Anthropology Club

At the first club meeting of the semester we saw a lot of new faces and planned some great events for the rest of the semester! We already have a lot coming up, so if you couldn’t make it or didn’t write everything down, here’s what we discussed:

General club updates:

• We will hold meetings on Mondays at 8:30 from here on out. The next one will be on September 27th for a game night! This is just going to be a laid-back meeting to get to know each other better, so if you’ve been waiting to get involved this is a great time for it! This will be in Union Stateroom 2 (near the food court).
• Anyone is welcome to show up to club meetings/events but if you want to be an official member of the club you need to pay a $5 due and show up to at least one club activity. Having members allows our club to do more and get funding for conferences throughout the year.
• If you would like an Anthropology t-shirt from last year, we still have some for sale for $15!
• We now have a club wiki!! Anyone in the club can edit this page whenever they like. It will be a very useful site for us to interact more easily: http://ksuanthroclub.wetpaint.com/.

Upcoming Events:

• On Wednesday, September 22nd we will be having a meet and greet event in Waters 201A. This will be an informal opportunity to get to know other Anthropology majors and professors and to welcome our new professor, Dr. Falcone, to K-State! A few students will be talking about their Anthro-related summer experiences as well. Aaaaand there will be food.
• We are planning a club camp-out on September 25th, but no details set yet.
• Finally, we are holding a book sale as a club fundraiser on September 30th and October 1st. We’ll have a table set up in Bosco Plaza from 8am-1pm both days and we need volunteers to take shifts! Go to the wiki to sign up for a shift.
• All of these events already are or will shortly be on our Facebook page, so check that out!

Conferences! These are a great opportunity to meet other Anthropologists, learn more about the fields you are interested in, or even present your own research. And they’re always a ton of fun to travel to. I will create Facebook events for each of these so that those who want to attend can get registered and make travel plans. Some are sooner than others, but here’s a heads up for all the ones coming up in this year:

• Plains Anthropological Conference – This will be October 6th-9th in Bismarck, North Dakota. This conference is focused on Archaeology, but there will also be presentations related to other Anthro fields. More information: http://www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/plainsanth/meeting/meeting.htm. You can also talk with Professor Ritterbush if this seems like something you’d be interested in!
• American Folklore Society (AFS) Annual Meeting – This will be October 13th-16th in Nashville, Tennessee. More information here (http://www.afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm) or talk with Professor Kershner if you’re interested!
• American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting – This conference is being held in New Orleans November 17th-21st. Some Anthro students are already planning to attend this conference on the 20th and 21st. If you would like to go, it would be a good idea register as a member on AAA’s website (http://www.aaanet.org/membership/join.cfm) so that you can get a reduced price for the conference. Here’s the conference page: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/.
• Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) Annual Meeting – This will be April 7th-9th in Iowa City, Iowa. This conference is usually pretty well attended by members of the club and will probably get funding. Here’s information on the conference: http://www.creighton.edu/groups/csas/annualmeeting/index.php. We’ll plan more for this later on!

Sorry this was so long! We look forward to getting to know more people throughout the semester and year! Please talk to/email any of the officers if you ever have questions/suggestions/whatever.

*courtesy of an email from Prof. Ritterbush

There are a variety of programs this next month that deal with anthropology that you may want to mark you calendars for. The following are all on Channel 11, KTWU (public TV in this area) and should be accessible to those of you with TVs with any cable package.

“Becoming Human” – A three-part special on human evolution
Tuesday, November 3 7:00 pm Part I
Tuesday, November 10 7:00 pm Part II
Tuesday, November 17 7:00 pm Part III

Native American History Month Spotlight
Saturday, November 14 10:00 pm To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey
Sunday, November 15 11:00 pm Jim Thorpe: World’s Greatest Athlete
Sunday, November 22 3:00 pm Summer Sun, Winter Moon (classical composer and Blackfeet Indian poet)
Wednesday, November 25 9:30 pm Lost Bird of Wounded Knee
Sunday, November 29 11:00 pm For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

Other November shows may also fit your interests:
Secrets of the Dead: Airmen and the Headhunters – Wednesday, Nov 11 7:00 pm
Secrets of Shangri-La (archeological) – Wednesday, Nov 18 7:00 pm

Secrets of the Dean: Mumbai Massacre (and social media) – Wednesday, Nov 25 7:00 pm

There are yet others in music (e.g., Beatles in Russia, Woody Guthrie, 1963-68 music on the Ed Sullivan show), comedy (e.g., Bill Cosby receives Mark Twain award), history (e.g., WWII and related shows for Veteran’s day; CCC projects; dust bowl), and nature.
Check out the KTWU schedule online at:

http://ktwu.washburn.edu/schedules/tv091024.htm

Courtesy of KSU Media Relations

(http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/oct09/dengdou100809.html)

ANTI-SLAVERY ACTIVIST TO KICK OFF K-STATE’S 2009-2010 LOU DOUGLAS LECTURE SERIES

MANHATTAN — Anti-slavery activist Simon Deng will launch Kansas State University’s 2009-2010 Lou Douglas Lecture Series on Public Issues with “21st Century Slavery: Living Proof” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the K-State Student Union’s Forum Hall.

The lecture is free and the public is invited.

Deng was forced into slavery when he was 9 years old. As a slave in the northern region of Sudan, his tasks included watching his master’s cattle and cleaning dishes. He was given food scraps to eat, slept on straw and endured regular beatings. After his owners insisted he convert to Islam so he may become accepted as their son, Deng escaped.

(…)

“Many K-State students have shown an interest in global issues, particularly related to human rights and human trafficking,” said Linda Teener, executive director of UFM, the group that organizes the Lou Douglas Lecture Series. “Simon Deng will provide invaluable firsthand insight into these areas from his personal experience.”

Today, Deng is an American citizen and lobbies for the end of slavery across the globe.

**For anyone currently enrolled in Professor Kershner’s ‘Cultures of Africa’ course (and everyone else, for that matter), this lecture would make an excellent complement to the text “They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan.”

For anyone interested in ethnobiology, there are two “student friendly” conferences in British Columbia coming up in May. Check out the links below to learn more about them!

The Society of Ethnobiology Annual Conference
http://ethnobiology.org/conference/upcoming

The International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) Congress
www.ice2010tofino.com

Check out the link below to read about what some are calling “one of the most important (finds) in British archaeological history.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/world/europe/25treasure.html?emc=eta1

The 87th Annual CSAS Meeting is being held on April 7-ll in Madison, Wisconsin. The following link will take you to this year’s CSAS Bulletin where you can find information on the conference as well as on awards. Check out Sarah Trabert, a K-State alumna and winner of the Leslie White award, on page 2.

https://webmail.k-state.edu/service/home/~/CSAS%20Bulletin%20v44n2.pdf?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=7541&part=2

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to the meeting last night! We discussed a variety of upcoming events, and I think we have a lot of interesting things in the making.

Club Fees: First order of business…there will be a small membership fee this year in the amount of five dollars ($5). This money goes towards club activities such as CSAS fees and the end-of-year Graduate shindig. We’ve set a (flexible) deadline of October 31st. The money goes to our Treasurer, Kale Yoder.

Meetings: Our plan is to meet every other Thursday at 7pm. The location is likely to vary, however emails will be sent out, as well as information posted online, as to our whereabouts. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, October 8th at 7pm. Movie Night!! We’ll be watching the film Baraka. Hannah, our club secretary, has been nice enough to let us use her house. Directions will be sent out over email and can be found on our Facebook page.

Activities: A lot of really good ideas were thrown around and discussed. Among these were Movie Nights, Mini-Trips (within a 5-hour radius), Local Workshops, Flint Napping at Tuttle Creek, Kickball (at which we can hopefully get some professors to join in) and Atlatl Throwing. Any other/additional ideas are most welcome and can either be posted here, posted on our Facebook page, or emailed. A major event coming up in the next little while is CSAS. While no concrete plans exist as of yet, you can view more information about the conference above.

Fundraising: Anth Club t-shirts are in the making as you read this and will be sold to make money for future club events. Updated information on the t-shirts will be posted as it becomes available. Another fundraising idea was Bramlage clean-up. The club will be paid to sweep up after games at Bramlage. This is an excellent opportunity to make money for club activities. Anyone interested in volunteering, please contact one of the club officers for more information. Again, any and all fundraising ideas are most welcome!

Website: We encourage anyone and everyone to post their own interesting news/information on our website. All you have to do is register (lower right hand column on this page). To quote an earlier post, “If you come across anything that interests you that you think others in the Anthro Club would be interested in, go ahead and post it, whether it be a video, news link, ranting, etc. Hopefully we can get some good discussion going.”

Hope to see everyone at the next meeting!

Anthro Club Members (and anyone else interested in anthropology) -

Our first club meeting of the fall semester will be Thursday, September 24 (aka: tomorrow) at 7pm. We will be meeting at Hale (2nd floor; Right side). This will be a chance to meet/get to know fellow club members and discuss upcoming events.

Sorry about the late notice!! Hope everyone can make it out!

*email from the anthclub president Danielle Vaughn

Greetings anthros!

There will be a meet and greet on Thursday, September 10 from 11 am -11:30 am in Waters 41. This is an excellent opportunity to meet the anthropology professors, majors, minors, club members, and anyone else interested in the field. Free homemade cookies will be provided! It will be a great time to relax and have fun in between classes! Hope to see you all there!

Danielle Vaughn

**Email from Ian Smith regarding Anthropology Club Elections**

Greetings Anthros!
 It’s that time again, election time, and the Anthropology Club wants
you to get involved. The following officer positions are available and
we would like you to send us an email if you or someone you know is
interested in running.
              Club President
              Vice-President
              Treasurer
              Secretary
              Webmaster
 For those who may be wondering, “What exactly does the Anthropology
Club do?”, and “Why should I get involved?”…here are some facts. The
Anthropology Club gives students a chance to go on great outings with
other Anthros, a recent trip to the Central States Anthropology
Society’s annual meeting and a side trip to the Cahokia archaeological
site went extremely well. It’s a way to learn what your fellow Anthros
are up to, upper and underclassmen alike as well as a way to get to
know faculty outside of a classroom setting.

 By running for an officer position you can have a say in what the
Anthropology Club does. Here’s a chance to get involved in a campus
organization that focuses on your interests as an anthropology major or
minor.

Submissions need to be made by April 28th. Please send your emails to
me, Ian Smith, at icsmith@ksu.edu

  Cheers,
Ian C. Smith
Anthropology Club
Secretary