<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div>Dear Anth Majors,</div><div><br></div><div>I was asked to distribute this opportunity to you all. Please see below for information on the American Anthropological Association Poster Session.</div>
<div>-Stacy</div><div><div><div><div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Deb Rotman [<a href="mailto:rotman.1@nd.edu" target="_blank">mailto:rotman.1@nd.edu</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 17, 2014 3:37 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Invitation ~ AAA Undergraduate Poster Session 2014<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY (with apologies if you receive this more than once).</span></b><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Dear Colleagues ~<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> Please encourage your students to participate in this annual poster session at the American Anthropological Association meetings featuring undergraduate student research. This is our ninth year
and we keep growing! <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>First Rites: Innovative Undergraduate Research in Anthropology</span></b><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style>Undergraduate students are an increasingly important element in the production of anthropological knowledge. In its best form, undergraduate research can be seen as an apprenticeship,
wherein the novitiate is granted a partnership and some degree of agency in pushing the boundaries of and crossing into new frontiers of shared knowledge. Collaboration with undergraduate students in research is one of the important ways we can facilitate
innovation within our discipline. Their research breaks down classroom/research boundaries, focuses on the importance of experiential learning, and exploits the naiveté and vigor of students not yet indoctrinated into paradigmatic complacency. Undergraduate
students can be agents and partners in reshaping the landscape of anthropology. The importance of undergraduate research and scholarly activity is underscored both in financial support by federal-level agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health, and the growing number of faculty-student collaborations in anthropology departments across the globe. Through their engagement, undergraduate students challenge current boundaries and present
their findings in the inter-disciplinary medium of visual posters to enrich anthropological inquiry into the human experience.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">This session is generously sponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology. Students are encouraged to highlight both their work and their visual acumen via research posters of their projects. The SVA will evaluate
all entries in this session and recognize exemplary posters – that is, those that maximize the possibilities of the format – with a prize.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Interest students must</span></b><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>(1) Become a student member of the AAA, if they have not already.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>(2) Register for the conference at
<a href="http://www.aaanet.org" target="_blank">www.aaanet.org</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>(3) Upload their poster title and abstract
<b>by April 10</b>. Our session is sponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology, so please indicate them as the reviewer. Choose “First Rites: Innovative Undergraduate Research in Anthropology” as the poster session in which you would like to participate.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>(4) Send Dr. Deb Rotman (<a href="mailto:drotman@nd.edu" target="_blank">drotman@nd.edu</a>) a copy of the following information<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> Student name(s)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> Poster abstract<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>We had 44 students from 21 different institutions participate last year and look forward to even greater participation this year! All questions may be sent to Dr. Deb Rotman at the email address above.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Warm regards, Deb Rotman <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Dr. Deb Rotman, RPA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Paul and Maureen Stefanick Faculty Director<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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