Club Meeting Friday, October 1st at noon in Graveley 150

 Please attend this meeting as we will be discussing the creation of bylaws. These are created by a 2/3 vote of members. If you cannot attend and would like to have input on the bylaws, please email me and I will send you a brief on those which will be voting on. We will also be discussing the outline for this year's Potlatch, some club merchandise options, and possible future events/ activities. See you there!

Also, if you haven't paid your dues please do so asap! $10 for the year! You can pay any of the presidency or advisors, or leave it (with your name) in the club box in Becky's office. Remember- we get matched funds from the university with these- so they help the club make money! Which translates to more lunches for you ... :)

A big THANK YOU to those who have already paid!

Jules (kramjuli@isu.edu)

Anthropology Visiting Researcher Talk, October 8th, 2010

The ISU Anthropology Department and Student Anthropology Society is pleased to announce the upcoming Visiting Researcher Talk:

Warfare, Economy, and Village Development during the Belgian Early Neolithic

Dr. Mark Golitko

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist

Field Museum of Natural History

Chicago, Illinois

Friday, October 8, 2010 4 p.m.

North Fork Room, Pond Student Union

Dr. Golitko's talk reviews evidence for changing settlement patterns and social structure among villages of the early Neolithic Linienbandkeramik (LBK) culture in the Hesbaye region of eastern Belgium. The LBK represents the first agricultural society of central Europe—LBK villages first appeared on the Hungarian Plain around 5650 BC, and rapidly expanded across the loessic areas of Europe north of the Alps, reaching eastern Belgium between 5300-5200 BC. Expanding farmers encountered indigenous hunter-gatherer/forager groups throughout Europe, sometimes incorporating these people into LBK communities. During the later stages of the western LBK, there is extensive evidence of violence, which certainly occurred between LBK villages, but may also have occurred between farmers and foragers. Using compositional analysis, changing patterns of resource procurement, production, and inter-village exchange are explored as they relate to the growth of LBK communities in the Hesbaye and the outbreak of violence evidenced by the construction of large, labor-intensive fortifications during later settlement. These data tie into a growing body of evidence suggesting that incipient processes of social and economic stratification were present during the later early Neolithic in Europe.

Posted by John Dudgeon, 9/23/2010

Teri Hall Memorial Scholarship Deadline Tomorrow!

Undergraduates: get your application in today and tomorrow for the Teri Hall Memorial Scholarship! Please turn in an application to Becky in the Anthropology department ASAP!

Requirements:

Must be an Anthropology Major, must be an undergrad

Turn in application, transcripts, and a current class schedule

Turn in a statement describing your academic plans for the next year, chosen career, plans for accomplishment, and any other pertinent information.

Questions: Ask Skip: lohserne@isu.edu or Christian: petechri@isu.edu. 

Good Luck!

ISU Awarded $1 million NSF grant for VZAP

Congratulations to Dr. Maschner and his team! Looking forward to great things to come from this.

Read the article here:
http://www.journalnet.com/news/local/article_48cf9d18-c5bd-11df-bf30-001cc4c002e0.html

Graduate Student Research Scholarship Committee Call for proposals

ISU CALL FOR PROPOSALS GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE FALL 2010

The Graduate Student Research and Scholarship Committee (GSRSC) funds a limited number of research proposals to help support graduate students financially as they perform research. Maximum grants amount $1500. All proposals must conform to the Internal Research Grant proposal General Guidelines and GSRSC Specific Guidelines. Please visit the web site for the most recent version of guidelines.
http://www.isu.edu/research/gsrsc.shtml

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
5:00pm, November 8, 2010
Submission procedures can be found in General Guidelines
______________________________________
Proposal Development Workshop Monday, September 27th, 1:30pm Fine Arts 205
Proposal Development Workshop Thursday, October 7th, 1:30pm Fine Arts 205

Link for info: http://www.isu.edu/research/gsrsc.shtml

Undergraduate Research Committee (UgRC) Call for Proposals

ISU CALL FOR PROPOSALS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH COMMITTEE FALL 2010

The Undergraduate Research Committee (UgRC) funds a limited number of research proposals to help support undergraduates financially as they perform research. Maximum grants amount $2000. All proposals must conform to the Internal Research Grant proposal General Guidelines and Undergraduate Research Committee Specific Guidelines. Please visit the web site for the most recent version of guidelines.
http://www.isu.edu/research/undergrad.shtml

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
5:00pm, November 4, 2010
Submission procedures can be found in General Guidelines
______________________________________
Proposal Development Workshop Monday, September 27th, 1:30pm Fine Arts 205
Proposal Development Workshop Thursday, October 7th, 1:30pm Fine Arts 205

Link for info: http://www.isu.edu/research/undergrad.shtml
Link for details: http://www.isu.edu/research/docs/CFPFall%202010%20ugrc.pdf

Visiting Researcher Talk- Friday October 8th

Please join the Anthropology Department and Student Anthropology Society in welcoming Dr. Mark Golitko from Chicago's Field Museum on Friday, October 8th from 4 - 5 pm in room 150 in Graveley Hall. A colleague of Dr. Dudgeon, Dr. Golitko is an archaeological chemist in the Field Museum's Anthropology Elemental Analysis Facility. He will be giving a talk on his latest research. Stay tuned for details!

Street Artist Documentary- Tuesday October 5th

DETAILS: Tues. Oct. 5th 1 - 2:30 pm in the Clearwater Room in the Pond SUB. Please feel free to bring your lunch! 

Mary Anne Benner, an ISU alumni, will be on campus to present her work on street artists over the past few years. She is an independent documentary filmmaker and producer focusing primarily on ethnographic documentaries pertaining to social and health related issues. The documentaries she has made have all been told from the perspective of the insider's point of view in order to show the reality of their lived experience and each documentary has been used in an advocacy setting.

She will be presenting her two newest films, showing clips, speaking about her project and answering questions. Please join us in supporting alumni and learning about this interesting aspect of current ethnography! 


“Street Artists on the Fringe of Survival: A Progressive Documentary Series

Synopsis:
Documentary One: “An Artful Journey of Life”
"Artful Journey of Life" is an ethnographic documentary focusing on one impassioned street artist in Portland, Oregon: the harsh reality of his past, the struggles he faces now and the continuous hopes he has for his future. Harry continues to struggle with his past demons, and at times is overwhelmed by where is life is going, but the fear of being back where we was drives him to continue down this positive path he as created with the help of his art and the support of his community. 

Documentary Two: “The 'Artbeat of the City”
“The 'Artbeat of the City” is an ethnographic documentary about five street artists living on the fringe of survival. This particular documentary follows the lives of those five street artists who were strangers connected by a city in which they performed, by their economic hardships, and their common experiences of living off their music and art on the street. Their stories will take us from the sidewalks of Portland, Oregon, where I first met each of them, to various locations around the United States.

Please check her website for further information:  http://www.streetartistmovie.com/

Homecoming Week Events

ISU Homecoming is scheduled for September 20-25. The theme this year is "The Year of the Tiger." The Student Activities Board has scheduled many fun and exciting events again this year.

Monday
10am – 11am	Spirit Log Hunt and FREE Breakfast on the Quad Amphitheater
3pm – 5pm	Powder Puff Football on the Quad
Tuesday
Noon – 3pm	Build-a-Bengal in the Student Union Wood River Room. FREE to ISU students while supply lasts.
7pm	Royalty Pageant in the Student Union Ballroom
Wednesday
Noon – 2pm	Spelling Bee on the Quad
9pm – 11pm	Bonfire at Holt Arena
Thursday
Noon – 1pm	Chip Dip Competition at Rendezvous
8pm – 11pm	Concert – Sara Bareilles in the Student Union Ballroom Student Ticket - $12   Faculty/Staff – $22 All Others - $27  Tickets can be purchased at the Student Union Info Desk
Friday
Noon – 2pm	Sumo Wrestling and FREE slushies on the Quad
7pm – 10pm	Homecoming Dance in the Student Union Ballroom – FREE to everyone with FREE snacks and drinks
Midnight	True Bengal at ISU Pillars on Red Hill
Saturday
10am – Noon	Homecoming Parade at Center Street to 15th Street, to Holt Arena
2pm – 3:30pm	Tailgate at Holt Arena Parking Lot (northwest side)
3:35pm	Homecoming Football Game at Holt Arena. ISU vs. Northern Arizona

Please feel free to contact the Student Activities Board at 282-3451 with any questions.

Successful weekend!

Thanks to everyone for coming out Friday afternoon for our opening social! Thank you for your participation in the raffle as well! I hope everyone had a good time and was able to get to know some new people. We didn't even need my silly games! However, I may still bring them out on day for fun! (Lewis & Heather- your baby is adorable!). If anyone has photos from this event if you could please send me a copy for our club archives I would really appreciate it!

If you are missing something- please contact me! We had 2 dishes left behind; email me with a description of yours and I will return it.

Thanks to those who came out on Saturday for the Fort Hall Tour! The Bannock Historical Society expected around 25 people total, and were surprised when 102 showed up to go! Rusty was a great tour guide- full of information and personal stories about the lives of the Shoban people over the past few generations and how the tribe is doing today. It was a very fun trip! Mark your calendars, we have all been invited to the Shoshone-Bannock largest annual pow-wow: it is always held the 2nd weekend in August and kicks off with a childrens parade on Thursday.

 Our Tour Guide: Rusty Houtz
(thanks Brad for this photo!)

Also- if you are interested in joining the Bannock Historical Society please contact the museum at: (208) 233-0434. Dues are $10 for a 1 year membership. They meet once each month and also have speakers com in. I will include their upcoming speakers for the next few months in our updates as well. It would be a great thing to participate in- support the community! Especially those in the public sector that have the same interests as we do.

Our next meeting will not be until Friday October 1st, noon in Room 150, Graveley. See you there!

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is November 17-21 in New Orleans, LA. Non-member student rates are: $166 if you register by tomorrow (Friday September 17th), and go up to $204 thereafter. This is a large national conference with many concurrent sessions. Find more info here: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/.

Membership Fees/ Dues

I have received some emails regarding dues so thought I would throw up a little note! A membership fee is required by ISU to be a club. We try to keep them as minimal as possible: $10/ year or $5/ semester. The good thing is that ISU will match us 3:1 for our dues! So for every person who pays their $10, ISU will give the club $3.33! That doesn't seem like much but add it up if everyone pays and that is at least one free lunch for all! Membership fees are due (per ISU) by September 24th so please get them in asap. You can give them to Jules, Jess, Dave, John, or just deposit them with a note stating your name in the club box in Becky's office. Thanks to those who have already paid (you know who you are!).

Thank you in advance!

GBAC- Volunteers Needed- Free registration!

For anyone interested in going to the Great Basin Anthropological Conference Oct. 20-23 they still need volunteers and will waive your registration fee! (8 volunteer hours = free registration, 4 hours = 50% off, which would be $32.50). Regular student registration is $65 and due by Oct. 5th. Email Tanya Johnson- TJohnson@swca.com to sign up! Conference information and preliminary schedule can be found here: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=857389

 

The conference is being held in Layton, Utah this year so it is really close! This is a great opportunity for students to be introduced to conferences and to get face time with potential employers or graduate schools. It's too late to turn in abstracts but there are always things to be learned from sessions! Take a look through the preliminary session schedule and see if there is anything that interests you! As it gets closer if enough people want to go we could do carpools. If people want to go all 3-4 days we can look into inexpensive hotels. 

Opening Social

Come out Friday September 17th for our opening social at Bonneville Park starting at 4:30 pm. Bonneville Park is up by Holt Arena (cross streets are 18th Avenue and Davis Dr). The club will be providing burgers (beef, turkey and meatless), buns, lettuce and condiments. There will be a sign up sheet on Becky's office door in the Anthropology department (Graveley Hall, South side) for potluck dishes. Please bring something to share! Drinks, chips, salads, and deserts are welcome! Alcohol is permitted and is BYOB but please be respectful of others. Kids and well behaved pets are welcome! We will have horseshoes, bocce-ball, volley-ball trivia and other games going on! We will also be selling raffle tickets.

This is an opportunity for new students, forever students and faculty to socialize outside of the academic world. This is not limited to just anthropology students, so drag out your friends from all over campus! Come out to mingle and put a name to all those faces!

Reminders & Upcoming Events

Remember! Anything that at least 4 members of the club participate in will count as a club event and will earn the club more funding!  Which means we can buy you lunch more often! All we need to do is write down the names of those who attended, their bengal id numbers, the event date and what we did. We can also do this in retrospect, so if any of you have gotten together contact me :)

Here are some things happening on campus in the next little while:

Opening Social- Friday September 17th at 4:30 - dark at Bonneville Park. 

Homecoming - week of September 20-25- find info at isu.edu/homecoming/. Thursday September 23rd- concert with Sara Bareilles in PSUB Ballroom (limited tickets!). 

Film screening and Q & A- Tuesday September 21st 5:30- 7 in the Bengal Theater at Pond SUB - Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story: She Was Condemned Before She Was Born. This film follows the sad and startling story of Cyntoia Brown, who is serving a life sentence for murder at the age of 16. This is a story about trying a teen as an adult and sentencing a young person to life in prison. "Throw-away children" as one journalist called them. The film explores failed social safety nets and the complex and convoluted physical and emotional circumstances that lef Cyntoia to prison for life. There will be a preview, screening speaker and discussion. Following the film Pocatello attorney Tom Eckert, Professor of Criminal Law, will comment on decisions to try juveniles as adults and lead a Q&A discussion of issues raised in the film. Free and open to the public.

Second Annual Poky Spin-a-thon - Saturday October 30th from 8 am- 5 pm at Reed Gym. Spinning sessions will be for 45 minutes. Each participant is to register at www.pokyspinathon.com for either $10 or $5 + 5 cans of food. Each participant should collect pledges or donations (this money goes directly to our club); pledge forms can be found on the spin website. This is a joint event with the Idaho Condor Nutrition Team, Pocatello Food Bank, and other ISU clubs. Please visit their website or contact Kate Erikson with further questions at martink_21@hotmail.com. 

Check out the Outdoor Adventure Center for all kinds of rentals! The club gets a discount and their prices are already very reasonable. Camping, hiking, watercraft, snow sports, water equipment, stoves, dutch ovens, games and more!

Fort Hall Tour

The club has been invited to join the Bannock Historical Society on a trip to Fort Hall on Saturday September 18th. If you are interested in going please let me know ASAP as we need to have an accurate count for seating! The club is renting an SUV for the trip. Cost is $5/ person. The BHS has a tour guide who will be giving the group an inside look at the reservation and we will be going places that the general public is not allowed. Lunch will be on your own, most likely at a casino stop (or you can always brown bag it!). We will be meeting as a club at 9:30 AM at the back/ east side of Graveley Hall and departing by 9:45 AM. We are meeting the BHS at 10 AM to begin the tour. We should return around 3 PM.

Seats are filling up fast! Please contact me immediately if you are interested in joining us!

Huzzah!

In an attempt to reach everyone the ISU Student Anthropology Society has created this blog to keep everyone informed and up to date of what we're doing! Our officers will do our best to keep this updated on upcoming events and activities. Please feel free to offer ideas here that you feel would benefit our club and community. We are trying to set up an active calendar as well, but until then I will post individual upcoming events. We are looking forward to this new semester and hope you are too! See you soon!