AGSA Minutes - December 12, 2008

1. Attendance:
   Amber Kling, Raymond Whitlow, Denise Szafran, Darren Poltorak, Patrick Fazioli, Kaela Woosley, Jenny Byrnes, Dustin Keeler

2. The Spring Speaker Series was discussed with the 3 Spring Speaker leaders for each subfield. Each subfield has chosen a few potential candidates for this years' Spring Speaker Series - look to the listserve for announcements regarding Meetings or Voting for this years' potential candidates.

3. Voted to encumber $50.00 in support of the Graduate Student History Association Conference- Unanimous.

   The conference is the Milton Plesur Conference that the GSHA holds annually. Many of our grad students have given papers and attended this conference in the past. This years' conference is entitled "Context and Contingencies - Cultivating Historical Perspectives"; their keynote speaker will be Nayan Shah, a professor from California whose works weaves together many subfields including cultural history, social history, immigration and medical history. The conference will be held Saturday April 4th in the Student Union.

4. The new toner for the computer lab has arrived and has been put up in the grad lounge. Please finish out the old toner before installing the new one.

   The New SubBoard Programming Grant Computers have also been purchased and will be assembled over break in time for the Spring Semester. We made need some help bringing the old computers down to the Anthropology office to be recycled/disposed of, and some help rearranging the computer lab. More details will be sent via listserve.

5. GSA News - A new committee, the Constitutional Committee, was announced at the last meeting. Also, one of the graduate clubs got their charter revoked for using their funds to purchase textbooks spanning a period of a couple years. The GSA is trying to get this money back. Please contact the GSA senators (Mia or Kaela) if you have any more questions.

Repectfully submitted,

Amber Kling
AGSA President