General Patterns of Migrations Agenda
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| Patterns of Migrations |
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 | Tatiana Karafet Y-Chromosome Japanese Roots |
| 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 | Henry Wright The Challenge of the Last Glacial Maximum: Human Responses |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Richard Villems Some General Patterns of the very first Out-of-Africa Migrations |
| 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 | Alexandre Militarev Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Methods in Reconstructing Ethno-Cultural History and Unattested Migrations: the Afrasian and the Canarian Cases |
| 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 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 |
| 2:00 - 4:00 | General Discussion Ancient Migrations and Human Prehistory led by M. Gell-Mann and I. Peiros |