General Patterns of Migrations Agenda

AGENDA

Santa Fe Institute
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 tba
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Peter Peregrine "Migrations and Material Culture"
11:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:45 Ilia Peiros "Migrations and Linguistics"
14:45 – 15:45 Dean Snow "Human Migrations in the Context of Evolutionary Ecology"
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 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 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Henry Wright
15:00 – 16:00 Igor Krupnik "Siberians in Alaska: A 'Microscopic' Story of the Last Beringian Migration, 1880-1935"
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
18:30 Dinner
Friday, February 10
8:30 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast at SFIv 9:00 – 10:00 Tatiana Karafet "Y-Chromosome Japanese Roots"
10:00 – 11:00 Alexandre Militarev "Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Methods in Reconstructing Ethno-Cultural History and Unattested Migrations: the Afrasian and the Canarian Cases"
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12.15 Roy King "Neolithic Migrations in the Aegean Basin: Contributions of Y Chromosome Studies to the Analysis of the Pre-Greek Substratum Language"
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Richard Villems "Some General Patterns of the very first Out-of-Africa Migrations"
15:00 – 16:00 Merrit Ruhlen "Migrations to the New World"
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 -17:15 Dmitry Leshchiner "Linguistics and Geography as Clues to Migration Protohistory: Case of Rio Grande Pueblo Indians"
Saturday, February 11
8:30 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast at SFI
9:00 – 10:30 General discussion "Ancient Migrations and Human Prehistory" governed 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 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 General discussion "Ancient Migrations and Human Prehistory" led by M. Gell-Mann and I. Peiros