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About 50 people attended the first annual Unhopped Iron Brewer Challenge in support of the UWM/Honor’s College Brew Garden Initiative, organized and hosted by Professor Bettina Arnold and supported by graduate and undergraduate student volunteers Alex Anthony, Nikita Sessler, Rachel McTavish and Giselle Jacobi. Anthropology major Hannah Blija submitted an entry and the winner was Kevin Cullen, who graduates from the Masters program in 2008 and is now Deputy Director of the Neville Museum in Green Bay, WI.

UWM Anthropology graduate student Lauren Kiesewetter and Anthropology major Armando Manresa, along with other UWM students help the Milwaukee Public Museum bring a new weapons exhibit to life.
“Weapons: Beyond the Blade” runs until Jan 1st at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

This year 17 students and 3 faculty participated in the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Indianapolis, IN

Erica Bornstein was voted in as President-Elect of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association in the spring AAA elections.

UWM’s Bettina Arnold presented an invited paper at a conference on “Cremation Burials in Europe between the 2nd millennium BC and the 4th century AD” at the University of Munich on October 14, 2017 with Matthew L. Murray (University of Mississippi)

Recent PhD Adrienne Frie has published an article entitled “Horses and the Embodiment of Masculinity in the Dolenjska Hallstatt Culture” in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

The program summarizes the recovery of human remains associated with the unmarked, abandoned Second Ward Cemetery, also known as the Gruenhagen Cemetery or German Protestant Cemetery. The work was done as a result of the expansion associated with Guest House of Milwaukee, a non-profit shelter for homeless men.

Tracey Heatherington co-edited a forum on “Anthropologists Witnessing and Reshaping the Neoliberal Academy” published in volume 5(1) of ANUAC, the journal of the national association of Italian cultural anthropologists.

Professor Arnold presented two public lectures entitled “The Past on Tap: Feasts and Fermented Brews in Ancient Europe” at the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Bacchus Uncorked program on July 15 and 16, 2017.

Bettina Arnold was interviewed for a documentary film “The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb“. The premiere showing at the Louvre in Paris on June 15, 2017 will be followed by a seven day broadcast on the French/German television channel ARTE beginning on June 17th.