Undergraduate Symposium

Hey Everybody!

Our Undergraduate Research Symposium is fast approaching! Mark off March 20th on your calendars to see what your peers have been up to this past year.

We are also still accepting submissions! If you’d like to speak at the symposium (it looks great on a CV!), email mas@mcmaster.ca with your abstract.

For more information, click the link!

Anthropology Symposium

Four Corners 2011 Issue 1

Hey Everyone!

We would just like to draw your attention to the Anthropology Society’s newsletter – Four Corners. Our editor, Mac Armgstrong has been working diligently to create this piece, and all that hard work has paid off!
The newsletter features:
- Interviews with USRA funding recipients
- Faculty interview with Dr. Andy Roddick
- Information on the field school McMaster offers (Anthro 3CC6)

Take some time to give it a read. There is also a physical copy on the wall outside the archaeology lab (KTH B122)

Four Corners October 31, 2011

Anthropology Speaker Series IIII

Hello Everyone!

The McMaster Anthropology Society would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to the next Anthropology Speaker Series, featuring Dawn Martin-Hill of McMaster

Where: CNH 607
When: Tuesday Nov 15th, 3:30 – 5:00pm
Topic:
‘The J.B. Hewitt ethnographic collection: from Smithsonian to Six Nations-translating ceremonial research within the Indigenous Knowledge Centre’

All welcome!

Anthropology Speaker Series II

Hello again!

The MAS would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to the second speaker series of the year featuring Dr. John Albanese from the University of Windsor.

Dr. Albanese will be speaking on Race, Typology and Forensic Anthropology: Looking Back so the Discipline Can Move Forward.

Time: 3:30pm – 5pm
Date: Tuesday October 18th
Place: CNH 607

All are welcome!

Please click the link below for more information!!
Dr. John Albanese Flyer

Anthropology Speaker Series

Hello Everyone!

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to the First Anthropology Speaker Series of the year, featuring our very own Dr. Carter.

Where: CNH 607
When: October 4th, 3:30-5:00pm

Dr. Carter’s topic will be: From characterisation to Neolithisation: Using obsidian sourcing to reconstruct interaction networks & the dynamics of socio-economic change in Anatolia 11th-8th millennia BC

Please click to see the flyer below:

Carter flyer

Oct 19th: Meet the Department

Oct 11: Grad School Info Night and First General Meeting

March 22: Undergraduate Symposium

Tomorrow is the annual Undergraduate Symposium!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1:30pm
MUSC 311/313

1:30 Introductions by Dr. Tina Moffat, Undergrad Director of Anthropology
1:40 Astra Ambrister: The Queen Conch in Bahamian Society
2:00 Lori D’orentenzio: Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of
European Glass Trade Beads from the Collection.
2:20 Jen Vander Vecht: Crisis of Trade Paper
2:40 Marta Montero: Collective Memory in Anthropology

3:00-3:30 break for posters
Ana-Maria Dragomir: Myth in Romanian Folklore
Katharine Zagar: Performance, Place and the Archaeologist
Mac Armstrong: RBG poster
Kelly Brown: Abu Hureyra: Obsidian EDXRF Chemical Characterization
Analysis
Julie Edwards and Elizabeth Ouellette: McMaster Field School 2010

3:40 Melinda Spry: HIV/ AIDS and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
4:00 Nathan Garrett: Biopolitics
4:20 Kelly Brown: In Search of an Ethical Archaeology: Politics,
Responsibility and Stewardship

Refreshments will be provided, and you can drop in whenever you like.

See you there!

Elections for 2011-2012 Executive

If you’ve been interested in joining the MAS as an executive member, now is your chance! We will be holding elections for the following positions:

• Secretary
• Publicity
• Newsletter Editor
• Social Chair
• University Liaison
• Year Representatives from all levels

President, Vice President, Treasurer and Symposium Coordinator must be from the returning MAS 2010-11 executive members.

The duties for each position can be found on our Facebook event.

Wedesday, March 9, 2011
Commons B105
2:30-3:30pm

Undergraduate Research Symposium – Call for Papers!

It’s the best time of the year!

If you’ve written an anthropology paper you’re proud of, and that paper involves original research, you should definitely present at our annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Faculty, staff, graduate students and undergraduate students gather for an afternoon of presentations.

What would you have to do?

• If presenting a paper, prepare a 10-15 minute presentation on your research.
• It will include your thesis/research questions, steps, research, findings, and conclusion.
• Answer questions from the audience.

If you don’t want to present in front of a group, you are also allowed to turn your paper into a poster. There will be a designated time for viewing posters, and for the authors to answer questions about their research.

Presenting gives you public speaking experience and looks great on your CV.

If you want to submit a paper or a poster, email the abstract to mas@mcmaster.ca.

The submission deadline is February 22, 2011. The Symposium will be held March 22, 2011.