Originally
from Kansas, Josh Ostergaard has lived in the city of Chicago for six
years. Josh began volunteering at the Center for Cultural
Understanding and Change in 2001 while working on his Master’s degree
in cultural anthropology at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. He began working with CCUC full time in early 2003 as a
research assistant, and gradually moved on to his current position as
Urban Research Programs Coordinator. Recent projects have
included the Urban Research and Curriculum Transformation Institute,
and a short-term collaborative study of the artistic, cultural and
social networking assets of recent Mexican immigrants to Chicago.
piqued by
dioramas reconstructing Hohokam life. In 1998 volunteer work in
Archaeology at the Field Museum led him into an internship with The
Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) in urban
ethnographic research. Following a return to school to get his
Masters Degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Mario rejoined
CCUC as an ethnographer, participating in studies of the arts in
community building and the risk perceptions of anglers. He’s been
with CCUC’s Cultural Connections Program for three years and currently
serves as the Program Coordinator,
shepherding the collaboration of over 20 cultural organizations in
bringing cultural diversity education to teachers, parents of school
aged children, college students, and the general public. The IUN Anthropology and Biology Clubs
present:
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL
Featuring a debate on the question of Wednesday February 15, 2006 1 to 3:00 pm Free admission, open to the public, refreshments served |
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This year we will have a debate between Joanne Scalzitti, PhD (West Virginia University Dept Biology), and Bryan O'Neal, ABD (Purdue University Dept of Philosophy). Dr Scalzitti is Assistant Professor of Biology at Indiana University Northwest, and Mr O'Neal is Assistant Professor of Theology at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. The debate moderator will be Dr Jack Bloom, Associate Professor of Sociology at IUN.
Schedule: each speaker will talk for twenty minutes; after that the moderator will ask prepared questions of both speakers. Then the moderator will take questions from the audience directed to either or both speakers, and finally each speaker will have five minutes for rebuttal and conclusion.First anthropology club meeting of the fall; planning of events, election of new officers and/or re-election of old ones. Followed by speakers on getting into grad school and on ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork. Friday Sept 16, 4 to 5 pm in Library conference center LCC 105.  IUN students speak and show pictures about: experiences getting into grad school; how to apply for grad school; summer 2005 archaeology field work; summer 2005 ethnographic field work in Belize. Free and open to everyone; pizza and soda served. Friday Sept 16, 5 to 7 pm in Library conference center LCC 105. |
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| 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. | |||
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