General Patterns of Migrations Agenda

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 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 TBA
3:00 - 4:00	Igor Krupnik Siberians in Alaska: A 'Microscopic' Story of the Last Beringian Migration, 1880-1935
4:00 - 4:15	Coffee Break
6:30	Dinner

Friday, February 10

8:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast at SFI
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 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00	Richard Villems Some General Patterns of the very first Out-of-Africa Migrations
3:00 - 4:00	Merrit Ruhlen Migrations to the New World
4:00 - 4:15	Coffee Break
4:15 - 4:15	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 governed by M. Gell-Mann and I. Peiros
12:15 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 4:00	General Discussion Ancient Migrations and Human Prehistory governed by M. Gell-Mann and I. Peiros