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Anthropology Lecture Series

Looking Into Culture

Looking Into Culture

The 2006-07 Series on Anthropology

September 13, 7:30 p.m. Connelly Center Cinema
Tiktaalik: An Evolutionary Link between Fish and Limbed Animals (like us)
Ted Daeschler
Assistant Curator and Chair, Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences

October 19, 7:30 p.m. Bartley 1011
The Dawn of Human Culture: The Art of Lascaux
(France, c. 15,000 years ago)
Alan Mann
Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University

November 8 , 7:30 p.m., SAC 300
Ancient India's Earliest Cities
Gregory L. Possehl
Professor of Anthropology
Curator of South Asian Archaeology
University of Pennsylvania Museum

January 31, 7:30 p.m., SAC 300
Ancient Stars:
Rock Art and Archeoastronomy
Carol Ambruster and
Elizabeth Jewell
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University

February 20; noon,
Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center
Anthropology at Villanova: Towards Interdisciplinary Discourse in the Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences
Gustavo Benavides,Theology and Religious Studies; Steven Krauss, Psychology; Lauren Shohet, English; Paul Steege, History; Michael Zimmerman, Biology

February 21, 7:30 p.m., SAC 300
From Skeletons to Culture: How physical anthropology is used to help understand cultural context
Connie Stuckert Ph.D.
University of Pensylvania

March 21, 7:30 p.m. SAC 300
An Augustinian View of Humanity: Challenges for the 21st Century
Thomas Martin, O.S.A., Department of Theology; Director,
The Augustinian Institute,
Villanova University

April 12, 7:30 p.m. SAC 300
The Visual Strategies of Ancient Maya Political Leaders
Bryan R. Just,
Princeton University Art Museum

Sponsored by the Office of Mission Effectiveness

and co-sponsored by Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biology, English, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Theology and Religious Studies, The Graduate Program in Liberal Studies,  the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Villanova Center for Liberal Education