IUN ANTHROPOLOGY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Caution: dates
in
the calendar are closer than they appear!
SPRING 2009:
IU
Northwest Anthropology Club event
Have
you ever wanted to travel and study other cultures?
Four IUN anthropology students did last
summer; come and hear their stories and see the photos they took.
Event
Date: Friday April 10, 2009
Where:
Robin R. Hass Birky
Memorial Women’s Center
Savannah Center Room 207 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Experience
exciting places without the big bucks!
Four Anthropology Students will give informal talks regarding their
fieldwork
experiences in: Jamaica, Malta, Illinois and Pine Ridge Reservation.
Join us for an evening of some great discussion, great photos and pizza!
Bring
a friend or two and join us.
Learn
about the New B.A. in Anthropology Degree!
EVENTS YOU MISSED ALREADY:
The big one dollar used book sale
was held the week of March 23-27, 2009
IUN
Anthropology Club meets every Tuesday in Marram 323
Go to http://www.iun.edu/~anthronc/events.shtml
to see their other events
Send an email to Club
President Jamie Wesolowski for more information: jwesolow@iun.edu
The IUN
Anthropology Club presented:
THE 11th ANNUAL IUN DARWIN DAY
A part of an International
Celebration of Science and Humanities
in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th
birthday
and the 150th anniversary of the
publication of On the Origin of Species
12 noon to 2:30 pm Wednesday February 11, 2009
IUN Library
Conference Center 105ABC
Featuring talks
by
Karl Nelson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology
“Darwin’s Impact on Theories of Personality”
and
Jack Bloom, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology
“Darwin, Slavery,
and Social Darwinism”
and featuring a play about Darwin and his wife Emma,
written by Unitarian minister
Rev Roger Brewin, who appears in the play as Charles Darwin
Abstracts and Schedule:
12:00
Karl Nelson's talk: “Darwin’s Impact on Theories of
Personality”
Sigmund Freud
developed his concepts of personality in the general evolutionary
viewpoint that influenced social scientists in the last half of the
19th Century. Freud did not credit Darwin directly, but Dr Nelson
points out that many of Freud’s evolutionary thoughts about personality
are based on specific ideas of Darwin. Some modern
conceptualizations about personality are also rooted in evolutionary
thinking; Dr Nelson discusses how personality may have developed in
response to the natural and social environments faced by early humans.
12:30
Cutting of Charles' birthday cake, with coffee, soda, bottled water
12:45
Theater performance
In the play
Charles and Emma walk about their property discussing his ideas and
their consequences; it takes place on the famous sand walk that Charles
used daily for a meditative stroll.
1:30 Jack
Bloom's talk: “Darwin, Slavery, and Social
Darwinism”
In a new book,
Darwin’s Sacred Cause, authors Adrian Desmond and James Moore contend
that Darwin came to perceive evolution, and natural selection as its
engine, in part because of his antipathy to slavery. William
Jennings Bryan (of the Scopes trial), one of America’s most prominent
politicians in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, is today most
famous for his support of working people and for his bitter opposition
to Darwinism. How did the social disputes of their times turn
both of these men into supporters of the oppressed and opponents of
Herbert Spencer’s idea of Social Darwinism, yet at the same time give
them opposite views about biological evolution?
Biographical
profiles:
Karl Nelson
PhD Dr. Nelson started in the
Fall of 2003. He brings to IU Northwest expertise in applied
statistics and chaos theory. He is currently faculty advisor to
the Psychology Club. Areas of research currently include student
interactions in the classroom, psychological tests and measurements
(how do we know what we think we know in psychology?), and
addictions-related topics.
Education: PhD, Psychology,
University of Hawaii, 2003
Areas of
Expertise: Psychology Clinical
Psychology Tests and Measurements
Rev. Dr. Roger Brewin is a Unitarian Universalist minister. He
has served at First Unitarian Church of Hobart, IN for the past ten
years, and has appeared during that time as an historic reenactor
throughout the country, portraying Clarence Darrow, Charles Dickens and
Charles Darwin in over 200 performances. Brewin is also editor of
the semi-annual Journal of Religious Humanism, and Publications
Director of the Society for Community Ministry (UU). At a
previous IUN Darwin Day he portrayed Clarence Darrow, the legendary
attorney who represented Scopes after he was brought up on charges in
the mid-1920s for teaching evolution.
Jack Bloom, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Associate
Professor of Minority Studies and History
Dr Bloom served
an academic year appointment (1990-91) as associate director of the
American Studies Center and IU exchange professor at Warsaw University,
where he had previously served as acting assistant professor.
Author of an award-winning book on the U.S. civil rights movement,
Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement. Has spoken at national
meetings on such topics as "Poland: From Protest to Politics," "The
Emergence of the Polish Opposition" and "Dissent in Poland."
Education:
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1980
Areas of
Expertise: Sociology, Social Movements, Social Problems
FALL 2008:
The
One Dollar Used Book Sale is Back
We had to cancel the October sale due to floods,
but we have permission for a November sale.
None of our books were damaged, they're clean & dry.
Monday November 10
thru Friday November 15, 2008
IUN Moraine Center
9:30 am to 7:30 pm (until 1 pm
on Friday)
open at 9 am exactly on Monday
Details on the sale at: http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/cal/2008/11-10-08.htm
Anthropology Club meets every Monday at 3:30 pm in Savannah 207.
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