Past Events
Spring 2024
Marie Soressi, University of Leiden
Thursday, March 14 at 5pm ET
“Neandertal Legacy: genes, cultures and archaeological sites”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Rebecca Stumpf, University of Illinois
Thursday, April 11 at 5pm ET
“Perspectives on Microbial Diversity and Disease in Wild Primates”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Stephanie Poindexter, University at Buffalo
Thursday, April 18 at 5pm ET
“Revisiting our understanding of nocturnal primates”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Fall 2023
Nathan Young, UC San Francisco
Thursday, September 28 at 5pm ET
“Journeys through Morphospace: Explorations in Development and Evolution”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Tyler Faith, University of Utah
Thursday, October 26 at 5pm ET
“It Must Have Swarmed with Great Monsters: Late Cenozoic Extinctions and Ecological Change in Africa”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Maria Nieves-Colón, University of Minnesota
Thursday, November 2 at 5pm ET
The “Proyecto de Investigación de La Quebrada”: A community-engaged study of afro-descendant ancestry and archaeology in Peru”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Claudio Tennie, University of Tübingen
Thursday, December 7 at 5pm ET
“Did Early stone tool know-how require cultural transmission?”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Spring 2023
Laura Lewis, UC Berkeley
Thursday, February 16 at 4pm ET
“The Cognitive Foundations of Complex Social Relationships in Great Apes”
Emerging Scholars Colloquium hosted by FAS, Department of Psychology and CSHO
6 Washington Place, Meyer 102
Katerina Harvati, University of Tübingen
Thursday, April 27 at 5pm ET
“Modern human origins, dispersals and interactions: new evidence”
Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center
Marc Kissel, Appalachian State University
Thursday, May 4 at 5pm ET
“Evolution of human warefare and peacefare”
25 Waverly Place, Room 107
Fall 2022
Joan Silk, Arizona State University
Thursday, October 6 at 5pm ET
“Reproductive tradeoffs for male baboons: competing vs. caring”
12 Waverly Place, Room G08 Auditorium
Marine Cazenave, American Museum of Natural History
Thursday, November 17 at 5pm ET
“The imprint of early hominin behaviors in the inner bony structure at the hip joint”
25 Waverly Place, 1st floor Kriser screening room
Spring 2022
S. Yoshi Maezumi, University of Amsterdam
Thursday, February 3 at 5pm ET
“Paleofire in the Amazon”
25 Waverly Place, 1st floor Kriser screening room
Eréndira Quintana Morales, UC Santa Cruz
Thursday, February 10 at 5pm ET
“Diet, economy and culinary practices at the height of pre-colonial Swahili urbanism”
Virtual Zoom Meeting – RSVP
Matthew Velasco, Cornell University
Tuesday, February 17 at 5pm ET
“Cranial Modification and Social Diversity in the Late Prehispanic Andes”
25 Waverly Place, 1st floor Kriser screening room
Christina Giovas, Simon Fraser University
Thursday, February 24 at 5pm ET
“Archaeological Challenges to Understanding the Pre-Columbian Colonization of the Caribbean”
Virtual Zoom Meeting – RSVP
Serena Tucci, Yale University
Wednesday, April 27 at 5pm ET
“The genetic legacy of archaic hominin admixture”
25 Waverly Place, 1st floor Kriser screening room
Vanessa Campanacho, American Museum of Natural History & NYU
Human Skeletal Biology Colloquium Series
Tuesday, May 10 at 12:30pm ET
“The aging process on the pelvic joints: can the documented skeletal collections tell us all?”
Virtual Zoom Meeting
Fall 2021
Jiajing Wang, Dartmouth University
Thursday, October 14 at 5pm ET
“Small Things Forgotten: From Acorn Foraging to Rice Agriculture in Ancient China”
Virtual Zoom Meeting
Gilbert Tostevin, University of Minnesota
Thursday, November 4 at 5pm ET
“Testing for Continuity within a Discontinuous Record: The Methodological Challenges of the Initial Upper Paleolithic”
Virtual Zoom Meeting
Jesse Goliath, Mississippi State University
Human Skeletal Biology Colloquium Series
Tuesday, November 30 at 11:30am ET
“Beneath the Surface: The Versatility of Bone Histology”
Virtual Zoom Meeting
Justin Dunnavant, UCLA
Thursday, December 2 at 5pm ET
“Archaeology and the Restoration of Black Geographies”
Virtual Zoom Meeting
Keitlyn Alcántara, Indiana University
Thursday, December 9 at 5pm ET
“Food as Storytelling”
Virtual Zoom Meeting
Spring 2021
Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah
ANCESTRAL GRANDMOTHERS AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
Darwin Day Lecture
Thursday, February 11 at 5pm ET
Dominic Stratford, University of the Witwatersrand and New York University
THE STERKFONTEIN CAVES: PROBLEMS, PROGRESS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Tuesday, March 9 at 12:30pm ET
Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego
Co-sponsored by Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation Coordinating Hub (ENRICH)
MISSING SEQUENCES: WHY JUST INCREASING DIVERSITY IN GENOME SCIENCE IS NOT ENOUGH
Thursday, March 11 at 5pm ET
Hallie Buckley, University of Otago
Human Skeletal Biology Colloquium Series
THE FINAL FRONTIER: BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONISING POPULATIONS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Tuesday, March 16 at 4pm ET
Alejandra Ortiz, New York University
TEETH AND LIFE HISTORY IN EARLY FOSSIL HOMININS
Thursday, March 25 at 5pm ET
Aja Lans, Syracuse University
Human Skeletal Biology Colloquium Series
(UN)DISCIPLINING BODIES: A BIOARCHAEOLOGY INFORMED BY BLACK FEMINISM AND SLOW SCIENCE
Tuesday, April 13 at 12:30pm ET
Alexandra Klales, Washburn University
Human Skeletal Biology Colloquium Series
THE CURRENT STATE OF SKELETAL SEX ESTIMATION AND THE MORPHOPASSE PROGRAM
Tuesday, May 11 at 12:30pm ET
Fall 2020
Zaneta Thayer, Dartmouth College
Thursday, October 22 at 5pm
“How can historical trauma affect health? Integrating social and biological pathways”
Virtual Zoom Webinar
Tina Lasisi, Penn State University
Thursday, November 12 at 5pm
“What’s in a trait? Genomes, phenomes and scientific narratives of racialized traits”
Virtual Zoom Webinar
Kristina Douglass, Penn State University
Thursday, December 3 at 5pm
“Integrative and inclusive approaches to investigating human-environment dynamics in SW Madagascar”
Virtual Zoom Webinar
Jada Benn Torres, Vanderbilt University
Thursday, December 10 at 5pm
“Community engaged genetic anthropology: a case study of Afro-Puerto Rican genetic ancestry and cultural identity”
Virtual Zoom Webinar
Fall 2019
John Shea, Stony Brook University
Thursday, October 10 at 5pm
“Why Is It So Difficult to Relate Stone Tools to Major Issues in Human Evolution?”
Meyer Hall, Room 102, 4 Washington Place
Tim Ryan, Penn State University
Thursday, November 14 at 5pm
“An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Human Skeletal Variation and Bone Health”
19 University Place, Room 102
Spring 2019
Amy Lu, Stony Brook University
Thursday, April 4 at 5pm
“Male takeovers and infanticide risk in primates: broadening the scope of potential costs.”
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East – Room 408
Robert Barton, Durham University
Thursday, May 2 at 4:30pm
“Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why and how of primate brain evolution.”
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East – Jurow Lecture Hall, Room 101
Fall 2018
Suzanne Pilaar Birch, University of Georgia
Thursday, October 4 at 5pm
“Isotopic insights into the zooarchaeology of Neolithic Yenikapı, Turkey.”
Silver Center, Room 207; 100 Washington Square East
Philipp Gunz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Thursday, October 18 at 5pm
“The evolution of human brain development.”
Silver Center, Room 207; 100 Washington Square East
Amanda Henry, Leiden University
Thursday, November 8 at 5pm
“The costs of fire.”
Silver Center, Room 207; 100 Washington Square East
Shannon McFarlin, George Washington University
Thursday, December 6 at 5pm
“In life and death: recovering evidence of life history in Virunga mountain gorillas.”
Silver Center, Room 207; 100 Washington Square East
Spring 2018
Gilliane Monnier, University of Minnesota
Thursday, February 15 at 5pm
“Advanced behaviors in Neanderthals and early modern humans? Insights from stone tool residue analysis.”
Kriser Room, NYU Department of Anthropology, 1st Floor, 25 Waverly Place
Kevin Uno, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Thursday, March 1 at 5pm
“Seeing the grasses through the trees: Reconstructing Neogene vegetation from isotopes and molecular distributions of plant waxes.”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Mary Blair, American Museum of Natural History
Thursday, March 29 at 5pm
“How does evolutionary primatology inform conservation? From wildlife trade to climate change.”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
The Ranieri Colloquium
Understanding the Origins of the Arts: Expressive Culture of Early Homo sapiens
Thursday-Friday, April 26-27
NYU Silver Center for Arts and Science
Hemmerdinger Hall, 31 Washington Place
David Pilbeam, Harvard University
Thursday, May 3 at 5pm
“A long story: Miocene faunas and faunal change in the Siwaliks of Pakistan.”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Fall 2017
Curtis Marean, Arizona State University
Thursday, November 2 at 5pm
“The Transition to Foraging for Dense and Predictable Resources and its Impact on the Evolution of Modern Humans”
Silver Center, 31 Washington Place – Room 405
Carel van Schaik, University of Zurich
Thursday, November 30 at 5pm
“The Evolution of General Intelligence”
Silver Center, 31 Washington Place – Room 405
Susan Alberts, Duke University
Thursday, December 7 at 5pm
“Life in an arid environment: ecological challenges and developmental constraints in a wild primate”
Silver Center, 31 Washington Place – Room 405
Spring 2017
Chet Sherwood, The George Washington University
Thursday, May 4 at 5pm
“Evolution and Development of the Human Brain”
Silver Center, 31 Washington Place – Jurow Lecture Hall, Room 101
Daniel Adler, University of Connecticut
Thursday, April 27 at 5pm
“The Context and Relevance of Nor Geghi 1 to Middle Pleistocene Hominin Behavior in the Southern Caucasus”
Silver Center, 31 Washington Place – Jurow Lecture Hall, Room 101
Alison Richard, Yale University
Thursday, April 13 at 5pm
“Journeys through time: myth and science in Madagascar”
Silver Center, 31 Washington Place – Jurow Lecture Hall, Room 101
Rachel Scott, DePaul University
Thursday, March 23 at 5pm
“Burial at the Black Friary in Trim, County Meath, Ireland: 700 Years of Changing Friary-Town Relations”
25 Waverly Place – Kriser Room, 1st Floor
Fall 2016
Ashley Hammond, The George Washington University
Thursday, November 17 at 5pm
“Hips don’t lie: apes and hominin evolution in East Africa”
Kimmel Center – 60 Washington Square South, Room 909
Melissa Wilson Sayres, Arizona State University
Thursday, October 13 at 5pm
“Sex-biased genome evolution”
Silver Center – 31 Washington Place, Room 301
Spring 2016
Anne Stone, Arizona State University
Thursday, May 5 at 5pm
“Tuberculosis and leprosy: origins, migration, and exchange in humans and other primates”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Claudia Valeggia, Yale University
Thursday, March 24 at 5pm
“Life transitions in an indigenous population in northern Argentina”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 10 at 5pm
“Competition, cooperation, and the origins of a social brain”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Fall 2015
Daniel Povinelli, University of Louisiana
Co-sponsored by NYU Department of Psychology Cognition and Perception
Thursday, December 10 at 5pm
“Anthropomorphomania”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Lee Berger, University of the Witwatersrand / The National Geographic Society
Wednesday, November 18 at 5pm
“Almost Human – the discovery of Homo naledi“
19 W. 4th Street, Room 101
Thomas Higham, University of Oxford
Thursday, November 5 at 5pm
“A chronology for the European Aurignacian and a spatio-temporal analysis of the early spread of modern humans“
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Robert Martin, The Field Museum
Thursday, October 8 at 5pm
“Maternal Resources, Brain Development and the Pelvic Constraint”
5 Washington Place, Room 101
Douglas Boyer, Duke University
Thursday, September 24 at 5pm
“New perspectives on euprimate origins from fossils and comparative data”
5 Washington Place, Room 101