Seminars, Workshops, Events

Fall 2011 graduate seminar series
Department of Archaeology
Simon Fraser University

Unless otherwise indicated, the seminars will take place 3:30-5:00pm in the Department’s seminar room in Saywell Hall on SFU’s Burnaby Campus (SWH 9152). For further details please email the organizers, Mark Collard (mcollard@sfu.ca) and Bethany Mathews (bethanymathews@hotmail.com).
 
Changes to the schedule will be posted on the department’s website (http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/) and Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/groups/166962033349031/).
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Thursday 15 September 2011
The evolution of the human metabolic niche
Marcus Hamilton
(Department of Biology and Department of Anthropology,
University of New Mexico, and Santa Fe Institute)
This seminar will be held in SSB 7172 (South Science Building, Burnaby campus).
It is co-sponsored by the SFU Departments of Biological Sciences and
Archaeology, and the SFU Human Evolutionary Studies Program.
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Thursday 22 September 2011
New insights into the origins of human cooperation:
norm-psychology and negative indirect reciprocity
Maciek Chudek
(Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia)
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Thursday 29 September 2011
Applying methods from evolutionary biology to language change:
Greek as a case study
Panos Pappas
(Department of Linguistics, SFU)
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Arne Mooers (Department of Biological Sciences, SFU)
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Thursday 6 October 2011
An analysis of the sexual dimorphism of hands:
can the human phenotype be considered a single, condition-dependent ornament?
Laura Dane
(Department of Psychology, Douglas College)
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Thursday 13 October 2011
Late Pleistocene lithic technologies in Jordan:
lighting the fuse of the Neolithic revolution in Southwest Asia
Jason Cooper
(AMEC Earth and Environmental Inc.)
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Thursday 20 October 2011
Cultural transmission and material culture in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Brenda Bowser
(Department of Anthropology, California State University-Fullerton)
This seminar is co-sponsored by the SFU Department of Archaeology, the SFU Human
Evolutionary Studies Program, and California State University-Fullerton.
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Thursday 27 October 2011
White Plague and Black Death:
the English medieval cemetery from Hereford Cathedral Close
Darlene Weston
(Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia)
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Thursday 3 November 2011
Ancient peoples along the Silk Road
Quanchao Zhang
(Department of Archaeology, Jilin University)
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Thursday 10 November 2011
Network altruism and cooperation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
John Patton
(Department of Anthropology, California State University-Fullerton)
This seminar is co-sponsored by the SFU Department of Archaeology, the SFU Human
Evolutionary Studies Program, and California State University-Fullerton.
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Thursday 17 November 2011
The evolutionary effects of cultural transmission on maladaptation
and population differentiation
Sam Yeaman
(Department of Zoology, UBC)
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Thursday 24 November 2011
Ideology and Industry on the Early Spanish Colonial Frontier:
an update on the Archaeology of Sevilla la Nueva, Jamaica
Robyn Woodward
(Department of Archaeology, SFU)
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Thursday 1 December 2011
Modelling socioeconomic and socionatural dynamics at Catalhoyuk, Turkey
Chris Carleton
(Human Evolutionary Studies Program and
Department of Archaeology, SFU)
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Last updated 24-Aug-11

Proseminar:

 MITACS Proseminar with Oba Harding (Director, Business Development)

Monday, October 24th, 1:30 – 2:30 pmSaywell Hall 9152 (Seminar Room)

 MITACS is a national not-for profit research organization that aims to train the next generation of innovators in Canada through unique programs including: the Accelerate (research internships for graduate students with an industry partner), Elevate (post-doctoral fellowships) and Step (free professional development courses to help with managing projects, networking, and presentation skills among others) programs. This proseminar is an opportunity for archaeology graduate students and faculty to learn about MITACS programs and the opportunities available through this organization. This talk will be followed by an informal questions and discussion period.

Questions or comments please contact: Jason Moore (jnm10@sfu.ca), Beth Mathews (bethanymathews@hotmail.com) or Louise Williams (lewil@shaw.ca)
 
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The Fall 2011 Proseminar is scheduled for Mondays at 1:30-2:30 in SWH 9152.
The steering committee that organizes the proseminnar is Ross Jamieson, Louise Williams, Beth Mathews, and  Jason Moore.   Contact anyone on the committee if you have proseminar ideas, scheduling questions, etcetera.

The Archaeology Graduate Student Proseminar is a weekly meeting which allows for the graduate students to get together and discuss their research progress and challenges, learn from other students experiences and set goals to meet for future meetings.  While Proseminar meetings will be held weekly, additional Guest Speaker Proseminar meetings will be held where a speaker is invited to lead a presentation and discussion on topics deemed important by the Archaeology graduate student cohort during the regular Proseminar meetings.

For more information you can contact the organizing committee at arch-proseminar@sfu.ca