The series of encounters entitled “The travelling Genius : Italians Art, humanities, science … in the world”, is a space for discussion and cultural dialogue that the Italian Cultural Institute has developed especially for young Italians in world. Italians who, beyond any orientation, are the bearers of knowledge accumulated in Italy and diffuse the following, even without their knowledge, a provision or a vocation of ancient origin: the generous exchange of culture, comforted by a keen sense of human comprehension.
October 4, 2017, 6pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
Conference in Italian
The disappearance of Neandertals and our species’ potential role in this process remain open questions in the field of paleoanthropology. Since 2015, a joint project by the Université de Montréal and the Università degli studi di Genova has sought to shed light on this question by conducting renewed excavations at the site of Riparo Bombrini in coastal Liguria, where some of the most recent Neanderthal deposits in Europe have been found. This talk will detail how this international interdisciplinary project has allowed us to shed new light on this process and clarify how we came to be the only human species on the face of the globe today.
Julien Riel-Salvatore is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université de Montréal, in Montréal, Canada. He received his PhD in archaeology in 2007 from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ, USA) and has been a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at McGill University (2007-2009) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver (2009-2014) prior to taking up his current position at Université de Montréal in 2014. His research has been published in some of the leading scientific journals and featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic News, the BBC, The Globe and Mail, La Stampa, L’Unità, and Public Radio International.national.
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