[Anthsoc] Anthropology Silver Medal and Sal Weaver Awards plus Halloween celebrations

[Colin Wallace]

There are two events that you should be aware of. First, we would like 
to remind you of the */Anthropology Silver Medal and Sal Weaver Awards. 
/*Please view the official invite for the silver medal awards below.

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Secondly The Anthropology society would like to invite you to an 
informal Halloween get together to be held on Monday October 31st 
starting at 7PM. Come in costume!!
Potential activities:

    Pumpkin carving (good practise for forensics)
    Movie watching  (cultural observation)
    Candy consumption (studying release of endorphins)
    *Be*v*er*age consumption (ritualistic)
    Games

    RSVP for the secret location. (Near Uptown)
    Warning" Canus Domesticus will be present.1

 

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Department of Anthropology
University of Waterloo 

invites you to  

*/The Anthropology Silver Medal and Sal Weaver Awards/* 

at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 28, 2005 in AL 105

Guest speaker will be *Dr. Marcel Danesi *from The University of Toronto
 

His lecture is entitled/: /

/A//The X-Factor: /

/The Unconscious Power of Pictograph in Pop Culture//@///

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/Everything from movies to sports names are being named, marketed, and 
conceptualized with the same twenty-fourth letter of the English 
alphabet//C//the letter //A//X.//@// There//=//s Nissan//=//s X-Terra 
model; there are X-treme sports; there//=//s the movie action hero 
//A//Triple X;//@// there are XXX movies; and the list could go and on. 
The letter X has become synonymous with youth, danger, and all the 
X-citing things that our modern culture makes available (pun intended). 
But is that all there is to this simple, yet apparently powerful, sign? 
This lecture will look at the meanings of X as used in pop culture and 
advertising as a template for evaluating modern society. /

    Following the talk and presentation of the Silver Medal, a Reception 
will follow in PAS 3005,  5:00-6:30, at which the Anthropology Section 
will announce the 2005 winner of  the / Sal Weaver Memorial Tuition 
Scholarship/ in honour of our late colleague and friend, Sal Weaver, who 
taught in the Anthropology Department for over 25 years.

 

 

ALL ARE WELCOME






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