[Anthsoc] Fwd: FW: DEADLINE Approaching ~ AAA Undergraduate Poster Session

[UW Anthropology Society]

FYI

AAA Undergraduate Poster Session. Please see the email below.

-Stacy



*From:* Deb Rotman [mailto:rotman.1 at nd.edu]
*Sent:* Monday, March 31, 2014 9:49 AM
*Cc:* Jonathan S. Marion; Fiona McDonald; Liam Buckley
*Subject:* DEADLINE Approaching ~ AAA Undergraduate Poster Session



*PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY (with apologies if you receive this more than
once).*



Dear Colleagues ~

                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!



*First Rites: Innovative Undergraduate Research in Anthropology*

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.

*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. *

*Interest students must*

(1) Become a student member of the AAA, if they have not already.



(2) Register for the conference at www.aaanet.org.



(3) Upload their poster title and abstract *by April 10*. 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.



(4) Send Dr. Deb Rotman (drotman at nd.edu) a copy of the following information



                Student name(s)

                Email contact(s)

                Poster title

                Poster abstract



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.



Warm regards,

Dr. Deb Rotman, RPA

Paul and Maureen Stefanick Faculty Director

Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE)

University of Notre Dame

*110 BROWNSON HALL*

Notre Dame IN 46556

574-631-7125

*Spring 2014 Office Hours: Mondays 3-5 pm; Fridays 1-3 pm; and by
appointment.*

*Please note that CUSE may be inaccessible to people with mobility
disabilities; I would be happy to meet you in an accessible location if you
would prefer.*
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