December 11th, 2008
EARLY CFP:Anthropology Student Conference in April 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Anthropology Department at the University of South Carolina invites students to participate in the South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference on April 18th, 2009.
This conference will feature student presenters at both the undergraduate and graduate level and will provide a friendly forum to practice submitting a proposal and presenting a conference paper. This forum also allows for students to receive constructive feedback from fellow students and professors on their work-in- progress. It also provides a great venue to meet people with similar research interests and to learn more about the Anthropology program at the University of South Carolina. Attendance of this event is open to the public.
Papers should be anthropological in nature and concerned with understanding and explore humanity from a comprehensive and holistic approach. This includes the study of human origins, variation, language, societies (institutions, beliefs, social relations, and all the other aspects of human culture), past or present. We want to encourage the participation of students interested in the study of Anthropology in this conference, which is organized by students with student research in mind.
Abstracts should be 250 words or less and be submitted by February 27th. Should you have any questions at all about the conference, please contact scasc09@gmail.com
Fees: In the past the fee has been about $8 – $10 and covers lunch. We want to include not only anthropology students, but also others in history, geography, sociology, religion, philosophy, etc. who meet the guidelines.
Please share this news with faculty and students.
Lisa B. Randle
Site Coordinator
UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project
Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424
(843) 953-1923
(843) 953-1924 fax
http://www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld
November 12th, 2008
A New Day Dawning for Human Rights
This is the first in a series of articles that deals with the kinds of human rights abuses that occurred under the Bush Administration. It also discusses the potential changes that the new USA administration may initiate. The subject is important for social scientists and others concerned with questions of equity and justice in the treatment of those who are frequently referred to as “other(s).”
October 14th, 2008
COMING SOON: IRISH AMERICAN FOLKLORE IN NEW ENGLAND
Author: E. Moore Quinn
Abstract:
Informed by analysis from classic and state of the art folklore scholarship, anthropological poetics, ethnic studies and recovery research on the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852), this scholarly monograph serves as a collection and analysis of “as-remembered” Irish-American folklore from New England and as such is an
unparalleled study of Irish-American historical memory. The primary research materials have been gathered from the descendants of Irish- born emigrants who settled in New England after 1845. Many of the informants have a heritage of mentifact (or verbal art), sociofact (or behavioral tradition), and artifact (or remains of a material culture). Scholars will have at their disposal a detailed study of Irish verbal art by which to understand how certain characteristics of an ethnic group’s consciousness have been defined and replicated in practice over time. Types of Famine-related and post-Famine folkloric forms continue to define aspects of Irish American ethnic consciousness. The massive psychic trauma of Famine and flight as well as the lively traditions of song and storytelling provide a rich cultural resource to the investigator. And this research is at last available to other researchers and students of the social sciences.