Anthro Expo 2014 - Scape: Space, Sound, and Context in Anthropological Research

The Department of Anthropology would like to invite you to the 2014 Anthro Expo, a day-long event highlighting student research. Please see the attached flyer for additional information. 

• 9:30 - Dean’s Welcome: Dean Stella Theodoulou, Social & Behavioral Sciences
• 9:45-10:45  - Student Research Panel: 

• Aaron Davis, Practical and Symbolic Functions of Chacoan Roadways in the Goodman Point Region
• Jairo Avila, The Clues are in the Paint: Efforts in Bringing Rock Art Studies into Mainstream Archaeology
• Nikki Cox, Tangible Communitas: A Folkloric Investigation of Community at the Los Angeles Wisdom Tree
• Garrett Sadler, Qi = mc²: On the New Age Cultural Model of Science and Spirituality
• Soudabeh Faghini,Two Foods in One Plate: English and Farsi Acquisition in Second-Generation Iranian Americans 
• 10:45 – 11:00 - Break
• 11:00 – 12:15 - Invited Session: The CSUN Forgotten Casualties Project
• Introduction: James E. Snead
• Ann Stansell, Memorialization and Memory of Southern California’s St. Francis Dam  Disaster of 1928
• Efren Martinez Reyes, Archaeology of the Restoration Camps Associated with the St. Francis Dam Disaster 
• Julee Licon, Tracing the Human Story Through Archaeology and Oral History of the St. Francis Dam Disaster 
• Krystal Kissinger, Life and Labor on the Aqueduct Line: An Archaeological Investigation of the Work Camps of the First Los Angeles Aqueduct
• 12:30 – 1:00 - Break
• 1:00 – 1:45 - Alumni Reception with Alumni Guests:
• Brooke Applegate, Pasadena Kidspace Museum;
• John Foster, Greenwood and Associates
• 2:00 – 3:15  - Panel: Music and Migration
• Paula Mota, Son Jarocho, El Movimiento Musical in East Los Angeles
• Christopher Allred, On Popular Music and Gay Male Culture: Exploring the Intersections Between Agency, Identity, and Empowerment as They Are Transposed Onto Individuals
• Christopher Hiortdahl, Mighty Light To Travel By: An Anthropological Look At Bluegrass Music
• Joshua Silver, Hava Nagila as a Form of Cultural Rebellion
• 3:30 – 4:00 - Break
• Poster session:
• Stephanie Lapeyre-Montrose 
• C. Paige Plannette
• Timothy Garfin
• Danny Sosa Aguilar
• 4:00 – 5:00 - Keynote Lecture: Dr. Peter GarcÍa, Department of Chicano Studies On Ethnomusicology, Comparative Musicology, and the Anthropology of Music- Decolonial Turns to Critical Latinidad and Performance Ethnography
• 5:15 Reception