Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology [LICA] began in 1999. The LICA series provides opportunities for academic engagement and discussion of anthropological topics outside the classroom.

(A = Archaeology, B = Biological, C = Cultural, L = Linguistic)

“Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology," Lawrence A. Kuznar (Indiana University, Fort Wayne), 24 February 1999.  (C)

“The Dawn of Human Technology,”  Nicholas Toth (Indiana University), 28 September 1999.  (A)

“Cooperative Whale Hunting in Indonesia’s Savu Sea,"  Michael Alvard (SUNY-Buffalo), 3 December 1999. (B)

“Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology,” Thomas G. Wynn (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), 15 September 2000.  (A)

"Masculine Women/White Indians:  Negotiating Race and Sex in Andean Markets?” Mary Weismantel (Northwestern University), 15 February 2000. (C)

“Pan the Tool Maker:  Insights on the Early Stone Age from Experimental Studies of Ape Stone Tool Making,” Kathy D. Schick (Indiana University), 2 March 2001.  (A)

“Aging across Multiple Worlds:  South Asian Indians in/and North America,” Sarah Lamb (Brandeis University), 6 April 2001.  (C)

“Lucy Revisited:  Current Knowledge of Australopithecus afarensis,” William H. Kimbel (Institute for Human Origins,  Arizona State University), 7 September 2001. (B)

“Reinventing Urban Memory:  Community Charter School as Borderland,”  Rhoda Halperin, (University of Cincinnati), 6 December 2001.  (C)

“From Race-marked to Multicultural:  Liberal Arts Students’ Discursive Strategies in Identity Transformation,”  Bonnie Urciuoli (Hamilton College, NY), 28 February 2002.  (L & C)

“Ðeep Meanings:  That’s What Makes These Songs So Beautiful,” Eric Lassiter (Ball State University), 29 March 2002.  (C)

“The Human Wedge-Is Our Population Fueling a Mass Extinction?” Jeffrey K. McKee (Ohio State University), 30 August 2002.  (B)

“Find the Fallen Timbers:  Archaeological Analysis of an 18th Century Battlefield,” Michael Pratt (Heidelberg College), 8 November 2002.  (A)

“Gendered Modernities:  Being Maasai Men and Women," Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers University), 10 February 2003. (C)

“Reflections on Fieldwork in Tanzania,” Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers University), 11 February 2003. (C)

“Anthropology Days:  The Representation of Native Peoples at the 1904 Louisiana

Purchase Exposition,” Nancy Parezo (University of Arizona), 4 April 2003. (C)

“Cows, Kin, and Future Sustainability:  The Cultural Ecology of Viliui Sakha in the

Post-Soviet Era,” Susan Crate (Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University), 11 April 2003. (C)

“Tracing the Roots of Black Folk Medicine:  A Cultural Anthropological Approach,” Eric Bailey (National Institutes of Health), 26 September 2003. (C)

“Multiple Maya:  Multiethnicity, Mobility and the Collapse of Maya Civilization,” James Aimers (Dept. of Anthropology, Miami University), 22 October 2003. (A)

“The Perils of Being Bipedal,” Bruce Latimer (Cleveland Museum of Natural History), 24 March 2004. (B)

“Ethnology Revisited:  The Place of Primatology in Anthropology,” Karen Strier (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 24 September 2004. (B)

"Nation-Building and War on Global Terror in Afghanistan:  Three Years Later," M. Nazif Shahrani (Department of Anthropology & Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University), 10 November 2004. (C)

“Life and Death in the Stone Age of South Africa,” Travis R. Pickering (Indiana University), 1 April 2005. (A)

 

“A Forensic Anthropologist’s Journey to Laos:  Uncovering Clues into  a Casualty of the Vietnam War,” Elizabeth Murray (College of Mount St. Joseph), 9 September 2005. (B)

 

“Ainu:  Spirit of a Northern People,” William W. Fitzhugh (Smithsonian Institution), 3 October 2005.  (A)

“The Possibility of an Anthropology of Religion,”  Wyatt MacGaffey (Haverford College), 14 April 2006. (L)