IUN ANTHROPOLOGY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Caution: dates
in
the calendar are closer than they appear!
WINTER/SPRING 2008:
Cheer up,
Charles, we're
going to celebrate your birthday
The IUN
Anthropology Club
presents:
THE TENTH
ANNUAL IUN
DARWIN DAY
A part of an International Celebration of Science and
Humanities
in honor of Charles Darwin's 199th birthday
This
year's theme is "Evolution, Ecology, and Variation"
Featuring
talks by
Michael LaPointe,
Biology
"Genetics changes in health and disease - interactions
with our environment"
Karl Nelson, Psychology
"The
influences of evolution in relation to mate
selection and jealousy"
Peter Avis, Biology
"How mutations saved my fungus-loving life."
Jacqueline Lipski, Anthropology/English Student
"Anthropology in the field: Belize"
Wednesday February
13,
2008
12 noon to
2:30 pm
IUN Library Conference
Center 105C
134 west 35th
Ave, Gary
IN
Free admission, open to the
public,
refreshments served
MORE INFO AND ABSTRACTS AT OUR
DARWIN DAY WEBSITE
http://www.iun.edu/%7Eanthronw/cal/2008/02-13-08.htm
Wanamaker Collection
IU Northwest Galleries hosts a Native
American photography exhibit from Feb 13 thru March 11.
The exhibit
contains select images from the Mathers Museum Wanamaker Collection,
and is organized by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at IU
Bloomington. This exhibit represents some of the photographic themes of
Joseph K. Dixon, who spent 15 years visually chronicling the Native
peoples of the American West during the early decades of the last
century. Dixon, who was funded in his many expeditions by John and
Rodman Wanamaker of Wanamaker Department Stores, initially viewed
Native American tribes as a “vanishing culture,” and his efforts to
preserve images of their way of life on film resulted in a vast
collection of photos depicting more than 150 tribes.
Dixon came not only to respect America’s Native people but also to
understand that their culture, though certainly changing, was not
really disappearing. He became an impassioned advocate for American
Indians, spearheading a push in 1913 to establish a National American
Indiana Memorial and, two years later, lobbying for American
citizenship for the nation’s original inhabitants. After World War I,
Dixon publicized Native Americans’ service and sacrifice on the
battlefields of Europe.
The photos selected for the traveling exhibit “Images of Native
Americans” were taken from more than 8,000 images contained in the
Wanamaker Collection. The chosen photos represent some of the
collection’s strengths and also showcase four of Dixon’s favorite
photographic subjects: portraits of individual Native Americans; scenes
of daily life; subjects of historic interest; and images of children.
Gallery Northwest at Tamarack Hall is located right next to Theatre
Northwest. Gallery hours are Monday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.;
Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Weekend viewings are available only by appointment.
In addition to organizing the traveling exhibit, the Mathers Museum of
World Culture is hosting a larger exhibit of Wanamaker Collection
photographs in Bloomington through June 8, 2008. The Mathers Museum is
located at 416 N. Indiana Ave in Bloomington. Its exhibit hall and
museum store are open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
and Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.
“Images of Native Americans” is being brought to IU Northwest through
the Moveable Feast of the Arts at IU Bloomington. Created through a
generous gift from the Lilly Endowment Inc., this program’s mission is
to showcase and extend IU’s cultural resources to Hoosier communities
and IU campuses across Indiana. As an institution that is devoted
to
excellence in arts and culture, IU Northwest is pleased and honored to
present these important artistic collections to the Northwest Indiana
community.
For more information on “Images of Native Americans,” contact
Anthropology Lecturer Michelle Stokely, Ph.D., at (219) 981-5601; this
collection is coming to IUN because of Dr Stokely’s efforts. She and
the Anthropology Club will be hosting a reception for the show on
Wednesday Feb 20 from noon to 2 pm; if you come by during the
reception, there will be additional information about the photographs
as well as refreshments. Sample images and more information at:
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/5684.html
The
One Dollar Used Book Sale is Back
Monday March 17 thru Friday March 21, 2008
IUN Moraine Center
9:30 am to 7:30 pm (until 1 pm
on Friday)
open at 9 am exactly onMonday
There will be about ten
thousand recently donated books
on almost every topic imaginable: fiction (classic to pulp), history,
social and
natural sciences, humanities, nursing, education, etc. We'll have
many not too old textbooks (and some real old ones) to help with
classes,
and books on various subjects that might help or inspire that term
paper
you've been putting off starting on. Stock up on holiday reading
now!
We will even have quite a few anthropology books. And ALL books
are one
dollar! And there are quantity discounts! We will continue
to put out more books all week long. So come early, browse
often.
All books 50 cents on Friday.
IUN Anthropology Club meets at different
times in different weeks; email rsnedeco@iun.edu
for more info and to get on their mailing list.
EVENTS YOU MISSED ALREADY:
FALL
2007
EVENTS:
Special
Guest Speaker - note room change
"The Scope of Contemporary Medical Anthropology in The Gambia"
A presentation by Theo Randall, PhD, MPH,
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Indiana University-South Bend
7 pm Wednesday November 28, 2007, in Library Conference Center 105A
Dr Randall is a medical anthropologist who earned his PhD in 2006
from the University of Kentucky and a MPH in public health from the
University of Illinois.
His research and interests are in the areas of health service delivery
concerning tropical infectious disease and reproductive health in
Ethiopia and The Gambia. He has also researched teenage pregnancy and
substance abuse among African-Americans.
Free and open to the public; pizza and soda served.
IUN
Anthropology/Sociology/Geology student James Wesolowski will give a one
hour informal presentation about his summer fieldwork in Ecuador at 7
pm Thursday November 15 in Savannah room 207. He will speak about
his geology/archaeology research project, and also about the
fieldschool experience, as well as the people and cultures he
encountered and the visits he made to the highlands, the Inca ruins,
and other places. He has dozens of slides to project.
Free and open to the public; pizza and soda served.
IUN
Anthropology student Beckie Andis will give an informal presentation
with pictures of her summer fieldwork doing bioarchaeology in
Peru.
Thursday
October 11, 2007: Savannah 207 @ 7 pm
Moraine is mostly reopened after being closed for a
month due to storm damage, so the booksale is ON!
The
One Dollar Used
Book Sale is Back
Monday October 22
thru Friday October 26, 2007
IUN Moraine Center
9:30 am to 7:30 pm (until 1 pm
on Friday)
There will be about ten
thousand recently donated books
on almost every topic imaginable: fiction (classic to pulp), history,
social and
natural sciences, humanities, nursing, education, etc. We'll have
many not too old textbooks (and some real old ones) to help with
classes,
and books on various subjects that might help or inspire that term
paper
you've been putting off starting on. Stock up on holiday reading
now!
We will even have quite a few anthropology books. And ALL books
are one
dollar! And there are quantity discounts! We will continue
to put out more books all week long. So come early, browse
often.
All books 50 cents on Friday.
Sponsored
by the IUN student Anthropology Club and open to everyone; majority of
funds raised will be used for the Anthropology Club scholarship,
for academic achievement awards, for stipends to send IUN students to
summer field schools,
for student field trips, and to bring speakers to campus. If
you
wish to donate books for the sale,
please bring them to the sale itself, or if you have a large quantity,
stop by the sale and we can pick them up from your car or
office. All year long there are two drop boxes for books, one in
the Moraine Lobby near the vending area, and one in Savannah near the
bookstore.
Contact
Bob Mucci @ 219-980-6607
CLICK HERE FOR PREVIOUS EVENTS (2006-2007
school year and earlier)
last updated 15
October 2007
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Comments: Department
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