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14th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium

Internships in Applied Anthropology

April 23, 2004 Marie Mount Hall, University of Maryland

Program

8:30 – Continental Breakfast

9:00 – Opening Remarks

Erve Chambers, Chair
Judith Freidenberg, Graduate Director

Session I. Anthropology of Community Health and Development — Tony Whitehead, Moderator

9:15 – Judd Antin – Challenges for the Use of Empowerment Evaluation with Community-Based Initiatives: A Case Study

9:30 – Matthew Hora – Exploring Qualitative and Ethnographic Data Representation in a Professional Setting: Establishing a Geographic Information System (GIS) for LTG Associates

9:45 – Tamar Johnson – Food Store Accessibility: A Case Study

10:00 – Maria Weir — Balancing Internship Demands with Anthropological Concepts of Culture

10:15 – Break

10:30  – Gengsheng Lu and Katarzyna Zebrak – The Study of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Zambia Based on Review of Secondary Sources: Exploration and Discussion on the Necessity of Conducting Ethnographic Assessment for Program Planning in the Area of Health and Food Security

11:00 – Kerry Weeda (Class of 2001), Discussant

11:30 – Discussion

12:00 – Luncheon

Session II. Resource Management and Cultural Process — Michael Paolisso, Moderator

1:30 – Andrea Berardi – Local Perceptions of Sustainability in the Community of San Pedro, TCO Tacana, Bolivia

1:45 – Stanley Herman – Betwixt and Between: Negotiating Truth in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands

2:00 – Heather Sims — Preserve America: Assessing Heritage Resource Management and Tourism Development for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

2:15 – Afeefa Syeed (Class of 1995), Discussant

2:30 – Discussion

2:45 – Break

Session III. Historic Archaeology — Mark Leone, Moderator

3:00 – Robert Chidester – Movement Archaeology: Promoting Labor's Cause through Archaeology

3:15 – David Gadsby – Providence: Land and Power in Early Maryland

3:30 – Jason Shellenhamer – The Archaeology and Restoration of the William Paca Garden, Annapolis, Maryland: 1966 – 1990

3:45 – Matthew Palus (Class of 2000), Discussant

4:00 – Discussion

4:15 – Overview and Final Comments, Fatimah Jackson

6:00 – 9:00 p.m. — Alumni social event with food and drink sponsored by the Department of Anthropology


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