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Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire

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Race, Representation and Museums Lecture Series Magnust Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of...

Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: European Social Theory and the Real-Life “Fetish”

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Race, Representation and Museums Lecture Series J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director, Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project, Duke University Since the early-modern encounter between African and European...

Seeing and Seeing through Museum Exhibits: Lessons from Cape Town and Washington, D.C.

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Race, Representation and Museums Lecture Series Corinne Kratz, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology and Institute of African Studies and Director, African Critical Inquiry Program, Emory University; Research Associate, Museum of International...

Anxieties about Race in Egyptology and Egyptomania, 1890–1960

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Race, Representation and Museums Lecture Series Donald Reid, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Georgia State University; Affiliate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington Despite ideals of...

Piltdown Man, the Missing Link: Exposing the Motives and Methods behind a 100-Year-Old Hoax

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Race, Representation and Museums Lecture Series Christopher Dean, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, Division of Biosciences and Professorial Research Associate, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London In 1912, British...

Fabricating the Authentic: Presenting Anthropology at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

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Race, Representation and Museums Lecture Series Lee D. Baker, Dean of Academic Affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Mrs. A. Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University...

CANCELLED: This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution and Evolving the Future

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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...

The Crown Joules: Energetics, Ecology, and Evolution in Humans and other Primates

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Lecture given by Herman Pontzer (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY)

Survival of the friendliest: convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans?

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Brian Hare, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University. Comparisons between chimpanzees and human infants suggest that humans develop cooperative communicative abilities that evolved since we shared a common ancestor. Brian will...

Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Collin McCabe

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Graduate student Collin McCabe will give a public presentation of his doctoral dissertation. Details will be added as they are settled.

Constructing the social world: from home remodeling to a new social order

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Mark Laidre, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College.Of any animal species, Homo sapiens makes perhaps the most radical changes to its surrounding environment. This powerful capacity for ‘niche construction’ is intimately linked to a...

Combining Forces in the Evolution of Human Social Behavior

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Charles Efferson, Senior Research Associate, Economics, University of Zurich. Charles will present two areas of research, both of which emphasize how distinct mechanisms can interact to shape the evolution of human social behavior. The first part of the...