Every year, after the BAS business meeting, the section hosts a Distinguised Lecture. Lecturers are selected by the BAS Executive Committee, though any member can make suggestions to committee members for future lecture ideas.
Here is the list of BAS AAA Distinguished Speakers:
2017: Debra Martin “Violence in Small Scale Societies”
2016: Karen Rosenberg
2015: Bill Leonard
2014: Karen Strier “What Does Variation in Primate Behavior Mean?”
2013: Margaret Schoeninger
2012 Darna Dufour “Anthropological Perspectives on Nutrition Transitions”
2011 Jonathan Marks, “Why Be Against Darwin? Creationism, Racism, and the Roots of Anthropology.”
2010 Ken Weiss “What Darwin got wrong and why it matters.
2009 Sarah Blaffer Hrdy “Darwin and the Ascent of Emotionally Modern Man: How Humans Became such Hypersocial Apes.”
2008 Dean Falk, “A Tale of Two Discoveries: Taung (1925) and Hobbit (2004)”
2007 T. Steegmann
2006 Wenda Trevathan
2005/2004 George Armelagos
2003 Milford Wolpoff
2002 Eugenie Scott
2001: Frans de Waal