UNM graduate students panicked about defending research papers will get their chance to practice Friday and Saturday during the Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium.
The symposium, sponsored by the Anthropology Graduate Student Union, opens Thursday with a keynote address by Harvard Archeology Professor C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky at 7 p.m. in the Anthropology Building, Room 163.
Lamberg-Karlovsky has directed archeological excavations in Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia and will deliver a talk titled "Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Central Asia." A reception in the Maxwell Museum will follow the lecture.
Lamberg-Karlovsky was "the first western archaeologist to undertake direct collaborative excavations with scholars in Uzbekistan and Southern Siberia," according to a press release.
Student presentations will run from noon to 4 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday in Dane Smith Hall, Room 125.
Though the symposium features many Anthropology graduates, other departments will participate in the event, union member Christy Doherty said.
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American Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Art and Art History and the College of Education are among the departments sending students to give presentations. Doherty added that the event gives students a chance to defend their research papers in a less formal setting.
"It can be very nerve-wracking giving a paper at a big conference," Doherty said.
She outlined the schedule, which includes a series of 15-minute presentations broken into panel discussions, with time for questions at the end, when professors and peers can give advice.
"It's also a great chance to get feedback in terms of what direction you're headed in for your own research," Doherty said.
She added that students range from those about to defend their papers to first and second-year graduates presenting papers for seminar classes.
Friday's presentations will include "Human Survival in Multiple Sites," "Human Hierarchy Formation and Its Health Implications," "The Role of Essential Fatty Acids for Health, Behavior and Evolution; and Evolutionary and Developmental Aspects of Type Two Diabetes: A Reaction Norms Perspective."
Saturday's presentations will include "Ethnic Autobiographies and Issues of Identity," Republic Civic Identity in Nuevo Mexico, 1821-1850" and "Queering the Nation: An Analysis between Gender and Queer Theories in Nationalist Discourse."
The event is free to the public. For more information, contact Veronica Arias at 277-5401 or Patrick Staib at 256-9534.
