Dear UCR Community,<div><br></div><div>The James Young organizing committee would like to cordially invite you to attend the 31st annual James Young Colloquium that is being held this Saturday, April 23rd 2011, on the second floor of the HUB. The colloquium will be discussing topics regarding the intersectionalities of the academy and everyone is welcome to attend. </div>
<div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><p align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>31<sup>st</sup><sup> </sup>James Young Colloquium</b></font></font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><i><b>Intersectionalities of the Academy: Dialectics of Global Transformation</b></i></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>HUB 2nd<sup> </sup>Floor</b></font></font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; ">Keynote Speaker: Leon Garcia, PhD</span></b></font></font></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Matthew Yacubic<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> (Anthropology, UCR): “Crafting Communities and Community Crafting: Post-Classic Stone Tool Economics at Zacpeten, Guatemala”</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Jon Spenard<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Anthropology, UCR): “The Politics of Emergence and State Control in the Ancient Andes: A Brief Case Study of Inca and Tiwanaku State Craft”</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Andrew Turner<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Anthropology, UCR): “Ritual Drinking, Cosmology, and Inka Elites in Colonial Peru”</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Theresa Sanchez<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Ethnomusicology, UCR): “’A Lo Cubano!’ Nationalizing Hip-Hop in Cuba”</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Josh Brown<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Ethnomusicology, UCR): “Performing Pastness: Structural and Historical Continuities in Flamenco and Moron Style”</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Young Hoon Oh<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Anthropology, UCR): “Climbing Mount Everest as Being a Sherpa Mountaineer: Phenomenological Studies of Experience”</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Elizabeth Osenbaugh<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (History of Art, UCR): “Replacing the Icon: Post-Reformation Dutch Tomb Monuments by Rombout Verhulst”</span></font></font></font></p>
<p></p><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; ">
<font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Eric J. Heller<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Anthropology, UCR): "Ancient Maya Transtemporal Communities: A Reassessment of Postclassic and Colonial Era Monument Veneration at La Milpa, Belize"</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">German Loffler<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Anthropology, UCR): “Hot Flashes in the EEA: Looking for Archaeological Support for the ‘Grandmother Hypothesis’”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Jessica Cade<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Anthropology, UCR): “Patterns of Sexual Dimorphism in </span></font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; "><i>Gigantopithecus Blackie </i></font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; ">Dentition”</font></p>
<div><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><br></font></div><div><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">I</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><div style="display: inline !important; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; display: inline !important; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">vana Topalovic <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(Anthropology, UCR): “Folk Resistance to Western Hegemonic Media Portrayals in the Former Yugoslavia and Among its Diasporic Population through YouTube and other Online Outlets”</span></font></p>
</span></div></span></b></span></div></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Kathryn Alexander<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Ethnomusicology, UCR): “Vanished Music Scenes: Social Networking Sites as Tools of Historical Ethnomusicology”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Shahab Malik<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Anthropology, UCR): “Subverting Traditional Modes of Gender Regulation through Social Networking Among Muslim Youth in Southern California”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><font color="#000000"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Luis Villanueva <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(Anthropology, UCR): "The Michê as a Fetish Commodity in the Western Imaginary"</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font color="#000000"><font><meta charset="utf-8"></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><b>Nicole M. DeFrancisco</b></font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; "> (Anthropology, UCR): "Gypsies: Pariahs of the Enlightenment, Beyond Transnationalism, and Selectively Multicultural </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "></span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; display: inline !important; "><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Urban Nomads"</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="font-weight: bold; "></p></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><b>Ammar Lamichhane</b> (Anthropology, CSU Los Angeles): “Destination America: Do or Die: A Case Study of Process of Nepalese Immigration to the U.S.”</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><b>Javier Amaya </b>(Anthropology/Psychology, UCR): “The Anasazi: A History of Research”</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><b>Hoching Jiang </b>(Anthropology, CSU Los Angeles): “The Twisted American Dream for Gay Asian Men”</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><br></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">We look forward to seeing all of you and a successful colloquium.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; "><br></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">Sincerely,</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt; ">The JYC Committee</font></font></font></p><p></p></font></div><p></p></div>