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The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: “Breaking Spells”

4 Field Colloquium: "Wheelchair Politics: Coping with Injury in a Chicago Gang"

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: “Bureaucratic Mesmerism”

IRWG: Does Equality Mean Business: Gender Equity at the Crossroads of Feminism and Finance Symposium

Advances in Eastern European Prehistory Symposium

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: “Enchanting Static”

4 Field Colloquium: "The complex evolutionary history of bipedalism: what new fossils from South Africa are revealing"

4 Field Colloquium: "Recent progress in the study of Andean origins"

Four Field Colloquium Series: Recent progress in the study of Andean origins

The Authors Forum Presents: "Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History," A Conversation with Thomas Trautmann and Andrew Shryock

4 Field Colloquium: "Human rainforest hunter-gatherer evolutionary ecology"

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: “Technologies for Intuition”

II Round Table. Coming to America: The Muslim Experience

UMMA Brown Bag: "Cultural Transmission and Sources of Diversity: A Comparison of Temperate Maritime Foragers of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres"

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Ethical Histories"

Native American Heritage Month Key Note Performance: Frank Waln & Samsoche Sampson

4 Field Colloquium: Fighting and Foodways: A Bioarchaeological Study of Violence and Diet during Imperial Decline and Drought in the Peruvian Andes

4 Field Colloquium: Pamila Gupta

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Ethical Accounts"

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Ethical Nature"

Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America's War on Fat

2015 Jeffrey Parsons Lecture: Radiocarbon Dates, Hunter-Gatherer Population Growth, Climate Change, Warfare and High Altitude Archaeology in Wyoming

CMENAS Lecture: "Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948"

4 Field Colloquium: "Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Sleep and Its Uniqueness"

UMMAA Brown Bag: Jess Beck and Bree Doering

Plurality of Love: Poetry and Art in the Works of Cuban book artist Rolando Estévez

The Author's Forum Presents: Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Ethics as an Empirical Problem"

4 Field Colloquium: “Olmec Archaeology in the Arroyo Pesquero Region”

Textile Trade Ascendancies - Exhibit of Textile History by Elisha Renne

Reception for Graduating Seniors

Honors Research Poster Symposium

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: Making the Dead Modern – “Songs for Dead Parents”

STS Distinguished Lecture: "What if the Actor Were an Eater?"

4 Field Colloquium: "Materializing Proper Religion: The Architecture and Aesthetics of Secularity"

4 Field Colloquium: "Language and Creativity OR How to love text messages"

Major/Minor Expo

4 Field Colloquium: "A Rightful Share: Beyond Gift and Market in the Politics of Distribution"

4 Field Colloquium: "The Pragmatics of what is shown: Indexicality and iconography in ritual discourse"

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: Making the Dead Modern – “Making the Dead Modern”

4 Field Colloquium: "An update on Australopithecus based on new lab and field work"

HRTE presents: The Life and Mind of Mark Defriest film screening

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: Making the Dead Modern – “Playing with Corpses”

4 Field Colloquium: "To Siberia and Beyond: Studying Human Biology and Health at the Edge of the World"

Career Center Event: CV, Cover Letter, and Interview Strategies for Anthropology Majors

Beyond Life/Not Life: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation Practices and Ethics, Interspecies Thinking, and the New Materialisms

UMMAA Brown Bag: "Reflections on the Valley of Mexico Surveys, 1960-1975"

CANCELLED - 4 Field Colloquium: "Cultivating Rage in the US Inner City: Hyper-Incarceration, Subsidized Pathology and the Moral Economy of Violence after Welfare"

CMENAS Lecture: "My Hummus is bigger than Your Hummus: on food and politics in Israel"

UMMA Brown Bag: Cultural Transmission and Artifact Variation: Projectile Points as Ethnic Markers?

Making Visual Ethnography RIW - Filming in the Field: Visual Ethnography as Counter Narrative

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: Making the Dead Modern - “Ethnographic and Theoretical Contexts”

4 Field Colloquium: "Tuberculosis and leprosy: origins, migration, and exchange in humans and other primates"

NES Lecture: "Back in Babylonia: Recent Archaeological Work in Southern Iraq" - Jane Moon

4 Field Colloquium: "Landscapes of Early States and Empires in Mesopotamia" - Jason Ur

History of Art Graduate Symposium: “On Absence: Loss and Immateriality in Art and Architecture”

Parsons Lecture: "What’s up on the Northwest Coast? Revising\rethinking Complex Hunter-Gatherers" - Ken Ames

Thirty Years of "Thinking Sex": A Symposium Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Publication of Gayle Rubin's essay "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"

Flu Shot Clinic

4 Field Colloquium: "Investigating Moundville’s Sociogram" by Vernon Knight

IRWG Lecture: "Caught in the Cross-Publics of the 'Muslimwoman'" - Lila Abu-Lughod

UMMA Brown Bag: "Finding Archaeological Sites on Submerged Landscapes in the Great Lakes Basin" - Lisa Sonnenburg

4 Field Colloquium: "Horses, wheels, and chariots: the effects of innovations in transportation in the ancient world"- David Anthony, Hartwick College

“Filming the Future of Detroit” film selected for Short Film Competition

Reception for Graduating Seniors

EHAP Lecture Series: Milford Wolpoff

EHAP Lecture Series: Barry Boggin

Latin American Film Series 2014: WILAYA

Sociocultural Workshop: Caitlin Zaloom

EHAP Lecture Series: Grazyna Jasienska

Four Field Colloquium: Lily Buffalo’s Heartache: Ethnographic Violation and Weston LaBarre’s Imperial Anthropology

Conversations about Exhibiting Archaeology

Four Field Colloquium: Double-Voiced Parody: Stewart Huff Plays a Bigot

Instituting archaeology workshop

Arts & Expression in Pakistan Conference

Latin American Film Series 2014: THE RETURN [El regreso]

EHAP Lecture Series: Jeff Kidd

UM Humanities Institute presents Erica Lehrer & Magdalena Waligórska: "Gentiles Doing Jewish Stuff...and the Jews who Love/Hate Them"

UM Museum Studies Program presents Erica Lehrer: "Curating Memories in Conflict: New Ethnography in an Old Museum."

Latin American Film Series 2014: AMERIKANAUK (2011)

Latino/a Studies: "Between the Poverty of Mexico and the Promise of El Otro Lado" by Reyna Grande

EHAP Lecture Series: Mike Power

MAGA 4 Field Conference

MAGA 4 Field Conference

Latin American Film Series 2014: HERE AND THERE [Aquí y allá]

Four Field Colloquium: Friendship As Moral Experience: Ethnographic Dimensions And Ethical Reflections

Sociocultural Workshop: Emily Wilcox

EHAP Lecture Series: “The High Costs of Human Brain Development: Implications for the Evolution of Human Childhood”

Exhibiting Archaeology Workshop: Conversations about Exhibiting Archaeology

EHAP Lecture Series: Mediating messages and shaping strategies: breast milk and infant growth

Four Field Colloquium: Late Prehistoric Social Transformations in the Central Eurasian Steppes: Warfare, Metallurgy and Ritual Practice

The Fifth Annual Anthropology & History Symposium: Excess

EHAP Lecture Series: What does it mean to be a modern human? Perspectives on the modern obesity epidemic.

UMMA Brown Bag: Iron Age Landscapes of South India:The Tungabhadra Corridor Archaeological Project by Dr. Carla Sinopoli

LACS Lecture: "The Socialist Humanitarian Imperative: The Logic and Practice of Cuba's Quest for Global Health in the America" by Sean Brotherton

Colloquium: "Revolution in the Desert: The Rise of Desert Pastoralism and Cult in the Negev" by Steven A. Rosen

Round table discussion on immigration issues featuring Jason De León, Bob Kee and Luis Leon-Lopez

India Theme Semester Lecture: Mohamad Tavakoli - "Anthropologizing Europe: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Indo-Persian Accounts of “Native” Europeans"

EHAP Lecture Series: Brain evolution and human uniqueness

Four Field Colloquium: The Shape of Inner Asian Civilization in the Bronze Age

India Theme Semester Lecture: "Populist Publics: Print Capitalism and Embodied Politics in South India" by Frank Cody

Sociocultural Workshop: Sean Brotherton

IRWG LGQ Research Initiative: Eric Plemons - "To Build a Better Vulva: Knowledge and Practice in American Genital Sex Reassignment Surgery"

EHAP Lecture Series: Energy, Aging, and Evolution in Humans and other Apes

EHAP Lecture Series: Becoming “Modern”: New Evidence from the Middle Pleistocene

Four Field Colloquium: Before the Gold Rush: Prehistoric Metallurgy and the Politics of Value in the Volga-Ural Steppes

The Author's Forum Presents: Being Nuclear: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht and Elizabeth Roberts

India Theme Semester Lecture: "Temple Destruction and Historical Construction: Rethinking the 'Fall' of Vijayanagara" by Kathleen Morrison

UMMA Brown Bag by Raven Garvey: "Economics of Stone Use in Patagonia: Theory, Method, and Practice"

AAA Friends and Alums of Michigan Anthropology party

Fraker Conference Keynote by Webb Keane: "Rotting Bodies: Material Religion and Ethical Life"

Author's Forum Presents: Primates: A Conversation with Jim Ottaviani and John Mitani

4 Field Colloquium: How Cooking Made Us Human

4 Field Colloquium: Biological Rhythms in Teeth Provide Insight into Our Evolutionary Past

4 Field Colloquium: Methlabs, Alchemy and the Matter of Life

DAAS & ASC Workshop: Jane Guyer - "Price Fluctuation and the Production of Confusion in Two West African Oil Producing Economies"

4 Field Colloquium: The Origin of Homo. What Are We Looking For?

IRWG: Panel discussion of discussion of Gayle Rubin's "Deviations"

Revealing Powers: Money, Morality, and Politics in Bangladesh

Memorial for Stephen Pastner

Undergraduate Graduation Reception

Anthropology Honors Poster Symposium

Anthropology Honors Symposium

Department Spring Party

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Biological Anthropology subfield meeting

Four Field Colloquium Series: "Where is Kinship at Now?" by Janet Carsten

Fellowships comittee meeting

Socio-Cultural Workshop: Janet Carsten

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Faculty Meeting

Curriculum Committee

Curriculum committee meeting

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

"Reproductive Biology and the Developmental Origins of Hypertension in a Rural African Population: The Dogon of Mali" by Beverly Strassmann

Four Field Colloquium Series: “Human evolutionary genomics: Implications for human origins and disease” by Sarah Tishkoff

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Biological Anthropology subfield meeting

Special Faculty Meeting: faculty recruitment

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Four Field Colloquium Series: " In Tastes Lost and Found: Remembering the Real Flavor of Fat Pork" by Brad Weiss

Fellowships comittee meeting

Recruitment Weekend

Conference: Race, Representation and the Colonial Archive: Dean Worcester in the Philippines

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Faculty Meeting

Curriculum Committee

Exhibit curated by Carla Sinopoli: Buddhist Thangkas and Treasures: The Walter Koelz Collection, Museum of Anthropology at the UM Museum of Art

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

SC Workshop: "The morality of liberty: Socioeconomic transition and bodily comportment in the Republic of Guinea" by Mike McGovern

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Four Field Colloquium Series: "America, Genealogy, History: ‘New World’ Technologies of Race" by Duana Fulwiley

"America, Genealogy, History: ‘New World’ Technologies of Race"

Special Faculty Meeting

Four Field Colloquium Series: Taphonomic and Paleocological Change at Boomplaas Cave, Western Cape, South Africa

Four Field Colloquium Series: "Taphonomic and Paleoecological Change at Boomplaas Cave, Western Cape, South Africa" by J. Tyler Faith

SC Workshop: "Objects of Possession: Photography, Spirits and the Entangled Arts of Appearance" by Paul Johnson

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Biological Anthropology subfield meeting

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Fellowships comittee meeting

CAW Graduate Student Conference: Movement in Ancient Economies: Archaeological Approaches to Distribution

CAW Graduate Student Conference: Talk by Gil Stein (University of Chicago): "Political Landscapes of Distribution: Power Relations and the Circulation of Value in Ancient Complex Societies"

Job Talk for Origins of Human Culture archaeology search: "High and dry: the centrality of marginal environments to human origins research" by Brian Stewart

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

CANCELLED Faculty Meeting

Curriculum Committee

Job Talk for Origins of Human Culture archaeology search: "Building Multidisciplinary Research in Terra Incognita: Current Results from the Malawi" by Jessica Thompson

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Socio-Cultural Workshop: Alaina Lemon

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Exhibit of Michigan Anthropology professor Jason De León’s Undocumented Migration project

Opening reception of State of Exception exhibit featuring the work of Michigan Anthropology professor Jason De León’s Undocumented Migration Project

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Roundtable discussion about Latino immigration issues and information session regarding the Undocumented Migration Project Summer Field School

Fellowships committee meeting

Job Talk for Origins of Human Culture archaeology search: The evolution of the modern hunter-gatherer niche: Insights from Europe and Africa" by Julien Riel-Salvatore

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Information Session with Anthropology Honors Advisors

Faculty Meeting

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Curriculum committee meeting

Fellowships committee meeting

Special Faculty Meeting: Circumpolar Archaeology Search

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Department Holiday Party

Faculty Meeting

Circumpolar Job Talk: "An Emerging Synthesis of Beringian/Western Subarctic Archaeology" by Ben Potter

Screening of film "The Chairman and the Lions" produced by Kelly Askew

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Circumpolar Job Talk: "Behavioral adaptations to environmental extremes: Evidence from northern Patagonia" by Raven Garvey

Sociocultural subfield meeting

EC Meeting CANCELLED

Circumpolar Job Talk: "Pleistocene Peopling of Siberia and Beringia: Bridging Old and New Worlds" by Kelly Graf

EDGE guest speaker Sherina Feliciano-Santos

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Anthropology Open House

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Curriculum committee meeting

Fellowships committee meeting

Annual Party for Alums and Friends of Michigan Anthropology at the 2012 AAA Meetings

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Faculty Meeting

Sociocultural Workshop: Winifred Tate

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Faculty Meeting - closed meeting

Party to celebrate new books by Michael Lempert, Liz Roberts, Matt Hull and David Frye

Leave-Taking Interactional Routines and the Process of Saying Goodbye in (and to?) Nepal

What to do with your Anthropology Degree & Applying to Grad School Info Session

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Fellowships committee meeting

Curriculum committee meeting

Anthropology and History Workshop: “From Fesiten to Fesibuku: The Changing Uses of Saamaka History" by Richard Price

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Public Lecture: "The Scot and the Aborigine: La Différence Writ Large" by Sally Price

Sociocultural Workshop: Bruce Mannheim

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

Faculty Meeting - closed meeting

Sociocultural Workshop: Matt Hull

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

CANCELLED - EC Meeting

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Sociocultural Workshop: Sarah Besky

"Creating (Dis)Advantage: How Global Health Statistics Work"

Office Hours: Resource Librarian Jennifer Nason Davis

"Creating (Dis)Advantage: How Global Health Statistics Work" by Dr. Susan Erikson

Curriculum committee meeting

Fellowships committee meeting

Sociocultural Workshop: Eric Plemons

Fall 2012 Welcome to Anthropology!

Anthro Club Meeting

Job Talk: “The Law of Slavery and the Language of Rights: Adaptations of the Code Noir in the Era of the Haitian Revolution” by Malick Ghachem

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Faculty Meeting

Faculty and New Graduate Student Reception

New Anthropology Graduate Student Orientation

New Anthropology GSI Orientation

Executive Committee meeting - Merit

Anthropology Undergraduate Graduation Reception

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Sociocultural subfield meeting

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Department Spring Party

CANCELLED: Colloquium: Duana Fullwiley

Fellowships Committee meeting

Honors Poster Session

Commemoration of the life of Fernando Coronil

The Persistence of the Elephants, a lecture by Tom Trautmann

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Faculty meeting

Curriculum Committee meeting

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

32nd Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture by Gillian Feeley-Harnik

Executive Committee meeting

Retirement Party for Linda Bardeleben

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Book party for Barbra Meek, Andrew Shryock, Erik Mueggler, Gayle Rubin and Michael Lempert

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Fellowships Committee meeting

Special Faculty Meeting

Colloquium: "Towards an Ecology of Materials" by Timothy Ingold

MAGA 3rd annual Four Field Conference: Dynamic Kinship

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Fall Course Preview Event

Faculty meeting

"A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an Out-of-the-Way Place" by Michael McGovern

Curriculum Committee meeting

“Bureaucracy, Sorcery, and the Politics of Humanitarian and Development Aid in Haiti” by Erica James

Department Recruitment Weekend

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

"Economies in Practice" by Daromir Rudnyckyj

Executive Committee meeting

32nd Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture: "After the Fall": Darwin and Milton on Descent" by Gillian Feeley-Harnik

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Fellowships Committee meeting

Sociocultural subfield meeting

Special Faculty Meeting

Interdisciplinary Seminar for Islamic Studies workshop with Michigan Anthropology alum Professor Flagg Miller

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Faculty meeting

Talk: "From Prisons to Paradises: Rituals of Indebtedness Before and After the Age of Discipline" by Gustav Peebles

Curriculum Committee meeting

"A Bio-Cultural Approach to Racial Disparities in Health: Genetics, Epigenetics, and the Biological Embedding of Psychosocial Stress" by Amy Non

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

CANCELLED - Executive Committee meeting

"Are modern human diets bad to the bone?" by Maureen Devlin

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Photography Exhibit Opening Reception: "I Have Been to Kazakhstan, and I Have Seen Them Play"

"Environmental Determinants in Human Evolution" by John Kingston

"Make new friends and keep the old? Parasites, immune function, health, and changing market integration in Amazonian Forager-Horticulturalists" by Aaron Blackwell

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Information Session on the Undocumented Migration Project with Prof. de León

Undocumented Migration Field School Information Meeting

General Honors Information Meeting

Fellowships Committee meeting

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Curriculum Committee meeting

Faculty meeting

Executive Committee meeting

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Department Holiday Party

Curriculum Committee meeting

Faculty meeting

Special faculty meeting: MSF

IRB on the Road session

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

The Department of Anthropology's Four Field Colloquium Series presents:"The Gift in the Commodity: On Alienation and Assessment" by Anna Tsing

Fellowships Committee meeting

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Special faculty meeting: hiring

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Fellowships Committee meeting

Annual AAA Party for Alums and Friends of Michigan Anthropology

Fall 2011 CICS Human Rights Fellow Lecture: Feminism, Human Rights, and War: The Case of Lebanon, 2006 to the Arab Spring by Nadine Naber

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

MAGA presents the 3rd Annual 4 Field Conference: Dynamic Kinship

Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (STeMS) Fall 2011 Speaker Series presents: "Challenging Sociality? Humanoid Robots and Their Therapeutic Use amongst Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions" by Kathleen Richardson

The Department of Anthropology Four-Field Colloquium Series: "Action, gesture & grammar: 'iconicity' in Zinacantec Family Homesign" by John Haviland

Curriculum Committee meeting

IRB on the Road session

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Winter Course Preview Event

Executive Committee meeting

Michigan Anthropology alum Elise Edwards will speak on "Fukushima's Victories and Victims: The Fateful Alliance of Japanese Soccer and Nuclear Power"

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Museum Studies talk: "Building Bodies in the Australian Periphery: Dioramas, Petroglyphs, and the Enactment of Aboriginality in Tasmania" by Christopher D. Berk (PhD Candidate, Anthropology)

Faculty meeting - tenure case

The Center for South Asian Studies Lecture Series: "The Many Lives of Family Stories: Mythology and Memoir" by Kirin Narayan

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Flu Shot Clinic

Colloquium: "Primatology and cultural anthropology: A rationale for a fruitful exchange" by Chapais Bernard

Fellowships Committee meeting

IRB on the Road session

MLibrarian Office Hours in Titiev Library

Science Cafe: Neandertals Are Us? with John Speth and Milford Wolpoff

Curriculum Committee meeting

Faculty meeting

"What's Next for Cuba?" Hip Hop and Beyond: Film viewing of "Cuban Hip Hop: Desde el Principio"

Photo Exhibit Opening: "In the Field/At Home: Considering the complex meanings of fieldwork and home for ethnographers at work."

Executive Committee meeting

Fellowships Committee meeting

Colloquium: "Traces from Northern Forests: Multiple Contexts of <I>Xaasaa Cheeg’e Ts’eniin</I> (Upward-Sun-River-Mouth Child)" by Ben Potter

Curriculum Committee meeting

Faculty meeting

Fall Welcome Event

Executive Committee meeting

Anthropology Faculty and New Graduate Student Reception

Colloquium: Anna Tsing

New Student Orientation

New GSI Orientation