Identity and Power: Past Present and Future

Keynote Speaker: Susan Spencer-Wood, Oakland University

Each year the Anthropology Student Union (ASU) hosts a colloquium allowing students an opportunity to present their work. This year’s colloquium theme is: Identity and Power: Past, Present, and Future.

9:00 – Welcome Reception

(Note: Poster will be available for viewing throughout the day)

Theory and Culture:

9:30 – Samantha Beilfuss, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse: The Kayapo, Sting, and the Representation of Indigenous Peoples Through Conservation Practices
9:45 – Heather Brinkman, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee: The Shifting of Identities: Cyberbullying within World of Warcraft’s Looking for Raid Function
10:00 – Laya Liebeseller, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: My Vampire Self: The Power of Larp Communities, Play Spaces, and Self-Created Alternate Personas
10:15 – Tarryl Janik, University of Wisconsin_Milwaukee: Kanaima, Cosmology, & Kaikusi-yumu: Conceptualizing a History of the Jaguar Through the Patamuna Worldview in Paramakatoi Guyana
10:30 – Discussant: Dr. Thomas Malaby, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 
10:45 – Break

Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology:

11:00 – Ashley Brennaman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Beyond Semantics: Investigating the link between medical specialization and burial designation within the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery from 1918-1919
11:15 – Dustin Lloyd, Illinois State University: Activity Patterns and Division of Labor at a SE Tennessee Mississippian Site, Toqua
11:30 – Catherine Miller, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Potential Evidence for Controlled Fire at FxJj20 in Koobi Fora, Kenya
11:45 – Discussant: Dr. Benjamin C. Campbell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 
12:00 – Lunch (Room 165)

1:00 – Poster Session Officially Starts

Archaeology:

1:30 – Alexander W. Anthony, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Justice Pursues the Body: Institutionalization and the Pauper’s Grave
1:45 – Eric E. Burant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Preliminary Analysis of Text Identification from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery and a Look into Milwaukee’s German Language Print Traditions
2:00 – Tiffany Hansen, Illinois State University: Social Status in the Chickamauga Basin: The Use of Display Goods during the Mississippian Period
2:15 – Andrew Saleh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Power and Identity in the Past: Considering Great Lakes and Great Plains Bison Utilization
2:30 – Tia Stenson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Identity Beyond the Grave: A Study of Ethnicity in Winneshiek County, Iowa Cemeteries
2:45 – Robert W. Vander Heiden, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Walls Have Ears, Bottles Have Mouths: Glassware from a Nineteenth Century Irish Homestead on the Wisconsin Frontier
3:00 – Discussant: Dr. Patricia Richards, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 
3:30 – Break

4:00 – Prizes and Book Sale Ending

4:30 – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Spencer-Wood