Events: Booksale, Jane Goodall in Indiana, Native
American craft workshops and lectures, afarensis child
NOTE: there will be a separate newsletter later today on fieldschools,
summer activities, and jobs.
INDEX
1) at IUN
1A) The One Dollar Used Book Sale is Back
1B) Anthro Club
1C) Psychology Club, Mock GRE Night
1D) FREE MONDAY MOVIES
1E) Glen Park Conversation,
1F) NATIONAL HUMAN CADAVER PROSECTION PROGRAM
2) IN INDIANA:
2A) primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, 1 p.m. Saturday March 29 Purdue -
West Lafayette
2B) at Notre Dame: "Managing Gender at Work"
2C) Athenian Pottery lecture at Purdue
2D) Artifact display from Caesars World Casino site.
2E) Central States Anthropological Society Meeting, Indy
2F) Miami tribe conference
2G) Protection and Security for Cultural Collections program
2H) Great Lakes Native American Academic Conference
2I) Great Lakes Native American Cultural Arts Workshops
3) In Chicago:
3A) At UIC: Archaeologies of Authority in the South Caucasus
3B) At UIC: ‘Autism and the Many Republics of Cognition’
3C) Midwest Indian Cave Art talk
3D) Talk on the 3 year old Australopithecus afarensis child
3F) the Fifteenth International Conference on Learning
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1) at IUN
1A) 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 on Monday
Choose from thousands of books on all topics, all one dollar each.
Full info at: http://www.iun.edu/%7Eanthronw/cal/2008/03-17-08.htm
We need help for the book sale.
Set up is this Sunday, March 16, from noon to 5 pm in Moraine. If we are
short handed, we can't get the tables full for the Monday rush. If you
work Sunday, you get two free books for every hour you work. Sunday setup
is for students and regulars in the club ONLY; no book buyers, no books
will be sold on Sunday.
During the week we need help all the time, so stop by any time you can, and
earn a free book every hour.
And we need lots of help for the Friday strike that begins at 1 pm. Two
free books an hour.
Remember all the money goes back to anthro students for cash awards,
scholarships, and funding for field trips and summer field schools.
1B) For information on upcoming anthro club meetings, send an email to
beckie@anthroclub.com
1C) Psychology Club, Mock GRE Night
Room RH 109
Date: 3/20/08
Start Time : 5:30p
End Time: 7:30p
If you think that you will apply to graduate school, you may need to take
the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Psychology Club will host an
evening to introduce you to the test, by taking a brief form of it, and
ways to study for it. The first hour will focus on the general test and
how to prepare for it. The second hour will focus on the
Psychology-specific GRE, how to prepare for it, and provide a brief
overview related to psychology graduate school applications. Everyone is
welcome for either portion of this program. Please RSVP to Karl Nelson,
Psychology Club advisor, to reserve a space.
kagnelso@IUN.EDU
1D) MONDAY MOVIES Spring, 2008
FREE OPEN TO ALL ON A LARGE SCREEN BRING A FRIEND
The English Department's Spring film series is open to everyone. Showings
are free.
The movies are screened in conjunction with English L201 and WOST 440:
Women and Film
March 17 Mostly Martha (Germany, 2001) Dir., Sandra Nettelbeck,
with Martha Gedeck, Sergio Casstellitto, and Maxime Foerste. Stiff German
master chef (Martha) hires emotional, masterful Italian assistant:
food and dessert are delightful.
March 24 Lovely and Amazing (U. S., 2001) Dir. Nicole Holofcener,
with Emily Mortimer, Brenda Blethyn, Raven Goodwin, and Catherine Keener.
A mother and 3 daughters can make one helluva family--funny, substantial,
and poignant.
March 31 Hidden Half (Iran, 2001) Dir., Tahmineh Milani, with Nikki
Karimi, Mohammed Nikbin, and Atila Pesiani. A sympathetic
judge has to understand and deal with blatant Iranian legal inequalities.
April 7 Lost in Translation (U. S., 2003) Dir., Sophia Coppola, with Bill
Murray and Scarlet Johansson. It's a problem feeling alien and alone in an
upscale Tokyo hotel, with only Scarlet Johansson for companionship.
April 14 Control Room (U. S., 2004)Dir., Jehane Noujaim. A
compelling documentary on the real and fascinating world of Al Jazeera
television operations--its relations with Americans, its day-to-day
problems, and its staff.
April 21 Water (India, 2005) Dir., Deepa Mehta, with Sarala, Buddhi
Wickrama, and Rinsly Weerarathne. When a very young Indian Hindu girl is
widowed, she is placed in a widows' house--presumably for life. In this
third film in her trilogy on Indian domestic issues, Mehta beautifully
shoots and questions
1E) You are cordially invited to attend the March 2008 edition of the Glen
Park Conversation, scheduled for Tuesday, March 18, 2008 from 4:00 to 5:30
p.m. in the IU Northwest Library, 2nd Floor. Our program will feature
Geraldine B. Tousant, Deputy Mayor, City of Gary. She will tell us about
the various projects underway in Gary, such as the Sheraton hotel, casinos,
potholes, and other interesting happenings in the city. As always,
Conversations Coordinator Garrett Cope will have some surprises, too.
Please join our Glen Park neighbors for some lively conversation and fun.
A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
Stephen G. McShane
Archivist/Curator
Calumet Regional Archives
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway
Gary, IN 46408
219-980-6628
FAX 219-981-4289
Email: smcshane@iun.edu
CRA Website: Http://www.iun.edu/~cra
1F) NATIONAL HUMAN CADAVER PROSECTION PROGRAM
Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest
Dunes Medical Professional Building
3400 Broadway
Gary, Indiana University
APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2008.
PROGRAM SPONSOR: ZIMMER, Inc. (Zimmer Orthopedics)
**** Human Cadaver Dissection **** **** Radiology **** **** Orthopedic Surgery
Demonstrations ****
Applications for the July 2008, NATIONAL Human Cadaver Prosection Program
at the Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest (IUSM-NW) are now
being accepted. The application form is available online at the IUSM-NW
Web Site (URL: http://iusm-nw.medicine.iu.edu). The Cadaver Prosection
page is linked to the IUSM-NW front page. [Click on “IUSM-Northwest
Educational Programs, and then “Cadaver Prosection”]
The Cadaver Prosection will be held on Wednesday, July 30 and Thursday,
July 31, 2008, from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., and will include 2 evenings of
preparatory work in late June. Selected participants who complete the
program will receive a certificate of completion, honorarium and
certification for work with biohazards and blood-borne pathogens. All will
have extensive hands-on experience professionally dissecting human
cadavers, and will receive intensive exposure to human gross anatomy and
radiology. Zimmer Orthopedics will conduct a special lecture presentation
and accepted applicants will participate in a hands-on orthopedic workshop.
CME Credit is offered for the NATIONAL Human Cadaver Prosection Program.
You need not be a medical professional or pre-medical student to
participate. All are encouraged to apply. Prior participants have
included pre-med and pre-vet, nursing, radiological technology, mortuary
science students, other undergraduate and graduate students, teachers,
attorneys, lab technicians, etc.
For further information go to the Cadaver Prosection Page, or contact the
program director:
Ernest F. Talarico, Jr., Ph.D.
TEL: 219-981-4356
Email: etalaric@iun.edu
2) IN INDIANA:
2A) Internationally recognized primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE,
will speak at 1 p.m. Saturday March 29 in Purdue University's Elliott Hall
of Music. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -
Dr. Jane Goodall's presentation, "Reason for Hope," will address her
pioneering work with chimpanzees and information about the education,
conservation and sustainable development programs of the Jane Goodall
Institute. It also will include her reasons for hope that "we can save
threatened species, the planet and, ultimately, ourselves."
A UN Messenger of Peace, Dr. Goodall travels more than 300 days a year
discussing why she is still hopeful about the future and encouraging
audiences to recognize their ability to effect change.
"Dr. Jane Goodall has been motivating students and spurring science through
her landmark work with chimpanzees for close to 50 years," said Jeffrey S.
Vitter, the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Purdue's College of Science. "She is
a driving force in innovative conservation and education efforts, spreading
the message that each person has the responsibility and the capability to
improve the world around them. Her frequent reminder that every individual
matters, has a role to play and makes a difference is a message we want
students to hear, and it embodies our centennial celebration theme of
innovation and imagination."
Dr. Jane Goodall's presentation is the finale of College of Science 100th
anniversary celebration. Tickets to the lecture are available through
Purdue box offices and Ticketmaster. The cost is $15 for all students with
a valid student ID and $21 for the general public. Also available are $100
Centennial Seats, which include a $79 charitable contribution to the
Centennial Scholarship Fund and a private reception before the event.
Additional proceeds from the presentation will benefit the Centennial
Scholarship Fund.
A book signing in the Elliott Hall of Music lobby will immediately follow
the presentation. Dr. Jane Goodall will sign a maximum of two items per
person and a photographer will provide photos for participants. Detailed
information about the book signing is available online at
http://www.science.purdue.edu/centennial/goodall.asp.
"In 1991, Dr. Jane Goodall started Roots & Shoots, a global environmental
and humanitarian education program for youth," he said. "With tens of
thousands of young people in almost 100 countries, the Roots & Shoots
program branches out to connect youth and adults of all ages who share a
common desire to help make the world a better place. She designed this
program to be youth driven and to emphasize the principle that knowledge
leads to compassion, which inspires action. It is important to engage
students of all ages to continue the important work of conservation."
More information about Dr. Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute is
available online at http://www.janegoodall.org.
2B) at Notre Dame:
GeNDer Studies Program presents: "Managing Gender at Work" Lecture Series
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
12:00-12:30 pm Lunch Reception
12:30- 1:30 pm
"Personal, Academic, and Local Reflections on Challenges in Motherhood"
Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Crystal Patil, University of Illinois at
Chicago- Department of Anthropology
Sponsored by: The Gender Studies Program, The Genevieve D. Willis
Endowment for Women at Notre Dame, The Boehnen Fund for Excellence in
Gender Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Department of
Anthropology, Arts & Letters Pre-Professional Program.
Linnie Caye
Program Coordinator
GeNDer Studies Program
325 O'Shaughnessy
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-4266
574-631-2107 (FAX)
Gender@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~gender/
2C) Shameless Potters and Ravagers of Kilns
Athenian Pots & Topography
John Papadopoulos
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Archaeological Institute of America
Central Indiana Society
Norton Lecture
Thursday, April 10 at 7:30
Smith Hall 108, Purdue University
Information: Prof. Nicholas Rauh, Purdue
Universityrauhn@purdue.edu; (765) 496-6079
http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/wlac/AIA
Athenian pottery is prominent in classical archaeology. This lecture
discusses the potters who made it: who they were, how and where they
worked. New discoveries in Athens, including material from the Agora, add
significantly to our knowledge of the location of the Potters' Quarter and
the identity of potters in terms of ethnicity and gender. Revisions are
suggested for the topography of early Athens.
2D) Falls of the Ohio State Park
201 West Riverside Drive
Clarksville, IN 47129
New Exhibit at the Falls of the Ohio opens December 10th
Waaayyy Back Home in Indiana: 8,000 Years of Life on the Ohio River
From May 1997 to September 2000, the Indiana State University Anthropology
Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Russell Stafford, excavated four
sites at the present location of the Caesars World Casino complex. As many
as 100 crew members at a time worked in one of the largest archaeological
digs ever carried out in the eastern United States. Analysis of the
artifacts and data continued for more than seven years after digging
stopped. This display shows many of the items recovered, representing a
time span of 8,000 years.
The Caesars Archaeological Project showed that the people who lived in
southern Harrison County thousands of years ago were much like the present
residents. They recognized the rich resources of the area and used them
skillfully to live what may have been a comfortable existence. There are no
signs of lavish life styles or people of exalted status; no evidence of
extensive trade or travel; no large ceremonial earthworks or spectacular
rituals. These were ordinary people harvesting the bounty of their diverse
environment and gradually learning more about all it had to offer.
Beginning with brief visits and ending with multi-season settlements, they
made it their home.
This exhibit will be shown through March 30.
Programs at the Interpretive Center are free with building admission.
For more information call (812) 280-9970. Admission to the Interpretive Center
is $4 for adults and $1 for children 2 to 18 years old. The Center is open
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
2E) Central States Anthropological Society
85th Annual Meeting
March 27 - 29, 2008
Indianapolis, Indiana
Info at: http://groups.creighton.edu/csas//Annual_Meetings.htm
2F) Myaamiaki Conference
March 29th, 2008
myaamia neepwaantiinki, 'Myaamia Education'
The Marcum Conference Center at Miami University, Oxford OH
The 2008 Myaamiaki Conference will be the third conference hosted at Miami
University discussing research conducted by the Miami Tribe community. This
year's gathering features six presenters speaking on a variety of topics.
You can download the conference poster here in PDF format.
http://www.myaamiaproject.org/conference.html
Registration for the conference is required. Included in the registration
fee is a box lunch. You can download and fill out the registration form
there, too. The registration form is due March 21st.
2G) CCAHA Disaster, Protection and Security Program
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts presents Preparing
for the Unexpected: Protection and Security for Cultural Collections.
Hosted and co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology, the conference will be held May 12 and 13,
2008, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Sessions will include…
* Disaster Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness
* Crisis Communication
* Exercising the Plan (an interactive session)
* Recovery of Paper-Based Collections (a hands-on interactive
session)
* Fire Safety: Detection, and Suppression
* Understanding Security Risks
The fee for this two-day program is $185 for CCAHA member institutions and
$210 for non-members. A second registrant from the same institution,
registering at the same time, can register for $92.50/CCAHA members,
$105/non-members. Registration begins immediately. Program and registration
information for this program are available on CCAHA's website at:
http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php.
For more information, contact the Conservation Center for Art and Historic
Artifacts: call (215) 545-0163, email pso@ccaha.org or visit
http://www.ccaha.org.
2H) National Center for Great Lakes Native American Culture
(NCGLNAC) 2008 Academic Conference
Current Research in Great Lakes Native American Culture
April 19, 2008
John Jay Center for Learning
101 South Meridian Street
Portland, Indiana
Six outstanding educators have accepted the invitation to present their
current research regarding pre-contact, post-contact and current Native
American peoples. The conference is of interest to educators, students,
teachers and life-long students of the Great Lakes area’s history.
Preregistration before April 11 is $30, $20 for students with student photo
identification. Late registration is $35. Lunch is included in the cost.
For more information contact the Conference Chair: Professor Donald
Cochran, Director, Archaeological Resources Management Service, Ball State
University, Muncie IN 47306. Phone: 765-285-5328. Fax: 765-285-2163. Email:
dcochran@bsu.edu.
Conference Schedule
9:00 - Beth McCord - Ball State University
The Ghosts of the Lenape: An Archaeological Study of Delaware Settlement
along the Upper White River, Indiana
10:00 - Robin McBride Scott - Smithsonian NMAI Visiting Artist
Bringing the Ancestors Home – Reclaiming the Rivercane Traditions of the
Ohio River Valley
11:00 - Daryl Baldwin - Miami University
myaamiaataweenki: aapooši iilaataweenki The Miami Language: Spoken Again
LUNCH
1:00 - Mark Schurr - Notre Dame
Collier Lodge: A Nine-Thousand Year Record of Life along the Kankakee
2:00 - Christopher Koeppel - Indiana Department of Transportation
Preliminary results of archaeological investigations at the Ana Lynn Site
(12Ws284)
3:00 - Donald R. Cochran - Ball State University
The Earthwork Landscape of the New Castle Phase: Implications for Middle
Woodland Social Organization
National Center for Great Lakes Native American Culture
2008 Academic Conference
Current Research in Great Lakes Native American Culture
$30* - Pre-registration before 4/11
$20* - Student registration with photo ID before 4/11
$35* - Registration after 4/11
Total registration fees enclosed.
*Lunch is included with fee.
More on this and many other events at NCGLNAC, visit:
http://www.ncglnac.org/frameset.html
2I) GREAT LAKES NATIVE AMERICAN WORKSHOPS
Presented by
NATIONAL CENTER FOR GREAT LAKES NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE Women's Building,
Jay County Fairgrounds, Portland, Indiana
April 5 and 6, 2008
The National Center for Great Lakes Native American Culture, Inc. will
host a traditional Great Lakes Native American cultural arts workshop at
the Women's Building at the Jay County Fairgrounds, Portland, Indiana,
April 5 and 6, 2008. The workshops explore the arts, crafts, traditions,
culture and history of Great Lakes Native Americans through hands-on
workshop classes and presentations by Native American tradition bearers,
talented artisans and experts on Native American culture. Four classes
will be offered.
The Jay County Fairgrounds are on Morton and Votaw Streets in Portland
(From US 27 go East on Votaw Street to Morton. The Fairgrounds are north
of Votaw at Morton Street). The Women's Building is close to the middle of
the Fairgrounds on the Morton Street side.
Registration is 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday, April 5. Welcome Circle is 9 a.m.
Saturday. Regular class hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 and 1:30 to 4:30 on
Saturday, April 5 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday April 6 for approximately 10
hours of instruction time. Saturday's field trip is from 9:30 to 4:30.
The Closing Circle will be at 1 p.m. Sunday. Deadline for receiving
registrations is March 26. Send in registrations early as class sizes are
limited and classes with fewer than 5 registered may be cancelled after
March 26. Please list your second choice class. After March 26, contact
Kay Neumayr, Workshop Chair, at 765-426-3022 to find out about class
availability. If a class is cancelled you will be notified, so please list
your phone number and email address. Classes are limited to age 12 and
over. Class fee is $50 per person for NCGLNAC members and $75 for
non-members. A materials fee, if any, is listed with each class description
and must be paid directly to the tradition bearer before class begins.
Pre-registration is required. There are a limited number of partial
scholarships available. Request a scholarship application from Linda
Andrews at 765-474-1045 or linda.andrews@ncglnac.com. Deadline is March 26.
Doyle Blooding will be preparing a special meal for Saturday evening at 7
p.m. at $8 per person. Meals must be reserved in advance with the
registration. For lunch, Portland has many excellent restaurants.
2008 Lecture Series – Session 2 is at 5 p.m. April 5 at the Jay County
Historical Society. Sara Wagar, tribal elder and former principal chief
of the Piqua Shawnee tribe will discuss the impact of the ever-advancing
white invasion of the Shawnee homeland during the latter part of the
1700's on the Shawnee people and their way of life. Free and open to the
public.
Motels: Hoosier Inn in Portland (260-726-7113) has reserved rooms at $50
for one bed and $55 for two beds per night, $5 per additional person plus
tax. Super 8 in Portland (260-726-8888) has reserved rooms for $50 for one
bed and $55 for two beds per night and $5 per additional person plus tax.
Both motels offer a free continental breakfast. To receive this special
rate, mention that you are attending the Great Lakes Native American
Workshops. Deadline for reservations is March 26. After that date the
motels' regular rate will apply.
Questions? Contact NCGLNAC Workshop Chair Kay Neumayr at 765-426-3022 or
kay.neumayr@ncglnac.com. or visit NCGLNAC's website www.ncglnac.org. The
Women's Building is accessible to persons with physical disabilities.
WORKSHOP CLASSES
Men's Ribbon Shirt – Pat Ferguson. Most people will remember seeing Pat
at pow wows in her booth Pat's Crafts & Things where she made and sold
men's and women's regalia, hats and more. She retired last year after 18
years on the pow wow trail. She has been sewing all her life and says she
will teach anyone that wants to make a ribbon shirt, no experience
necessary. Materials needed: 3 ½ yards of material of choice, 3 yards
each of 2 or 3 coordinated ribbon, any width, thread to match material and
ribbons, sewing machine, scissors, pins and an extension cord or power
strip. No supply fee.
Birch Bark Baskets – LouRae Rumple, Kiowa Apache descent. LouRae has been
an artist her entire life. Her favorite one-dimensional artwork subjects
are wildlife and Native American regalia. She weaves various materials for
baskets and mats. LouRae is also in demand for designing and painting
signs. For centuries mukuks (birch bark baskets) were used for storing
food, sewing items and beads, picking berries, and other carrying needs.
They were even used for carrying water and boiling food. Students will
learn construction and finishing techniques of these beautiful baskets.
Materials needed: pencil, paper, scissors. *Supply fee: $20.
Porcupine Quillwork – Boni Nelson, Cherokee descent. Boni is recognized as
an expert quill worker, printmaker and artist. Although she makes
traditional pieces on brain-tanned leather, she is also known for her
contemporary quillwork pieces. The class will begin by covering the basic
techniques of Great Lakes porcupine quill decoration: plaiting and zigzag.
Students will choose the project they wish to make such as a small neck
knife sheath, neck bag, or scissors case. *Supply fee: $20. If a knife
sheath is desired Boni will have small knives to purchase at additional cost.
Ancient Native American Cultures.
Saturday – Field Trip to Ancient Native American Earthworks guided by
Professor Don Cochran, Director of the Archaeological Resources Management
Service of Ball State University. Beginning around 200 BC the Adena people
built over 300 sophisticated earthworks in Indiana. Less than 100 remain
and most of those are severely damaged by farming, excavation, etc. In 1988
Don confirmed his theory that the complex of mounds near Anderson were
built to be used as an observatory. Don will guide the field trip to 3
earthworks in this area: Windsor Mound, the newly discovered circular
enclosure at Yorktown and to Mounds State Park in Anderson. Learn how
these earthworks are inter-connected. Students need to dress for any
weather. Bring snacks and your cameras. Lunch in Anderson or bring a sack
lunch. No supply fee.
Sunday – Ancient Indiana Earthworks and Culture Periods. Amy L. Johnson,
research Archaeologist and Archaeology Outreach Coordinator, has worked
for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources' Division of Historic
Preservation and Archaeology since 1991. Her main research interests are
pre-contact archaeology of the Adena and Hopewell periods, historic
cemeteries and public outreach. In this class Amy will discuss examples of
earthworks from around our state, culture periods in Indiana and
representative artifacts, laws which protect archaeological sites and more.
She will bring archaeological outreach documents, such as Early Peoples
of Indiana, for the class. No supply fee.
3) In Chicago:
3A) The UIC Department of Anthropology invites you to:
Prometheus Unbound: Geographies of Transgression and Archaeologies of
Authority in the South Caucasus
a presentation by
Adam Smith
University of Chicago
Department of Anthropology
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
4:00 pm located in:
2105 Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 W. Harrison
his neat web page: http://home.uchicago.edu/~atsmith/
3B) The Institute for Health Research and Policy, Project Biocultures and
the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities
present ‘Autism and the Many Republics of Cognition’
Ralph Savarese, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Tuesday, March 18
Noon – 1:30 PM
A light lunch will be served.
Westside Research Office Bldg., Room 561
1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago IL
Ralph Savarese, PhD, is an associate professor of American literature,
creative writing, and disability studies at Grinnell College. He is the
author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
(Other Press, 2007), hailed by Newsweek as “real life love story and an
urgent manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities.”
Interpreter service, captioning, and personal assistance will be provided.
For more information, contact Professor Lennard Davis at lendavis@uic.edu
or (312) 413-8910.
3C) April 17, Art Institute of Chicago
“Ritual Caves and Painted Hides--Visual Records of American Indian Culture
and History” 4/17, 1-2 p.m. Fullerton Hall Free with admission
Dr. Townsend has participated in explorations of a Missouri cave with
American Indian wall paintings featuring huntsmen, warriors, drummers, and
chieftains with lively poses, gestures, and implements. The figures show
affinities with the 13th-century art of urban Cahokia, whose archaeological
monuments stand in Illinois opposite St. Louis. That age all but
disappeared by the 19th century, transformed by the introduction of horses
and proliferating herds of bison. Many tribes took to an equestrian life on
the Plains, yet their pictographic art on hides and garments shows the
adaptation of an ancient cosmological world-view, seen in Cahokia and the
cave drawings, in which all activities were bound to the earth's cycle of
birth, death, and renewal.
3D) Talk on the 3 year old Australopithecus afarensis child
The Field Museum: Saturday 12th April Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged
(Researcher, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Germany) will be giving a lecture
entitled "The Earliest Child: Learning from Juvenile Hominin Fossils" at
The Field museum on Saturday 12th April. This second Leakey Lecture, which
is jointly sponsored by The Leakey Foundation and The Field Museum, is free
of charge to museum visitors who have paid the basic admission fee. The
lecture will begin at 1:00 pm in Montgomery Ward Lecture Hall on the ground
floor of the museum (immediately adjacent to the West Entrance). The
following is a brief summary of the content of Dr. Alemseged's presentation:
It was hailed as the second most important archaeological announcement of
2006 by the Archaeology Institute of America, and was publicized by the
scientific and popular media around the world. Ethiopian
paleoanthropologist Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged and his research team uncovered
an almost-complete skeleton of a three-year-old juvenile Australopithecus
afarensis in sediments dated to 3.3 million years ago.
This find is allowing researchers to understand how hominins looked at a
young age and can help address questions regarding body proportion, life
history, stature, and body size of infants of our earliest ancestors. It
promises to add substantially to our knowledge of the anatomy, behavior,
locomotor repertoire, growth and developments of a species placed at a
critical time of our evolutionary history.
The juvenile skeleton concerned was reported in the following Nature
paper in 2006:
Alemseged, Z., Spoor, F., Kimbel, W.H., Bobe, R., Geraads, D. & Reed, D.
(2006) A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature,
Lond. 443, 296-301.
In a new departure, Dr. Alemseged will be meeting with scientists and
students from local academic institutions on the Saturday morning before
his lecture in Classroom A. Anyone interested in attending should register
with me in advance so that we will have some idea of numbers. We aim to
provide light refreshments for those attending. Classroom A is also on the
ground floor of the museum quite close to the West Entrance.
Prof. Robert D. Martin
A. Watson Armour III Curator of Biological Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496
Tel: 001-312-665-7809 (direct)
3F) Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, we would like to inform
you of the:
THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING
The University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 3-6 June 2008
http://www.LearningConference.com
The International Conference on Learning is for any person with an interest
in, and concern for, education at any of its level - from early childhood,
to schools, to higher education - and lifelong learning in any of its
sites, from home to school to university to the workplace.
Main speakers include James R. Gavelek, Professor of Curriculum and
Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Juana M. Sancho Gil,
Educational Technology Professor at the University of Barcelona; Susan R.
Goldman, Chair of the Governing Board of the Society for Text and
Discourse; Fernando Hernandez, Professor in the Unit of Art Education at
the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Barcelona; James W. Pellegrino,
Distinguished Professor in Psychology and Education and Co-Director of the
Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois at
Chicago; and Salim Vally, Senior Researcher at the Education Policy Unit,
School of Education, University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
The Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would
particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference
Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for
publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Learning. If you
are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are
also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and
possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as
access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short
abstract) is 13 March 2008. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of
submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal
submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.LearningConference.com
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to
join us in Chicago in June 2008.
Yours Sincerely,
Helen Smith
Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager
Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Learning
& Mary Kalantzis,
Dean, College of Education
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
--
Bob Mucci
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway, Gary IN 46408
219-980-6607
RMucci@iun.edu
http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw
"Education not slogans is our motto"
--
Bob Mucci
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway, Gary IN 46408
219-980-6607
RMucci@iun.edu
http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw
"Education not slogans is our motto"