Minutes from Nov. 14th Meeting
Hello!
Goodbye!
Minutes for October 31st Meeting
Happy Halloween!
Next film series showing is Monday, Nov. 7 at 4:30
Mugs Fundraiser
- Plastic (travel) or ceramic? Informal poll to see.
- Last time this fundraiser was done, mugs were bought for $4 and sold for $10
- sell shot glasses as well?
Mentor Match
- Still going strong. No new participants.
Protest Conference
- Spanish Department is already doing one
- Still want to have our own, maybe Spring of 2013. Should start working on it now, looking for a keynote speaker, finding money, etc.
Minutes from October 17th Meeting
10/17/2011
Hello!
Funding page
Add something to the department website with different anthropology related grants listed, along with some information and due dates. Could include information for both undergrads and grads.
- hyperlinks to application pages?
- through wordpress and ask the department to link to it? through the WIN site?
Halloween party
Sunday, Oct. 30th at Dr. Kenoyer’s house. Be there!
Goodbye!
Minutes from the October 3rd meeting
10/3/2011
We’re official!
All events need to be approved before being posted. Sometimes takes as long as a day.
Film Series
First film is today at 4:30 in room 5230
Treasury Update
Vote to digitize the records. Approved!
We have about $500 in our account at the start of this year
Fundraisers
Mugs and/or t-shirts. Planning right now for a November/December start date.
- Potential to sell them during the pizza fundraiser. Possibly give free coffee with mug purchase.
New Logo
Next meeting we’ll talk about what we think, if we want additional/alternate logos, etc. You can check it out on the Mentor Match poster
Majors Fair
Need to make a poster
Mentor Match
Tons of people have expressed interest (20!), but they’re mostly archaeologists. Cultural TAs should promote it in their sections.
If you’re interested in being a mentor, contact Tegan or Cappy.
Diversity Letter
Not done yet, but it’s getting close. If you’re interested in adding or contributing to it, contact Joe or join the AnthroAction facebook group.
Once it’s done, we can submit it to local newspaper, etc. We should come up with a plan closer to when it’s finished.
Grad student conference?
We have the Colloquium series, but it might also be a good idea to have people gather and present on one day (including people from other universities).
- Money? How much would it cost?
- Where on campus would we hold it?
- Faculty sponsor? Good first step might be to propose the conference at the next faculty meeting.
- If not a formal conference, we could invite people to spend a couple minutes talking about what they’re studying. It would open up the opportunity for new connections to be made in the department, and to promote some grad student camaraderie.
- Maybe start small with a one day conference in lieu of the Colloquium Series next semester?
- A “7 slides, 7 minutes” style mini-conference? Another information option.
Speaker funds
AnthroCircle is elegible to apply for funding to bring speakers to campus.
- Unclear how much money is offered. Won’t cover all the costs, but may be as much as a couple thousand.
- Geared towards undergraduates. If we can also figure out how to appeal to the broader university community we have a better chance of getting the grant.
Is this the same as the University Lecture funding? Alison has put together one of those applications before and has the materials.
Bring ideas for speakers to the next meeting
Colin Goddard
He’s a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre speaking on the dangers of bringing guns to campus.
How can we support him? Space, publicity, etc. We can’t reserve space through AnthroCircle, but we can petition the department and see what they can do.
Anthro recipes
Submit recipes to Matthew and he will post them to the blog. If we get enough we can consider making a book.
Updated Info for the Fall 2011 Semester
After our first meeting (minutes below), there are lots of updates to the blog! Check out our new list of Colloquia and Anthropological Films, as well as the new officers and ongoing info about the Mentor Match program.
Our next meeting will be in two weeks, on Monday, October 3rd at 3:45pm in room 6228 of the Social Sciences Building. Then, following the meeting, join us for our first Anthropological Film Initiative screening, at 4:30pm in room 5230. The film, Osama, will be followed by a brief discussion. More info about the film here
Minutes from September 19th Meeting
9/19/2011
Welcome back!
Club registration:
We’re still not officially registered as a club for the year. It’s been submitted, just haven’t heard anything yet. Inquiries have been made, and it doesn’t really affect anything in particular yet (apart from getting a mailbox, certain restrictions on room reservations, fundraisers, etc).
New website for registered clubs with new and exciting features.
– we’ll have access to different listservs (as well as the ability to create our own)
– can also use club website to create events that will be broadcast to campus
– host documents
Officers: Just who are they, anyway?
- President: Joe Quick
- Co-VPs: Ken Seligson and Christina Cappy
- Co-Treasurers: John Garrison and Lauren Glover
- Secretary: Heather O’Connor
Mentor Match:
Mentor Match is a program that matches undergrads with grad students in anthropology. Advice and help on their specific interests, applying to grad school, getting a job in athropology, just a freshman who’s curious about anthro, etc.
Last year began matching up senior anthropology majors with freshman. Works well to answer questions about taking certain undergraduate classes, etc.
Cappy is the point person for this program. Any specific questions or interest in helping out should be directed to her.
Tegan McGillvray volunteered to help Cappy continue this program
Any new ideas about getting the word out apart from emails to the anthro listserv, announcing it in sections, or putting up posters?
– Joe: new website features for registered clubs might be helpful
AnthroCircle Colloquium Series:
Mondays at noon in Social Science 5230. First one today was a success!
Ethnographic Film Series:
Contact Matthew Trew with any questions
Three in the fall, three in the spring.
– First one Monday, October 3rd at 4:30, in Social Science 5230.
– Request for club to reimburse Trew for promotional posters. Club voted to reimburse.
– Will also potentially have a screening of a students’ Masters film project
– One film in the spring will include a live skype session with the filmmaker.
– Will also be a guest speaker in the spring.
– Trew will potentially organize outings to see films in the area and discuss afterwards.
Trew has also discussed putting together a workshop for “How to Take Better Anthropology Pictures”
Flintknapping Circle:
Still meeting on Friday afternoons
Looking for people to start taking over this program, or at least get involved in the club!
Request from this program for money for new rocks
Neolithic Goat Roast + Anthro Art Show:
Will be discussed at a later meeting after more information from point person Ken Seligson
Fundraisers:
Will do typical bagel/coffee and pizza fundraiser this year. We are allowed three days over the course of the semester to sell food.
– Need a volunteer to take charge of this fundraiser, ideally someone who can commit to being there all day on whatever day. Contact any of the officers if that’s you!
– Joe recommends making the sell dates more regular (ex. three tuesdays in a row). Still unsure if fall or spring is best (snow and other terrible weather restrictions).
– We can’t reserve times until we are officially registered, but the assumption is that this will happen soon.
AnthroCircle T-Shirts and Mugs?
– Alison Carter (past coordinator of this): made over $1000 from these fundraisers! Also, these don’t expire in the way that calendars do…
– John Garrison has volunteered to take over this
Garage Sale?
– In the past did this by collecting old clothes and selling them at a central residence around the capitol. Made approx. $400 (and costs nothing upfront).
– A good fundraiser for the spring?
Anthropology Recipe Database:
Collection of recipes from student travels (or where ever!)
Heather Walder has volunteered to take over this project.
– Social event around the theme of food?
– Featured recipe on the blog as a way to get people involved in the database?
Diversity Letter?:
In light of recent events, AnthroCircle should decide if this club is an appropriate place to make statements on the state of diversity or questions of diversity on UW-Madison’s campus.
– If yes, do we make a statement?
– Quick: As representatives of the students in the department and liaisons to other groups and organizations on campus, this is an appropriate
– Carter: Our club represents the entire graduate commmunity in the department. It seems as though club members are already predisposed to be more involved. If picked up by a news sources, we should have the letter represent only the undersigned, not the club as a whole.
– Walder: Feels uncomfortable signing specific name to something like this. Thinks it’s ok to have the letter represent the entire club as a group separated from the Department as a whole.
– Potential plan: the organization can oversea the drafting of the letter and provide the opportunity for undergrads, grads, and faculty in the department to sign. Will have it signed y individuals, not by the club as a whole. Will draft the letter and pass it around for edits and thoughts.
Minutes from April 12th meeting
For next year, the officer nominations are as follows:
Joe Quick has agreed to take over as president (Heather Walder will stay on as co-president for the fall semester transition).
Ken has agreed to stay on as VP, and Christina Cappy will also be able to be involved in helping with the transition in the fall.
Heather O. is staying on as secretary…
We will look for an incoming grad student to fill the treasurer position (with Laura helping out til then).
King of Kong film date for the end of the semester is yet to be set.
Leftover calendars: to be in the office with a donations jar.
Fall fundraiser and fall trip as priorities for first meeting of next year.
We officially call this the last meeting of the year!
That’s all. Thanks for a great 2010-2011 year everyone!
Minutes from March 29 meeting
*Next Meeting, April 12*
Elections! If you do not come, you will be voted president of AnthroCircle.
Mentor match: still going strong
AnthroCircle Colloquium: above average attendance last week
Film Series: is there a film this month? date? date for “King of Kong” next month?
Aztalan trip: had previously talked about a trip on April 23rd, but this is Easter weekend. Maybe plan a trip for Pottery Day (Aug. 21st) instead? Potential for a site visit to Silver Lake in two weeks to coincide with a talk by Earnie Bozhardt, still waiting to hear from him.
Whining: everything is terrible. Is the semester over yet?
Remember to vote in the ASM elections! Anthrocircle supports a ‘yes’ vote on United Council.
Meeting minutes: March 1st
Old Business:
Fundraising – No pizza sale today; possible outdoor food stand, with up to 2 more licenses or permits. Could be possible later in the spring. Will keep it an option; we were quite successful in raising funds in February.
Flintknapping Circle: Still going strong!
Mentor Match: now also matching senior undergrads with new or prospective majors as well as grads and undergrads. Now a self-perpetuating program with more than 25 total participants over the last year!
Aztalan trip: possible joint visit to the site with the UW-Milwaukee students. April? Could be cold… Possible date of April 23rd? Heather W. will contact the UWM grad students to see if they’re up for that date and will look into a tour guide.
Colloquiua: potentially move to a one day event instead of spread out through the semester in the future? Maybe send out a in interest poll at some point when we’re planning next semester’s colloquium series.
AnthroCircle Colloquium, Friday, Feb. 25th
Tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 25) is the third installment for the Spring 2011 AnthroCircle Colloquium Series, and Lillian Hsiao-Ling Su will be presenting us with a paper titled, “A Gendered Legal Consciousness: Market Women, the State, and Intellectual Property Rights in Two Chinese Markets,” in Social Science 5236 from 4:30pm onward.
This paper is part of Lillian’s ongoing research project and anticipates her dissertation fieldwork that is to take place very, very soon. If you could take time to come and provide comments for her work, I am sure that Lillian would really appreciate the contribution.
Below are the details of the presentation.
Title:A Gendered Legal Consciousness: Market Women, the State, and Intellectual Property Rights in Two Chinese Markets
Abstracts: Entering the 4th decade of economic and legal reforms, Chinese citizens have found everywhere the rule of law discourse. As some enthusiastically follow the slogan—“use law as your weapons”—to deliver grievances, they also find, as scholars have, that legal implementation is selective. What does the observation reveal about the society in transition through the emergence and formation of legal consciousness in relation to intellectual property rights (IPR), a highly contentious issue? Through an ethnographic study of two markets in the Yangtze River Delta in China, this study seeks to understand the state-society relation through IPR as a space of negotiation. My preliminary data suggest that those who work in the markets develop an IPR specific legal consciousness through interactions with state officials and agents, whose individual practices compose one dimension of “flexible governance”. Among other effects of the governance, gender division of labor brings women and men to encounter state actors differently and develop a gendered legal consciousness. Variations between the two markets and within each are found. Those who work in the shops, men and women alike, develop a feminized legal consciousness associated with vigilance, apprehension, and punishment under sporadic inspections. Men, circulate between and outsides the shops, vary in a masculinized legal consciousness depending on their work and class standings. Mostly taken place in industrial societies, studies of legal consciousness are at an early stage in China—as western-originated legal infrastructure is relatively new to its people. This study also brings in the IPR dialogue from a gender perspective and everyday practices of the state on the ground.
