Our class meetings are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week.

Week One:
Mon 9/26 am – Program introductions (all faculty)
Mon 9/26 pm – Workshop: Tropical Expressive Cultures (Sean). NOTE: lecture hall 2!
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Tues 9/27 am – What is Equatorial Studies? (Eric)
Tues 9/27 pm – What is Science? (Heather). READ: The Emperor of Scent (available in the college bookstore).
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Wed 9/28 am – You are Here (Heather)
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Fri 9/30 am – Orientation to Interdisciplinary Studies (all students)

Week Two:
Mon 10/3 am – Field trip to downtown Olympia: Workshop on Sound Mapping. MEET at the downtown Heritage Park Fountain at 10 am, complete morning activities, meet back at the fountain at 11:30 am.
Mon 10/3 pm – Continued field trip downtown: Workshop on Making Place. Meet back at the fountain at 3:30 pm.
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Tues 10/4 am – Reporting out on field trip. Workshop: Percussion and Rhythms (Sean)
Tues 10/4 pm – Forest Observation exercise (Heather). NOTE: longer class time (class extends to 3:30 pm).
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Wed 10/5 am – Forest Observation, part 2: Hypothesis Generation (Heather). NOTE: Read “Strong Inference,” which is available on the Moodle site.
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Fri 10/7 am – no class meeting

Week Three:
Mon 10/10 am – Lecture/Workshop on Tropical Medicine (Eric). Please read and bring “Excremental Colonialism” AND “Ancient Crash, Epic Wave” today. NOTE: you can find pdfs of these readings on the Moodle site.
Mon 10/10 pm – Seminars in the usual rooms
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Tues 10/11 am – How We Perceive Tropical Sounds (Sean). READ “Music and the Brain” (available on our Moodle site) and bring to class.
Tues 10/11 pm – What Are the Tropics? (Heather)
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Wed 10/12 am – Introduction to Final Projects. Library Workshop.
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Fri 10/14 am – Staying Sane at Evergreen

Week Four:
Mon 10/17 am – Introduction to Microevolution (Heather). READ Tropical Nature.
Mon 10/17 pm – Seminars
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Tues 10/18 am – Microevolution, continued (Heather)
Tues 10/18 pm – Introduction to Macroevolution (Heather)
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Wed 10/19 am – Macroevolution, continued (Heather). READ Baboon Metaphysics, chapter 1.
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Fri 10/21 am – Peer review of papers (your papers will be due Saturday at noon, posted on the Moodle site only).

Week Five:
Mon 10/24 am – Hunter/Gatherers (Eric). READ The Old Way.
Mon 10/24 pm – Seminars on The Old Way, part I (xi-273)
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Tues 10/25 am – Evolution and Romanticism (Eric)
Tues 10/25 pm – Workshop: Hunter/Gatherers (Eric)
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Wed 10/26 am – Indigenous Dislocations (Eric) and workshop on The Old Way, Part II (277-313) [bring book to class!]. Film: Kalahari Family.
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Fri 10/28 am – Peer review of papers (your papers will be due Saturday at noon, posted on the Moodle site only).

Week Six:
Mon 10/31 am – West African Music, Traditional and Modern (Sean). READ Music in West Africa.
Mon 10/31 pm – Seminars
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Tues 11/1 am – Cultural Feedback Loops in African and African American Music and Dance (Sean)
Tues 11/1 pm – Films: Konkombe and Fela
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Wed 11/2 am – Storytelling, Politics, and Activism (Sean). Morning activities will be followed by an African food potluck (recipes and suggestions for those with no access to cooking facilities will be handed out).
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Fri 11/4 am – Peer review of papers (your papers will be due Saturday at noon, posted on the Moodle site only).

Week Seven:
Mon 11/7 am – Speciation and Biogeography (Heather). READ Baboon Metaphysics, chapters 2-7.
Mon 11/7 pm – Seminars
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Tues 11/8 am – Primate Diversity (Heather). READ Baboon Metaphysics, chapters 8 and 9.
Tues 11/8 pm – Primate Social Evolution (Heather).
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Wed 11/9 am – Primates: Theory of Mind and Social Evolution (Heather). READ Baboon Metaphysics, chapters 10 – 12.
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Fri 11/11 am – Peer review of papers (your papers will be due Saturday at noon, posted on the Moodle site only).

Week Eight:
Mon 11/14 am – Configuring ‘Culture’: Functionalism, Personality, and Structuralism (Eric). READ Tristes Tropiques (selected chapters).
Mon 11/14 pm – Seminars on selected parts of Tristes Tropiques.
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Tues 11/15 am – Workshop: Equatorial Ethnology
Tues 11/15 pm – Film: The Ax Fight.
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Wed 11/16 am – Final project updates. Concluding discussion of Tristes Tropiques [please bring book to class].
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Fri 11/18 am – Peer review of papers (your papers will be due Saturday at noon, posted on the Moodle site only).

Note: We do not meet during Thanksgiving Week! You are free to go home or to stay here and catch up on your work. Be sure to be back on Sunday the 27th to be on time Monday morning.

Week Nine:
Mon 11/28 am – Music in Brazil and the Caribbean (Sean). READ Music in Brazil.
Mon 11/28 pm – Seminars
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Tues 11/29 am – Música Popular Brasileiro (Sean)
Tues 11/29 pm – Film: Black Orpheus
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Wed 11/30 am – Workshop on Brazilian dance. Morning activities will be followed by a Brazilian food potluck (recipes and suggestions for those with no access to cooking facilities will be handed out).
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Fri 12/2 am – Peer review of papers (your papers will be due Saturday at noon, posted on the Moodle site only).

Week Ten:
Mon 12/5 am – Final Presentations
Mon 12/5 pm – Final Presentations
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Tues 12/6 am – Final Presentations
Tues 12/6 pm – Final Presentations
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Wed 12/7 am – Final Presentations
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Fri 12/9 am – Writing a Self-Evaluation