IUN Anthropology & Sociology Newsletter

1) stuff happening at IUN, with January course info
2) stuff happening in Chicago
3) stuff happening elsewhere in Indiana
4) other stuff
5) interesting websites
6) jobs
    

1) at IUN

Next IUN Anthro Club meeting is Wed Nov 10, noon, Savannah 207

I sent a separate email about the COAS Research Conference on Nov 11 & 12, scroll down for a recap.

Northwest Center for Medical Education Seminar Series Friday Nov 12 at 12 noon in the Advanced Technology Auditorium (room 2001) in the new Med Ed building. “Alternative Medicine:  Examining Ancient Therapies with Contemporary Science”
by Roy W. Geib, Ph.D. and Director, Terre Haute Center for Medical Education

Lots happening on Friday Nov 19 at IUN:

Find out about jobs in Anthropology & Sociology:
Katheryne Pavey and Mara Deckter of the IUN Career Center have organized a Round Table event for Friday Nov 19 from 1 to 4 pm in the iUN Library Conference Center 105.  There will be representatives from museums, zoos, service organizations, and companies that hire anthropologists and sociologists; some will have jobs open, others will tell you about what might be open in the future.  To participate in this event, please RSVP with Career Services at 980-6650 or stop by Moraine Student Center Room 101 or email Mara at MaraBrie@aol.com; they will help you put together a basic resume that you can give to the firms participating.

Then the IUN ANthro Club meets at 4 pm in the same room LCC 105A; come to the meeting before 4:30 and receive a free IUN Anthro Club T shirt in red or white, with the new multicolor logo.

Then at 5 pm in the same LCC 105A,  Dr. Scooter Pégram, Assistant Professor of French & Minority Studies at IUN, will speak about the sociolinguistics of accents: “Prejudice and Dialects: 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.

And at 7 pm in the Tamarack Theater, Noche de Celebracion
returns with an evening of music and celebration.

And I sent out detailed info earlier about:
First Annual IUN College of Arts & Sciences Research Conference
Thursday & Friday Nov 11 & 12, 2004
INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST LIBRARY CONFERENCE CENTER
List Of Talks Of Interest to Anthro & Sociology (note some are in different rooms as there is more than one session going on at most times)

Thursday, November 11
    Sessions A 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
A 2. Native Peoples of the Americas, LCC 115 includes:
Globalized Language Extinction in David Crystal’s Language Death by John Huber
The Peru Experience by Elizabeth Baker
Poster Presentation: The Importance of a Formal Field School by Torie Lacny
    Sessions B 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
B 1. The Two Q’s of Research, LCC 110 includes
Self-Reported Drug Use and the Presentation of Self by William Dustin Cantrell
Indoors versus Outdoors: Is There a Difference in Imaginary Play Frequency
between Settings? By Sarah Scubelek, Kristy Brzozkiewicz
B 2. Science Matters, LCC 115
Diet and Hominid Evolution by Mara Brie Deckter

Friday, November 12
    Sessions D 10:00 am – 11:15 am
D 1. 16th – 19th Century Literature, LCC 110
Gender Identity and the Use of Voice in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
and Little Women by Patricia Schroader
    Sessions E 2:15 pm – 3:30 pm
E 1. Theological Imperatives & the Missionary Movement, LCC 110
Missionaries and Conversion in the Carolingian Age by Chris Molnar, Purdue
E 2. Boundaries of Americana, LCC 115
Zombies Devour Culture: The Zombie as Cultural Icon by Casey Kirkpatrick
Perspectives of Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Island by
Charlotte Noble
    Sessions F 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
F 2. Communities, LCC 115 Chair: Dr. Bob Mucci
Blackbear’s Calendar: Picturing Apache History by Dr Michelle Stokely

    
January courses:

Bob Mucci will be doing Food and Culture under the E400, A200, and Soc S362 numbers; it will cover topics such as the ethnicity of food choices, traditional foods, food taboos, behavior at the table.  Also the origin of domestic foods in different parts of the world, diet and human evolution, etc etc.  there are also optional one credit hour auxiliary courses consisting of field trips to restaurants.  11:30 TR

Mik Stokely is doing E108/300, Soc 362, WOST 401: Native American Women;  This course will explore issues relevant to the lives of Native American women, past and present. Class lectures, readings and videos will explore women's roles and contributions to tribal economies, politics, health care, artistic expression, spirituality and family. We will consider the impact of European cultures upon Native peoples and will examine how women adapted to the changes, as well as maintained indigenous traditions, ultimately functioning as both culture brokers and culture bearers. 2:30 TR; W401 and E300 are IIIA humanities credit, and E300 is a IV Cultures Studies credit.

And Mik is also doing E200/400, Soc 362: Intermediate Cultural Anthropology; This course expands and refines the ideas presented in A104 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Class lectures, readings and discussions will explore the basic methods of anthropological data collection and illustrate how anthropologists encounter other communities. Students will develop a better understanding of the tools and ideas that shape this discipline.  In class we will do a bit of refresher, plus some on the basics of data collection methodology, (easier to critique what anthros do if one actually knows what they do) then we read & compare some ethnographies and discuss ethics, modern problems, theory, more about globalization, neo-colonialism etc.  It will be fun and interesting, building on the 104 material and getting students prepared for more advanced concepts later in their
academic experiences.  5:30 MW

Kathy Forgey is doing B250/B400 Forensic Anthropology, a hands on the bones science course with lab work. This course is designed to introduce students to the techniques and methods of biological anthropology as
applied to the identification of human remains in a
legal context.  Lectures and hands-on laboratory
sessions will cover a variety of subjects including:
basic osteology and odontology, recovery scene
methods, cause/manner of death, time since death, and
methods of individualization (estimation of age, sex,
ancestry).  This one-semester course is NOT intended to prepare you to be a practicing forensic anthropologist, but
instead, will familiarize you with the basic body of
knowledge that underlies the discipline along with the
tools that will allow you to ‘think like a forensic
anthropologist.’

The Anthro Club brought in over $2500 at this semester's one dollar used book sale; that is the amount the club intends to spend for Academic Achievement Awards and Summer Fieldschool Stipends.  Thanks to all those who participated and worked with the books: Mara Deckter, Mik Stokely, Dave and Mike Holland, Steffi Fitzgerald, Jennifer Puentes, Andy Shaw, Char Noble, Cara Spicer, Torie Lacny, Bob and John Mucci, Brittany Gurley, Bud Geary, Michelle Ahlfeld, Elizabeth Olin, and others I have not remembered, I am sure.  Most received a free T shirt or Club canvas tote bag for their effort; many thanks to all.

2) Chicago
The Chicago Association for the Practice of Anthropology
http://www.chicagoanthro.org/
Dear CAPA Colleagues and Friends of CAPA,
 Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, November 10th from 6:30 to 9:00 PM in Room 340 of O'Connell at DePaul University.  O'Connell actually is in the same building as Levan, but in the opposite wing.  See details below.
Meeting topic: Developing and Marketing Your Practicing Anthropologist Skills
The first of many professional development sessions. We have invited Parrish Hanna of Arc Worldwide <http://www.arcww.com/> , Carole Prindle of RTI <http://www.rti.org/> , and Linda Wilson of Shedd Aquarium <http://www.sheddaquarium.org/> to discuss how to market your anthropological skills in the areas of interactive marketing, nonprofit research, and museum visitor evaluation. To add interactivity to the session, each speaker will dissect an anthropologist’s resume and provide feedback. So come with your resume to take notes.
CAPA business meeting will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. The room probably will not be open before then.
Program will run from 7:30 – 9:00 PM.
Discussion/Socializing/Refreshments (late dinner?) will follow at Fiesta Mexicana on Lincoln Avenue, across the street from Red Lion and next to the Biograph Theatre.
Meeting Location:
 DePaul University
Building 14. O’Connell, Room 340
View map <http://www.depaul.edu/maps/lpc/OConnellHall.asp>
1036 W Belden Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614

3)  In Indy:
From the IUPUI Anthropology Club website (http://www.iupui.edu/~indyanth/events.html) .
At the Indianapolis IUPUI campus.

Brown Bag Lecture
Tuesday, 9 November 2004
12:00 Noon
Bring your lunch!
Location: IUPUI Archaeology Lab (CA431)
Featured Speaker: Dr. James R. "Rick" Jones III, Indiana State Archaeologist, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
Topic: Archaeology in Indiana

Brown Bag Lecture
Thursday, 11 November 2004
12:00 Noon
Bring your lunch!
Location: IUPUI Archaeology Lab (CA431)
Featured Speaker: Dr. Larry J. Zimmerman, Professor, IUPUI Department of Anthropology
Topic: The Wild Side of Midwest Archeology
received via: Amy L. Johnson
Research Archaeologist and Archaeology Outreach Coordinator
Indiana Department of Natural Resources
Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
402 W. Washington St. , Room W274
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2739
Ajohnson@dnr.IN.gov


4)  call-for-papers for:
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
University of California, Berkeley, Friday 18 - Sunday 20 February 2005
http://www.Technology-Conference.com
This conference takes a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the interests addressed by the conference include: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.


5) website all everything all about skeletons, from Mara Deckter http://wnt.utexas.edu/~eskeletons/

Newest member of the human family:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6346939/?GT1=5472
from Beckie Andis
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html
from Shellie Stout

6) JOBS

IU South Bend is searching for a tenure-track social informatics person and it is listed as requiring a PhD in EITHER Sociology or Anthropology; It was in the Chronicle a while back, and should be listed on AAA by now.

The Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies Program at Dartmouth College invites applications for an assistant professor, tenure-track position in Latino Studies to begin in the fall te           rmofthe2005academicyear.Weseektoappoint
a colleague committed to innovative scholarship and teaching with a primary research focus on Latino populations in the U.S.

Environmental Anthropology Job Opportunities - Please Share with your Colleagues

1.   Assistant Professor of Anthropology
http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2071009&keywords=Environmental%20Anthropology
Western Illinois University
  The Department of Sociology and Anthropology invites applications for a
tenure-track position in Anthropology at the Assistant Professor rank,
beginning the Fa  llsemesterof2005.Desirablesecondary...

2.    2 Assistant Professors, Sociocultural Anthropology
London, Ontario, Canada
http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2055788&keywords=Environmental%20Anthropology
The University of Western Ontario, Anthropology
  The Department of Anthropology, The University of Western Ontario, invites
applications for two probationary tenure track full-time appointments in
Sociocultural Anthropology at the Assistant Professo . . .

3.   Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Lehigh University
http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2053342&keywords=Environmental%20Anthropology
  Lehigh University seeks an Assistant Professor (or Associate in
exceptional cases) for a tenure-track position beginning August 2005 in
environmental risk analysis, perception, and communication. Pos . . .

4.  Assistant Professor – Anthropology
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca College
http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2045811&keywords=Environmental%20Anthropology
  Ithaca College Department of Anthropology seeks qualified candidates to
fill a tenure-eligible position to begin fall     2005.Africa,Asia,theMiddle
East and Latin America are particularly attractive . . .