Past Short Seminars
“Scholars, Security, and Citizenship”
Co-chaired by Laura McNamara, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Exploratory Simulation Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, and Neil Whitehead, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 24-25, 2008
“Policy Under the Influence: Addressing Substance Abuse in New Mexico”
Co-chaired by Cathleen Willging, Research Scientist, Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest, and Nancy Owen Lewis, Director of Scholar Programs, SAR, June 25-26, 2008
“Scholar-Practitioners Addressing Global Issues”
Chaired by Christina Wasson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas, May 21-22, 2008
“Modernity and the Voice: Anthropological Histories from Beyond the Metropole”
Co-chaired by Amanda Weidman, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, and Charles Briggs, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, April 22-23, 2008
“Energy Development in Indian Country”
Co-chaired by Brian W. Frehner, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, and Sherry L. Smith, Professor, Department of History, Southern Methodist University, September 28-29, 2007
“Where Women Have No Doctor”
Chaired by Melissa Smith, Medical Consultant, Hesperian Foundation, September 20-22, 2007
“The Anthropology of Military and National Security Organizations”
Co-chaired by Laura McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories, and Neil Whitehead, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 26-27, 2007
“Ecologies of Hope”
Chaired by Ravi Rajan, Provost, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 19-21, 2007
“Religion, Social Conscience, and the Global Age”
Co-chaired by James F. Brooks, President, School for Advanced Research, and Nicholas Rogers, Professor, Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada, January 3-5, 2007
“Global Health in the Time of Violence”
Co-chaired by Paul Farmer, The Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University; and Linda Whiteford, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, October 5-6, 2006
“Hunting and Gathering Subsistence Patterns and Climatic Change in the Late Pleistocene”
Co-chaired by Christopher Boehm, director, Jane Goodall Research Center, University of Southern California and Pete Richerson, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis, November 3-4, 2005
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“The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities”
Elizabeth Emma Ferry, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University, and Mandana E. Limbert, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNY, October 26-28, 2005
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“The Art of the Missions of Northern New Spain”
Chaired by Clara Bargellini, senior research fellow and professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, National University, Mexico City, June 28-30, 2005
“Center for Digital Archaeology III”
Chaired by Stephen Plog, professor of anthropology, University of Virginia, June 12-13, 2005
“Women and Globalization”
Co-chaired by Mary Anglin, professor of anthropology, University of Kentucky; Nandini Gunewardena, lecturer in anthropology and international development studies, University of California, Los Angeles; and Ann Kingsolver, associate professor of anthropology, University of South Carolina, April 7, 2005
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“The Cycles of Social and Environmental Complexity in Lowland Latin America Planning Meeting”
Co-chaired by George J. Gumerman, interim president, School for Advanced Research, and J. Stephen Lansing, research professor, Santa Fe Institute, March 29-30, 2005
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Native Women’s Cultural Matters, a short seminar chaired by Suzan Shown Harjo, president and CEO of The Morning Star Institute, Washington, D.C., March 21-23, 2005.
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“Public Ethnography”
Chaired by Barbara Tedlock, professor of anthropology, University of New York, Buffalo, and Nancy Owen Lewis, director of academic programs, School for Advanced Research, February 23-24, 2005
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“The Archaeology of Ritual, Memory, and Materiality”
Co-chaired by Barbara J. Mills, professor of anthropology, University of Arizona,
and William H. Walker, associate professor of anthropology, New Mexico State
University, February 16-18, 2005
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"Writing Culture Planning Seminar"
Chaired by Joanne Mulcahy, Northwest Writing Institute, Lewis and Clark College, and Nancy Owen Lewis, director of academic programs, School for Advanced Research, October 27-28, 2004
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"Establishing Identity: The Social and Political Life of the Chief White Antelope Blanket"(Part II)
Chaired by Kathy Whitaker, Director of the Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, October 18-22, 2004
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"Politics, Practice, and Theory: Repatriation as a Force of Change in Contemporary Anthropology"
Chaired by Tom Killion, associate professor of anthropology, Wayne State University, August 4-5, 2004
*In preparation for the plenary session on April 7, 2005 at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM.
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"Microhistory and Archaeology Summer Institute"
Co-chaired by Chris Decorse, Dept. of Anthropology, Syracuse University, and John Walton, Department of Sociology, University of California-Davis, July 6-7, 2004.
"Establishing Identity: The Social and Political Life of the Chief White
Antelope Blanket"(Part I)
Chaired by Kathy Whitaker, Director of the Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, June 20-22, 2004.
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"Center for Digital Archaeology II "
Co-chaired by Stephen Plog, professor, Department
of Anthropology, University of Virginia,
and Richard Leventhal, president, School for Advanced Research, June
11-12, 2004.
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"Chaco Digital Initiative"
Co-chaired by Stephen Plog, professor, Department of
Anthropology, University of Virginia, and Richard Leventhal, president,
School for Advanced Research, June 4-5, 2004.
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"Native American Identity"
Chaired by Suzan Harjo, president and CEO of The Morning Star Institute, Washington,
D.C., May 19-23, 2004.
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"Pottery Mound"
Chaired by Polly Schaafsma, research associate, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory
of Anthropology, May 11-12, 2004.
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"Doing Indigenous Research and Practice," chaired
by Jennifer Denetdale, assistant professor, Department of History, University
of New Mexico, April 8-9, 2004.
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"Materiality in Archaeology,"chaired
by Lynn Meskell, associate professor of anthropology, Columbia University, March
5-7, 2004.
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"Center for Digital Archaeology I ," co-chaired
by Stephen Plog, University of Virginia,
and Richard Leventhal, School for Advanced Research, February 26-29,
2004.
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"Creating a Decolonization Workbook," a
short seminar co-chaired by Angela Cavender Wilson, Arizona
State University, and Michael Yellow Bird, University of Kansas, February
20-21, 2004.
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"Archaeological Investigations in Peten,
Guatemala: The Waka Proposal," a short seminar chaired
by David Freidel, Southern Methodist University, December
6-7, 2003.
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"Creating a New Framework for Renewing Indigenous Languages," a short seminar chaired
by Mary Eunice Romero, University of Arizona, November 14-15, 2003.
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"Creating a Digital Chaco
Archives,"
chaired by Stephen Plog, professor, Department of Anthropology, University
of Virginia, July 23-24, 2003.
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"Prospects for SAR Collaboration with International
Research Groups,"
chaired by Gary
Gossen, professor and dean, Deep Springs College and Jan Rus, Center for
U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, June 29-July
1, 2003.
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"Creating a New Framework for Renewing Indigenous Languages,"(Part I)
chaired by Mary Eunice Romero, assistant research professor, Department
of Language, Reading, and Culture, University of Arizona, April 25-26,
2003.
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"Chaco Synthesis," chaired
by Steve Lekson, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University
of Colorado,
May 5-6, 2003.
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"Chaco Canyon: Building a Digital Research
Archive," chaired by Stephen Plog, professor of anthropology, University of Virginia,
June 10-12, 2002.
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"Bioarchaeology: The People of Arroyo Hondo,"
co-chaired by Lane Beck, Arizona State Museum and the University of Arizona, and Ann Palkovich, George Mason University, July 27-29,
2001.
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"Challenges and Problems Facing University-Based Museums in the New
Century,"
chaired by Jeremy Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania Museum, October15-16,
2000.
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seminar...
"Will the Center Hold, or is
Fission the Future of Anthropology," co-chaired by Peter Brown, 1991-92 NEH
Resident Scholar at SAR and Emory University; and Norman Yoffee, 1991-92 NEH Resident
Scholar at SAR and University of Arizona, March 14-15, 1992.
"Current Trends
and Future Directions in Rio Grande Corridor Archaeology Part II,"
chaired
by W. H. Wills, University of New Mexico, May 17-19, 1991.
"Current Trends
and Future Directions in Rio Grande Corridor Archaeology Part I," chaired by W. H.
Wills, University of New Mexico; May 5-6, 1990.
"Funding
Anthropology," hosted by Douglas W. Schwartz, School for Advanced Research, April 9-10, 1990.
