Schedule
All sessions held in the B. Jones Room, Woodruff (Main) Library
Day One:
Thursday March 6th
| 8:30-9:00 | Introduction: Dr. Melvin Konner |
| 9:00-9:50 | Talk: Dr. William Dressler, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama. "What's Cultural about Biocultural Research?" |
| 9:50-10:40 | Talk: Dr. Sara Harkness, School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut. "The Biocultural Regulation of Children's Development" |
| 10:40-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:50 | Talk: Dr. Thomas Leatherman, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, "Toward a Political-Ecology of Human Biology" |
| 11:50-1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30-3:15 | First Working
Group: Revisiting the Emory Biocultural Approach Professors: Dr. Neal Smith, Dr. Peggy Barlett, Dr. George Armelagos |
| 3:15-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-5:00 | Second Working
Group: The Biocultural Approach in Communication and Language Professors: Dr. Tracy Rone, Dr. Debra Spitulnik, Dr. Sally Gouzoules |
Day Two:
Friday March 7th
| Graduate Student Session | |
| 9:00-9:45 | First Talk: Brandon Kohrt, "'Somatization' in cross-cultural depression research: A study of co-morbid psychiatric and physical pathology in rural Nepal" |
| 9:45-10:30 | Second Talk: John Bing, "The Evolution of the Ontogeny of Enculturation: The Latency Period" |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Third Talk: Jason DeCaro, "Bioculture and the Proximal Ecology of Stress" |
| 11:30-12:15 | Fourth Talk: Rebecca Seligman, "Mediumship and Mental Health: Preliminary Results From a Biocultural Study in Northeastern Brazil" |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30-3:15 | Third Working
Group: Promoting Exchange between Biological and Cultural Anthropology Faculty: Dr. Patricia Whitten, Dr. Michelle Lampl, Dr. John Kingston. |
| 3:15-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-5:00 | Fourth Working
Group: State of the Field-Building Biocultural Anthropology Faculty: Dr. Carol Worthman-prologue followed by group discussion. |
Day Three:
Saturday March 8th
| 9:00-9:50 | Talk: Dr. Reed Larson, Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "The Daily Balancing of Work and Family in India and the United States" |
| 9:50-10:10 | Talk: Dr. Thom McDade, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, "A Biocultural Anthropologist Comes of Age in Samoa: Models and Methods for Integrative Research" |
| 10:10-11:00 | Talk: Dr. Thom McDade, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, "A Biocultural Anthropologist Comes of Age in Samoa: Models and Methods for Integrative Research" |
| 11:00-12:00 | Third Working
Group: The Biocultural Approach and Medical Anthropology Faculty: Dr. Daniel Sellen, Dr. Jennifer Hirsch |
| 12:00-1:15 | Lunch Break |
| 1:15-2:30 | First Methods Workshop: "Patterns of Living: Cross-cultural Applications of the Experience Sampling Method," Dr. Reed Larson |
| 2:30-3:00 | Break |
| 3:00-4:30 | Second Methods Workshop: "Theory, Data, and Measurement: Methodological Approaches in Biocultural Research," Dr. William Dressler, Dr. Thom McDade |
* Please click here to access pdf. file of Dressler paper