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Spring 2012
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Friday, April 13, O'Connor Campus Center, Room 134
Speakers at this campus symposium are:
Gary Urton, Harvard University, Evolution of Cord-Keeping in the Andes
Michael Malpass, Ithaca College, Provincial Inka
Carol Ann Lorenz, Colgate University, Andean Textiles
Anthony Aveni, Colgate University, Andean Archaeoastronomy
William Isbell, Binghamton University, Wari and Tiwanaku Iconography
Amy Groleau, Colgate University, Wari Ritual Practice
Advances in Khipu Research
Gary Urton
Thursday, April 12, 4:30 P.M.
ALANA Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room
Decolonizing Deerfield: Collaborative Archaeology and Heritage Work at the Seventeenth-Century Pocumtuck Fort Site, Deerfield, Massachusetts
Wednesday, March 28, 4:30 p.m., Persson Hall Auditorium
Threads of Tradition: Aymara and Quechua Textiles of the Andes (PDF)
Exhibit Opening, Longyear Museum of Anthropology
Catered Reception: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 - 6:00PM
Inila Wakan Janis (PDF)
Brown Bag Presentation
February 15, 12:20-1:10 P.M.
ALANA Cultural Center The Journey Towards Social Change for Lakota People
February 15, 4:30 P.M. Persson Hall Auditorium
Fall 2011 David Carballo (PDF)
November 8, 4:00 P.M.
ALANA Center
Journeys, Passages and Narratives
October 28-30
Native American Arts and Culture Festival
October 22, 2011 - Sanford Field House
Dr. R. Tom Zuidema
“The Inka Calendar Reconstructed from Spanish Chronicles and its Pre-Hispanic Antecedents”
October 14
12:20 -1:10 p.m., Alumni Hall 111
Richard Alteo (PDF)
An Indigenous Perspective on Race and Education
Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 7:30 p.m. - Love Auditorium, Olin Hall
International Iroquois Beadwork Conference
September 16-18
Longyear Museum of Anthropology Exhibition Schedule Exhibition, Longyear Museum Gallery
Birds and Beasts in Beads: 150 Years of Iroquois Beadwork
August 29 through October 30, 2011
**Reception, Friday, September 16th, 4:30-6:30 pm
Lecture, Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
September 17th, 7:30pm
Ruth B. Phillips
"From 'Naturalized Invention' to the Invention of a Tradition: The Victorian
Reception of Onkwehonwe (Iroquois) Beadwork"
(Keynote lecture of International Iroquois Bead work Conference)
Exhibition, Alumni 111
Art of the Native American Southwest
October 29,2011 through February 2012
** Reception, Saturday, October 29t\ 3:30-5:00 pm
Organized by the Longyear Museum with objects selected and researched by
students in ARTS 250 I SOAN 250
Fall 2010 David Carrasco (PDF)
There Will Be Blood: Ritual Sacrifice among Aztecs and Spaniards in the Conquest of Mexico
Monday, November 8, 2010, 4:30 p.m. (ALANA Cultural Center - Multipurpose Room)
Mohawk & Noongar: Art of Contemporary Indigenous Women (PDF)
Exhibit Opening, Longyear Museum of Anthropology
Catered Reception: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 4:30-6:00 PM
Joseph Suina (PDF)
Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache Past and Present: Lessons Learned from the Santa Fe Study Group
Thursday, October 28, 2010, Noon - 1 p.m. (ALANA Cultural Center - Multipurpose Room)
Native American Arts and Culture Festival (PDF)
October 16, 2010 - Sanford Field House
Fall 2009
Navajo Narratives Engendered
Presentations and Films
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - ALANA Cultural Center
Friday, November 20, 2009 - Women's Studies Center
Frank Pommersheim '65
Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes and the Constitution
Monday, November 9, 2009, 8 p.m. - 27 Persson Hall (Persson Hall Auditorium)
Native American Arts and Culture Festival
October 24, 2009 - Sanford Field House
Spring 2009 Small World: Dolls of Native North America
Dolls from the Collections of the Longyear Museum of Anthropology
ARTS 250 / SOAN 250 CLASS EXHIBITION
Reception: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4:30-6:00 PM
Alumni Hall 111
Tenoch Medina
Templo Mayor Project, Mexico City
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:30 p.m. - 27 Persson Hall
"Arctic Impressions": Inuit Prints from the Collection of Brian Gerber '66
Reception and gallery talk
Monday, April 6, 2009, 4:30-6:00 pm
Dixie Henry '96
There Are No Indians in Maryland- A Struggle for the Repatriation of Remains and the Return of Identity
Monday, March 2- 4:30 p.m. - 209 Lathrop Hall
Indigenous Women's Network
(IWN) Visits Colgate campus
March 9-10, 2009
Fall 2008 Eric Gansworth
Paintings: A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function
Thursday, October 30 - 5-6:30 p.m. - The Longyear Museum, Alumni Hall
Eleanor Wake
Can Archaeoastronomy Solve the Riddle of the Mexican Embedded Stones?
Thursday, November 20 - 4:00 p.m. - Alana Cultural Center
Native American Arts & Culture Festival
October 25, 2008 - Sanford Field House
click here to view slideshow from the 2007 Festival
Dr. Mark J. Plotkin
ethnobotanist, author, and president,
AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM
"BIODIVERSITY, SHAMANISM, AND GOOGLE EARTH: SAVING THE AMAZON IN SIX DIMENSIONS"
Friday, October 3 - 12:15 p.m. - Alana Cultural Center
Environmental Studies Luncheon Seminar
and
"INDIGENOUS RAINFOREST CONSERVATION AND THE AMAZON: IS THE SKY REALLY FALLING?"
Friday, October 3 - 3:00, p.m. - Love Auditorium (300 Olin),
Science Colloquium Series
Norval Morrisseau
Norval Morrisseau and His Legacy: The Woodlands Painting Tradition
Spring 2008
February 25 - June 1, 2008 - Longyear Museum of Anthropology
Reception: Thursday, Feb. 28 from 4:30-6 p.m., gallery talk at 5 p.m.
David Carrasco
The Labyrinth and the Circle in a Native Mexican Codex: From the Cave of Origins to the Place of the Eagle's Nest
Monday April 14 - 4:15 p.m. - ALANA Cultural Center
Patricia McAnany
Maya Heritage Initiative: The Past in the People and The People and Their Past
Tuesday, April 15 - 7:30 p.m. - 209 Lathrop Hall
Dr. Robin Kimmerer
Reciprocity and Restoration: Finding Common Ground Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge
Wednesday, April 16 - 7:30 p.m. - 105 Little Hall (Golden Auditorium)
Kandice Watson
Poverty to Prosperity: An Oneida Girl's Story
Thursday, April 17 - 11:30 a.m. - Women's Studies Center (East Hall)
Quetzil Castaneda
Two Indians in the Age of Heritage: Identity as Governmentality
Wednesday, April 30 - 4:30 p.m. - 27 Persson Hall (Persson Hall Auditorium