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1) AT IUN:
    1A) Talks this Monday, February 12, by: Biologist Spencer Cortwright, Art
Historian Adrienne Kochman, Astronomer Larry Ciupik, and Minister Roger Brewin
     1B)  Anthropology Club activities and meetings
2) In South Bend
    2A) at Notre Dame: Mesa Verde archaeology talk
    2B) at IUSB: Documentary filmmaker Pearl Gluck
3) in West Lafayette and again in Valpo:
    “City of the Grim Reaper: Rediscovery and Demise at Mashkan-shapir, Iraq”
4) in Indy: Sociologist Dr. Kathleen McKinney talks about “Enhancing Learning
through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning”
5)  In Chicago
    5A)  UIC Great Cities Institute: LAWNDALE HEALTH PROMOTION PROJECT
    5B)  Mireya Mayor lectures about her life with the lemurs of Madagascar
    5C)  Jane Goodall will speak at the Mind of the Chimpanzee Conference
6) In Ohio about Ohio archaeology & prehistory
7) summer stuff: fieldschools, etc
    7A) Indiana University Summer Field School in Archaeology
    7B) NSF - funded summer opportunity for undergraduates: cultural anthropology
    7C) DANTA  in Costa Rica offers field schools, including Primate Behavior
    7D) two more fieldschools in Peru: Bioarchachaeology and Archaeoastronomy
8) JOBS:
    8A) anthropology faculty position open at the University of Guam:
    8B) Six month full time archaeology position in Indiana.
9) and for the sociologists: streaming video on the urban poor



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1) AT IUN:
1A) Come to IUN this Monday, February 12, to hear talks by:
    IUN Biologist Spencer Cortwright, who studies the small animals like
salamanders that inhabit the local grasslands and the IUN campus itself.   Those
studies have led him to daydream how nice it would be to share with Darwin new
evidence and new ideas on evolution that have come on board since his death.
    IUN Art Historian Adrienne Kochman, herself the daughter of an anthropologist,
who sees a cyclical relationship of the present and the past in art, an
evolution of art and an evolution within art itself.
    IUN and Adler Planetarium Astronomer Larry Ciupik, who looks at the night sky
today and sees the origin and evolution of the universe.
    Hobart Minister Roger Brewin, who reflects on the Reverence for the Natural
World that he sees in the night sky.
    The IUN Anthropology Club presents:
          THE NINTH ANNUAL IUN DARWIN DAY
      A part of an International Celebration of Science and Humanities
         This year's theme is "Finding the Past in the Present"
Monday February 12, 2007
12 noon to 2:00 pm
IUN Library Conference Center 105AB
134 west 35th Ave, Gary IN
    Free admission, open to the public, refreshments served
IUN Darwin Day features several excellent speakers on science, humanities,
evolution, and Darwin, with cake and songs, and just plain fun.  The featured
speakers will each talk for 15 to 20 minutes, with a few minutes for questions
between talks.  So come whenever you can, and stay as long as you want.
    For complete schedule and more info on the talks, go to:
http://www.iun.edu/%7Eanthronw/cal/2007/02-12-07.htm

1B)  Anthropology Club Pub n Grub  Friday, Feb. 23 from 5:30 until ?  At BW3's
in Merrillville
Tues, March 6, 5:30 pm ANTHRO CLUB ACTIVITY MEETING, Savannah 207
Tues, March 20, 6:00 pm ANTHRO CLUB BUSINESS MEETING, Savannah 207

2) ELSEWHERE
2A) at Notre Dame:
The Department of Anthropology Presents
Donna Glowacki of Arizona State University
“The Social Landscape of Depopulation”
Tuesday, February 20, 2007     11:00 - 12:15
625 Flanner Hall
Within 50 years, the Northern San Juan Region (Mesa Verde) went from the most
densely populated portion of the U.S. Southwest to a completely depopulated
landscape by A.D. 1300. The circumstances prompting this response involved
turbulent social changes and environmental challenges, and the immortal words of
the British punk rock band "The Clash" - should I stay or should I go? - were
likely much on the minds of the ancestral Pueblo people living in the region at
this time. In this talk, Dr. Glowacki will present new, regional-scale research
that illustrates how widespread emigration from the region preceded the severe
drought conditions and intense violence of the 1270s and 1280s, and how
migration was likely associated with dissension resulting from rapid changes in
ritual practices and social organization.
For more info contact:
Diane Pribbernow
Sr. Administrative Assistant
Department of Anthropology
611 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN  46556-5611
Phone:   574-631-6433
http://www.nd.edu/~anthro/

2B) For more info on this:  contact Dr. Rebecca Torstrick, rtorstri@iusb.edu
Documentary filmmaker Pearl Gluck is a Fellow at IU’s Institute for Advanced
Study this spring. She’ll be coming for a visit to IU South Bend February 11-12.
She is screening her documentary Divan at Browning Cinema at Notre Dame on
Sunday, February 11th at 4 pm. The screening is free but ticketed.  I have
tickets to hand out beginning or you can reserve them through Browning Cinema by
calling 574.631.2800

More on Divan and tickets and venue:
http://performingarts.nd.edu/index.php?page=detail&event=500&month=2&year=2007
From the IAS website:
PEARL GLUCK is a professional filmmaker and scholar of Jewish ethnography,
teaches Yiddish language and culture at Rutgers University. During her leave in
the spring semester of 2007, she will spend three weeks at the Institute
(February 9-March 2) researching video materials from the Archive of Historical
and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories Project (AHEYM)-- an archive of nearly 500
hours of videotaped interviews with Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe and
professionally videotaped footage of contemporary Jewish life there—as well as
consulting with faculty in Jewish Studies, History, Central Eurasian Studies,
and Communication and Culture. In addition, she will visit several classes and
participate in film screenings and in discussions of first-person narratives and
oral history on the Bloomington, IUSB and IUSE campuses. More information about
Pearl Gluck is also available at http://www.palinkapictures.com


3) in West Lafayette and again in Valpo:
AIA Archaeological Institute of America National Sponsored Lectures
    Monday, February 26, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Paul Zimansky, State University of New York, Stony Brook
City of the Grim Reaper: Rediscovery and Demise at Mashkan-shapir, Iraq
Where: Purdue University, W.Lafayette Hall
For more on speaker and topic:
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10224&lid=77
For additional information on this local society, be sure to visit their website:
http://www.indiana.edu/~classics/AIA/AIA.html
Central Indiana Society Contact: Robert Sutton 317-274-2497 rfsutton@iupui.edu
    Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Paul Zimansky, State University of New York, Stony Brook
City of the Grim Reaper: Rediscovery and Demise at Mashkan-shapir, Iraq
Where: Valparaiso University, Student Union, Great Hall
For more on speaker and topic:
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10224&lid=77
Valparaiso  Society Contact: Mark Farmer 219-464-5097 mark.farmer@valpo.edu

4)  Enhancing Learning through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: An
Example and Practical Suggestions with Dr. Kathleen McKinney, Illinois State
University.
When: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Where: University Library, Lilly Auditorium, IUPUI
for more info and to register: http://www.opd.iupui.edu/events.asp?id=901&unit=COIL
Session one: The Impact of SoTL at Illinois State University - an Example from
the Social Sciences
Time: 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Location: Lilly Auditorium
In session one, Dr. McKinney will present the results of a SoTL project funded
at Illinois State, by the Carnegie Scholars Program, to examine how sociology
majors learn their discipline. Additionally, Dr. McKinney will also address the
relevance of her approach for instructors from other disciplines interested in
further enhancing the learning of their students.
Session Two: “Doing” SoTL
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 p.m.
Location: University Library, Room 1116
During session two, Dr. McKinney will engage participants in a mini-workshop
focused on the act of "doing SoTL". The workshop format will be interactive and
will be used to consider the following topics: creating SoTL research questions
and projects; applying the knowledge acquired to improve learning; and promoting
the value and reward of this work.

5)  In Chicago
5A)  UIC Great Cities Institute is pleased to present a panel discussion
“THE LAWNDALE HEALTH PROMOTION PROJECT: ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN CREATING A
HEALTHIER COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO’S NORTH AND SOUTH LAWNDALE”
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.
Great Cities Institute Large Conference Room
    The Lawndale Health Promotion Project (LHPP) is a Center for Disease Control
funded REACH 2010 initiative addressing health disparities in diabetes and
cardiovascular disease. The project focuses on the North and South Lawndale
communities, which are predominantly African-American or Latino.  Guided by a
diverse community coalition, a team of researchers from two universities oversee
the multi-method evaluation of a community wide intervention designed to make
change at the community, health systems and individual level.   Working in
partnership with the community coalition, the LHPP evaluation team focuses on
increasing the community’s capacity to translate research findings into
practical applications to improve the health of community residents.  Through
qualitative and quantitative methods, the evaluation has highlighted differences
in the efficacy of a similar intervention used in these two distinct racioethnic
communities.    Risk assessments for diabetes and cardiovascular disease were
conducted for over 5000 community residents.  Over 500 participants in a
community level intervention were interviewed at three intervals over a 12 month
period.  The results of the risk assessments and interviews will be discussed in
context with changes introduced by the community organizations participating in
the project.  This panel discussion will include a summary of lessons learned in
engaging community participation in a health promotion intervention and in
evaluation research about the topic.
Panelists:
    Cynthia Barnes-Boyd
Director, UIC Neighborhoods Initiatives, Great Cities Institute
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Assistant Dean, Community Health Initiatives, UIC College of Nursing
    Berenice Tow
REACH 2010 Project Director
City of Chicago Department of Public Health
    Michael Quinn
Education Specialist in Research
Department of Medicine, Diabetes Research and Training Center
University of Chicago
    Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.
Great Cities Institute                                     RSVP preferred: (312)
996-8700
Large Conference Room                             We look forward to seeing you.
4th Floor CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Suite 400
Chicago, Illinois 60607
To request disability accommodations please contact Denita Johnson 312 996-7871.

5B) My Wild Life: Discovery in Madagascar
Mireya Mayor, Primatologist and Journalist
Experience the thrill of scientific discovery with Mireya Mayor, a primatologist
specializing in lemurs who is also an Emmy-nominated correspondent for National
Geographic Explorer. This daughter of Cuban immigrants will describe her life in
the worlds of science and television, with a particular focus on her
breakthrough discovery of a new lemur species in Madagascar.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007  7:30 p.m. $15 for teachers and students,
pre-registration required; go to:
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/CalendarSystem/Search_Type.asp?Type=LEC

5C)  Jane Goodall coming to Chicago March 25
Dr. Goodall will speak at the Mind of the Chimpanzee Conference in Chicago, IL.
A book signing will follow the lecture.
Dr. Goodall's lecture, along with a lecture from Richard Wrangham, will serve
has the finale for the conference. The Mind of the Chimpanzee Conference will
run from March 23-March 25. For more information on the conference, please
visit: http://www.lpzoo.org/Understanding_Chimpanzees/index.html.
Dr. Goodall's lecture will take place in the Navy Pier Grand Ballroom (600 E.
Grand Ave, Chicago, IL. 60611).
Ticket prices vary: $10 for Lincoln Park Zoo members, $20 for non-member adults,
and $15 for students.  Information:
    http://www.lpzoo.org/Understanding_Chimpanzees/public_lecture.html
Contact:      chimpmind@lpzoo.org
Jane Goodall Institute:  http://www.janegoodall.org/default.asp


6) In Ohio about Ohio archaeology & prehistory
February 24, Saturday 10:30am
The Archaic Period in Ohio - Matt Purtill, Gray and Pape Cultural Resource
Consultants
SunWatch Indian Village / Archaeological Park
2301 West River Road
Dayton , Ohio
45418-2815
Phone: (937) 268-8199
Email:ASawyer@Sunwatch.org
more info and future talks at: http://www.sunwatch.org/research.html

7) summer stuff: fieldschools, etc
7A) Indiana University Summer Field School in Archaeology
The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University -
Bloomington is now inviting applications for the IU Summer Field School
in Archaeology, May 8 - June 14, 2007. This six-credit hour course will
be held at Angel Mounds State Historic Site in Evansville, IN. This is
an exceptional opportunity to participate in research at a site of
major regional importance. This project will focus on the excavation of
prehistoric domestic features in order to gain insight on social and
ecological change in the Ohio River Valley 600-1000 years ago.
Excavations will be guided by the results of a large-scale geophysical
remote sensing survey of the site.
The majority of the course will be devoted to hands-on instruction in
archaeological survey and excavation techniques, the documentation of
archaeological remains, and the interpretation of archaeological data.
In addition, geoarchaeological and geophysical remote sensing
instruction will be offered. Preliminary laboratory analysis will be
interspersed with the fieldwork. Intensive lectures in the first few
days will provide students with a background in various aspects of
Indiana prehistory and with information on a variety of research
methods and field techniques.
The field school is an important part of the research program of the
Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University. Most
field schools over the last decade also have focused on Late
Prehistoric sites in central Indiana. The result of this work is an
extensive array of published reports on settlement patterns, site
structure and function, remote sensing, and analyses of pottery and of
plant and animal remains from the excavated sites.
Class size is limited so early application is strongly encouraged. More
information and an online application is available at our website:
http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/fschool.html

7B) NSF - funded summer opportunity for undergraduates in cultural anthropology
Dear Colleague-
    I write to inform you of a summer program that the University of North
Texas Dept. of Anthropology is offering for junior-level undergraduates.
     We have been funded by the National Science Foundation to provide a 10
week intensive program teaching Sociocultural anthropological scientific
research methods to students who are members of groups typically
underrepresented on college campuses, including ethnic minorities and
first-generation college students (for whom neither parent graduated
from college).  Our goal is to help promote the development of
underrepresented and first-generation students as future social
scientists.  The program will run from June 4 to August 10, 2007.  It
includes the cost of housing, and a stipend of approximately $4000 for
the 10 weeks.  College credit is available.
    This will be our seventh year conducting the program.  Previous
graduates have said that it provides them with a valuable chance to
obtain practical training and resources to prepare for independent
research, graduate school, or a career.
    We ask for your support, to help publicize the UNT program by displaying
our flyer (attached), or by suggesting the program to qualified students
you know.  We feel the opportunity for meaningful, in-depth
participation in summer research studies can be advantageous to
students' intellectual development, motivation, and personal growth, and
thus represents a worthwhile endeavor which we hope your students will
be a part of.  Applications will be due this year April 23, 2007.
    For more information about the program, please see the attached flyer,
or our website at http://www.unt.edu/anthropology/nsf.htm.
    If you have any further questions about the program or about the
application procedure for students, please don't hesitate to contact me
at 940-565-3836, or email at dhenry@pacs.unt.edu.
Best regards,
Doug Henry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Anthropology
University of North Texas

7C) DANTA - Association for the Conservation of the Tropics - has a field
station in Costa Rica and offers research opportunities and field schools,
including this one:
Primate Behavior and Conservation (June 12 - July 11, 2007); includes lectures
by Dr Kevin Hunt of IU Bloomington.   http://www.danta.info/about.php

7D)  BIOARCHACHAEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOASTRONOMY FIELD SCHOOLS IN PERÚ,    
JUNE AND JULY 2007
Instructor: Robert A. Benfer (benferr@missouri.edu)
Graduate Assistant Instructor: Keith Chan (kccnp7@mizzou.edu)
    General Information and Prerequisites: There will be two sections of a field
school offered in the summer of 2007 in and around Lima. Earlier field schools
were quite successful (see http://web.missouri.edu/~kccnp7). Students can
register for one or both sessions. It is possible to obtain credit through the
University of Missouri-Columbia. However, enrollment is not a requirement for
attending the schools. All lectures will be in English. There is no language
requirement, but participants will enjoy greater independence if they study at
least a little Spanish before we pick you up at the airport. Peruvian students
like to practice English; in previous field schools, foreign students have
learned quite a bit of Spanish through friendships with Peruvians.
    Session 1 participants are required to have had a course introduction to
physical anthropology, human osteology, or forensic anthropology (human
identification) and will be expected to have studied Bioarchaeology, by Clark
Spencer Larson, before arrival in Lima.
    Session 2 participants are required to have had a course in archaeology,
astronomy, or surveying.
    Field fees of $2,400 for each field school will include lodging, food (except
for Sunday in Lima), transfers, and all entry fees for visits to museums and
sites. Lodging in Lima has cable TV (see picture above); lodging in the field is
clean but lacks electricity. Participants are responsible for airfares and
personal and medical expenses. Two letters of recommendation are required.
Students will arrive two-three days before beginning of field school; lodging
and food will be furnished for up to three days before and after the field
school. Application must be received by March 1, 2007. Final date for request
for enrollment is March 23, 2007. A $500 non-returnable deposit (sorry,
University regulations) will be required by that date with the remainder of the
field school fee ($1900) due by April 1.
    Details for Session 1: Bioarchaeology (June 1-29, 2007) - Lima, Perú
(participation limited to 12): We will study the lives of Archaic period
families from Paloma, Perú (4,700 - 6,700 B.P.) through their human remains.
Pairs of participants will study the human remains of a family from a single
domestic structure. Habitual activities will be reconstructed from muscle
marking and form of skeletal elements. Family success will be measured by the
demography, indicators of childhood and adult growth, and other features. Each
family will be compared with the broader context of the complete Paloma data
set. Each participant will be assigned a specific research project for which she
or he will write a brief paper the last week. The best papers may be translated
and published in Lima.One hour of lecture on bioarchaeology and 6 hours of
laboratory investigation of human skeletal materials Monday - Thursday will take
place in Benfer's laboratories across the street from the hostel.
On Fridays, we will visit other collections and archaeological sites, including
Buena Vista, described below. For further information, visit these websites: The
Paloma site (Early Villages) and field school requirements and enrollment
details (Field School after Feb. 1).
    Details for Session 2: Archaeoastronomy (July 2 - August 3, 2007); Buena Vista,
Chillón Valley, north of Lima, Perú (participation limited to 10)The first week
will involve lectures on archaeoastronomy and training in mapping at the
archaeological site of Buena Vista, in the Chillón valley. This exciting site
has recently been acknowledged as an important astronomical center by Discover
magazine, National Geographic, and Archaeology magazine, among other
publications. We will stay in the field near the site when we are not in Lima.
Subsequent weeks will be spent by teams of participants investigating additional
points of references to add to the alignments known for the Late Preceramic
sites of Buena Vista and El Paraíso. These two settlements have the oldest set
of multiple astronomical alignments in the Americas.We will also conduct
original archaeoastronomical research at other nearby sites in the Chillón valley.
    Please visit this site for more information including Application forms and
more details about the 2007 schools:  http://www.missouri.edu/~kccnp7.
Coordinators and Contact Information: Instructor: Robert A. Benfer
(benferr@missouri.edu) Graduate Assistant Instructor: Keith Chan ([
mailto:kccnp7@mizzou.edu ]kccnp7@mizzou.edu)
    NOTE: The final date for request for enrollment for either or both sessions is
March 23, 2007. A $500 non-returnable deposit will be required by that date with
the remainder of the field school fee ($1900) due by April 1. Students may
enroll for between 1-6 hours (which satisfies the "Methods" requirements for MU
undergraduates); current fees are $353/hour for in-state UG.

8) JOBS:
8A) Want to go somewhere to escape the cold?  There are one or two anthropology
faculty positions open at the University of Guam:
http://www.uoghro.com/uog/index2.php?head_nav=tb2&right_nav=rb2&cat1=career&page=ja

8B)  The Indiana National Guard (INARNG) is currently collecting resumes for
one archaeological position stationed at Camp Atterbury near Edinburgh, Indiana.
 The position is a contract position that is contingent on  funding.  If the
position is funded, it will begin in early spring and  last until September 30,
2007.  The position is 40 hours/wk with no per  diem or lodging expenses paid.
The position pays up to $15/hour  depending on experience.
INARNG is looking for an archaeologist with a minimum of a Bachelors
degree in archaeology, anthropology, or history, 6 hours of
archaeological field school, and three years of Midwest experience in
Phase I reconnaissance.  Report writing skills and ability to operate
GPS and use GIS software a plus.  Position requires independent/solo
fieldwork, sometimes in adverse environments.  References required.
 Please send resume with letter of interest to Karstin Carmany-George at
karstincarmany@hotmail.com.

9) From: Stephen Macek <shmacek@noctrl.edu>
Hi all, check out this new video on media representations of poverty
and the inner city. A low-resolution, streaming version is available
free online via Google Video (see details below).
Labor Beat #515: Demonizing the Inner City - Ideology and the Urban Poor
In this video presentation, I analyze the hysteria over the central
city and the urban poor that permeated American politics and popular
culture in the 1980s and 90s. I dissect the way mainstream politicians
(Rudolph Giuliani, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr.) ,
conservative intellectuals and the corporate media conspired to
demonize inner city neighborhoods and their residents. In particular, I
discuss the way that TV news reproduced and validated the right's
stigmatizing, victim blaming images of the urban poor.  Ultimately, I
critique the reactionary political interests served by this divisive
discourse on urban pathology and points to what activists can do to
counter its destructive influence.

Streaming: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1808948055843475610
To order a dvd
Indicate title "Demonizing the Inner City"
and mail $15 check to:
Labor Beat
37 S. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60607
or
$15 by PayPal
Fill out and send form at:
http://www.laborbeat.org/3/forml604.htm
More info: 312-226-3330
mail@laborbeat.org
www.laborbeat.org
Labor Beat is affiliated with IBEW 1220. Views expressed are those of
the producer, not necessarily of IBEW. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community
Partner.
Steve Macek
Assistant Professor
Speech Communication
North Central College
Webpage: http://stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu/




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