference

The Beck Site: Preliminary Results from the Excavation of a Gold Rush Business and Military Site Site near Eagle, Alaska

Spring 2006
April 27 Francisco Gurri Department of Population and Environment
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur-Unidad Campeche, Mexico
Impact of seasonal food shortages on energy balance and body composition in peasant adolescents from Calakmul, Campeche Mexico
March 3 Prof. Ronald Beckett and Prof. Gerald Conlogue Bioanthropology Research Institute at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT Paleoimaging: The Field Application of Nondestructive Analysis in Anthropological Studies
Feb. 17 Christian Feest Director, Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology), Vienna, Austria The Prophet's Stick: A Tale from the Museum World
Fall 2005
Dec. 9 Patrick Plattet Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology Racing Wood: Imitation and Substitution in Pastoral 'Ritual Games' of Northern Kamchatka
Oct. 28 Claire Alix Research Associate, Alaska Quaternary Center Ethnoarchaeology of Wood Use in the Arctic
Oct. 21 Dr. Jerold Lowenstein Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Identification of Species in Fossil and Forensic Tissues
Oct. 7 James Kari Professor Emeritus of Linguistics An Overview of the Dena’ina Topical Dictionary
Sept. 16 Tobias Holzlehner Ph.D. Candidate in the Dept. of Anthropology Gangsters' Paradise: Organized Crime in the Russian Far East
Sept. 9 Sveta Yamin Ph.D. Candidate in the Dept. of Anthropology My Ash-Kicking Summer: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Alaska Burn
Spring 2005
April 22
Anthropological Archives Series Film
  Margaret Mead: Taking Note
April 8
Jeanette Smith UAF, Anthropology Dept Evolution: "the forbidden word?" Lessons from South African Classrooms
April 1
Maribeth Murray UAF, Anthropology Dept White-coats, Beaters and Turners: Integrating Archaeology, Biology and TEK in a Study of the Newfoundland Seal Fishery
February 11 Daniel Odess UA Museum Nogahabara 1 and the Late Pleistocene Peopling of Alaska
Fall 2004
November 12 Julie Raymond-Yakoubian Forts Wainwright and Richardson Cultural Resources Management and the US Army Garrison, Alaska
November 5 Ryo Kubota Tohoku University Dance in Chevak
October 29 Varya Litovka Ecological Union of Chukotka Russian Environmentalism: A View from the Other Side of the Bering Strait
Spring 2004
April 30 Tatiana Bulgakova Institute of the Peoples of the North, St. Petersburg Kinship in Shamanic 'Warfare' among the Nanai of the Russian Far East
April 26 Judy Stevenson UCLA Department of Anthropology and Globalization Research Center "This Thing, It Is Not Finished": Modifying Politics in Munsieville, South Africa, 1980-2003
April 9 Elizabeth Guillette Anthropology, University of Florida Anthropology in Health and Toxicology
March 26 Barbara Cellarius Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve The Timbers of Civil Society? Forestry Cooperatives, Culture Centers
and Other Forms of Collective Action in a Rural Bulgarian Town
March 5 Jack Ives Provincial Archaeologist, Alberta Ties that Bind Us: Colonization, Kinship and Corridors
Feb. 27 Gary Haynes University of Nevada - Reno Extinctions and Human Dispersals in North America's Late Glacial Landscapes
Fall 2003
December 5 Wendy Arundale Institute of Arctic Biology Narrative that Heals
November 14 Kirk Dombrowski John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY ...Different Day: A Culture History of Hydaburg
October 3 Bill Schneider Oral History, UAF Reindeer on the Run: The complex modern adaptation of reindeer herders on the Seward Peninsula
September 18 Dr. George Gumerman IV Northern Arizona University Archaeology of the Grand Canyon: Indigenous and Archaeological Perspectives
Spring 2003
April 18 John Haines UAF What Place, and Why?
April 11 Peter Rowley-Conwy University of Durham  
March 10 Susan A. Crate Miami University, Ohio Cows, Kin, and Future Sustainability: Adaptation by Viliui
Sakha since fall of the Soviet Union
March 7 Kirsten Anderson   Cultural Resources Management: Tribal Consultation and Collaboration

February 14

Art Leete Tartu University Anti-Soviet Movements and Uprisings Among the Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: 1920s - 1940s
January 24 Claire Alix and Karen Brewster UAF Catching the Drift: Driftwood and Tree-ring Research along the Yukon and Kuskokwimm Rivers