Upcoming Events
FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES
Monday, October 17th
3:00 p.m.
Dickinson Hall, Room 371
“Phylogenomics Reveals the Evolution of Anti-Bat Strategies in the Megadiverse Butterflies and Moths”
by Dr. Akito Kawahara
Assistant Curator, Lepidoptera
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
POTLATCH 2016
Greetings Anthro Friends!
The time is fast approaching for our 2016 Potlatch celebration. For those who are unfamiliar with this tradition, Potlatch is our annual departmental fête brimming with music, food, fun, a skit (this year compliments of the faculty), a book sale, a silent and live auction, and of course, adult beverages. In addition to being an all-around good time, Potlatch helps us raise money for things in our department like travel awards- meaning you can spend more time editing your conference paper and less time worrying about how you’re going to get there!
This year Potlatch will be held on Saturday, October 22nd, at the residence of Dr. Murray, so please mark your calendars. We will be sending out more details shortly.
In preparation for this year’s silent and live auctions, we would like to remind Potlatch elders to return their legacy items for redistribution in this year’s celebration- “To retain that thing would be dangerous and mortal” (Mauss 1990:16). Also, we would like to open up donations for this year’s silent auction. Silent auctions items can be anything from homemade crafts to summer fieldwork souvenirs or items that have been taking up space on your shelves for too long. Remember that the silent auction is another means to raise funds for your department, so please be generous with donations. All donated and legacy items can be placed in the mailroom collection box, no later than October 14th.
Please join us in making this the best Potlatch since last year.
Sincerely, Your 2016 Potlatch Steering Committee
2016 Potlatch Celebration 10/22/2016
Spring 2017 Textbook Adoptions
The textbook adoption system for Spring 2017 is now available to faculty and
departments to submit their Spring 2017 textbook adoptions and materials
requirements. Please visit http://www.textadoption.ufl.edu/ to enter Spring
2017 adoptions. You will notice a small change to the adoption system effective
this term. When entering an adoption, you will see an “Adoption Agreement”
that states the following:
Per federal and state regulations (found at: Textbook Affordability Statute (1004.085, Florida Statutes)
and Textbook Affordability Statute (1004.085, Florida Statutes) , course instructors are responsible in determining when a newly marketed
textbook edition differs substantively from the previous edition. If this textbook adoption contains a book that is a new edition
for the course, the course instructor has determined the difference between the old and new edition is significant enough to
warrant adopting the new edition. Also, all items, whether listed individually or as a bundled package, are required for use in the course unless described as recommended instead. Click “I Agree” to indicate the federal and state regulation requirements have been read and continue to textbook adoption, or click “Cancel” to return to the previous page.
Otherwise the system remains unchanged from previous semesters. The deadline
for Spring 2017 adoptions is October 31, 2016. This date coincides with the
beginning of advance registration and when students can view their course
textbook and materials requirements. This information is also available online to
all bookstores to help them ensure appropriate arrival of texts and better prices
for student book buybacks.
Knowledge of course textbook and materials requirements helps students
balance their course loads based on reading demands and financial needs –
including the purchasing of books.
Timely entry of this information also provides students their best opportunity to
sell books back at higher prices. Bookstores typically will not offer to buy back
texts unless the text is listed as being used the next semester.
Timely posting of textbook adoptions has the strong support of the student body,
and it is a law in Florida Statutes. UF students continue to endorse the availability
of textbook information online and have indicated it aids in course selection.
For compliance-monitoring purposes, the final deadline date to submit text
adoptions for Spring courses is November 20, 2016.
If you have any questions about the textbook adoption submission process,
please contact the textbook adoption website administrator at (352) 294-3355 or
email: TextAdoption-WebHelp@bsd.ufl.edu.
Africa and Migrations working group seminar
Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia. Cultural Festivals: Archives of Tradition for Global Migrants. Monday, Oct. 17, 3:30 in 404 GR
Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia
Cultural festivals in Africa take a plethora of forms and rationales, ranging from the education of youth to the entertainment of international tourists. Such festivals owe their original format to cultural experimentation in the context of colonial exhibitions. In cultural exchanges between the metropolis and the colony, the idea of African ‘civilisation’ and its cultural forms first took shape and was then elaborated in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966). This talk analyses the Cultural Festival of Thilogne, Senegal, at which several traditions were performed for a range of audiences, including the town’s migrants who constitute a global diaspora. Whilst the festival functions as a repository of traditional cultural forms, it simultaneously operates as a stage at which members of the audience present themselves as global subjects. The talk explores the paradox of a cultural festival that mediates modernity to a global diaspora by constituting an archive of tradition.
Additional Items of Interest
Call for Applicants
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is pleased to announce the lineup for our ninth annual Student-Faculty Workshops, which will take place on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis. These workshops provide a wonderful opportunity for graduate students to meet with other students and a leading scholar, all of whom are working on a common theme. This year’s workshops will be held on Saturday, November 19, from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. We are pleased to offer the following five workshops:
Julie Chu and Jennifer Cole (University of Chicago): “Anthropology of Migration and Travel”
Angela Jenks (Teaching Tools/University of California, Irvine): “Teaching Anthropology”
Eduardo Kohn (McGill University): “The Anthropocene”
William Mazzarella (University of Chicago): “Anthropology of Mass Publicity”
Bhrigupati Singh (Brown University): “Ethnographic Inquiry of Philosophical Concerns”
To keep conversations lively and intimate, each workshop will be limited to five students. The workshops are free and lunch will be provided by the SCA. However, preference will be given to SCA members. As a student, you can join the SCA for just $15.
To be considered for one of this year’s workshops, please fill out the brief application form no later than October 31, 2016. You will be asked to supply a 250 to 300-word description of your research project and its relation to the workshop theme. In addition, you are encouraged to raise a specific question for the workshop’s faculty leader and other workshop participants to discuss. Descriptions will be shared with all participants in advance of the meeting. Your workshop’s faculty leader may also circulate one short piece for discussion.
If you have any questions, please email Darren Byler, graduate student representative to the SCA board, at dtbyler@gmail.com
Off The Beaten Track
summer field school for anthropologists and social scientists
SCHOLARSHIP CALL
This call is aimed at budding researchers with creative and open minds towards the challenges of applied research. We offer a unique learning opportunity in a multidisciplinary research project on the isle of Gozo, Malta. Expeditions and the University of Leuven offer a 20.000 euro scholarship fund to cover part or all of the tuition fee for the 2017 Malta Summer School. Scholarships are granted on a competitive basis, based on a research proposal.
Eligible candidates
– Undergraduate and graduate students
– PhD students
– Everyone with a genuine interest in anthropology
– Previous participants of the project
Selection is NOT based on academic merit, originality or complexity. We aim for enthusiasm, dedication and creativity.
More info and online application on www.anthropologyfieldschool.org
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And browse to our open access online journal: www.omertaa.org
2016 Schmink Innovation Award
The Schmink Innovation Award seeks to ensure the long-term impact of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program around the world by catalyzing new ideas and innovative approaches and by enabling shared learning throughout the tropics. This new TCD award is funded by an endowment that honors Dr. Marianne Schmink for her extraordinary contributions to conservation and development and her long-term leadership of the TCD Program. Award winners will receive up to $1,200 to implement their ideas.
The goal of the Schmink Innovation Award is to support the development and application of innovative approaches and programs that address human well-being, economic development, and biodiversity conservation of tropical and subtropical regions. TCD defines innovation as a novel approach, idea, or practice that holds promise to be a more effective way of achieving results. This innovative approach is not “business as usual” nor is it innovative simply because it is “new”. Rather, it is innovative because it tackles complex conservation and development problems in fundamentally different ways than have been tried before. We envision the Schmink Innovation Award as a mechanism to empower the creative process and application of innovative approaches to advancing tropical conservation and development.
We are particularly interested in supporting innovations that enable shared learning. Schmink Innovation Awards are expected to complement TCD’s on-going successful campus and field-based activities. Successful proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following activities:
- New initiatives to build capacity and/or kick off collaborative research
- Networking activities between TCD alumni, students, and partners to exchange ideas and instill further collaboration
- Extensions or applications of research to address concrete practical and policy challenges
Criteria for selection
Proposals will be judged on the following criteria:
- Innovation: Demonstrates novel and creative approaches
- Relevance: Relevant to tropical conservation and development issues
- Impact: Holds promise to instigate change or be potentially transformative
- Potential: Opportunity exists for replication and adaptation by others
Eligibility
- TCD faculty, students, alumni, or partners are eligible to apply for the award.
- Proposals are reviewed and ranked by an interdisciplinary committee that includes UF faculty and TCD alumni or partners with expertise in conservation and development issues.
- A TCD student may be a Principal Investigator (PI) on only one Schmink Innovation Award per degree program. Student co-PIs are encouraged.
- This award is not intended to support Master’s or Ph.D. research (see the TCD field research grants web page for more information)
- Preference will be given to applicants who are associated with UF’s TCD program.
Application Requirements
- A completed application form
- A completed budget form
- Curriculum Vitae (limit to 3 pages) of Principal Investigator(s)
- A proposal limited to 5 single-spaced pages in length, not including the bibliography and clearly specifying the activities to be conducted as part of the award, including:
- Description of anticipated products of the collaboration
- The qualifications of the individual or team
- Reason why these activities are innovative
Application Deadline: November 14, 2016
Electronic submission required:
- Please send documents as single PDF
- Required documents in the same order as listed above
- Recommendation and support letters should be sent directly by email to the contact below.
Information:
Patricia Sampaio
Program Coordinator
343 Grinter Hall
E-mail: psampaio@latam.ufl.edu