Anthropology Department

Indiana University Bloomington faculty members, staff and students will be recognized Friday, April 26, for outstanding service to the university's Latino community. The awards recognize individuals or groups that have participated in service and mentoring, promoted diversity initiatives and developed awareness in the areas of culture, arts, health, economy, language or education.
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K. Anne Pyburn, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been selected to receive Indiana University Bloomington's 2013 Tracy M. Sonneborn Award. Also, Pyburn and Christoph Irmscher and Stephen Watt, both professors in the Department of English, have been named Provost Professors.
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A new exhibition and a series of free programs highlighting the collections of Indiana University's Mathers Museum of World Cultures will mark the institution's 50th anniversary this month. The "Treasures of the Mathers Museum" exhibition will open at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28.
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The Office of the Dean of the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences is packing and labeling boxes this week, preparing to move to Owen Hall, just steps north of its current home in Kirkwood Hall. The College's administrative offices will close Friday, March 8 at 5 p.m. and remain closed through Monday, March 18.
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For the second year, Native Americans will gather at Indiana University Bloomington to share history, culture and arts at a traditional pow wow. The event will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 3 and 4 at Union Street Center, 445 N. Union St. It also will serve as the kick-off event for IU Bloomington's observance of National American Indian Heritage Month.
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Workshops, academic papers and a keynote address and performance by a fiddle player who is also a specialist in North American French Creole and Cajun language, culture and music will be part of the 2012 annual conference of the Center for French Colonial Studies this weekend at Indiana University Bloomington.
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