Undergraduate Poster Session at AAA conference
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame will be hosting a poster session featuring undergraduate student research at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, November 16-20,2011. The session is being sponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology, who will also be holding a competition for most innovative use of the poster as a means of visually presenting anthropological knowledge. (More details to follow later.) The session abstract is included below.
If you have a student working on original research, please encourage them to participate. Online submission will not be available through the AAA website (www.aaanet.org) until March 1. To participate in the poster session, students must
(1) become members of the AAA,
(2) register for the conference, and
(3) send their name, affiliation, project title, and 250-word abstract to Dr. Deb Rotman at drotman@nd.edu no later than noon, Friday, March 11. (Our session is being considered for invited status and that deadline is March 15.) Given the sponsorship of this event by the Society for Visual Anthropology, students are encouraged to address in their abstracts how the poster will be used as a visual medium of representation of anthropological knowledge.
We hope your students will join us! Warm regards, Deb Rotman and Agustín Fuentes
Session Abstract ~ First Rites: Innovative Undergraduate Research in Anthropology
Undergraduate students are an increasingly important element in the production of anthropological knowledge. This importance 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. Undergraduate students working closely with anthropology faculty build a critical foundation for professional development that is unparalleled in other aspects of their college curricula and academic life. Through these experiences, students develop vital skills and an intimate understanding of anthropological processes, research development and execution, and presentation of one’s results to a scholarly audience. In short, undergraduate students have agency in the production of modern anthropology. This session is sponsored the Society for Visual Anthropology and a prize will be given to the student with the most innovative use of the poster as a means of visually presenting anthropological knowledge.
Dr. Deb Rotman, RPA
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame
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Notre Dame IN 46556
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