General Patterns of Migrations Agenda

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February 8-11, 2006

Wednesday, February 8

8:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast at SFI
9:00 - 9:15	Welcome
9:15 - 9:30	Murray Gell-Mann Introduction
9:30 - 10:30	Marcus Feldman Inference of Migrational History from Population Genetic Structure
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45	Peter Peregrin Migrations and Material Culture
11:45 - 1:45	Lunch
1:45 - 2:45	Ilia Peiros Migrations and Linguistics
2:45 - 3:45	Dean Snow Human Migrations in the Context of Evolutionary Ecology
3:45 - 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00	Yuri Berezkin Why People are Mortal?

Thursday, February 9

8:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast at SFI
9:00 - 10:00	Vladimir Petrukhin Migratory Mechanism: Rus' and the Magyars in the 9th Century
10:00 - 11:00	Alexander Adelaar The Migrations from Indonesia to Madagascar: A Multidisciplinary Scenario
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15	Peter Underhill Nesting Russian Dolls and Y Chromosome Evidence of a Pontic Steppe Migration
12:15 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00	Henry Wright The Challenge of the Last Glacial Maximum: Human Responses
3:00 - 4:00	Richard Villems Some General Patterns of the Very First Out-of-Africa Migrations
4:00 - 4:15	Coffee Break
4:16 - 5:15	Alexandre Militarev Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Methods in Reconstructing Ethno-cultural History and Unattested Migrations: The Afrasian and the Canarian Cases
7:30	Dinner

Friday, February 10

8:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast at SFI
9:00 - 10:00	Roy King Neolithic Migrations in the Aegean Basin: Contributions of Y Chromosome Studies to the Analysis of the Pre-Greek Substratum Language
10:00 - 11:00	Merritt Ruhlen Migrations to the New World
10:00 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15	Dmitry Leshchiner Linguistics and Geography as Clues to Migration Protohistory: Case of Rio Grande Pueblo Indians
12:15 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 4:00	General discussion Ancient Migrations and Human Prehistory led by M. Gell-Mann and I. Peiros
4:00 - 4:15	Coffee Break

Saturday, February 11

8:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast at SFI
9:00 - 10:30	General discussion Ancient Migrations and Human Prehistory led by M. Gell-Mann and I. Peiros
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15	General discussion Ancient Migrations and Human Prehistory led by M. Gell-Mann and I. Peiros
12:15 - 2:00	Lunch