Yale University Anthropology

Colloquium > 2007-2008 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 105, 10 Sachem Street on Thursdays at 5:30, with refreshments starting at 5:00.

Contact: Gary P. Aronsen

SPRING 2008

January 17
Orientation

January 24
Tim Palmbach, Henry Lee School of Forensic Sciences
Title TBA

January 31
Jason Rauch, Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Yale
Title TBA

March 6
Mike Snyder, Molecular & Cell Development Biology, Yale
Title TBA

March 27
Elizabeth Harmon, Hunter College - CUNY
Title TBA

April 3
Rolf Quam, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Title TBA

April 17
Valerie Andrushko, Southern Ct. State University
Title TBA

April 24
Nicole Gibson, Yale
Title TBA

May 1
Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Title TBA

FALL 2007

September 13
Antónia Monteiro, Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
How and why Bicyclus butterflies evolve different wing patterns

October 4
Kris Carlson, Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Habituating the Paleoanthropologist to Research with Habituated Chimpanzees

October 11
Shara Bailey
New York University
Neandertals, Modern Humans Interbred: Did They Really?

October 18
SVP Meetings

October 25
Link Olson
University of Alaska Museum and William Stanley Field Museum of Natural History
The discovery, description, and phylogenetic position of a new genus of African primate, Rungwecebus kipunji

November 1
Rhonda L. Quinn Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
Environmental variability and habitats of early Homo in the Turkana Basin

November 8
Jason Munshi-South
City University of New York
Biodiversity Conservation in a Resource-hungry World: Case studies of wildlife responses to large-scale human disturbance in two tropical rainforests

November 15
Susan Anton
New York University
What's Size Got To Do With It?: variation in Homo erectus

November 29
AAA Meetings, Washington D.C.

December 6
Diane Doran-Sheehy
SUNY, Stony Brook
Female Reproductive Competition in Western Gorillas

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