1. New NAS Courses
2. 2nd Annual New England Native American Art Show & Sale
3. Biomedical Science Careers Student Conference
4. New England Science Symposium (NESS)
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Announcements and Events
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1. New NAS Courses
Our new NAS professor Angela Parker will be offering these dynamic courses for Winter 2012:
Indigenous Communities and the Environment
Winter Quarter 2012 - NAS 33
10A: Tuesday, Thursday 10:00-11:50 am
Course Description
At the same time as indigenous identity has been linked to an 'aboriginal' association with a land base - usually in opposition to settler colonists - the relationship between indigenous communities and their lived environment has alternately been attacked, undermined, or romanticized by non-Natives. This course challenges this by exploring the concrete and lived relationship between indigenous communities and the environment in a thematic survey. Using books, articles, and documentary films, students are asked to consider the following questions during each unit:
1. How is indigenous identity expressed in relation to the physical environment?
2. What are the concrete, physical, and lived relationships between indigenous communities and the places and spaces in which they live?
3. How do changes in the physical environment impact indigenous communities and identities?
4. What forms of activism or action do indigenous individuals and communities undertake in order to protect, preserve, or revitalize their relationships with their physical environment? What has the most impact and why?
20th Century Native American History
Winter Quarter 2012 - NAS 16
2A: Tuesday, Thursday 2:00-3:50 pm
Course Description
Serving as the final course in a three-quarter survey of Native American history, this class reviews Native history from the late 19th century to the present, focusing on the interplay between large institutions and structures - such as federal and state governments, or the US legal system - and the lived, local experience of tribal communities. The major themes followed throughout the course of the term include: historical narrative (and what it justifies or explains), place and space (how local and national entities define territories), and indigeneity (indigenous identity).
2. 2nd Annual New England Native American Art Show & Sale
Saturday, December 3, 2011
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sheraton Commander Hotel
16 Garden St. Cambridge, MA
Please join the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), and Gedakina for the 2nd Annual New England Native American Art Show and Sale. This show will feature some of New Englands (and beyond) premier Native American Artists who will showcase their artwork for one day only. One of a kind jewelry, paintings, baskets, wampum, carvings, and more will be available for purchase, along with books from regional Native authors.
For additional information please contact:
Shelly Lowe – Executive Director – HUNAP (617) 495-4923 hunap@harvard.edu
Rick Pouliot – Executive Director – Gedakina (603) 673-3089 rickpouliot@gedakina.org www.gedakina.org
3. Biomedical Science Careers Student Conference
Taking place at the Westin Hotel Copley Place in Boston on Saturday, March 31 2011. BSCP was founded in 1991 to identify, inform, support and provide mentoring for outstanding minority students, particularly African–American, Hispanic-Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native students in the six New England states and beyond. To learn more, please see enclosed information which includes a letter to colleague, letter to student and application materials. Please note that the BSCP application deadline is February 1, 2012.
4. New England Science Symposium (NESS)
Taking place at Harvard Medical School on Sunday, April 1. This is an opportunity for students to present their research. Online abstract submission and registration at http://www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/med_grad/ness/
Please note abstracts submission deadline is January 5, 2012.
Purpose of NESS (from the website)
The New England Science Symposium, established in 2002, provides a forum for postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students (particularly for African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native individuals) to share their biomedical and health-related research activities through oral or poster presentations, to engage in discussions related to career development in the sciences, to exchange ideas and to expand their professional networks.
~The EE Just program has funds to support travel and accommodations for undergraduate Dartmouth students who plan to attend.~
Please contact Kathy Scott Weaver, Assistant Director of Women in Science Project, if you have questions.
6243 Parker House
Hanover, NH 03755
603-646-3685
www.dartmouth.edu/~wisp
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