Past Events & Programs

October 2024

Tuesday, October 8

  • 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

    Talk

    Artisan Talk: Professor Clarence Cruz

    To create traditional Pueblo pottery, ceramic artisan and professor Clarence Cruz works with raw materials that he gathers from different sites on public lands. In talk about his process, Cruz will demonstrate how to make a pottery vessel, why they are important to his…

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June 2024

Friday, June 21

  • 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

    Artist Spotlight

    A Conversation with Artist Mohamad Hafez

    The artist and architect Mohamad Hafez channels the complexities of his homeland Syria in his art. Using found objects, paint, and scrap metal, Hafez creates surrealistic, yet politically charged Middle Eastern streetscapes that incorporate the ancient and the new in a…

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May 2024

Thursday, May 30

  • 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

    Talk

    Squiggle Studies

    Research Spotlight
    with Caitlin Davis

    During the Late Formative Period (300 BCE – 200 CE), the people who lived in modern-day southern Guatemala and western El Salvador used a distinctive style of pottery called Usulutan.  This unique regional style is characterized by enchanting orange and yellow squiggles… Caitlin Reddington Davis is a doctoral candidate in Yale’s Department of Anthropology. She received her undergraduate degree in archaeology…

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Thursday, May 16

  • 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

    Talk

    The Sea Before Time

    Research Spotlight
    with Caleb Gordon

    While dinosaurs dominated land and pterosaurs ruled the skies, giant marine reptiles swam the Earth’s oceans. These real-life sea monsters’ evolutionary origins remain some of the oldest unsolved mysteries in paleontology. Yale Ph.D. candidate Caleb Gordon will show us how… Caleb Gordon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. He studies how reptiles evolved to…

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Tuesday, May 14

  • 9:00 am – 2:00 pm

    Workshop

    An Inclusive Future for Scientific Fieldwork

    Who does scientific research matters. It influences the questions that are asked, the insights that are made, and who leads the next generation. However, different kinds of research are not equally welcoming and accessible to all. Fieldwork is an integral part of the earth…  “Improving the participation of under-represented groups… Event Recording Register here to join us virtually or in-person on May 13 and 14, 2024, as the Yale Peabody Museum hosts a workshop aimed at bringing together field-based researchers from across disciplines to imagine a more inclusive future for scientific fieldwork.   Participation and… Event Details The goal of the workshop is to generate practical, deliverable solutions that can be widely accessed and implemented.   The Yale Peabody Museum will reopen its doors in March 2024 after a four-year renovation and gallery redesign. Throughout the project, a specific aim has… Full Schedule Click here to view the full event schedule. drive.google.com Monday, May 13, 12–8 pm… Confirmed Panelists… Event Sponsor and Official Hotel All voices welcome. Student accommodation available. This workshop is generously supported by: Yale Departments of Anthropology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Tropical Resources Institute, Institute for Biospheric Studies, Center…

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Monday, May 13

  • 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Workshop

    An Inclusive Future for Scientific Fieldwork

    Who does scientific research matters. It influences the questions that are asked, the insights that are made, and who leads the next generation. However, different kinds of research are not equally welcoming and accessible to all. Fieldwork is an integral part of the earth…  “Improving the participation of under-represented groups… Event Recording Register here to join us virtually or in-person on May 13 and 14, 2024, as the Yale Peabody Museum hosts a workshop aimed at bringing together field-based researchers from across disciplines to imagine a more inclusive future for scientific fieldwork.   Participation and… Event Details The goal of the workshop is to generate practical, deliverable solutions that can be widely accessed and implemented.   The Yale Peabody Museum will reopen its doors in March 2024 after a four-year renovation and gallery redesign. Throughout the project, a specific aim has… Full Schedule Click here to view the full event schedule. drive.google.com Monday, May 13, 12–8 pm… Confirmed Panelists… Event Sponsor and Official Hotel All voices welcome. Student accommodation available. This workshop is generously supported by: Yale Departments of Anthropology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Tropical Resources Institute, Institute for Biospheric Studies, Center…

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Thursday, May 9

  • 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm

    Book Talk

    After 1177 B.C.

    Over 3,000 years ago the ancient civilizations around the Aegean and Mediterranean seas flourished. Then, one day, it was over. Learn more about one of history’s greatest mysteries – what abruptly ended the Bronze Age? On Thursday, May 9 at 6 p.m., archeologist Eric Cline…

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Wednesday, May 1

February 2024

Thursday, February 15

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Webinar

    Chew on This

    What did the Lake Malawi region look like during the last ice age? Yale Ph.D. candidate Alex Bertacchi discusses how fossilized teeth of plant-eating animals can be used to reconstruct climate and vegetation in ancient Malawi. The results imply unique challenges to the…

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January 2024

Thursday, January 25

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Webinar

    Magnetism Meets Malaria

    Malaria is among the oldest infectious diseases to burden the health of humans and animals. Diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis leave tell-tale markings on the skeleton, which allow archaeologists to diagnose ancient infections in archaeological remains. Malaria,…

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