The Department of Anthropology would like to invite you to the 2014 Anthro Expo, a day-long event highlighting student research. Please see the attached flyer for additional information.
- 9:30 - Dean’s Welcome: Dean Stella Theodoulou, Social & Behavioral Sciences
- 9:45-10:45 - Student Research Panel:
- Aaron Davis, Practical and Symbolic Functions of Chacoan Roadways in the Goodman Point Region
- Jairo Avila, The Clues are in the Paint: Efforts in Bringing Rock Art Studies into Mainstream Archaeology
- Nikki Cox, Tangible Communitas: A Folkloric Investigation of Community at the Los Angeles Wisdom Tree
- Garrett Sadler, Qi = mc2: On the New Age Cultural Model of Science and Spirituality
- Soudabeh Faghini,Two Foods in One Plate: English and Farsi Acquisition in Second-Generation Iranian Americans
- 10:45 – 11:00 - Break
- 11:00 – 12:15 - Invited Session: The CSUN Forgotten Casualties Project
- Introduction: James E. Snead
- Ann Stansell, Memorialization and Memory of Southern California’s St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928
- Efren Martinez Reyes, Archaeology of the Restoration Camps Associated with the St. Francis Dam Disaster
- Julee Licon, Tracing the Human Story Through Archaeology and Oral History of the St. Francis Dam Disaster
- Krystal Kissinger, Life and Labor on the Aqueduct Line: An Archaeological Investigation of the Work Camps of the First Los Angeles Aqueduct
- 12:30 – 1:00 - Break
- 1:00 – 1:45 - Alumni Reception with Alumni Guests:
- Brooke Applegate, Pasadena Kidspace Museum;
- John Foster, Greenwood and Associates
- 2:00 – 3:15 - Panel: Music and Migration
- Paula Mota, Son Jarocho, El Movimiento Musical in East Los Angeles
- Christopher Allred, On Popular Music and Gay Male Culture: Exploring the Intersections Between Agency, Identity, and Empowerment as They Are Transposed Onto Individuals
- Christopher Hiortdahl, Mighty Light To Travel By: An Anthropological Look At Bluegrass Music
- Joshua Silver, Hava Nagila as a Form of Cultural Rebellion
- 3:30 – 4:00 - Break
- Poster session:
- Stephanie Lapeyre-Montrose
- C. Paige Plannette
- Timothy Garfin
- Danny Sosa Aguilar
- 4:00 – 5:00 - Keynote Lecture: Dr. Peter GarcÍa, Department of Chicano Studies On Ethnomusicology, Comparative Musicology, and the Anthropology of Music- Decolonial Turns to Critical Latinidad and Performance Ethnography
- 5:15 Reception