Biological Anthropology Colloquium | “Bipedalism in Two Steps: Dual Innovations Underlie Hominin Pelvic Biology”
Terence D. Capellini, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
“This talk will focus on how humans acquired bipedalism via changes in the development of their pelves. At the crux of human bipedalism...
Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “Running Wild: Psychiatry, Citizenship, and Horizons of Escape in/from the Republic of Cameroon”
Elizabeth Durham, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Michigan Society Fellow, University of Michigan
“In this talk, I tell two stories. One concerns a young man who refuses treatment at a public psychiatric hospital in the Republic of...
Jeffrey R. Parsons Lecture - War and Politics before the Incas: An Archaeology of Andean Community and Conflict
Dr. Elizabeth Arkush, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh
For Andean South Americans, violent conflict did not just destroy; it structured politics and communities in ways that ranged from...
Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series: "From Fossils to the Forest"
Rescheduled Dates, U-M Anthropology | Professor Laura MacLatchy
The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology presents its Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series, "From Fossils to the Forest."...
Friday Lecture Series | Gambling Coastal Lives: Surprises and Precarity in the Coastal Philippines
Marvin Montefrio, Associate Professor of Social Science (Environmental Studies) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore
Surprises in the form of risks and uncertainties reinforce and sometimes complicate the vulnerability and precarity of human and nonhuman...
