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Cornell University's East Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program,
and Department of Linguistics present:
RICE AND LANGUAGE ACROSS ASIA:
CROPS, MOVEMENT, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 22-25, 2011
Program
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| Opening remarks:
Dr. Peter LEPAGE, Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Alice PELL, Vice Provost for International Relations
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| Session 1
| Setting the Stage
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Keynote: Dr. Dorian FULLER, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London
"Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Ecological and Cultural Niches of Rice in Asia"
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Dr. Susan MCCOUCH, Cornell University
"Genetic Isolation, Divergence and Gene Flow in O. sativa"
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Dr. Laurent SAGART, CRLAO-CNRS, Paris
"How Many Rice Vocabularies in East Asia?"
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Poster Session
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Session 2
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Diversity: Origins, Expansions, Constrictions
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Drs. Patricia DONEGAN & David STAMPE, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
"Rice and the Homeland of Austroasiatic Languages and People"
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Dr. OSADA Toshiki, Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto
"An Ethnolinguistic Study of Munda Rice Cultivation in Jharkand, India"
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Dr. Franklin SOUTHWORTH, University of Pennsylvania
"How Far Can the Archaeologist Trust the Historical Linguist?"
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Session 3
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Interdisciplinary Frameworks –Panel discussion
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Biology: Dr. Andrew CLARK, Cornell University
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Anthropology: Dr. Magnus FISKESJÖ, Cornell University
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Linguistics: Dr. John WHITMAN, Cornell University
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General Discussion
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Session 4
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Domestication, Migration, and Diversification, Part 1
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Dr. Caroline HSING, Academia Sinica, Taipei
"Studies on Ancient Rice--Where the Botanists, Agronomists, Archaeologists, Linguists, and Ethnologists Meet"
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Dr. TAO Sang, Michigan State University
"Learning about Rice Domestication from Domestication Genes"
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Dr. David BRADLEY, LaTrobe University, Australia
"Proto-Tibeto-Burman Grain Crops"
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Dr. John WHITMAN, Cornell University
"Agriculture and Language Family Distribution in Northeast Asia"
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Discussant: Dr. Laurent SAGART, CRLAO-CNRS, Paris
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Session 5
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Domestication, Migration, and Diversification, Part 2
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Dr. Alicia SANCHEZ-MAZAS & Mr. DI Da, University of Geneva
"A Genetic Focus on the Peopling History of East Asia"
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Dr. ISHII Takashige, Kobe University
"Evaluation of Genetic Variation Among Wild Populations and Local Varieties of Rice"
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Dr. Peter BELLWOOD, Australian National University
"The Chequered History of Rice Movement Southwards as a Domesticated Cereal--from the Yangzi to the Equator"
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Discussant: Dr. Nerissa RUSSELL, Cornell University
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Discussant: Dr. Robin MCNEAL, Cornell University
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Session 6
| Ecology and Diversity
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Ms. Jade D’ALPOIM-GUEDES, Harvard University
"Millets, Rice, Social Complexity and the Spread of Agriculture to the Chengdu Plain and Surrounding Regions"
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Ms. Cristina CASTILLO, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London
"Rice in Thailand: the Archaeobotanical Contribution"
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Dr. Brendan BUCKLEY, Columbia University
"Extremes Over the Past Millenium and Their Societal Impacts"
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Dr. Randolph BARKER, Cornell University
"The Origin and Spread of Early Ripening Champa Rice: Its Impact on Song Dynasty China"
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Discussant: Dr. Richard O’CONNOR, The University of the South, Tennessee
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Discussant: Dr. Sturt MANNING, Cornell University
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| Closing Panel
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| Panel members: Prof. PAN Wuyun, Shanghai Normal University, Dr. Dorian FULLER, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, with members of the organizing committee
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| General Discussion and Closing
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