[Anthsoc] Upcoming events and opportunities for Anthropology students

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Hey everyone!

AnthSoc would like to inform all Anthropology students about two upcoming
special events/opportunities:

1. The Silver Medal Lecture

The Anthropology Department's 2009 Silver Medal lecture and the presentation
of the Silver Medal and Sally Weaver awards will take place on Friday
October 16 at 7:30 in the evening in room EIT 1015 of UW's Centre for
Environmental and Information Technology, the building just south of the
Davis Centre.

The lecture will be given by Canadian writer and popularizer of
archaeological knowledge Heather Pringle. Author of "In Search of Ancient
North America: An Archaeological Journey to Forgotten Cultures" and many
magazine articles on archaeological topics, and currently author of a blog
for Archaeology magazine, her lecture will be entitled "The Barenaked
Archaeologist: Telling Tales of the Past out of School and in the Media." It
will address how archaeologists might better convey the importance and
interest of archaeology to the public, based on what she describes as 25
years of observation of how archaeologists communicate to the public and
amongst themselves.

Heather's lecture is free. It will be followed by a reception in the same
building, to which everyone is invited.

2. The Ontario Archaeological Society Annual Symposium

The Anthropology Department is hosting the Ontario Archaeological Society's
annual symposium here on campus on Saturday October 17 and Sunday October
18. The symposium is not free--it will cost students $30 to attend if they
register this week (unless they volunteer to assist putting on the
symposium, in which case they will be able to attend part of the symposium
for free).

Why students might want to attend an archaeology symposium like this one:

* You get an opportunity to listen to a variety of speakers, and hear about
research so current that it hasn't been published yet. Conferences are often
where researchers first present new data and ideas in order to get feedback
from other archaeologists, so you can be part of the process of refining new
theories and approaches.

* In addition to university-based academic archaeologists, you'll get an
opportunity to hear from consulting and government archaeologists--the
researchers who are doing most of the fieldwork today and providing most of
the employment opportunities for young archaeologists.

* Students are welcome at all symposium events, including the banquet. Thus,
you're likely to meet other students who share your interest in archaeology.

* Unlike in the classroom, where professors can drone on and on for an hour
or more, conference papers are just 20 miniutes long. So good papers tend to
be clear and concise, and the occasional bad paper at least can't go on too
long!

* Joining the OAS and attending its annual conferences is an ideal way to
know what's going on in Ontario archaeology, and to get to know the
archaeologists doing the research. For students with serious ambitions to
pursue archaeology as a career, membership in a society like the OAS is
useful--for example, the application form for an Ontario Archaeologist's
License asks what societies you belong to.

To find out more about the symposium and about Heather's lecture, and to
register for the symposium, go here: http://oas2009.uwaterloo.ca or contact
Dr. Park (rwpark at uwaterloo.ca).
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