https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d6604tfm-k
In honor of Labor Day, Rachel Lears (C&M alumna) and Robin Blotnick’s award-winning film The Hand That Feeds will screen in NYC on Tuesday, Sep 08, 2015 at the JCC in Manhattan. Click here for more details!
Public Programs/Margaret Mead Film Festival Internship at the American Museum of Natural History
The Public Programs division of the museum organizes lectures, workshops, festivals and film screenings related to the museum’s temporary and permanent exhibits. Interns will also have the opportunity to work on projects related to the Margaret Mead Film Festival. The Margaret Mead Film Festival is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States, encompassing a broad spectrum of work from indigenous community media to experimental nonfiction. The festival is distinguished by its outstanding selection of titles, which tackle diverse and challenging subjects, representing a range of issues and perspectives, and by the forums for discussion with filmmakers and speakers.
Applications considered on a rolling basis.
Please send resume and cover letter as attachments to: Public Programs (publicprograms@amnh.org), subject line “Internship.”
The Department is very excited to announce that Cheryl Furjanic’s latest documentary BACK ON BOARD: GREG LOUGANIS has been picked up for broadcast!
The film will air on HBO on Tuesday, August 4th at 10pm EST.
Here’s a promo for the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTmTPOQT5dA
You can also find out more about the documentary on it’s website, Facebook page, and Twitter page.
A collaborative research project involving NYU Anthropology undergraduate students, graduate students, alumni and faculty has just been published in PLoS ONE. The study, led by doctoral student Alejandra Ortiz, used 3D geometric morphometrics to re-examine Bunopithecus sericus, a fossil gibbon from the Pleistocene of China. The paper concludes that Bunopithecus should be recognized as a distinct genus and that it is most closely related to the living hoolock gibbons.
You can read further about the new study, here.
Congratulations to Lee Douglas on being awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship for her project “Producing Historical Knowledge in a World of Absence: Forensic Science, Cultures of Documentation and the Politics of Memory in Post-Franco Spain.”
The North American Archaeology Department of the American Museum of Natural History offers Lab Researcher Internship positions in the North American Archaeology Lab (NAARCH Lab) for undergraduates, recent graduates, and graduate students. The interns will handle, store, and analyze a wide variety of artifacts from southeastern North America. Lab interns have the opportunity to work with faunal remains, lithics, Native American and European ceramics, Spanish colonial artifacts, and numerous other material types.
Deadlines:
• Fall Session (September to December), submit June 27 – August 4
• Spring Session (January to May), submit October 1 – December 1
For more information, please download the internship description packet: NAARCH Internship Announcement Fall 2015.
Congratulations to C&M alumna Shanti Avirgan who served as Co-Producer of the new documentary Larry Kramer In Love and Anger. This film is about author, activist and playwright Larry Kramer, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and grief that inspired a generation of gay men and lesbians to fight for their lives.
See a trailer for the film here: http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/larry-kramer-in-love-and-anger/video/trailer.html?autoplay=true
The film is a production of HBO Documentary Films. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and made its television premiere on HBO in June. The film can currently be seen on HBO, HBO NOW, HBO On Demand, and HBO GO.
Natasha Raheja’s C&M doc Cast in India is featured on National Geographic’s Short Film Showcase!
The Short Film Showcase spotlights exceptional short videos created by filmmakers from around the web and selected by National Geographic editors. We look for work that affirms National Geographic’s mission of inspiring people to care about the planet. The filmmakers created the content presented, and the opinions expressed are their own, not those of the National Geographic Society.
Congratulation to graduate student Chris Rainwater on the publication of his co-edited book Skeletal Trauma Analysis: Case Studies in Context (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).
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In the post-Daubert era, forensic science disciplines are increasingly informed by robust, statistically-sound experimental research. The educational value of the well-documented case study, however, remains as important as ever. Emphasizing known contextual information, this volume serves as a case-driven guide to skeletal trauma analysis through the unique perspective of each chapter’s authors. Both forensic anthropologists and pathologists contribute skeletal trauma cases covering a range of topics including child abuse, blunt force trauma, descents from height, plane crashes, sharp force trauma and dismemberment, gunshot wounds, blast trauma, and burned body interpretation. Several chapters also include a discussion of potentially confounding taphonomic influences such as animal scavenging, water immersion, burning, and extended postmortem intervals. Detailed descriptions with multiple supporting images allow the practitioner’s skeletal trauma interpretation to be compared to the “answer” as it pertains to the known circumstances surrounding the traumatic events of each case.