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IUN ANTHROPOLOGY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
 Caution: dates in the calendar are closer than they appear!

This is the archive of our events from the 2004-2005 school year.



EVENTS:
posterThe Spring 2005 IUN Anthropology Club One Dollar Used Book Sale will be held from Monday March 21 thru Friday March 25; over 10,000 books will be available at only one dollar each.  We are soliciting donations of old books for the sale; please bring them to the sale in Moraine, or stop by and we will go to your car or office with our cart and pick them up.  And all year long there is a book drop near the ATM machine.  The IUN Anthropology Club gave away five thousand dollars of last year's booksale proceeds for:
student scholarships
student summer field school stipends
student academic achievement awards
casts for the anthropology resource center
videos for classroom use 
Our booksale website is at: http://www.iun.edu/%7Eanthronw/cal/2005/03-21-05.htm
2005 IUN Anthropology Club Field School Stipend Awards are now available; one to four awards of $500 each may be given in any one year.  Apply at: http://www.iun.edu/%7Eanthronw/summer.rtf


Come and find out what's up for the Anthropology Club Spring 2005!  Speakers! Road Trips! Scholarships!  Lively discussion!  We look forward to seeing you at the meetings.

The next anthro club meetings are scheduled for:
Friday February 25 at 4 pm room Library CC 105A, followed by movie
Wednesday March 2 at 1 pm in Savannah 207
 Wednesday March 9 at 1 pm in Savannah 207
Spring Break no meeting
Booksale week no meeting
Thursday March 31 at 1 pm in Savannah 207
Wednesday April 6 at 1 pm in Savannah 207
Thursday April 14 at 1 pm in Savannah 207
Friday April 22 at 4 pm followed by speaker at 5 pm; speaker and room TBA

The IUN Student Anthropology Club is one of the most active clubs on campus. They sponsor many activities including guest speakers and field trips to zoos and museums; recent guest lectures have included forensic anthropology, archaeology of the Native American fortress towns of Alabama, ethnography of Plains Apaches, and shamans and native medicines of various parts of the world. The club sponsors campus-wide events such as the Darwin Day celebration and supports these and other activities through its semiannual one dollar used book sale. The club grants scholarships and field school awards to students totaling several thousand dollars every year from the book sale funds, and donates items to the university such as maps for classrooms, tape recorders for student projects, and fossil specimens for the Anthropology Resource Center.

Friday February 25 2005 at 5 pm in Library CC 105A: tribe
a showing of the film Krippendorf's Tribe: 
Instead of documenting a previously unknown tribe in New Guinea, Professor James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) has blown the last two years ... and all his grant money ... rearing his out-of-control kids! Desperate to bluff his way past impatient colleagues, Krippendorf decides to focus his camera on the wildest tribe he can find: his own outrageous offspring! With a top cast including Lily Tomlin, you'll find the crowd-pleasing lengths taken to pull off this hoax absolutely hilarious!   Pizza and soda served during the movie; free and open to the public. 

Anthropology Club meets at 4 pm before the movie, in the same room.
A Cultural Anthropology talk about doing fieldwork in Southern Mexico has been added as an evening presentation to the Darwin Day talks; see below.

Darwin Day returns to IUN on Wednesday February 9, 2005, from 1 to 3:30 pm in LCC 105AB; there will be speakers and cake and other activities. 

    Featured speakers this year are four of IUN's newest and youngest faculty: 
    1:00  Kevin Kennedy from Biology speaks about the continuing conflict between Creationism and Science;
    1:30  Scooter Pegram from Modern Languages/Minority Studies speaks about language evolution;
    2:00  Cake
    2:15  Jackie Zalewski from Sociology speaking on current social evolution: “Rebadging: the in-house outsourcing of professional workers"; in which firms outsource entire business functions to an in-house service provider.  Then staff who
were terminated from the company are reemployed for less by the service provider firm.
    2:45  Mik Stokely from Anthropology speaks about "Science meets the Indian: Perceptions & Politics";
Early encounters between Euro-Americans and indigenous peoples generated ideas and misunderstandings that continue to this day, influencing native identity construction and legal rights. This presentation will explore some of that history and its legacy.
 
    5:30 to 6:30  in LC 105C    Come back for a special evening guest presentation by John Monaghan, Ph.D., head of the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who will talk about his fieldwork in Oaxaca among the Mixtec.

The Anthropology Club will be presenting a collection of eight fossil hominid skull casts to the IUN Anthropology Resource Center; the club spent $1400 of the booksale proceeds for them.

More information about the event at our Darwin Day webpage: http://www.iun.edu/%7Eanthronw/cal/2005/02-09-05.htm


 NEWS:
IUN Anthropology club announces $1500 in student achievement awards.  Did you have good grades in 2004?  Are you an anthropology major or minor or following the anthropology track to the sociology BA?  If so, submit an application and you may win a cash reward.  Deadline is February 14, 2005.  Membership in Anthropology Club is not required.  Application and detailed information is at: http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/awards.htm

Did you know that the eradication of the tsetse fly in east Africa led to larger herds of cattle among the traditionally pastoralist people there, and hence overgrazing and environmental decline?  You can learn much more about such human/environmental relationships at this event:


David Wright in Africa Twenty-five people attended this talk by Dr David Wright of the University of Illinois at Chicago about his recent ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork on the changing physical environment of East Africa and its effects on the original way of life of the indigenous peoples of the area.

Can Sustainable Development Occur in the Context of Changing Fortunes in Africa?  A Case Study from Past and Present Environments and Human Lifeways in the Chalbi Desert, Northern Kenya.



5 pm Friday January 28, 2005 at the Indiana University Northwest Library Conference Center 105AB

The problems of arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) are largely a function of the underdevelopment and exclusion of pastoralist society vis-à-vis Kenya’s rural mainstream over the past one hundred years.  But even after several decades of interventions targeting rangeland problems, the developmental gap has continued to widen; pastoralists now find themselves trapped within a vicious spiral of communal conflict, famine relief dependency, and environmental decline.  The Horn of Africa of the 1990s demonstrated the powerful overspill effect of developments incubating in these volatile conditions.  But along with the widespread social violence accompanying state collapse in Somalia and endemic conflict overtaking the region, came renewed interest, analysis, and practical commitment to confront the underlying causes of the syndrome.

New research in the Chalbi Desert of northwestern Kenya brings to light the ramifications of accelerating environmental mismanagement on both a local and global scale.  Anthropological and geomorphological studies of land use practices in the region are beginning to show that human settlements, largely facilitated by mission-based philanthropy projects, have outstripped their ecological capacities.  Furthermore, the impacts of greenhouse-gas induced global warming are now directly impacting rainfall regimes throughout the northern equatorial zones in Africa.  The threat of desertification in this region has set the stage for an environmental and demographic catastrophe, the precedent for which was witnessed during the great drought and famine that devastated the region in the 1970s.  However, the identification of this region as a potential flash point for cross-border clashes and recruitment area of international terrorist organizations make the stakes of maintaining stability and developing a sustainable economy higher than they have ever been.

This talk will outline the paleoenvironmental and historical backdrop for drought in the Chalbi Desert basin.  Recent results of new research into landform desiccation events will be presented coupled with an anthropological analysis of past and present lifeways in this area.  The use of a multidisciplinary research methodology to understand and alleviate social crises will be discussed and input will be solicited from members of the audience as to what role projects of this nature are to assume in directing public policy initiatives and donor community funds.

David K. Wright holds a PhD from the Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Chicago.  His dissertation research focused on the interface of humans and climate during the middle to late Holocene in Tsavo National Park, Kenya.  He was the recipient of a Fulbright International Institute for Education fellowship in 2000/2001 and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant in 2003/2004. 

Research interests of Dr. Wright include environmental anthropology with a focus on human/climate interactions, applied anthropological techniques for directing third world development projects and mitigating resource-based conflicts, climate change, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on isotopic and sedimentary proxy analysis.  His goal is to make anthropological studies accessible and meaningful to the lay-community and to be able to connect the past with the present so that modern policy makers do not forget historical lessons of human actions and their consequences

Talk is free and open to the public; pizza and soda served during the discussion session after the talk, about 6:30 pm. 

IUN Anthropology Club meets at 4 pm before the talk in the same room.

conversation25 people attended this talk:
Dr. Scooter Pégram, Assistant Professor of French & Minority Studies at IUN, will speak at 5 pm Friday Nov 19th in the IUN Library Conference Center, room 105A, about the sociolinguistics of accents:   

 “Prejudice and Dialects”

A talk about how people sometimes view and ultimately judge others based on their accents or speech patterns.  Scooter will talk about accents, cultural nuances relating to them, and things of the like.

Free and open to the public; pizza and soda served after the talk and discussion.

The Anthropology Club meets at 4 pm in the same room and is giving out free Club T shirts to all new and old members who attend.


No matter what you study; Anthropology, it's in there!
What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys?  A bunch of inquisitive anthropologists! 

IUN Anthropology Club meets every week at IUN; meetings rotate thru a Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday schedule:  

Meeting Schedule for Fall 2004:  
Tuesday Sept 21, 4 pm, Savannah 207
Wed Sept 29, noon, Savannah 207

 Friday Oct 8, 4 pm followed by a showing of movie Whale Rider at 5 pm (see description below)  in the IUN Library Conference Center room 105A

Tuesday Oct 12, 4 pm, Savannah 207
Wed Oct 20, noon, Savannah 207

 No meeting week of booksale, Oct 25 thru Oct 29.

Tues Nov 2, 4 pm, Savannah 207
Wed Nov 10, noon, Savannah 207

Friday Nov 19, after the 4 pm meeting, Professor Scooter Pégram of IUN's Departments of Modern Languages and Minority Studies will present a talk on aspects of doing ethnographic Sociolinguistics; room and details of talk will be announced later.

Tues Nov 23, 4 pm, Savannah 207
Wed Dec 1, noon, Savannah 207
Tues Dec 7, 4 pm, Savannah 207

Thursday Feb 3 at 1 pm in SH 207 (Women's Center)
Wednesday Feb 9 meet at Darwin Day in LCC 105AB at 1 pm
Thursday Feb 17 at 1 pm in SH 207


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The FALL 2004 IUN Anthropology Club One Dollar Used Book Sale was held in the Moraine Lounge from Monday October 25 thru Friday October 29 (the poster shown is an old one from last year); over 10,000 books will be available at only one dollar each.  A flyer with lots of info is at: http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/cal/2004/10-25-04.htm
 


Pai in a canoe
Whale Rider:   Pai is 12 years old and a member of the Maori indigenous people of New Zealand. When it's time to find a successor for her grandfather, the "Koro" (Maori chief), the girl is sure she should be chosen. But their laws dictate that the chief must be male. Pai sets out to prove she is should be Koro, challenging her community's way of thinking, as well as facing the challenges that prove she is their destined leader.
The movie Whale Rider was shown in the IUN Library Conference Center room 105A on Oct 8; 15 people attended.
What can the IUN Anthropology Club offer you?
                                                                                                
Academic Achievement Awards
Field School Stipend Awards
Conference Stipends
Online Minutes
Guest Speakers
Movie Nights
Field Trips
Darwin Day
One Dollar Used Book Sale
Vessel of Intrigue Discussions

Come and stretch your academic interests outside of the classroom.  Let's talk anthropology!

Top Ten reasons to become a part of the IUN Anthropology Club

10.   PLAY WITH THE SKULLS IN THE ANTHRO RESOURCE CENTER
  9.   DARWIN DAY, THE POTLATCH, AND THE USED BOOK SALE
  8.   FIND OUT ABOUT GOING ON A DIG THIS SUMMER
  7.    INFORMAL MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS EVERY WEEK, JUST DROP BY ANY TIME
  6.    INVITE SPEAKERS TO OUR CAMPUS
  5.    LEARN ABOUT CAREERS IN FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
  4.    FREE PIZZA AT FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER GATHERINGS
  3.    FIELD TRIPS TO ZOOS AND MUSEUMS
  2.    PARTIES!!!!!!!!!!
  1.    NO DUES 





nasca monkey    
Doing Anthropology: Student archaeologists tell about their summer fieldwork.

Friday September 17 2004, 5 to 7 pm in the IUN Library Conference Center room 110:

Presentations by several IUN students about the archaeological excavations and other activities they participated in during the summer.
Elizabeth Baker and Mara Deckter, along with their teacher Kathy Forgey, spent nearly a month in Peru excavating a very ancient site, and also radiographing ancient mummies. 
Bud Geary, Torie Lacny, and Tom DeCola worked at various sites along the Kankakee River in Indiana.
Jennifer St. Germain excavated at a paleontology site in North Dakota.
Cara Spicer was an intern at the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change of The Field Museum.

Several of these students received financial support for their work from the IUN Anthropology Club.

Pizza and soda provided.  Free and open to the public.

Anthropology Club meets in the same room at 4 pm.    

(Added later: not all the speakers were able to make it, but we had three excellent, professional quality presentations; 25 people were in attendance.)


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