Workshop with Dr. Michael Wesch

Hey everyone!

The ANTH department has been invited to participate in a workshop held by Michael Wesch.
Here's a little bio blurb:

Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society.  His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic.  He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.

You might know him from this video! 

 

The workshop is called "8x10 with Dr. Michael Wesch: Framing Big Ideas for Teaching". The goal is to allow many different voices in an academic area share their best ideas about teaching and learning, and how the education experience at UNT can be improved. 

It's happening Monday, September 23rd, 9:30am-11:00am, and you'll be treated to lunch afterwards.

Let Lisa Henry (Lisa.Henry@UNT.EDU) know ASAP if you're interested, because there are ONLY EIGHT (8) SPOTS OPEN.

I hope some students take advantage of meeting this awesome guy! 







- Ashley Givens

September 12th Meeting Agenda

Hope school is going swimmingly for everyone :)

September 12th Agenda:

1. Announcements 2. Introductions 3. Update on dues and member forms 4. Meet an Anthropologist 5. Adopt-a-block 6. American Indian Heritage Day Celebration volunteer info

On behalf of all the ASA officers, I just wanna say how excited we were to see so many new faces last Thursday! We hope you guys will keep comin' back and hanging out with us. :)

See y'all tomorrow!

Ashley Givens

VP, Public Relations

Facebook: facebook.com/ASAatUNT

Twitter: @ASAatUNT

Happy Fall 2013!

Hey everyone!

Hope you all had an awesome summer. We have a lot of awesome events coming your way the next few months, so stay tuned for that info.

Our first meeting of Fall 2013 is going to be held in LANG 209, Thursday Sept. 5, at 5:30pm.

We'll have free food and lots of information for ya.

If for some reason you can't make our first meeting, and are interested in membership, please email anthropeopleunt@gmail.com and let us know!


See y'all soon. :)


Ashley Givens
VP, Public Relations

~ Spring 2013 ~

Spring 2013 has been better than expected! We have gained some new members, earned about $200 from fundraisers, and overall grew closer as an organization, and as friends. :) We also won Student Organization of the Month for February, and first place at ExtravaCANza, big accomplishments for us! Very proud.

We want to thank everyone that donated time, money, and items to all of our events, fundraisers, outreach activities, and volunteer activities the past school year.

We also want to give a big special shout out to our fearless and hard-working President, Laura Lamb. Where would we be without you!? We all want to wish Laura well in her future endeavors working with Teach For America, and congratulate her for graduating from UNT this May! We will miss you and do our very best to carry on the legacy! 

As of this past Wednesday, we are proud to welcome Emma Carnes and Allison Ramm to our officer family!
The new officer list is as follows:
Kristyn Crossley - President
Sean Chaney - Vice President
Emma Carnes - VP of Communications
Ashley Givens - VP of Public Relations
Allison Ramm - VP of Finance

Congrats, everyone!

END OF YEAR PARTY:
We would like to invite all of you, members and friends of Anthropology Student Association, to our End of Year Party to welcome our new officers, honor those graduating, and reminisce on the last two semesters! The party will be on Wednesday April 24th in LANG 114 @ 6:30. :)
Come hang out, eat food, and have fun!

 This may be the last update from ASA for awhile! Nevertheless, we will be keeping up with the ASA email throughout the summer. So continue to send your comments/questions/inquiries to anthropeopleunt@gmail.com. :)

Thank you all for your support, and have a wonderful summer!

Ashley Givens
VP, Public Relations

Fundraiser Updates!

ASA raised over $100 at our Yard Sale this past weekend, and just under $100 at our Bake Sale this afternoon!
We had so much fun with these fundraisers, and of course would not have done so well without the help of our ASA member volunteers. :) You guys make everything happen!

Thanks to everyone who donated their time, and to all who donated clothes, jewelry, books, etc. to our Yard Sale, and the master bakers who supplied us with goods to sell at our Bake Sale!







See y'all at officer elections this Wednesday!

Ashley Givens
VP, University Relations

Upcoming fundraisers!

Hello everyone!

ASA would like to invite you all out to TWO fundraising events we are having!

1. Garage Sale: Saturday April 13  from 7 am to 2 pm.

Items for sale range from women's clothing, shoes, kitchen items, furniture, and more!

address is

2512 la Paloma Dr. Denton, TX 76209

2. Bake Sale: Monday April 15, 10 am to 2 pm. 2nd Floor Chilton Hall, around PACS Advising.
We will be featuring gluten-free and vegan items!

All proceeds will help in benefiting future events and trips ASA may have!

Thank you and see you all in these next couple of days!


ASA!

The Big Event // April 6th

ASA made an appearance at UNT's "The Big Event", a service-based event during which various groups and organizations help out in the community and around UNT.

They had a relatively small group, but they helped out in more than a few ways! ASA was stationed in The Union filling boxes with envelopes, doing manual labor, wrapping and transporting supplies,  organizing and cleaning, and loading trucks with canned goods.
A lot of great work by some awesome people! Way to represent ASA, you guys. :)






Remember, ASA is hosting a Garage Sale this Saturday, and a Bake Sale next Monday in Chilton Hall from 10am-2pm!


Questions? Email anthropeopleunt@gmail.com

Ashley Givens
VP, University Relations