Third Annual
Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium
Student Conference
Friday, 10 March 2006 9:00-5:30 pm Tishman Commons (LWC-105) Lulu Chow Wang Center Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Conference Schedule |
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| 9:00 | Arrival & Speaker Check-In | |
| Light Refreshments | ||
| 9:15 | Welcoming Remarks | |
| Anastasia Karakasidou, Anthropology Chair, Wellesley College Adele Wolfson, Associate Dean, Wellesley College |
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| 9:30 | Panel 1 - Ritual & Naturalization | |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | "Masculine Identity Among Male Distance Runners" Arielle Aaronson (Tufts) |
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| 9:45 - 10:00 | "Adopting Maize in the Eastern Woodlands of North America" Kimberly Allegretto (Brandeis) |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 | "The Modern Bar Mitzvah Ceremony: The After-Party as Counter-Ritual" Mara Judd (Tufts) |
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| 10:15 - 10:25 | Discussant: Mark Auslander (Brandeis) | |
| 10:25 - 10:30 | Audience Questions | |
| 10:35 | Panel 2 - Social Medicine & The Politics of Health | |
| 10:35 - 10:50 | "Culture, Politics, & Health: Approaches to Tuberculosis Control in Russia & the United States" Vera Belitsky (Tufts) |
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| 10:50 - 11:05 | "Disease Etiology & Treatment Choice of the Tsimane'" Amy Silverstein (Brandeis) |
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| 11:05 - 11:20 | "Cancer Incidence among California Farmworkers" Laurn Contreras (Wellesley) |
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| 11:20 - 11:30 | Discussant: Sarah Pinto (Tufts) | |
| 11:30 - 11:35 | Audience Questions | |
| 11:40 | Panel 3 - Urban Sites & Social Locations | |
| 11:40 - 11:55 | "Chinatown: Site of Eternal Deviance" Philana Woo (Wellesley) |
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| 11:55 - 12:10 | "Modelo Juan XXIII: Managing the Effects of the Export-Manufacturing Industry on Urban Health in La Zona de Santiago, Dominican Republic" Loretta Stein (Brandeis) |
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| 12:10 - 12:25 | "The Influence of Location on Infertility Social Perspectives & Treatment Strategies in Senegal" Shoshana Maxwell (Wellesley) |
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| 12:25 - 12:35 | Discussant: Meg Grady-Troia (Brandeis) | |
| 12:35 - 12:40 | Audience Questions | |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
| 12:40 - 1:40 | ||
| 1:40 | Panel 4 - Interactive Technology & Community | |
| 1:40 - 1:55 | "RedQuEEn! From Virtual to Actual: An Enquiry into an Online Imagined Community" Caroline Ong (Wellesley) |
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| 1:55 - 2:10 | "Bridging Worlds: How Offline Relationships Affect Online Sociality in World of Warcraft" Drew Harry (Olin) |
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| 2:10 - 2:25 | "Framing Play: Early Thoughts on Interactive Environments" Alex Toplansky (Brandeis) |
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| 2:25 - 2:40 | "Internet Meetups and Community" Sean Munson (Olin) |
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| 2:40 - 2:50 | Discussant: David Jacobson (Brandeis) | |
| 2:50 - 2:55 | Audience Questions | |
| 3:00 | Panel 5 - Visual Dimensions of Cultural Expression | |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | "Bye Bye, Time to go Home: Paintings from the Kakuma Refugee Camp" Robin Hancock (Brandeis) |
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| 3:15 - 3:30 | "Voice Through Film: A Visual Study of Indigenous Media in Southern Mexico" Jefferson Arak (Brandeis) |
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| 3:30 - 3:45 | "The Cosmological Signifcance of the Scroll Motif in the Rock Carvings of Chalcatzingo" Arnaud Lambert (Brandeis) |
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| 3:45 - 3:55 | Discussant: Peter Probst (Tufts) | |
| 3:55 - 4:00 | Audience Questions | |
| 4:05 | Panel 6 - Memory, Commemoration & Performance | |
| 4:05 - 4:20 | "'Highly Evolved:' Managing the Accordionist's Identity in America" Jerzy Wieczorek (Olin) |
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| 4:20 - 4:35 | "Holocaust Memorialization and Genocide Intervention: Contradictions in the United States" Sarah Bettigole (Tufts) |
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| 4:35 - 4:50 | "'He Sits on the Rock of Joy:' Epic Voice, the Kalevala, and the Genesis of Finnish Nationalism" Stephan Edwards (Brandeis) |
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| 4:50 - 5:00 | Discussant: Anastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley) | |
| 5:00 - 5:05 | Audience Questions | |
| 5:05 | Reception | |
| 5:05 - 5:30 | ||