Subject: IUN Anthro news: Darwin Day, two field trips, women's events
The IUN Anthropology Club presents:
THE FIFTH ANNUAL IUN DARWIN DAY
Featuring talks by four of IUN's own faculty
Wednesday February 12, 2003
1 to 3 pm IUN Library Conference Center AB
134 west 35th Ave, Gary IN
Free admission, open to the public, refreshments served
Featuring several excellent speakers on evolution and Darwin, cake and
songs, and just plain fun. The featured speakers will each talk for 20
- 30 minutes, with a few minutes for questions between talks. So come
whenever you can, and stay as long as you want.
Schedule:
1:00 "Galton, Darwin, Thought, Intelligence: Some Influences of
Darwin on the Study of Cognition"
Mark Hoyert, Associate Professor and Chair, Psychology
In this talk, Dr. Hoyert will consider some aspects of the immeasurable
influence that Darwin and evolution have had on our efforts to
understand human thought and intelligence. Darwinian influences in
psychology have mirrored those in other fields in general. Some of the
influences have led to successful insights while some have led to
questionable applications.
1:30 "Death-Bed Confessions of a Flat Earther"
Christine Malcom, Adjunct Instructor in Anthropology
This talk is about the myths that have been constructed to fuel the feud
between religion and science.
Christine Malcom is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of
Chicago; her fieldwork in bioarchaeology focuses on population genetics
and biocultural models of the pre-contact Chiribaya culture of southern
Peru.
2:00 "Rifting and Drifting: Understanding Our Ever-Evolving Earth"
Kristin Huysken, Assistant Professor of Geosciences
The Earth has changed dramatically since its formation and continues to
change through time. So, too has our scientific understanding of the
processes that cause these changes. This talk will focus on how ideas
about continental drift and plate tectonics evolved through the 20th
Century with the discovery of new scientific evidence.
Kristin Huysken teaches introductory courses in Earth Science, geologic
hazards, and geology of Indiana, and upper level courses in 'hard rock'
geology. She conducts research on volcanic rocks in Ontario, Canada,
and southwestern Nevada, and on historical earthquakes in northwest
Indiana and northeastern Illinois.
2:30 "Human Trophy Heads: Evidence of Warfare or Ancestor
Veneration in pre-contact Peru"
Kathleen Forgey, Adjunct Instructor in Anthropology
The focus of her talk is to examine the role of prehistoric human trophy
heads from the Nasca Valley, Peru, by exploring their origin: are they
the ancestors of the people they are found with, or are they trophies
drawn from a different population? She has addressed this problem by
comparing the trophy skulls to the indigenous people using two
methodological perspectives: examining the skeletal record of mummified
burials, and extracting and analyzing ancient DNA.
Kathy Forgey is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of
Illinois at Chicago; this talk is about her dissertation research in
bioarchaeology.
Oh, and we will be selling the Darwin fish emblems and Anthro Club and
Darwin T-shirts. Pictures and a link to hear the Amphioxus song at our
website at http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/cal/2003/2-12-03.htm
Learn about Darwin Day around the world: http://www.darwinday.org/
Field trip #1 : we have the IUN bus and are going to Brookfield Zoo on
Sunday April 16; leave IUN Savannah Center at 9 am; email Bob Mucci for
reservation and details (reply to newsletter).
#2: Club is planning a field trip to the Eiteljorg Museum of American
Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis to see the exhibit about the
Indians of Indiana; date is now set for Saturday March 1. Email John
Low (jlow1999@aol.com) to sign up and get details; seats in carpools and
the IUN mini-bus. Museum info at: http://www.eiteljorg.org/index2.html
Films about Indians Series - Everyn Wednesday at 1pm in HH 331
February 12 - Music from a Painted Cave ( 2001) - Robert Mirabel -
February 19 - The Enduring Ways of the Lac du Flambeau People -
directed by Lorraine Norrgard
Next Anthropology CLub meeting: Friday March 7, 4 pm Savannah 207; it
will feature a showing of the rare Rick Reynolds video "Only the Truth
is Funny" that Dr Mucci uses in the Language and Culture class - it is
very funny, and brigs up all sorts of questions about culture, society,
symbolic interaction, and religion.
Thirty people came to the talk by archeologist Marisa Fontana last Friday.
Remember John Wagner who portrayed Darwin at our event last year? you
can see him at Darwin Day at UIC:
Secular Humanist Society of Chicago
Contact: Adam Walker 312-226-0420
Event: A Visit From Charles Darwin!
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2003, 10 a.m. to noon
Location: Room 613, the Circle Campus Center (CCC) (student union),
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), 750 S. Halsted Ave., Chicago, IL
Activities: A biology professor, John Wagner, takes on the persona and
garb of Charles Darwin. His lecture and discussion will center on
Darwin's theory on the origin of species and on Darwin's life as a
scientist. More info on event at http://www.chisechum.org/
The Vagina Monologues return to IUN on Thurs/Fri February 20/21; email
tanice Foltz for more info: tfoltz@iun.edu
If you liked hearing about Mississippian Indian society and culture on
Friday, you may want to attend this (inexpensive) conference:
March 14-15 -A Conference on Mississippian Societies-
Borne on a litter with much prestige: Leadership and Polity in
Mississippian Society
Organized by Brian Butler and Paul Welch
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
The 2003 Visiting Scholar Conference in March will focus on the nature
of social, political, and religious leadership in what are loosely
termed Mississippian societies in eastern North America. Archaeologists
have long recognized great variation in the scale and character of these
"chiefly" societies but have often glossed them with straight-line
comparisons drawn from ethnographic and ethnohistoric sources. The
conference papers will engage a substantive archaeological record to
explore the range of social organizational, political, and religious
forms that characterized these societies over their 500- to 600- year
existence.
The conference program will include over 20 contributions from both
senior and junior scholars covering the geographic and organizational
range of Mississippian societies.
-Titles-
Emerson, Thomas E., and Phillip Millhouse Myths and Realities
in the
Interpretation of Mississippian Settlement Hierarchies
Welch, Paul D. Interpreting Anomalous Rural Mississippian
Settlements:
Leadership from Below
Payne, Claudine The Foundations of Leadership in
Mississippian
Chiefdoms: Perspectives from Lake Jackson and Nodena
King, Adam Leadership Strategies and the Nature of
Mississippian
Chiefdoms in Northern Georgia
Gougeon, Ramie Different but the Same: Social Integration
of
Households In Mississippian Chiefdoms
Brown, James A. Where's the Power in Mound Building? - An
Eastern
Woodland Perspective
Beck, Robin A., Jr. If You Build It, They Will Come: Persuasive
Politics and Domination at Moundville and Cahokia
Johnson, Jay Cyclic Changes in the Structural Organization of
Mississippian Mound Sites in the Yazoo Basin
Cobb, Charles Migration and Ethnoscapes in the Lower Ohio
Valley
Wesler, Kit Platforms as Chiefs: Comparing Mound
Sequences in Western
Kentucky
Gronenborn, Detlef Ancestors or Chiefs: Construing Trajectories
towards
Political Complexity in Eastern North America and Temperate Europe
Kelly, John The Ritualization of Cahokia: the Structure
and
Organization of Early Cahokia Crafts
Wilson , Greg, Jon Marcoux, and Brad Koldehoff Pathways to Power
at
Early Moundville and Cahokia
Scarry, John Constructing Authority and Identity in the
Mississippian
Southeast: Perspectives from Etowah, Lake Jackson, and Moundville
Alt, Susan The Power of Diversity: Settlement in the Cahokia
Uplands
Dye, David Chiefs and Warriors: Military Leadership in
Mississippian
Society
Schroeder, Sissel Leadership in a Contested Land
Blitz, John H., Lorenz, Karl Measuring the Scale of
Regional
Integration in Mississippian Societies
Pollack, David Reconstructing Social and Political
Relationships
During the Late Mississippian Caborn-Welborn Phase of the Lower Ohio Valley
Meyers, Maureen Leadership at the Edge of the Mississippian
World
see http://www.siu.edu/~cai/VS.2003.htm
Advance notice: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
Indiana University Northwest Saturday April 5, 2003
Northwest Indiana Environmental Justice Partnership and the Calumet
Project for Industrial Jobs plan to hold a conference on Environmental
Justice and Human Rights in Northwest Indiana in conjunction with the
Department of Minority Studies of Indiana University Northwest, in Gary.
The theme of the 2003 conference will address the links between the
knowledge of environmental justice (and injustice) and the emerging
human rights regime, specifically how these links can be applied to the
context of Northwest Indiana.
Interesting web site of the week: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/
Women's events at the University of Illinois at Chicago:
Visit CCSW on the web at www.uic.edu/depts/ccsw/.
FEBRUARY/MARCH CALENDAR
Monday, February 10, 6:00 p.m.
The Ladies Room Project
Montgomery Ward Lounge, CCC
FREE
UIC's very own Katie Muldowney presents the full length version or her
very popular piece The Ladies Room Project. The Ladies Room Project is a
piece that was developed by Muldowney last year. In Muldowney's own
words " The women of UIC are speaking out like crazy all over the
bathroom walls." Muldowney went from stall to stall writing and
arranging what she found into a series of exchanges and dialogues. This
piece was first presented during last years Women's Speak Out during the
Women's Heritage Month series of events and was met with rave reviews.
You do not want to miss this FREE event. For more information, please
contact the Office of Women's Affairs at 413-1025.
Tuesday, February 11, 3:00 p.m.
Sex Signals The Illinois Rooms FREE
UIC's very own Gail Stern returns in the show she co-created-Sex Signals
a fresh approach to looking at dating, the good the bad & the ugly, in
todays culture. Sex Signals was recently nominated as Campus Activities
Magazine's 2003 Speakers of the Year. Just a few reviews for Sex
Signals: "SEX SIGNALS is brilliant." --Susan Cushman, Health Educator,
Loyola University, Chicago, IL, "A terrific show that the students are
still talking about." --Ken Carrothers, Assistant Director of Student
Life, Ripon College, Ripon, WI With 90 shows last year alone, everyone
across the country is talking about this show! Do not miss your
opportunity! And its FREE! For more information visit their website:
http://www.catharsisproductions.com/
Thursday, February 13, 2:00--4:00 p.m.
"The Transgender Imaginary: The Problem of 'Gender' an 'Sexuality' in
LGBT Studies"
Institute for the Humanities (Stevenson Hall, Lower Level)
This lecture by David Valentine, Sarah Lawrence College, is sponsored by
the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. For more information,
please contact Jill Gage (996-2455, jlesne1@uic.edu)
Friday, February 14, Doors open @ 6:00 show starts @ 7:00
The Vagina Monologues
Illinois Rooms, Chicago Circle Center
750 S. Halsted
$5.00 UIC affiliated & UIC Alumni -limit 2 per person.
$7.00 general public.
ALL MONEY GOES TOWARDS OUR LOCAL RAPE CRISES CENTER AND DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE SHELTER
Saturday, February 15, Doors open @ 6:00 show starts @ 7:00
The Vagina Monologues
Illinois Rooms, Chicago Circle Center 750 S. Halsted
$5.00 UIC affiliated & UIC Alumni -limit 2 per person. $7.00 general
public. ALL MONEY GOES TOWARDS OUR LOCAL RAPE CRISES CENTER AND
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER
We are PROUD to present the 3rd annual student production of the Vagina
Monologues! This year features a NEW monologue and for the first time
ever a male monologue! So, no excuses this is a new year, a new show and
bigger & better than ever!
Monday, February 17, 3:30--5:30 p.m.
"Re/Sisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Novels"
African American Cultural Center (Addams Hall, 2nd Floor)
This lecture by David Valentine, Sarah Lawrence College, is sponsored by
the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. For more information,
please contact Jill Gage (996-2455, jlesne1@uic.edu)
Friday, March 7, 3:00--5:00 p.m.
Cardinal Room, Chicago Circle Center
Aida Hurtado will provide an overview of Chicana feminisms, and the ways
in which women become feminists, focusing specifically on the role of
Chicana mothers in the creation of feminist daughters.
Tuesday, March 11, 3:0--5:00 p.m.
Room 605, Chicago Circle Center
Terry Wolverton, an award-winning poet, will talk about her own
coming-of-age experience as an artist, lesbian, and feminist activist
within the history of the Los Angeles Woman's Building, a pivotal site
for feminist art, politics, and community building in the 1970's and 80's.
Wednesday, March 26, 2:00--4:00 p.m.
Illinois Room, Chicago Circle Center
Leslie Heywood will discuss the unequal representation of female
athletes in media images and the sexualization of those images, despite
the development of professional leagues and increased visibility of
women athletes.
Wednesday, March 26, and Monday, March 31
There are two exciting events for you to mark your calendar and a
request for how you can contribute to the library exhibit:
The Center for Research on Women and Gender, the UIC Center for
Excellence in Women's Health, the Office of Women's Affairs, and the
Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women join in honoring the
thirtieth anniversary of the groundbreaking women's health book in our
conference on Wednesday, March 26, 2003, on "Our Bodies, Ourselves and
the Future of Women's Health," from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., at the School of
Public Health (1601 W. Taylor St.). Judy Norsigian of the original
Boston Women's Health Book Collective will be the keynote speaker, and
her talk will be followed by a panel of current Chicago area health
activists. We are also gathering materials for a visual exhibit at the
Library of the Health Sciences on the women's health movement in
Chicago. If you have appropriate materials to loan for the exhibit or to
donate for a permanent collection (books, buttons, fliers, posters,
pamphlets. . .), please contact Judith Gardiner at gardiner@uic.edu or
413-1924. We're eager to build up this research resource!
In addition, labor historian Dorothy Sue Cobble will be speaking on the
history of women's work, as part of our series on Stress and Gender, on
Monday, March 31, at 3:00 p.m. in the Institute for the Humanities.
For a complete listing of Women's History Month events visit Office of
Women's Affairs' website at www.uic.edu/depts/owa.
Bob Mucci