Yale University Anthropology

Colloquium > 2005-2006 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 is held in Room 16, 175 Whitney Avenue on Thursdays at 5:30, with refreshments starting at 5:00.

Contact: Gary P. Aronsen

FALL 2005

October 6
Gerald Conlogue & Ronald Beckett, Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences and Diagnostic Imaging, Quinnapiac University
Field Imaging

November 3
Barney Bate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Parapraxis today: the mythopoesis of self and other in an age of terror

November 10
Ian C. Gilby, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Hunting and Meat Sharing Among the Gombe Chimpanzees

December 1
Tom Tartaron, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Mycenaean Mysteries: Reading Political Dynamics from the Archaeological Record of Prehistoric Greece

SPRING 2006

January 19
David Braun, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University
Hominin Behavior and Landscape Variation in the KBS Member of the Koobi Fora Formation

February 9
Kellie Heckman, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
The Lemur Species Explosion: Exploring the Revolution

February 23
Joseph Ferraro, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Was Meat Important? On the Foraging Ecology of Oldowan Hominins

March 23
Sally McBrearty, Department of Anthropolgy, University of Connecticut, Storrs
First Fossil Chimpanzee

March 30
Grazyna Jasienska, Institute of Public Health, Harvard University, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum (Poland)
Genetic Polymorphism, Dietary Phytoestrogens, and Fetal Programming: forgotten factors in human reproductive ecology

April 13
Monique Scott, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton
Exhibiting Human Evolution in Museums: Who Cares?

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