Yale University Anthropology

Colloquium Archive > 2002-2003 Biological Anthropology "Brown Beer" Colloquium

For two decades, Thursday evening "Brown Beer Lectures" have offered opportunities for faculty and graduate students to present and discuss their research across the disciplines and with scholars and students from other institutions. An informal and collegial atmosphere has attracted hundreds of researchers from around the world to participate, with first-year graduate students, emeritus faculty, and everyone in between providing new insights and challenging discoveries. The Brown Beer Colloiquum was held in Room 16, 175 Whitney Avenue on Thursdays at 5:30, with refreshments starting at 5:00.

Contact: Gary P. Aronsen

FALL 2002

Gary P. Aronsen
Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
My Hot Sexy Research in Africa:  A humorous review of positional behavior, habitat structure, and the path to pedantic professionalism

Richard G. Bribiescas
Assistant Professor, Reproductive Ecology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Blood, Spit, and Beers: Fieldwork Among Ache Foragers of Eastern Paraguay

Abbie Drake
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Heterochronic evolution in the morphology of canids

Elizabeth Kaplin
Director, Center for Tropical Ecology & Conservation, Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School
Forest Guenons and Seed Dispersal in the Nyungwe Forest, Rwanda:past, present and future studies

Daniel J. Kevles
Stanley Woodward Professor, Department of History, Yale University
From Offense to Commonplace: Historical Reflections on the New Reproductive Technologies

Jonathan Padwe
Ph.D. Student, Joint Program, Department of Anthropology/Environmental Studies
How I learned to stop worrying and love development: human health interventions among Ache hunter-gatherers in Paraguay

Michael J. Rogers
Department of Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University
Ethiopian Stones and Kenyan Bones: Recent Field Observations of the Early Early Stone Age

Anne Yoder
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Time and Space in Madagascar: What we can learn from trees and mammals

SPRING 2003

Anthony DiFiore
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University
Molecular Ecology of Woolly Monkeys

Clifford Jolly
Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University
Baboons, hybrids & species

Laurie Santos
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University
The features that guide them: how rhesus monkeys categorize foods and tools

Simone Teelen
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Morituri te salutant: Red colobus monkeys at Ngogo

David P. Watts
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
What Does It Mean That Chimpanzees Kill Other Chimpanzees?

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