[GSAUCR] 31st James Young Colloquium

[James Young]

Dear UCR Community,

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.

*31st James Young Colloquium*

*Intersectionalities of the Academy: Dialectics of Global Transformation*

*Saturday, April 23rd*

*HUB 2nd Floor*

*Keynote Speaker: Leon Garcia, PhD*

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*Chicomexochitl: Mesoamerican religion, ethnic identity, and Indigenous
History in *

*the new Millenium.*

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Matthew Yacubic (Anthropology, UCR): “Crafting Communities and Community
Crafting: Post-Classic Stone Tool Economics at Zacpeten, Guatemala”

Jon Spenard (Anthropology, UCR): “The Politics of Emergence and State
Control in the Ancient Andes: A Brief Case Study of Inca and Tiwanaku State
Craft”

Andrew Turner (Anthropology, UCR): “Ritual Drinking, Cosmology, and Inka
Elites in Colonial Peru”

Theresa Sanchez (Ethnomusicology, UCR): “’A Lo Cubano!’ Nationalizing
Hip-Hop in Cuba”

Josh Brown (Ethnomusicology, UCR): “Performing Pastness: Structural and
Historical Continuities in Flamenco and Moron Style”

Young Hoon Oh (Anthropology, UCR): “Climbing Mount Everest as Being a Sherpa
Mountaineer: Phenomenological Studies of Experience”

Elizabeth Osenbaugh (History of Art, UCR): “Replacing the Icon:
Post-Reformation Dutch Tomb Monuments by Rombout Verhulst”

Eric J. Heller (Anthropology, UCR): "Ancient Maya Transtemporal Communities:
A Reassessment of Postclassic and Colonial Era Monument Veneration at La
Milpa, Belize"

German Loffler (Anthropology, UCR): “Hot Flashes in the EEA: Looking for
Archaeological Support for the ‘Grandmother Hypothesis’”

Jessica Cade (Anthropology, UCR): “Patterns of Sexual Dimorphism in
*Gigantopithecus
Blackie *Dentition”

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vana Topalovic (Anthropology, UCR): “Folk Resistance to Western Hegemonic
Media Portrayals in the Former Yugoslavia and Among its Diasporic Population
through YouTube and other Online Outlets”
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Kathryn Alexander (Ethnomusicology, UCR): “Vanished Music Scenes: Social
Networking Sites as Tools of Historical Ethnomusicology”

Shahab Malik (Anthropology, UCR): “Subverting Traditional Modes of Gender
Regulation through Social Networking Among Muslim Youth in Southern
California”

Luis Villanueva (Anthropology, UCR): "The Michê as a Fetish Commodity in the
Western Imaginary"

*Nicole M. DeFrancisco* (Anthropology, UCR): "Gypsies: Pariahs of the
Enlightenment, Beyond Transnationalism, and Selectively Multicultural

Urban Nomads"

*Ammar Lamichhane* (Anthropology, CSU Los Angeles): “Destination America: Do
or Die: A Case Study of Process of Nepalese Immigration to the U.S.”

*Javier Amaya *(Anthropology/Psychology, UCR): “The Anasazi: A History of
Research”

*Hoching Jiang *(Anthropology, CSU Los Angeles): “The Twisted American Dream
for Gay Asian Men”


We look forward to seeing all of you and a successful colloquium.


Sincerely,

The JYC Committee
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