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<div>Hey everyone!</div>
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<div>AnthSoc would like to inform all Anthropology students about two upcoming special events/opportunities:</div>
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<div>1. The Silver Medal Lecture</div>
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<div>The Anthropology Department's 2009 Silver Medal lecture and the presentation of the Silver Medal and Sally Weaver awards will take place on Friday October 16 at 7:30 in the evening in room EIT 1015 of UW's Centre for Environmental and Information Technology, the building just south of the Davis Centre.</div>
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<div>The lecture will be given by Canadian writer and popularizer of archaeological knowledge Heather Pringle. Author of "In Search of Ancient North America: An Archaeological Journey to Forgotten Cultures" and many magazine articles on archaeological topics, and currently author of a blog for Archaeology magazine, her lecture will be entitled "The Barenaked Archaeologist: Telling Tales of the Past out of School and in the Media." It will address how archaeologists might better convey the importance and interest of archaeology to the public, based on what she describes as 25 years of observation of how archaeologists communicate to the public and amongst themselves.</div>
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<div>Heather's lecture is free. It will be followed by a reception in the same building, to which everyone is invited.</div>
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<div>2. The Ontario Archaeological Society Annual Symposium</div>
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<div>The Anthropology Department is hosting the Ontario Archaeological Society's annual symposium here on campus on Saturday October 17 and Sunday October 18. The symposium is not free--it will cost students $30 to attend if they register this week (unless they volunteer to assist putting on the symposium, in which case they will be able to attend part of the symposium for free).</div>
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<div>Why students might want to attend an archaeology symposium like this one:</div>
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<div>* You get an opportunity to listen to a variety of speakers, and hear about research so current that it hasn't been published yet. Conferences are often where researchers first present new data and ideas in order to get feedback from other archaeologists, so you can be part of the process of refining new theories and approaches.</div>
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<div>* In addition to university-based academic archaeologists, you'll get an opportunity to hear from consulting and government archaeologists--the researchers who are doing most of the fieldwork today and providing most of the employment opportunities for young archaeologists.</div>
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<div>* Students are welcome at all symposium events, including the banquet. Thus, you're likely to meet other students who share your interest in archaeology.</div>
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<div>* Unlike in the classroom, where professors can drone on and on for an hour or more, conference papers are just 20 miniutes long. So good papers tend to be clear and concise, and the occasional bad paper at least can't go on too long!</div>
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<div>* Joining the OAS and attending its annual conferences is an ideal way to know what's going on in Ontario archaeology, and to get to know the archaeologists doing the research. For students with serious ambitions to pursue archaeology as a career, membership in a society like the OAS is useful--for example, the application form for an Ontario Archaeologist's License asks what societies you belong to.</div>
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<div>To find out more about the symposium and about Heather's lecture, and to register for the symposium, go here: <a href="http://oas2009.uwaterloo.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://oas2009.uwaterloo.ca</a> or contact Dr. Park (<a href="mailto:rwpark@uwaterloo.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rwpark@uwaterloo.ca</a>).</div>