Events
Faculty/Grad Colloquia Schedule Friday, March 5, 2010 Inside the Belly of the Beast:
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Childhood and Culture class invites anyone
from the Anthro club to join a viewing
of these two films:
Consuming Kids: Tuesday, March 2 at 7pm Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. |
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Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids." -- Container. |
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Beyond Good & Evil: Thursday, March 4 at 7pm This video examines how the "good and evil" rhetoric, in both the entertainment and the news media, has helped children to dehumanize the enemies, justify their killing and treat the suffering of innocent civilians as necessary sacrifice. The interviews include media scholars (Robert Jenson, Robin Andersen), child psychologists (Diane Levin, Nancy Carlsson-Paige), teachers (Merrie Najimy, Brian Wright), educators (Eli Newberger and Betty Burkes), and the children themselves. |
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Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival Location: Anthropology Lounge - AH 319 |
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University of British Columbia's
Museum of Anthropology UBC, Museum of Anthropology |
RSVP by January 25th to be included in this event! |
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YOU MUST BRING YOUR ENHANCED DRIVERS LICENSE, PASSPORT or a BIRTH CERTIFICATE ON THIS TRIP as we will be traveling across the border.
We will be meeting at the C-lots at 9am. Bring $10.00 CAD for admission (a credit/debit card is fine), your STUDENT ID card for your discounted rate. and either lunch or extra money for food. If you bring your lunch do NOT bring fruit as this cannot go across the border.
If you want to participate, please email me at hublerm@students.wwu.edu and give me your name, phone # and if you would be willing to drive &/or carpool. If you are, please let me know how many additional spaces are in your car (not including yourself). Thanks!
Museum, Shop & MOA Café hours
Daily 10 am to 5 pm, Tuesdays 10 am to 9 pm
RATES
$10 Students (Bring your student card or expect to pay the full $14 price)
MOA is wheelchair accessible
DIRECTIONS
Click: www.ubc.ca/about/maps.html
Faculty/Grad Colloquia Schedule Friday, January 22, 2010 Friday, March 5, 2010 Inside the Belly of the Beast:
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"the yes men fix the world" - Film Current Location of Pickford Cinema |
Students must sign up at the Anthro Office to put their name on a list to receive the discounted price. Prof. Loucky needs to give the cinema your name and a student count prior to the show.
STUDENTS: please arrive at the cinema with $3.50 in cash and mention that you are an Anthro student if you would like to receive the discounted price. (No credit, check or debit cards for this deal.)
Compass to Campus
Tuesday, October 27th
See below for times
Compass to Campus is a program for 5th graders to come and explore Western.
Groups will be going around campus that day listening to Western students talk about their majors!
If you are interested in helping with this project please email Judy.Pine@wwu.edu or Joyce.Hammond@wwu.edu with your shirt size, your field, when you are available to volunteer.
Needed times to volunteer are:
10-10:30am |
PLEASE EMAIL hublerm@wwu.edu when you have signed up and we will let you know when the Compass meeting is, we need to make posters etc.
Sa Vidya Ya Vimuktaye
'Knowledge is that which Liberates'
Wednesday October 21st
Communications Facility (CF) Room 115
7pm - 8pm
Documentary Film created by a former Western graduate, Chad Robertson, about a small school in India in Himalayan foothills which teaches Vipassana meditation. The film shows how holistic education and mediation practice has transformed a school and community in the Indian Himalayas. Chad Robertson will be in attendance and will answer questions following the screening.
Contact Info:
Malina Hubler - hublerm@students.wwu.edu
Amanda Daviau - daviaua@wwu.edu
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We will also be planning for Scholar's Week which is scheduled for
Scholar's Week :: Tentatively scheduled for the third week of May
Dates to be confirmed soon
Tune in for future events!
