Anthropology Club

Opportunity is knocking. Answer the call. Are you interested in experiencing another culture? Acquiring international work experience? Helping others help themselves? If you’re genuinely interested in making a real difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the world—the Peace Corps could be the perfect opportunity for you.

A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer will host information meetings at Kansas State University and discuss the application process, benefits and challenges of service, Master’s International and Fellows USA graduate programs, and qualifying for assignments. A 15-minute video detailing life in the Peace Corps will also be shown during the presentations.

The Peace Corps serves more than 70 countries and offers international work assignments in education, youth outreach and community development; business development; environment; agriculture; health; and information technology. (more…)

We had our first meeting of the semester this Tuesday. It was a wondrous time with old members and new!

We voted that the annual bbq will be Tuesday, September 23 from 6-8pm at Poyntz Shelter in City Park. The club will provide hotdogs, hamburgers, crackers and drinks. We ask that you either bring a side dish or $2 to contribute. Besides good grub and hangin’ out, we will also have a stereo, so bring some tunes (aka cd’s)! And don’t forget your game face because we’ve got plans in that regard as well. (more…)

This is a busy season for meetings and conferences.  For those of you who are especially interested in archaeology, I encourage you to take advantage of these meetings to start learning about this profession outside of the classroom and to start networking. (more…)

Read about the video prepared by Dr. Prins with two of our former students, Adam Bohannan and Jessie Stone in the following press release.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/sept08/docustudents91108.html

Hey everyone,

We have officers for next year!
Congratulations to:

Janae Haskell–President
Amanda Stueve–Vice President
Sarah Hutchison–Treasurer
Danielle Wingfield–Secretary
Jessie Dean–Webmaster

Dr. Wesch will continue to be our faculty advisor

Amanda Stueve

Open House is this Saturday from 9 – 2 in the Student Union and we are hoping to show visitors how wonderful our anthropology program is. You can help in 4 ways:

1. Pictures!  If you have any pictures of yourself doing fantastic anthropological activities (traveling, researching, etc.), please bring them to my office or leave them in my box in Waters 204 so I can incorporate them into the display.
2. Videos!  If you have created a video that you would like to show at Open House, please send me the file or the link so we can show it. We’ll have our video productions on a loop to display to visitors.
3. Games!  If you have an idea for an anthropological game or activity, please let me know.
4. Help!  Join us on Saturday.  It can be really fun.  There will be lots of kids and people genuinely interested in hearing more about what we do.  We will begin setup here in my office (Waters 206) at 8:15 am, carrying everything over to the Union at that time.  Events run to 2 pm and we will need some people to help taking it down and returning materials to Waters.  E-mail me if you would like to help, or just show up on Saturday.  All are welcome!

Thanks, and I hope to see some of you on Saturday!

Prof Wesch
mwesch@ksu.edu

Sapiens Symposium conference schedule (revised) – the times have been slightly modified.

3:15 Kelly Marshall – Public and Environmental Health Program in Southern Kenya

3:25 Andrew Elliot & Dan Elliot – Rendering Language Visible: Linguistic Relativism, Language Mapping, and Their Implications for Linguistic Anthropology and Cognitive Linguistics (more…)

Schedule for March 25th – A more detailed break down will be posted once we finalize the submissions.
2:30 – 3:45   Session one

3:45 – 4:00    Break

4:00 – 5:15    Session two

Each presenter will have 15 minutes, depending on how many submissions we receive.

Update: *We’ve decided to push the abstract submission date back to March 7th to give people more time to think about participating. The conference date has also been finalized for March 25th. Look for the schedule – will be posted soon!* 

The Sapiens Symposium is an event dedicated to a collaboration of student knowledge concerning issues of human experience and interaction. Through the exchange of wisdom, the Sapiens Symposium serves as a platform for like-minded individuals to present and discuss topics that each find important to their respective field of study. It is in the hopes of its organizers that the Sapiens Symposium will cultivate an increased awareness of and tolerance for the many facets of the human condition in a global village.

* The Sapiens Symposium is a great opportunity to gain experience presenting your own research to your peers and distinguished professionals. (more…)

Jane C. Waldbaum Archaeological Field School Scholarship

The Archaeological Institute of America is pleased to announce the Waldbaum Field School Scholarship for summer 2008. Established in honor of AIA Past President Jane Waldbaum, this scholarship provides $1000 each for up to five successful applicants to help pay expenses associated with participation on an archaeological excavation or survey project (minimum stay: one month). (more…)