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About SCASC The Anthropology Department at the University of South Carolina would like to invite students to participate in the South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference on April 18th, 2009 at the Columbia campus of the University of South Carolina.

This conference will feature student presenters at both the undergraduate and graduate level and will provide a friendly forum to practice submitting a proposal and presenting a conference paper or academic poster. This forum also allows for students to receive constructive feedback from fellow students and professors on their work in progress. Finally, this venue encourages students in anthropology from across the state of South Carolina to get together and discuss their research. Attendance of this event is open to the public.
Keynote speaker - Dr. Marc L. Moskowitz
Our keynote speaker for the conference is Dr. Marc L. Moskowitz who will be speaking on “Urban Modernity in Anthropology: Chinese Popular Music and its Discontents.”

Dr. Moskowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina and the Visual Anthropology Review Editor for the American Anthropologist. He is a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays, Fulbright, and Chiang Ching-Kuo awards. He is the author of the books Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Popular Music (in press), The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan (2001) and co-editor of The Minor Arts of Daily
SCASC 2008 Past topics have included The Evolution of Images and Stereotypes of Women in the African Diaspora, Migration, Marginalization, Development in the Dominican Republic, Comparative archaeological study of the cultures of enslaved persons and planters in Martinique, and more.

2008 Abstracts