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Severin Fowles, a leading anthropologist at Columbia University, will deliver the 2025 Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture.

The LVI Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Jada Benn Torres, a leading anthropologist from Vanderbilt University, The annual event will feature two engaging public talks examining the intersection of race, genetics,...

The 55th Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture by Shannon Speed, director of the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, will explore the ongoing violence against Native women and ways to...

The Journal of Anthropological Research hosts its 54th Distinguished Lecture with American linguist and psychologist John A. Lucy from the University of Chicago, who will address The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought: A Comparison...

The Journal of Anthropological Research, which is housed at The University of New Mexico, is hosting lectures in October. Torben Rick, curator of North American Archaeology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institute, will...

The University of New Mexico’s long-scheduled Journal of Anthropological Research 52nd Distinguished Lecture will host Christina Warinner, a bioarcheologist at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute best known for her research on the evolution of ancient...

The Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) announced the guest speaker for its 50th installment of the JAR Distinguished Lectures. The series founded by Lawrence Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the University of New Mexico...

Water remains the single-most fundamental factor in the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history. It enables the existence of people, places and things. To that end, the XLIX Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture features...

The XLVIII Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture will feature Professor Robert K. Hitchcock, who will discuss the “Plight of the Kalahari San: Hunter-Gatherers in a Globalized World,” on Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM...

Professor Karen Kramer is presenting the XLVII Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture, “How there got to be so many of us: The evolutionary story of population growth and a human life history of cooperation,’’ on...