Undergraduates! The AMNH is currently accepting applications for Summer 2016 internships. Please see the attached informational flyer for complete information.
Category Archives: Anthropology in NYC
2nd Annual Native American and Indigenous Film Festival held at NYU
From Indian Country Media: “Earlier this month, the Native American and Indigenous Students’ Group (NAISG) at New York University, guided by many mentors, hosted several days of Native American films and filmmakers to highlight indigenous storytelling. It was packed house a few weeks ago at the second annual Native American and Indigenous Film Festival. The event opened with the group’s Vice President, Andrew Begay, a junior in the College of Arts and Science studying French and Linguistics…[The Festival] was then followed by the New York City premiere of Angelo Baca’s feature documentary film, Into America: The Ancestor’s Land, which depicted the story of Angelo Baca’s grandmother, Helen Yellowman, through her own reflections and words in the Navajo language as they road tripped back to their rightful and ancestral home. Both films were applauded for their beauty, distinct from one another, yet similar in that they told intricate and compelling stories.”
Congratulations to Angelo, one of Department’s Ph.D candidates, for this amazing achievement!
You can read more about the Festival here.
You can read more about Angelo’s current research on his Departmental profile.
Public Programs Internship Opportunity at the American Museum of Natural History
There is an upcoming internship opportunity at the American Museum of Natural History.
From the Museum: “Interns are critical to our operations and we are currently seeking motivated and creative individuals to work with us. This internship enables interns to learn about public programs and film festival production, museum operations, and outreach strategies. We require our interns to work at least 2 whole days per week (10:00-5:00 pm, M-F) plus assist with 4 evening and/or weekend programs per month. Although this is an unpaid internship, many of our past interns have received payment or credit through work-study or academic credit programs offered by their universities.”
For complete information about the internship, please download the attached promotional flier here.
Graduate Student Videos to Screen at 2015 Margaret Mead Film Festival!
Four of the films that were completed in the NYU Culture & Media Video Production class in the spring will screen at the 2015 Margaret Mead Film Festival next month! Congratulations to all!
The Ladies by Tyler Zoanni
Friday, October 23, 2015 at 4pm
Ukrainian women in the East Village have gathered regularly for 50 years—to make dumplings!
(Screens with Aldona Watts’ Land of Songs)
One Man’s Trash by Kelly Adams
Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 11 am
A veteran sanitation worker curates a museum of discarded objects in an East Harlem garage.
(Screens as a part of the Emerging Visual Anthropologists Showcase)
http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/films/one-man-s-trash
Juanita by Ximena Amescua Cuenca
Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 11:30 am
A fascinating window into the life of a Mayan traditional doctor, midwife, nurse, and activist.
(Screens with Iiris Härmä’s Leaving Africa: A Story About Friendship and Empowerment)
http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/films/juanita
What Remains by Lee Douglas
Sunday, October 25, 2015 at at 4:30pm
Spanish anthropologists investigate the mass graves of Franco’s legacy: 118,000 disappeared.
(Screens with Marcela Zamora’s The Room of Bones)
http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/films/what-remains
Internship Opportunity
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is seeking editorial and production interns for its digital publications, including its online journal, emisférica, and its digital book series.
emisférica is the Institute’s biannual, peer-reviewed journal, and is edited by Jill Lane, Marcial Godoy-Anativia, and occasional invited editors. The journal publishes essays and multimedia presentations by artists, activists, and scholars, as well as reviews of books, performances, and films.
The Institute’s digital books are developed on the digital publication platform Scalar and Tome, depending on the contents and the specific needs of the authors. Scalar titles include What is Performance Studies? and Holy Terrors, among others. Recent releases on Tome include Six Gestures by Peter Kulchyski and Villa Grimaldi by Diana Taylor.
During 2015-2016 we will publish two issues of the journal (on the themes of “States of Devotion: Religion, Neoliberalism, Biopolitics” and “Migration”), as well as several digital books.
The following internships are available for the academic year:
Editorial/translation Interns (2 positions available)
We seek interns to assist with editorial production and translation. Advanced knowledge of spoken and written Spanish and/or Portuguese is required. Duties will include copy editing and proofreading articles, transcribing videos, translating titles, abstracts, subtitles and bios from/to English, Spanish and/or Portuguese, as well as formatting, and assisting with other aspects of digital publication and web content creation.
Web production Interns (1 position available)
We seek web production interns to work with our Managing Editor and web design team in production of our online publications. Duties will include the creation of content pages, the preparation and uploading of text and images and video, as well as other production duties. Interns will be trained in Joomla!, as well as in the platforms used for our digital books. Basic knowledge of digital imaging and HTML is preferred. Applicants should have some experience using content management systems (Joomla! WordPress, etc) to develop web content; as well as experience in multimedia content creation (image and video galleries), basic knowledge of XHTML, CSS and Adobe Photoshop. Basic programming skills and some knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese are also preferred.
Internships require a commitment of 7-10 hours per week.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume/CV to hemi.internships@nyu.edu outlining your interest in the position and any relevant experience. Applications must be received no later than Monday, September 21, 2015.
The Hand That Feeds to Screen on 9/8/2015 in NYC
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!
Internship Opportunity at the AMNH
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.
Film Screening Event for Reelabilities!
There is an upcoming film screening event at NYU Langone Medical Center as part of NYU Reelabilities, a film festival focusing on the diversity of media produced by and about people across the spectrum of physical and mental ableness. Check it out!
Profesor Susan Antón Talks about Human Evolution on NTN24
Professor Susan Antón spoke to NTN24 (Nuestra Tele Noticias) on 24 July 2014 about human evolution and her recent publication on the program Ciencia Salud y Tecnología. Antón recently collaborated on a paper, published in the most current issue of Science, which details early humans’ adaptability to changing environment and offers new insights into human evolution.
You can watch her segment on NTN24 here.
You can read the full article here.
Anthropologist Disotell on “DNA and the Search for Elusive Creatures”—April 30 at NYU
Anthropologist Disotell on “DNA and the Search for Elusive Creatures”—April 30 at NYU
New York University anthropologist Todd Disotell, who recently appeared on Spike- TV’s “$10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty”, will deliver “DNA and the Search for Elusive Creatures,” on Wed., April 30, 4:30 p.m. at NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) Auditorium (12 Waverly Place, between Greene and Mercer Streets).
The lecture is part of NYU’s “Science on the Square,” a series of lectures focusing on scientific topics of interest to the general public and sponsored by NYU’s Dean for Science.
Disotell, a biological anthropologist, focuses on primate and human evolution. He runs NYU’s Molecular Primatology Laboratory. His research group has contributed to clarifying the primate evolutionary tree, identified new species and subspecies of primates, and has helped to develop new techniques of analysis.
In recent months, Disotell has appeared on both Spike-TV’s “10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty” and SyFy’s “Joe Rogan Questions Everything”—shows seeking his expertise in testing potential DNA evidence demonstrating the existence of Bigfoot. In his laboratory and in the field, Disotell identifies DNA from a variety of sources—hair, saliva, blood (including that found in biting insects), and feces—in order to identify a range of creatures…real or imagined.
Disotell has received an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation and two Golden Dozen Teaching Awards from NYU, among other honors. He has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 212.998.3800. Reporters interested in attending must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu. Subways: N/R [8th Street], 6 [Astor Place].
