Julia Booms Lectures

Talk title: Period: The Real Story of Menstruation Roughly half the world will spend a large percentage of their lives menstruating. And yet menstruation is poorly understood and often stigmatized, largely erased from public life and polite conversation...

Speaker: Dr. Zaneta Thayer, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth University

Speaker: Professor Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah

Professor Hillard Kaplan Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Director, Tsimane Health & Life History Project Reception to follow in the MCZ Atrium, 5th Floor, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, at 5:15 pm. All are welcome.

CANCELLED: Julia Booms Memorial Lecture David Sloan Wilson, Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology, Binghampton University. The study of evolution in relation to human affairs lags behind the study of evolution in relation to...

Abstract: Variation in human skin color has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. As the most visible aspect of human variation, skin pigmentation has been used in the past as a basis for classifying people into races. Studies conducted in the...