'III Paleopathology Association Meeting in South America'
October 14-16, 2009, Necochea-Quequen, Argentina
Organizers: Richard A. Guichon (Universidad Nacional del Centro) and Sheila Mendoca de Souza

Ninety-two students and professionals from Turkey, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Austria, Portugal, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, the United States, and Argentina made poster and podium presentations and participated in three symposia and six panels.

'Developing Anthropology of Law in a Transnational World: Governmentality, the State, Transnational Process of Law,' June 9-11, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland -- Organizers: Dr. Anne Griffiths (Edinburgh University), Franz von Benda Beckman, and Keeta von Benda Beckmann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology).

'8th Meeting of Anthropology of the Mercosur'
September 29 - October 2, 2009, Buenos Aire, Argentina
Organizers: Alejandro Grimson and Axel Lazzari (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)

'Diversity and Power in Latin America' was the theme for this 8th Meeting of Anthropology of the Mercorsur.

'Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium.' October 3-7, 2006, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. Organizers: Frederick Grine and Dr. Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook University has recently begun sponsoring a series of Workshops in Human Evolution. These are modeled along the lines of the Wenner-Gren conferences that were held at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, bringing together small groups of scholars to meet in an informal setting for several days. These workshops seek to address major issues in palaeoanthropology.

'Revolution and New Social Imaginaries in Postneoliberal Latin America'
May 2-3, 2008, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, California
Organizers: Mark R. Goodale (George Mason University) and Nancy Grey Postero (University of California - San Diego)

This international conference brought together leading and emerging scholars from the United States, Canada, and Latin America to consider the meaning and implications of the profound social, political, and ideological changes taking place in contemporary Latin America.

'Genetic Anthropology at Fine Scales' Workshop
October 25-26, 2009, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
Organizers: Omer Gokcumen (Harvard Medical School) and Krishna Veeramah (University of California-Los Angeles)

The study of genetic variation has proven to be extremely useful for researchers examining anthropological questions. There have been many high-profile studies that have tended to answer questions pertaining to broad scales with regard to both evolutionary time and geographic space.

'70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology'
March 24-28, 2010, Merida, Mexico
Organizers: Liliana R. Goldin (Florida International University)

Support from Wenner-Gren was instrumental in funding two panels composed of eleven Latin American scholars from Guatemala and Argentina. The first panel, entitled 'Human Development, Poverty and Inequality in Guatemala,' was composed of members of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Publication Credit:

Glantz, Michelle, Bence Viola, Patrick Wrinn, Tatiana Chikisheva, Anatoly Derevianko, et al. 2008. New Hominin Remains from Uzbekistan. Journal of Human Evolution 55(2):233-237

Preliminary abstract: This workshop proposes to chart new theoretical territory and set a new agenda for an ethnographically-grounded, historically-sensitive anthropology of international intervention in the 21st century. The world has recently witnessed the proliferation of new and ambitious forms of foreign intervention by powerful Western states, guided by rationales and aims that were only nascent during the Cold War.