UPCOMING EVENTS Monday, November 18, 2013 Quantifying the Influence of Climate Change on Human Conflict Panel Discussion | November 18 | 12-1 p.m. | Goldman School of Public Policy, 250 GSPP West Panelist/Discussants: Marshall Burke, PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley; Edward Miguel, Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action, UC Berkeley Speaker/Performer: Professor Solomon Hsiang, Goldman School of Public Policy Sponsor: Center for Environmental Public Policy A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, and psychology, we assemble and analyze the 60 most rigorous quantitative studies and document, for the first time, a striking convergence of results. We find strong causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict across a range of spatial and temporal scales and across all major regions of the world. The magnitude of climate’s influence is substantial: for each one standard deviation (1s) change in climate toward warmer temperatures or more extreme rainfall, median estimates indicate that the frequency of interpersonal violence rises 4% and the frequency of intergroup conflict rises 14%. Because locations throughout the inhabited world are expected to warm 2s to 4s by 2050, amplified rates of human conflict could represent a large and critical impact of anthropogenic climate change. RSVP required RSVP info: Please make RSVP seminar the subject line of your email. RSVP by November 14 by emailing Leo Covis at [email protected]. Wednesday, November 20, 2013 An Eco-Archaeological Approach to Foodways and Landscape Management on the Late Holocene Central California Coast Lecture: ARF Brownbag | November 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility) Speaker/Performer: Rob Cuthrell, University of California, Berkeley Sponsor: Archaeological Research Facility Although landscape management practices of indigenous peoples of California have long been acknowledged based on ethnographic and historical data sources, archaeology has yet to play a major role in understanding the development and long-term cultural and ecological implications of these practices. Since 2007, a multi-disciplinary research team has been working to implement an eco-archaeological approach to explore indigenous landscape management on the Central Coast of California. This presentation includes results of the study associated with the speaker’s dissertation research, which takes an historical ecological approach to integrating four major sources of data: historical evidence on indigenous foodways and landscape anagement practices, fire ecology of contemporary landscapes, results of silica phytolith analysis from landscape and archaeological contexts, and results of macrobotanical analysis from a Late Holocene indigenous settlement, site CA-SMA-113. Target audience: All Audiences Exploring the Traditional Use of Fire in the Coastal Mountains of Central California ARF Panel Discussion| November 20 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility) Panelist/Discussants: Timothy Babalis, National Park Service; Rand Evett, UC Berkeley; Brent Johnson, National Park Service; Kent Lightfoot, Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley; Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band; Chuck Striplen, San Francisco Estuary Institute & UC Berkeley Sponsor: Archaeological Research Facility The members of the panel will discuss the results of an eco-archaeological project, funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, which is examining the hypothesis that local tribes influenced patterns of fire occurrence and resulting vegetation in the coastal mountain regions of Central California. The project brings together a team of ecologists, archaeologists, environmental historians, native scholars and elders, and land managers within a research and educational framework that combines the methods of paleoecology, historical research, and archaeology with indigenous knowledge to address issues concerning traditional methods of prescribed burning as a management tool for enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem health and vigor. While the project is investigating three separate study areas within the traditional tribal territory of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, this panel will focus on findings from the Pinnacles National Park study area. Panel participants will outline the findings from five interdisciplinary techniques employed in the study of past anthropogenic burning: fire scar dendrochronology, phytolith analysis, archival research on fire history, traditional knowledge of landscape management practices, and archaeology Thursday, November 21, 2013 The Anthropocene in California: An Eco-Archaeological Perspective Lecture | November 21 | 7:30-9 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Speaker/Performer: Kent Lightfoot, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley Sponsor: Archaeological Institute of America, SF Society There is much debate about the timing of the proposed Anthropocene period when people first exerted considerable influence over the earth’s environment. While many scholars argue for a relatively late date (i.e., Industrial Revolution or later), some archaeologists are now making the case for an extensive time depth for the Anthropocene. This lecture will briefly summarize these arguments and then consider human-environment interactions in California prior to 1850. A focus on recent findings from eco-archaeological studies of Late Holocene and early Colonial sites in the greater San Francisco Bay Area will be presented in order to evaluate the question of a longer chronology for the Anthropocene in California. ELSEWHERE IN THE BAY AREA Saturday, November 16 Kashia-Russian Exchange: An Afternoon of Stories, Dance, and Food 2pm | California Historical Society | 678 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105 In 2012, to mark the bicentennial of the founding of Fort Ross by Russian fur traders on Kashia land, a group of Kashia Pomo people made a cultural exchange trip to Russia. Join the Honorable Russian Consul General Mr. Sergey V. Petrov of the Russian Federation in San Francisco and Kashia Tribal members for an afternoon of stories from the trip and plans for a future trip as well as a special performance by the Su-Nu-Nu Shinal dancers and a tasting of traditional foods with a modern flair. Along with the issue of News from Native California featuring the Kashia trip to Russia, there will be Kashia art and jewelry for sale. Saturday, November 16 The Egyptian Excavations of the Metropolitan: Museum of Art at Malqata, 1910 to the Present 2pm | Florence Gould Theater | Legion of Honor | 100 34th Aven, Lincoln Park, San Francisco Presented by Dr. Catharine Roehrig, Curator, Department of Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Malqata is the site of the mud-brick palace-city of Amenhotep III (ca. 1390–1353 BC) constructed for his first Heb-Sed, a rejuvenation festival that traditionally took place in year thirty of a king’s reign and periodically thereafter. Used only for Amenhotep’s three jubilees, the city was abandoned after his death and survives as a town site dating to a single reign. Ongoing excavations have uncovered temples, palaces, urban zones, and workmen’s villages. The speaker will explore what Amenhotep III intended when he commissioned Malqata and its adjoining harbor. Wednesday, November 20 Stanford Archaeology Lunch Club 12-1pm | Stanford Archaeology Center, Bldg. 500, Room 108 Estonian Museum of Occupations and Stanford University Libraries: A Collection for Enhancing the Estonian Studies Kadri Viires (Estonian Museum of Occupations) & Liisi Eglit (Stanford University Libraries) We will be talking about the establishment and activities of the Museum of Occupations in Estonia, Tallinn; the background of SULs Baltic initiative and our recent activities and projects; Kistler-Ritso Foundation as the organization behind both the creation of the museum and SULs Baltic initiative; and the collaborative relationship between the museum and SUL. We also have a short film (20 minutes) about Olga Ritso Kistler, the founder of Kistler-Ritso Foundation, made as a collaborative project between SUL, Stanford Video and the museum. The film is based on interviews with Olgas husband, their daughter and grandchildren and talks about Olgas fascinating life story (she was raised in Estonia and was forced to leave the country and travel to US during WWII, like many other Estonian war refugees). Thursday, November 7 Stanford Archaeology Workshop 5pm | Stanford Archaeology Center, Bldg. 500 State Prioritized Heritage in the Post-liberation Democratic South Africa: Issue of Governmentality, Institutionalization, and Monumentalization of Heritage Thabo Manetsi (National Department of Tourism, South Africa) This paper takes its lead from the issue of political instrumentality, state policy and strategy directive that inform the practice of heritage management by the state in the democratic South Africa. Using the National Liberation Heritage Route project (South Africa) as a case study, it is the intention here to illustrate and unpack the notion of state prioritized heritage in relation to the deployment of state resources ( state legal instruments and material resources) to support a select past as ‘official’ heritage for the nation state. The politics of transforming the heritage landscape in post 1994 South Africa, witnessed the emergence of the idea of state prioritization of the liberation heritage as a site for restorative justice particularly to honour and recognize the legacy of the political struggles for freedom against colonialism and apartheid. The liberation heritage has become a deliberate attempt by the state to legitimize the recognition of the liberation history, against colonialism and apartheid, as ‘official’ heritage in the democratic South Africa. Central to the idea of state prioritization of the National Liberation Heritage Rout e, are questions of governmentality, institutionalization, monumentalization and state ownership of heritage resources including the means of state resources committed to manage heritage. This paper is based ongoing research towards producing a body of knowledge to ontribute to the improvement of state policy/ies and strategy/ies for heritage resource management in South Africa.
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