IUN Anthro News, March 7, 2004

1) at IUN, including registration stuff
2) in Chicago: health care conference; Latino film
3) elsewhere happenings: grant writing, ethnology & crises
4) interesting stuff on the web
5) grants for faculty
6) summer field schools, one is nearby
7) several jobs, one near Chicago


1)  Next meeting of the IUN Anthropology Club will be Wed
March 10 at 4 pm in Savannah 207.

The spring break field trip to the Indian Mounds Museums in
Southern Illinois will leave at 8:45 am on Thursday March 18
and return on Friday evening.  Unfortunately there are no
seats left on the bus, but people can join us if they are
willing to drive their own vehicles; email Dr Mucci for info.

The semi-annual dollar used book sale will be held the week
of March 29 thru April 2 at IUN.  We will need extra help
this year, as easy access to the books in storage has been
blocked by the construction of the new Career Center
Facility in Moraine.  This means we may have to hand carry
the books out through the loading dock and cart them around
the building, essentially tripling the work it takes to get
a box to the tables.  So we will need more people to come on
Sunday March 28 beginning at noon, and during the week as
well.  But the good news is that the club is giving T shirts
with the booksale logo to everyone who works four hours or
more at the sale.

IUN Monday Movie: March 8         Strawberry and Chocolate
(Cuba, 1993) Dir., Thomás Guitérrez Alea; w. Jorge
Perugorría & Vladimir Cruz.  A cultivated, skeptical gay man
falls in love with a doctrinaire communist in Castros' Cuba.
FREE and OPEN to all. The screenings will be at 1:00 in HH
332 and at 7:00 in HH 400.

IUN and other school Anthropology Club members may want to
check out the National Association of Student
Anthropologists web site for ideas:
http://www.aaanet.org/nasa/anthroclubguide.htm
some announcements from their newsletters are below under
field schools and jobs.

Message from IUN: March 10
It is IMPORTANT to note that to be considered for Indiana
State Grant and/or Indiana State Scholarship awards for the
2004-05 school year, the Free Application for Federal
Student Aid (FAFSA) must be RECEIVED by the federal
processor no later than Wednesday, March 10, 2004, to be
considered an on-time application.  The date a student mails
the FAFSA is irrelevant.  All that matters is when the FAFSA
is received by the processor.  If you are late in applying,
you will not be eligible for the 2004-05 school year.
PLEASE DO NOT BE LATE in applying and possibly lose a
valuable Indiana State Grant and/or Indiana State
Scholarship for the 2004-05 school year.

IUN Registration info: The summer 2004 session is the last
to be listed on Insite and registered for in the old format;
the Fall is a new system and students must have an IUN email
account to register.  Summer classes are at:
http://phoenix.indiana.edu/%7Ewww2regi/pub/cgi/startpub.cgi
 and fall are at: http://www.iun.edu/~regisnw/schedule/
Watch the Registrar’s web site for news about summer and
fall registration.

IUN anthro students needing advising should contact Dr Mucci
by email, rmucci@iun.edu ; please note that the required
course for the sociology/anthropology BA, “S250", has been
changed to the new number S261.


IN CHICAGO
Harvard Forums On Health To Hold Chicago Forum On Health
Care Access and the Uninsured
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Gleacher Center, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Downtown
Chicago
The number of Americans without health insurance stands at
43 million and rising, yet national policymakers can't seem
to agree on a solution to expand coverage to more people.
What will it take to provide affordable health insurance to
the tens of millions of people who now lack protection?
Where does public opinion stand on financing?  What are
policymakers doing to break down access barriers? How will
the uninsured issue play in the 2004 presidential elections?
These and other questions will be examined at a half-day
forum, moderated by journalist and Harvard University
professor David Gergen,on a range of issues related to
expanded coverage. Leaders from California, Illinois, and
Maine will discuss state strategies for covering more uninsured.
Speakers:
Dr. Eric Whitaker, Illinois Department of Public Health; Dr.
Arthur Kellerman, Institute of Medicine's Committee on the
Consequences of the Uninsured;  Celinda Lake, of the polling
firm Lake Snell Perry & Associates;  Robert Blendon, Harvard
School of Public Health;  Sara Collins,  The Commonwealth
Fund; Beth Kilbreth, state of Maine; Tom Jerkowitz, state of
Illinois; Dr. Carolyn Lopez,  John H.
Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County; Alan Weil, Urban
Institute; Ray Werntz, HPN Worldwide; Laurie Rubiner, New
America Foundation; Barry Bloom, Harvard School of Public
Health; Dr. David Blumenthal, Harvard Forums on Health.
The event is free and open to the public.  To reserve a seat
or for more information, please contact Laura Somel at
lsomel@burnesscommunications.com or call 301/652-1558,
ext. 121

AT UIC, Chicago:
March Feature Documentary:  Movie: Haters
Location: Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2
Date: Thursday, March 18  Time: noon-2:00 p.m.
Description: This important new 30-minute documentary film
by Tania Cuevas-Martinez and Lubna Khalid focuses on the
current issues of racial profiling and hate crimes on the
rise in the United States since September 11. Haters
journeys through key historical periods and contains
personal accounts from victims as well as interviews with
prominent activists and theorists. Featuring spoken word by
Suheir Hammad (currently performing in Def Poetry Jam, the
hot new cutting-edge presentation of performance poetry on
Broadway.)    Invited Speaker: Tania Cuevas, Director
 http://www.uic.edu/depts/lcc/

In South Bend
The University of Notre Dame will be hosting a Regional
Grant Writing Seminar for College and University Teachers
and Administrators by the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) on Thursday, April 1st from 9:00 a.m.-12:00
p.m. in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies.  This
valuable, free workshop will include an overview of NEH
programs, a mock review and evaluation of sample proposals,
question and answer period, and the opportunity to meet
one-on-one with Dr. Douglas Arnold,
Senior Program Officer in the NEH Division of Education
Programs.  For more information, and to register, visit
http://www.nd.edu/~research/New.html#NEHseminar

Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Atlanta, Georgia  --  April 22-25, 2004
Conference theme: CRISES
Crisis a: the turning point for better or worse; b: an
unstable or crucial time or state of affairs whose outcome
will make a decisive difference for better or worse; c: the
period when forced liquidation occurs.
In the U.S. and elsewhere, people are currently expressing a
heightened sense of crisis. The anxiety is sometimes
reflected in the view that irrational external forces have
turned against ordered political, economic, cultural and
moral landscapes. What are the multiple readings
of crisis and its outcomes in the many settings, societies,
and historical periods studied by anthropologists and other
scholars? How is crisis represented in the various genres
and media of discourse? What does an ethnological framework
offer in the way of conceptualizations,
definitions, descriptions and analyses of crisis and its
experiences, expressions and manifestations?
    The American Ethnological Society, founded in 1842, is the
oldest professional organization for anthropologists in the
United States. With a membership of nearly 4,000, it remains
the leading forum in the Western Hemisphere for advancing
the knowledge base of anthropology and
promoting innovation through critical discussions of
theories, methods, and research practices.
http://www.music.columbia.edu/~cecenter/AES/

4 )  Other Interesting web sites:
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative:
http://www.ecai.org/Activities/Congress2004/congress_home.html
Society for Anthropological Sciences:
http://www.anthrosciences.org/

Students are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration
in a new edition of the interdisciplinary book "Landscapes
of the Heart."  Individuals already involved include E.O.
Wilson (Biology, Harvard), Noam Chomsky (MIT), and Maurice
Strong (2003 Recipient of USA National Academy of Sciences's
highest award; Senior Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan). Do not be deterred by these big names: the two best
chapters in the first edition were by students. Indeed, your
fresh perspective is very much
needed in this project.
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/call_for_papers
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/scholarship
Background information can be found at the project's website
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage

5)  An opportunity that may interest faculty:
"The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
provides grants of up to $10,580 (a symbolic amount
representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis") to men
and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide
spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a
balance between the advance of technology and the
preservation of the natural/human environment."
"The value of the Lindbergh Grants program as a provider of
seed money and credibility for pilot projects that
subsequently receive larger sums from other sources to
continue and expand the work has again been confirmed.
Seventy-four percent of Lindbergh Grant recipients
responding to a recent survey by the Foundation said they
had received additional funding for their research or
educational project earlier supported by a Lindbergh Grant,
with 34% receiving funds ranging from $50,001 up to $500,000
in supplementary support."
The application deadline is June 10, 2004.
For more information and downloadable forms, go to:
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/grants/index.html


6)  FIELD SCHOOLS:

Two sites in N Indiana will be excavated by the Notre Dame
archaeological field school; this is a non-residential field
school that drives to the site each day from South Bend.
For info go to:  http://www.nd.edu/~mschurr/

The Department of Anthropology at the University of North
Dakota invites students to attend its Archaeological Field
School in June and July, 2004.   The course is being offered
in cooperation with the North Dakota  Army National Guard.
Current plans are for the field school to be conducted at
archeological sites located within two National Guard
 training areas in eastern North Dakota.  For more
information please see the online field school announcement
at:
http://www.und.edu/dept/undar/projects/campgrafton/2004-fieldschool.html

FIELD SCHOOL IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ST GEORGE,  BERMUDA        10-31 July 2004

The Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol is
delighted to    announce the second season of the accredited
field school in historical archaeology in Bermuda.
Based at St George, Bermuda, the field school introduces the
principles and practice of stratigraphic excavation and
urban archaeology. In the first season, a complex sequence
of activity, from the first half of the 17th century to the
20th century, was identified. Fees are £1050 including all
food, accommodation, transport and tuition. Students are
responsible for their own flight to Bermuda. The project is
directed by Paul Belford, Mark Horton and Dan Hicks
(University of Bristol). The field school carries 10 credit
points (usually accepted as equivalent to 1 undergraduate
credit point in North America - although overseas students
taking the course for credit should check with their own
school)  Full details and application forms are online at
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Archaeology/fieldschools/fieldschool/
    Enquiries should be sent to Julie Shackleford
(Secretary): Julie.Shackleford@bris.ac.uk or Dan Hicks
Dan.Hicks@bris.ac.uk

INTERNSHIP
Archaeology Education Internship/Volunteer - WI
Camp Whitcomb/Mason is nonprofit organization who works with
the public and educates them about archaeology,
environmental and outdoor education and team building
skills. Assist in education programs, which interpret
archaeological and historical information to school children
grades 4-8.  This indoor/outdoor interactive program
educates students about past life styles and allows them to
excavate with a simulated dig. The archaeology intern
position that is available is about 25 hours per week with
days of the week varying.  Potential for more hours may be
possible. Internships are available from April - early June
and September - early December (work 1 or both seasons).
Summer opportunities through our summer camp program also
available.
Salary: Stipend  - Lodging may be available.
Location: Camp Whitcomb/Mason - Hartland, WI
To Apply: For further information or to schedule an
interview, email:  scotta@boysgirlsclubs.org or call
262-538-1190 ask for Scott.  Resumes maybe sent to the
attention of the Scott at Camp Whitcomb/Mason, W294  N8436
Camp Whitcomb Rd, Hartland, WI 53029.


7)  JOBS:

Full time tenure track job for cultural or four-field
anthropologist at College of DuPage, just west of Chicago:
https://www.cod.edu/job_desc/FacultyJobDesc.asp?PositionNo=11196

Hoggard Films, a Washington, DC area production company is
presently engaged in a nationwide talent search for a new
Discovery Channel series on urban exploration.
We are looking for a dynamic, adventurous, charismatic
anthropologist who we can cast as part of an an urban
exploration "A-Team."  He or she will be part of a team of
experts and athletes that explores abandoned buildings,
tunnels, bridges, towers -- going to the places where most
people never go, or even know that they exist -- tunnels
under Chicago, top of the Brooklyn Bridge, maybe even going
internationally to explore the Paris catacombs
(second season). This will be a 13-part series to begin
airing in early 2005. The anthropologist will bring their
expertise to bear in several ways including planning the
missions and analyzing the clues to past usage found in the
structures we explore.   The individual we're looking for
should have what it takes to become a national tv
personality.  There is no particular requirement in terms of
advanced degrees, but we'd like our person to really know
their stuff, in addition to having a terrific tv presence.
For more information on the series, the casting process and
what we're looking for, please visit
http://www.wildernessdoc.com/forbiddenzone

  The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory
invites applications for its Federal Collections Curator
position. The collections curator manages agreements with
Federal agencies, performs physical inventories and some
artifact cataloging, assesses and provides preventative
conservation for artifacts, monitors collections in storage,
maintains collections records, and prepares reports for
Federal agencies.        Advanced degree in anthropology or
archaeology with additional experience in museum studies or
collection management is required; applicant may substitute
archaeology and collections experience for the
required education at the rate of three years experience for
one year of the required education for a maximum of 2 years.
  The position is anticipated to start on or about April
24, 2004.  Forty =hour work week; salary $15.64/hr; no
benefits.  Send letter and resume to Personnel Office, Attn:
Federal Curator, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, 10515
Mackall Road, St. Leonard, Maryland 20685. Closing Date:
March 10, 2004. EOE.

 The Cultural Resource Division of The Louis Berger Group,
Inc. (Berger) is seeking applicants for the position of
Assistant Material Specialist in our Archaeological
Laboratory located in our Marion, Iowa office. For
this position, a BA/BS degree in Anthropology/Archaeology is
required, with a background in both historic and prehistoric
studies. Experience in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast,
and/or Northeast regions of the United States is preferred.
The Assistant Material Specialist will be responsible for
processing collections and conducting analysis of artifact
assemblages from archaeological sites throughout the United
States. Candidates must have good organizational and writing
skills and general knowledge of Midwestern and Eastern
historic and prehistoric typologies. Occasional
field assignments may be required.  Competitive salary
negotiable based on experience. This is a full-time
position. Full benefits package includes vacation, sick
leave, holidays, medical/dental/life/disability insurance,
and 401(k) retirement plan. EOE.  Submit letter of interest,
resume, and three references with phone numbers to:
Susan E. Butler
Laboratory Director
The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
950 50th Street
Marion, IA  52302
(319) 373-3043
(319) 373-3045 - fax
sbutler@louisberger.com