IUN SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS

1) Holiday drives: toys for tots, clothes for St Jude
2) Sociology & women Internships
3) IUN EVENTS: ecology & culture in Africa; Darwin Day
4) IUN TEXTBOOKS: get your booklists on line
4a) food & culture website
5) STUFF IN CHICAGO: HotHouse Performance Center, Mitchell Museum of the
American Indian
6) calls for papers: WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM, Irish Studies
7)  MORE ON THE NET: ancient beer, King Tut
8)  JOBS: Chicago FT & PT, elsewhere


1) Holiday drives: toys for tots, clothes for St Jude

IUN Student and US Marine Corps veteran Terry Hunt has arranged a Toys for Tots
collection and pick up at IUN.
We have placed collection boxes at four locations:
Library Lobby, Hawthorn lobby near the Bursar, Savannah across from the
bookstore, and Moraine near the ATM.
We hope students, staff and faculty can donate a toy (small is fine) or book for
this drive; toys should be new, unwrapped but preferably in original packaging.
 We pick up the toys from the collection boxes almost every day; the final pick
up will be Thursday December 16 at about 1 pm, so please make your contributions
by noon Thursday.
more info at: http://www.toysfortots.org/home/
There will be a Gifts Give Away on December 22, 2004
Genesis Convention Center (4th & Broadway Gary), email Tinon4@aol.com for more info.

The Art Club is collecting women's new underwear, socks, slippers, pajamas,
clothes, personal hygiene items, and children's toys for the St. Jude House (for
women and children) from December 1-16th.  Please bring items to drop-off boxes
at Tamarack 73C, the Women's Center, the Savannah Gallery, or the Gallery Northwest.
For contact info. please call: 219-980-6810
or email: kknaga@iun.edu

2) Sociology & women Internships

The Women's Studies Program and Sociology are offering internships with several
regional battered women's shelters where students can tutor battered women to
get their GEDs. If you are interested in this option, please contact Dr. Cynthia
O'Dell (WOST/Psychology) at codell@iun.edu,
phone, 219-980-6986 or Dr. Tanice Foltz at tfoltz@iun.edu, 219-980-6786.  Happy
Holidays!

3) IUN EVENTS:
Friday January 28, 5 pm in Library Conference Center
David Wright, recent PhD in Anthropology at University of Illinois at Chicago,
will speak on the relationship between ecological crises and social crises in
eastern Africa:
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.  More info on the talk and photos will be posted over the
break at:
http://www.iun.edu/%7Eanthronw/EVENTS.htm

The IUN Darwin Day has been scheduled for 1 to 3 pm on Wednesday February 9 in
the Library Conference Center; details of speakers will be posted on the same
EVENTS website. Also see: http://www.darwinday.org/home/index.html


4)  TEXTBOOKS:

You can get the IUN spring textbook lists on line from
http://www.iun.edu/~bkstore/booklist.shtml
It is a little tricky, but you can get the book lists for your classes: click on
textbook search, then create book list.  It goes faster if you just type in the
discipline and not the individual course, it then gives all the courses and you
can click on the course number you want; when you have created a list of your
courses, choose ‘next step - select books’.  Unfortunately the list does not
give the exact edition or version, but it should be very useful for people
buying used books off the web.  Example, for my Food and Culture class, it does
not say we will be using the second edition of Bryant, but it is great for
finding the older books that are not textbooks for cheap.

4a) food & culture website
 And speaking of food and culture, Joshua Wells posted this neat site on the
AGSA list:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176589
"This remarkable WPA project chronicling American "foodways" in the 1930s has
never been published. Each region had its own "America Eats" team.  Their
writings, photographs and even some scripts for a proposed weekly
radio program are tucked away in collections around the country -- at the New
York Municipal Archive, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the
University of Iowa Library, and the State Library and Archives of Florida, as
well as at the Library of Congress."
Among a host of other anthropologically relevant food related links, There's
also a link to a nice story on Ojibwe rice harvesting
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4165045


5)  IN CHICAGO:
Events at HotHouse, the Center for International Performance and Exhibition.
(C.I.P.E.X.) is celebrating its sixteenth year presenting multi-arts events and
showcasing high caliber artists from throughout the world. We believe in the
value of progressive cultural programming and focus on local, national, and
international artists whose work would otherwise remain under-recognized and
isolated. We choose to position ourselves at the margin of the mainstream, and
seek to promote the widening of the cultural market place in Chicago.  They have
a market Dec 18 & 19; HotHouse is located just south of the Loop on Balbo at
Wabash.   http://www.hothouse.net/

At the Mitchell Museum:
Sunday, December 19, 1:00 p.m.
Michael Accault First Person Interpretation. Dan Hechenberger (Nipundiken).
Funded by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.
http://www.mitchellmuseum.org/


6) calls for papers
Call for Proposals UIC Women's Leadership Symposium
Office of Women's Affairs and WLS Planning Committee announce:
WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM 2005 CALL FOR PRESENTERS
DEADLINE: Thursday, December 16, 2004
The Eleventh Annual Women's Leadership Symposium will take place Thursday, June
9, 2005 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Illinois Room, Chicago Circle Center
Our mission is to make leadership development more accessible to women on campus
and to address the unique issues faced by minority women. We are looking for
presentations that address a holistic and broad view of leadership development,
which includes career and workplace issues, work/life balance, financial,
spiritual and physical well-being, self exploration, and empowerment.
Past presentations have included Decision Making, Conflict Resolution, Faculty
Women Moving into Administration, Strategic Planning, Financial Planning,
Networking, Latinas Mentoring Latinas, Spiritual Life at Work, Cultivating
Diversity in the Work Force and Women's Health.
Workshops vary in length from one-and-a-half to two hours. The two-hour
workshops allow for interactive exercises, discussion and/or hands-on activities.
If you are interested in being a presenter, please submit a one-page proposal
that includes
1. The names and affiliations of the presenters 2. Title of the workshop 3.
Description of the workshop; 4. Description of interactive, hands-on, or
discussion activities 5. List the intended learning objectives or goals for the
participants 6. Description of handouts that will be utilized
Please also provide a brief description of your experience training or
conducting workshops.
Indicate your 1st and 2nd preference for workshop length and time of day:
2 Hour _______10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. _______1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
1.5 Hour _______3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(Although every attempt will be made to provide you with your first preference,
we ask for your flexibility as we are attempting to fill a day-long schedule of
workshops).
The submission deadline is Thursday, December 16th. Proposals can be submitted
via e-mail astegi1@uic.edu; fax413-8393; or campus mail to the Office of Women's
Affairs (M/C 363).
PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
This announcement was posted by astegi1@uic.edu on 12/08/2004


The Nicholson Center for British Studies is pleased to announce:  CALL FOR PAPERS
The Irish World: Internationalism and Irish Studies
Conference date: March 5, 2005
Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2005
Papers due: Friday, February 18, 2005.
Submit to: Jenny Ludwig at janne@uchicago.edu or Emily Brunner at
esbrunne@uchicago.edu.  Call 834-3403 with questions, or visit
http://british.uchicago.edu.

7)  MORE ON THE NET
(both topics suggested by IUB Grad students)

King Tut returns, with reservations:
Do you remember the first time around? Tutankhamun and his hoard came to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978 and forever changed the way museums did
business, not necessarily for the better.  Story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/opinion/07tue2.html?ex=1103086800&en=a5fe6093397435f6&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

Oldest beer in the world:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996759

8)  JOBS:

Chicago full time

 Education
Assistant to the Head, Department of Anthropology
In consultation with the Head, plan & supervise the fiscal mgm't of the dep't
budget & faculty grants; conceive, develop & implement the policies of unit
which effect long term planning in the areas of academic/research, operations,
student affairs, dvlpm't & alumni relations, and HR. Initiate & oversee the
dvlpm't of integrated programs w/subunits of the dep't with objectives such as
academic programs dvlpm't, staffing, space allocation, student
recruitment/retention in grad & undergrad programs, placement, faculty
affairs/research, alumni relations, fundraising & coordination of activities
w/OAR, LAS, OBA, Field Museum, etc. Develop reports as directed by the Head &
other internal/external entities. Responsible for staff mgm't including needs
assessment, hiring & staff dvlpm't. This is a continuous, F/T, 12-month
position.  MA pref'd or Bachelor's degree w/3 yrs exp. in a mgm't position,
preferably in an academic setting. Demonstrable skills in several of the
following areas: financial planning, HR, grants
preparation, computer skills, & program dvlpm't.  For fullest consideration,
submit CV and/or resume by Monday, Jan. 3, 2005 to: John Monaghan Department of
Anthropology MC027 2102 Behavioral Sciences Building Chicago, Illinois 60607
Phone: 312-413-3570 Fax: 312-413-3573
Email: monaghan@uic.edu
 The University of Illinois is an AA/EOE
Web CB184300

Chicago part time

Adjuncts needed at
Moraine Valley CC, sociology & anthropology
Oakton CC, sociology
Triton C, anatomy

Other

Here is an unusual postdoc in the history of collecting which could be a great
opportunity
for an anthropologist.
*Subject:* CalTech post-doc in history and theory of collecting Dear Colleagues,
CalTech has a post-doc in the history and theory of collecting for one year,
possibly renewable for a second.  I've not been involved in the advertising but
few seem to know about it, which is why I'm emailing you to urge that you get
suitable candidates to apply.  The post involves some undergraduate teaching at
calTech and most involve a research proposal to work on a project connected to
the holdings at the Huntington.  its a very good short-term position and we
would like to get some good candidates.  They can get in touch with me or with
my secretary at calTech, Sabrina Boscetti - sabrina@hss.caltech.edu
<mailto:sabrina@hss.caltech.edu>,
thanks,
John
sent out by Prof. Richard Wilk  Gender Studies and Anthropology ---- Indiana
University


The teaching needs at Northern Kentucky University Anthropology
(http://www.nku.edu/~anthro) vary from year to year and sometimes from semester
to semester.  If you have at least a Master's degree in anthropology and would
like to be considered for a part-time or full-time teaching position at some
point in the future, please send your vita (complete with the phone numbers and
addresses of at least three references) to Dr. Sharlotte Neely at either
neelys@nku.edu or:
Dr. Sharlotte Neely
Anthropology Coordinator, 230 Landrum
Soc/Ant/Phi Department
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099.