2008 SACC Conference Schedule

2008 SACC CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

(updated 3/3/08)

Friday, March 14

2:00 – 5:00 PM SACC Board Meeting

5:30 – 7:00 PM Registration and Welcome Reception

Saturday, March 15

7:30 – 8:30 AM Breakfast

8:30 – 9:45 AM Business Meeting

10:00 – 11:30 PM Paper Presentations

11:45 – 1:30 PM Buffet lunch in hotel’s Avenue Café Restaurant

1:45 – 3:45 PM Paper Presentation

3:45 – 5:00 PM Publisher Exhibits

5:00 – 6:30 PM Dinner on your own

6:40 – 10:00 PM “Washington after Dark” bus tour

(Gather in the hotel lobby at 6:40 p.m.)

Sunday, March 16

7:30– 8:30 AM Breakfast

8:45 – 10:30 AM Paper Presentations

10:30 – 12:00 PM Guest speaker Pamela Henson, Smithsonian historian

12:00 – 1:00 PM Buffet lunch in meeting room

1:00 – 2:30 PM Guest speaker Damon Dozier, Director of Public Affairs, AAA

2:30 – 4:30 PM Paper Presentations

Monday, March 17

6:30-7:45 AM Breakfast in hotel’s Avenue Café Restaurant

8:00 -5:30 PM Field Trip to the Smithsonian

Note: Meeting fees include planned activities such as breakfast, lunch, field trips and reception for each day of registration.

Conference Schedule

Saturday, March 15

7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast (in meeting room)

8:30 – 9:45 Opening Remarks and Business Meeting

Ann Kaupp, SACC President

9:45 – 10:00 Break

SESSION 1 TEACHING RACE – Session in Honor of Len Lieberman

Session Chair: Lloyd Miller

10:00 – 10:15 Phillip Naftaly, Racial Baggage: Student Perceptions of the Meaning of Race

10:15 – 10:30 Mark Lewine, Lessons from Len and the Race Project: Teaching Race Must Be Anti-Racist

10:30 – 10:45 Anthony Balzano, The Significance of the Work of Len Lieberman for Teaching Anthropology

10:45 – 11:15 Questions and Discussion

11:15 – 11:30 Remembering Len Lieberman

11:45 – 1:30 Buffet lunch in hotel’s Avenue Café Restaurant

SESSION 2 ARCHAEOLOGY

1:45 – 2:00 Darlene Smucny, Teaching Forensic Anthropology Online: Challenges and Opportunities to Engage Nontraditional Students about Anthropology.

2:00 – 2:15 Robert Muckle, The Archaeology of Asian Ethnicity and the Immigrant Experience in North America

2:15 – 2:30 Jason Wenzel, Missions, Plantations & Pioneer’s Homes: Historical Archaeology in Florida

2:30 – 2:45 Robert Muckle, Who Wouldn’t Want to Have Sex with an Archaeologist?

2:45 – 3:00 Questions and discussion

3:00 – 3:15 Break

Saturday, March 15, continued

3:15 – 4:00 Jason Wenzel, DVD showing – Smyrnea: Lost and Found

4:00 – 5:00 SACC & Publisher Exhibits

(Bob Muckle will sign his new book, Reading Archaeology: An Introduction)

5:00 – 6:30 Dinner (on your own)

6:45 – 10:00 “Washington after Dark” Bus Tour

We will meet at 6:45 pm in the hotel lobby. Please be prompt.

Sunday, March 16

7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast (in meeting room)

SESSION 3 CULTURE

Session Chair: Deborah Shepherd

8:45 – 9:00 Melvin A. Johnson, Claiming the Arctic and its effects on indigenous peoples

9:00 – 9:15 Deborah Weber, Edith Matheny and the Revival of Appalachian Weaving

9:15 – 9:30 Dorothy Davis, Teaching Takarazuka

9:30 – 9:45 Eric Anderson, Punks, Skinheads and Anthropology

9:45 – 10:15 Questions and Discussion

10:15 – 10:30 Break

SESSION 4 GUEST SPEAKER: PAMELA HENSON, Smithsonian Historian

Session Chair: Ann Kaupp

10:30 – 11:30 Nineteenth Century Anthropologists at the Smithsonian: Creating a Discipline and Profession

11:30 – 12:00 Questions and Discussion

12:00 – 1:00 Buffet lunch (in meeting room)

SESSION 5 GUEST SPEAKER: DAMON DOZIER, Director of Public Affairs, AAA

Session Chair: Ann Kaupp

1:00 – 2:00 Creating and Managing Effective Advocacy Campaigns

2:00 – 2:30 Questions and Discussion

2:30-2:45 Break

SESSION 6 TEACHING AND THE ACADEMY

Session Chair: Dianne Chidester

2:45 – 3:00 Jane C. Peters, Teaching the Teacher: Anthropology Behind Bars

3:00 – 3:15 Laura T. Gonzalez, The Group Project: One Model for Student Success

3:15 – 3:30 Mary Kay Gilliland, An Anthropological Journey to the Dark Side: Ethnographic Practice within the Academy

3:30 – 3:45 Philip L. Stein, Why I Hate SLOs: Contrasting Views from California, Part I

3:45 – 4:00 Rebecca Stein-Frankle, Why I Love SLOs: Contrasting Views from California, Part II

4:00 – 4:30 Questions and Discussion

Dinner – on your own

Monday, March 17

6:30 – 7:40 AM Buffet Breakfast in hotel’s Avenue Café Restaurant

(You will have received a breakfast coupon.)

8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Field Trip to the Smithsonian

8:00 AM Meet in hotel lobby.
Walk 4 blocks south on 15^th St. to MacPherson Square metro station. Take the Blue or Orange Line train to L’Enfant Plaza metro stop, one stop after the Smithsonian stop. (Leave at “Smithsonian Museums” exit). Walk toward the Capitol along Independence Ave. to the National Museum of the American Indian. Go to Conference room 4018-19.

9 – 10 AM GUEST SPEAKER: DR. GABRIELLE TAYAC (Piscataway) Indians of the Chesapeake Bay Area

10 – 11:20 AM Tour museum on your own

11:30 – 12:30 PM Lunch in museum’s Mitsitam café

(Voucher for lunch with registration materials.)

12:30 PM Walk to the National Museum of Natural History

(Head west away from the Capitol to the museum. Enter at Constitution Ave. We must stay together as a group to be escorted to the 3^rdfloor Rose Seminar Room in the Department of Anthropology.)

1 PM GUEST SPEAKER: DR. DENNIS STANFORD

An Alternative View on the Peopling of the Americas.

2 PM GUEST SPEAKER: DR. DOUGLAS OWSLEY

Bioarchaeological Perspectives on 17^th Century Life in Jamestown.

3:15 – 5:30 PM Explore the Smithsonian museums on your own.

6:30 PM Those who would like to get together for dinner, meet in the hotel lobby.