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  • Anthropology

  • Events 

    Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    An Historic Hull on Hallowed Ground: Three Experts Discuss the 200-Year-Old Ship Next Door

    Speakers: Norman Brouwer (Maritime Historian), Nichole Doub (Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum), and Michael Pappalardo (Senior Archaeologist, AKRF)

    Presentations by three of the experts involved in the exciting excavation of the 18th century ship found 20 feet underground in Lower Manhattan this summer.

    Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

    You Are What You Eat: The Long History of Knowing about Our Food, Our Bodies, and Ourselves

    Speaker: Steven Shapin (Harvard University)

    Harvard's Steven Shapin brings a science historian's perspective to bear on present-day thinking about our food, our relationship to scientific expertise, and our place in nature.

  • Past Events

    Monday, April 19, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    All Yah’s Children: Race, Spirituality and Neo-Logics of Diasporic Possibility

    Speakers: John L. Jackson, Jr (University of Pennsylvania) and Rebecca T. Alpert (Temple University)

    The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.

    Monday, March 22, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    Panel in Honor of Eric R. Wolf

    Speakers: Jane Schneider (Graduate Center,CUNY), Sharryn Kasmir (Hofstra University), August Carbonella (Memorial University), Ken Guest (Baruch College, CUNY), Andrew Newman (Graduate Center, CUNY), and Antonio Lauria-Perricelli (NYU)

    The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.

    Monday, February 22, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    Mexican Transmigration, National Belonging, and Linguistic Citizenship

    Speaker: Char Ullman (University of Texas El Paso)

    The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.

    Monday, January 25, 2010 | 7:15 PM - 9:00 PM

    The Deep History of "the Animal Question"

    Speakers: Brian Boyd (Columbia University) and Genese Marie Sodikoff (Rutgers University)

    The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.

  • Publications 

    Annals

    Longevity, Regeneration, and Optimal Health: Integrating Eastern and Western Perspectives

    Edited by William C. Bushell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Erin L. Olivo (Columbia University), and Neil D. Theise (Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

    The reports in this volume establish a basis for a program of research that will advance our current understanding of longevity and health.

    Annals

    The Year in Evolutionary Biology 2009

    Edited by Carl D. Schlichting (University of Connecticut) and Timothy A. Mousseau (University of South Carolina)

    This volume presents a variety of syntheses and perspectives on evolutionary themes in this anniversary year of Darwin.

    Annals

    Values, Empathy, and Fairness across Social Barriers

    Edited by Scott Atran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan), Arcadi Navarro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), Kevin Ochsner (Columbia University, New York), Adolf Tobeña (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), and Oscar Vilarroya (University of Barcelona, Spain)

    Through a neuroscientific lens, this Annals volume examines the human qualities of empathy, sacred values, and cooperation, and focuses on ways in which this approach can help explain human conflicts.

    eBriefing

    Science from the Street: Co-producing Knowledge from the Ground Level

    Speakers: Jason Corburn (Columbia University), Rob Crauderueff and Marta Rodríguez (Sustainable South Bronx)

    Like the patient who knows things about his own illness that are hidden from a clinician, laypeople can provide scientists with critical insights for addressing local environmental problems.

    eBriefing

    Violence and Exploitation against Women and Girls

    Organizers: Florence Denmark, Herbert Krauss, and Jeri Sechzer (Pace University)

    A daylong conference offered an in-depth look into the variety of ways in which women of different ages and cultures experience violence, and what might be done to stop it.