Past Events Record for Academic Year 2009-10
August
Artifacts recovered from a 2005 dig.	08.04.09. See what the summer excavation in Harvard yard found. Staff and students will be available to answer questions. Harvard Yard Archaeological Dig Summer Results Day 8:30-11:30 a.m. Harvard Yard Rain date: August 6th
	08.31.09. Department of Anthropology Orientation for new students. 1:00-3:30 p.m. in the Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum followed by a reception in the Tozzer Courtyard from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
September
	09.02.09. Harvard classes start.
	09.09.09 Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series presents "Ceramic Traditions and Interactions of the South-Eastern Iranian Plateau During the 4th-Early 3rd Millennium B.C." a talk by Benjamin Mutin, (Peabody Museum Visiting Researcher) at 12:00 p.m. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor
	09.14.09 Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series presents "Ethics, Iconoclasm, and Qur'anic Art in Indonesia" a talk by Ken George (University of Wisconsin, Madison) in William James Hall 105 at 4:15 p.m.
	09.16.09 Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series presents "The Texture of Long-term Structures: Should a Prehistory of Figurine-Making in the Near East Be a History of Goddesses?" a talk by Richard Lesure, (UCLA) at 12:00 p.m. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor
	09.17.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents: Book Launch Human Documents: Eight Photographers from 5:00 p.m.to 7:00 p.m. Robert Gardner, who directed both Harvard's Film Study and Visual Arts Centers, conceived this collection of photographs that reveal a fuller understanding of human nature.
	09.18.09 The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series presents “Archaeological Investigations at the Omuro Cairn Cluster in the Central Highlands of Japan–With Reference to Korean Immigrants in Fifth and Sixth Centuries A.D.” a talk by Ken-ichi SASAKI (Meiji University) in room Room 14A Peabody Museum at 12:00 p.m.
	09.21.09 Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series presents "Re-Reading African Suffering: Toward a Critical Transnational Legal Anthropology" a talk by Kamari Clarke (Yale) in William James Hall 105 at 4:15 p.m.
	09.23.09 Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series presents "Ancient Sins: Religious Doctrine and the Evisceration of Rome" a talk by Michael Herzfeld (Harvard) at 12:00 p.m. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor
	09.26.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents: Smithsonian Museum Day and Family Event. Free admission all day with Smithsonian Museum Day Coupon (download your coupon here). Family event, Maize at the Museum, runs 1-4:00 p.m., and is free with general admission or Smithsonian Museum Day coupon. Explore the importance of maize and corn throughout the Americas. Try your hand at grinding corn. Take home corn stories, recipes, and "amaizing" corn facts. Make a special corn craft. Appropriate for ages 6 and up.
	09.30.09 The Gender and Sexuality Seminar of the Harvard Humanities Center is proud to present “'Around' 1979: Gay Tehran?" a talk by Afsaneh Najmabadi on non-normative male sexualities in the 1970s in Tehran. Response by Brad Epps. 5:00- 7:00 p.m. Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University. Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. The respondent, Brad Epps, is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. All are welcome at this exciting event!
	09.30.09 Opening of Term Event hosted by the Standing Committee on Archaeology, Harvard University "A Conversation on Staking out Space for Archaeology in the North American Academy" with Susan Alcock (Brown University, Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology, Professor of Classics) and Stephen Houston (Brown University, Dupee Family Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology). Moderated by Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Chair, Standing Committee on Archaeology). 4:00-6:30 p.m. Center for Government and International Studies - South S010, 1730 Cambridge Street. Reception to follow.
October
	10.05.09 Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series presents "Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) State-less Peoples in Mountainous Southeast Asia" a talk by James Scott (Yale) in William James Hall 1550 at 12:00 p.m.
	10.05.09 The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series presents a talk by Professor Zheng Yan (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) "The 'Mask' of the Dead: Reading a Sixth-Century Sogdian Tomb at Xi'an" in room Room 14A Peabody Museum 5:00 p.m.
	10.07.09 Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series presents "To Share is Human: Modelling the Emergence of Behavioral Modernity in the South African Middle Stone Age" a talk by Grant McCall (Tulane) at 12:00 p.m. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor
	10.08.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a lecture by Dario Euraque, Professor of History and International Studies, Trinity College: "Monseñor Federico Lunardi (1880-1954): Italian Diplomat, Archaeologist and Mayan National Identity in Honduras" at 5:30 p.m.
	10.09.09 The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series presents a talk by Ekaterina PECHENKINA (Queens College, CUNY) “Life in the Early Farming Communities of Northern China: A Bioarchaeological Account” in room Room 14A Peabody Museum 12:00 p.m.
	10.09.09 Harvard Art, Anthropology and Aesthetics Workshop: Ben Rivers presents work, followed by open discussions; doors open at 5:30 p.m., screening begins at 6:00 p.m. Sever 416. Art, Anthropology and Aesthetics is a Harvard Arts & Humanities Workshop in Ethnographic Media and Aesthetics.
	10.12.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents: Open House Zooarchaeology Lab from noon-4:30p.m. Peabody Museum zooarchaeologists will demonstrate what animal bones can reveal using modern animal skeletons. This event is a favorite for children. Bring your own bone to get it identified.
	10.14.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a lecture by Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America: "From the Cave of Origins to the City of Sacrifice...and Beyond: A Mesoamerican Odyssey in a Recovered 16th-Century Mexican Codex" at 5:30 p.m.
	10.17.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents Family Program Archaeology of the Magnificent Maya from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Investigate how archaeologists are unraveling the mysteries of Classic Maya culture and people. Try your hand at deciphering Maya numbers. Make and take home images of bahlam (jaguar), chan (snake), and sotz’ (bat), complex Maya glyphs. Participate in a special gallery program at 2:00. Appropriate for ages 8 and up.
	10.19.09 Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series presents "Accounting for Material Value in the Inka Empire" a talk by Gary Urton (Harvard University) in William James Hall 105 at 4:15 p.m.
	10.21.09 Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series presents "Remote Sensing and Ancient Settlement Pattern Analysis: A Case Study from the Desert Coast of Peru" a talk by Michele Koons, Adam Stack, Ari Caramanica (Harvard University) at 12:00 p.m. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor
	10.22.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents the exhibition opening of "Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path" from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Mixed-media compositions draw on Sufi poetry, traditional design motifs, antique miniature painting, contemporary photography, and calligraphy to create images of artist Samina Quraeshi's personal pilgrimages to Sufi sanctuaries in the Indus Valley and the role of Sufism in South Asian society.
	10.23.09 The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series presents a talk by Martin BALE (University of Toronto) “Storage practices and social change in Mumun Period Korea, ca. 1500-300 BC” in room Room 14A Peabody Museum at 12:00 p.m.
	10.24.09 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a Family Program: "Harvard Yard Archaeology" from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Meet archaeologists in Harvard Yard and find out what lies beneath. Find out about the Archaeology of Harvard Yard. See related exhibition. Rain location: Peabody Museum.
	10.26.09 Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series presents "From Tree-Huggers to Terrorists: A Genealogy of Ecoterrorism" a James McCarthy (Department of Geography at Penn State University) in William James Hall 105 at 4:15 p.m.
	10.28.09 Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series presents "Future Primitive: On the Promise of an Anarchist Archaeology" a talk by Severin Fowles (Barnard) at 12:00 p.m. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor