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Detail of a Kuba textile, Central Africa

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Spring 2008

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Fragile Memories: Images of Archaeology and Community at Copan, 1891-1900

ON EXHIBIT

Change and Continuity: Hall of the North American Indian Ongoing

Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Ongoing

Encounters with the Americas Ongoing

“A Good Type”:Tourism and Science in Early Japanese Photographs Through April 2008

From Nation to Nation: Examining Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection Through June 2008

Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas Through December 2009

Feeding the Ancestors: Tlingit Carved Horn Spoons
Through March 2008

EVENTS

Lecture
February 21
5:30 pm

 

Japan as Artifact and Archive.
Eleanor M. Hight, Associate Professor of Art
History, University of New Hampshire.
Cco-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer
Institute.

     

Lecture
February 28
5:30 pm

 

Tatiana Proskouriakoff Lecture
All in the Family: Reconstructing Classic Maya Royal Genealogies.
Peter L. Mathews, Professor of Archaeology,
La Trobe University; Co-Director, Naachtun
Archaeological Project.

     

Lecture
March 6
5:30 pm

  Hobbits in the Haystack: Homo Floresiensis and
Human Evolution.

William L. Jungers, Professor,
Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook
University, School of Medicine.
Lecture co-sponsored by the Leakey Foundation
 

Lecture & Exhibit Opening
March 13
Lecture, 5:30 pm

Exhibit Opening, 6:30 pm

 

Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas
Opening Lecture: William Saturno, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Boston University.

Lecture
March 20
5:30 pm

 

Founder’s Lecture
Diet, Energy, and Evolution
Leslie Aiello, President,Wenner-Gren Foundation
for Anthropological Research. 5:30 PM

     

Lecture
April 3

5:30 pm


 

Hallam L. Movius Lecture
Modern Human Behavior; What is it? When did it First Appear?
Fred Wendorf, Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory, Emeritus, Southern Methodist University.

     

NEW!
Exhibit Opening

April 5

  REMIX Indigenous Identities in the 21st Century
     
Lecture
April 10
5:30 pm
 

Uncertain Types: Racial Portraiture and
Ethnographic Encounter in late 19th- and Early
20th-Century Japan and Mexico
. Deborah Poole,
Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins
University.
Lecture co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer
Institute.

 
Lecture
April 17

5:30 pm

National Museum of the American Indian:  Reflections W. Richard West, Founding
Director, Emeritus, National Museum of the
American Indian

     

NEW!
Lecture
& Booksigning
May 1

5:30 pm

 

The State of Native Nations
Joseph Kalt, Kennedy School of Government

     

June 4
Exhibit Opening
5-7pm

  Fragile Memories: Archaeology and Community at Copán, 1891–1900
Curator’s talk, 5:45 PM

 

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