Apologies for cross-postings.

These are the calls for papers for this year's invited National Association
of Student Anthropologists sessions.  I would really like to see museum
folks who work with undergraduate interns present on the notion of how
students can make a difference using anthropology in the first panel here.
I included the other calls in case any of you are anthropology students or
would like to share with students you know.  Feel free to contact me, or the
program editor Lori Johns [log in to unmask], with questions.

Kathy Mancuso
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NASA Undergrad Rep-At-Large

Announcement Index:

1. CALL FOR PAPERS: NASA Undergraduate Panel, 2002: Conspiring to Inspire:
Students, Faculty, and Social Engagement

2. CALL FOR PAPERS: NASA Session: Keeping it Anthropological: Defining
"Community" in Medical Anthropology Research

3. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NASA Poster Session

4. AWARD: NASA Travel Award, 2002


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1. Call for Papers
NASA Undergraduate Panel, 2002

TITLE: Conspiring to Inspire: Students, Faculty, and Social Engagement

Organizers: Meli Glenn

Discussants: Dr. Brian Palmer, Harvard; others to be announced

DESCRIPTION: Members of this panel will reflect on the possibilities for
undergraduates and their teachers to create academic contexts that foster
engagement with pressing human problems.  One of the dilemmas of
undergraduate anthropology is that practical applications of knowledge lack
academic prestige. The excitement of social engagement is unknown to most
students, and few are inspired to extend their studies into graduate school
or to pursue careers that build upon their undergraduate training. This
panel is concerned with how undergraduate curricula can encourage students
to start thinking of themselves more as student anthropologists and less as
anthropology students. What does it take to turn anthropology students into
student anthropologists, aware of their potential power to affect the world
through development work and other forms of applied anthropology?  How do
some anthropology undergraduates become able practitioners who use their
discipline in the service of others?   When and how does an anthropology
curriculum inspire students to a practice of theory, an attempt to deploy
what they have learned? How do dedicated teachers and mentors help students
find pathways to careers in development, social service or social change?
How do we cultivate courage, in others and in ourselves?

If you are interested in participating in this session, please submit a
proposal of 250 words or less by e-mail to Meli Glenn,
[log in to unmask], by March 1st, 2002. Please e-mail it as a regular
e-mail, or as an MS-Word attachment. Please refer to the AAA's website
(http://www.aaanet.org/) for guidelines and further information.
Proposals are encouraged both from undergraduate students and from teachers
who are concerned with helping undergraduates become active practitioners.
Presentations can highlight personal experience as well as possibilities for
innovative teaching. Papers as well as alternative forms of presentation
will be considered.

KEYWORDS: Undergraduate teaching/ activism/ applied anthropology/ pathways
of engagement/ development work



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2. Call for Papers
Abstracts are invited for a student session at the 101st Annual Meeting of
the AAA in New Orleans, November 20-24, 2002.  The session, Keeping it
Anthropological: Defining "Community" in Medical Anthropology Research, will
explore how students conducting research in the medical anthropology field
use and define "community" in their work.  Submissions are sought that
explore the theory and/or methodology of community-based health research
within the discipline of Anthropology.  Possible topics include, but are not
limited to, health research in refugee communities, urban communities,
internet communities, and aboriginal communities.
The deadline for submissions is March 1st.  Please email submissions to
Kristen Jacklin at  [log in to unmask]



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3. Call for Posters
As emerging scholars, student anthropologists benefit enormously from
presenting posters at the AAA annual meetings. Unlike traditional paper
panels, poster sessions provide marvelous opportunities for in-depth
discussion, exchange and networking between poster "presenters" and their
"audience."  To help student anthropologists take advantage of this
extraordinary opportunity at the 2002 meetings in New Orleans, I am
organizing a poster session around the broad theme of "gender." With this, I
intend to draw poster presentations that focus on women, including for
example the social construction of gender, femininities / masculinities,
sexuality, violence, economic development, and similar themes. If interested
in being a part of this student-friendly poster session, please send me a
brief query outlining your proposed poster presentation before March 1,
2002.

Tara Hefferan

Michigan State University

[log in to unmask]



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4. The "NASA TRAVEL AWARD (2002)," will provide partial financial support
($100.00) to NASA Members (excluding current or incoming officers and prior
recipients) who successfully compete in an essay contest.  The two-part
topic of the essay is 1) the future direction of anthropology as a
discipline and 2) what NASA's role should be as we continue to support
students of this discipline.  Please address both parts in your essay.  The
essay must be one-page, 12-font, and double spaced.  Any essays that are
more than one page will not be considered.  NASA reserves the right not to
confer the Prize in any year in which the essays submitted to the
competition are judged insufficiently prizeworthy.  Please email essays to
[log in to unmask] as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format.
Winners will be required to supply a copy of their student ID and round-trip
travel itinerary at the NASA business meeting this November in order to
receive their awards.  Winners agree to have their essays published on our
website.  NASA will start accepting applications May 1, 2002. The deadline
for receipt of all applications is October 15, 2002. For more details,
contact NASA Officer Lori Johns [log in to unmask]










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"That's the trouble with diversions; you get involved."

        --Jeanette Winterson



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