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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
2:30-4:30 p.m.
2-0400 - Ideas and Techniques for Organizing An Ethnographic Field School
James Tim M Wallace and George Gmelch
This workshop is designed to assist program trainers in organizing, leading and conducting ethnographic field schools. The main focus of the workshop concerns on-site training practices, techniques, tips, pitfalls, student management, financial management and ethical issues. Other workshop elements presented are suggestions about methods training, including fieldnote-taking, relationships with host communities, preparing participants for culture shock, working with informants, incorporating computers into the training, record keeping software, and student report writing tips. Part of the workshop also addresses topics dealing with field school organizational development, institutional support, targeting and marketing participants appropriate to the field school goals, budgeting, and payoffs for students and program leaders, The presenters between them have about 30 years of experience in leading field schools.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
8:00-10:00 a.m.
3-0195 - Engaging Journalism: Making Anthropology Visible In the Public Sphere
Brian M McKenna
Erikson (2006) argues that [anthropology's] "lack of visibility is an embarrassment," and that anthropologists must write in a popular vein to convey our unique perspective to the public. This workshop shows how to: turn academic scholarship into journalistic articles; engage media with anthropological topics; intervene as a "public intellectual;" and write rapidly in a public voice. Participants should bring one piece of their writing for review. Leaders will be available after the workshop for follow-up. Handouts provided.
8:00-10:00 a.m.
3-0200 - Hanging Out Your Shingle: Practical, Strategic and Ethical First Steps for Anthropological Contract Work Part I
Ken C Erickson and Stephanie Paladino
This is the first half of a four-hour continuous workshop. Hanging out a shingle comes with risks and rewards; the usual anthropological graduate program will not prepare you for the preparation, marketing, budgeting, costing, and pricing of your work. How will you do this? How will you find clients? How will you protect your data, your respondents or participants, your relationship with your clients and co-researchers? How do you assess your fitness for the occupational hazards of self-employment? This interactive workshop will provide practical tools for the front-end tasks of anthropological consulting and contracting. In this four-hour workshop, participants will gain hands-on experience costing and pricing anthropological work using a budget template. Sample non-disclosure agreement, contract, budget planner, and team-compact language will be provided and discussed. This is not a workshop on methodology or on research project management; it is a workshop on the business of marketing, planning, writing, and negotiating anthropological contract work in a way that promotes clear expectations, addresses ethical concerns, and provides a foundation for a sustainable research practice. Bringing your own laptop is highly recommended for practice with and discussion of sample materials. PARTICIPANTS MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH PART 1 AND PART 2 IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE FULL FOUR HOUR WORKSHOP, as content will not be repeated across both sections.
8:00-10:00 a.m.
3-0205 - SHA Workshop ON WRITING Articles for Publication
James M Taggart, George Fitzpatrick Mentore and Justin R Shaffner
George Mentore and Justin Shaffner of ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM will lead a workshop on how to write articles for publication in professional journals in anthropology.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
3-0310 - Introduction to SOCIAL Network ANALYSIS
H Russell Bernard, Jeffrey C Johnson and Chris McCarty
Social network analysis (SNA) is the study of patterns of human relations. Participants learn about whole networks (relations within groups) and personal networks (relations surrounding individuals). This one-day, introductory, hands-on workshop uses examples from anthropological research. Whole networks are analyzed using UCINET and NetDraw; personal networks are analyzed using EgoNet. Free short-term demos are available for these programs. Participants furnish their own laptops.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
3-0495 - Graduate and Early Career Publishing: Advice From Donald Donham, Former American Ethnologist Editor
Canceled
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
3-0500 - Putting Anthropology to Work: Taking A Life Course Approach to Your Career
Sherylyn H Briller
This workshop helps prepare students and career-changers for the current work environment. As a participant, you will learn how to: a) understand your anthropological skill-set, b) represent yourself professionally as an anthropologist and c) take a life course approach to your career. The workshop is two hours long.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
3-0505 - Transferring Ethnographic Competencies to Subject Matter Experts
Margaret H Szymanski and Brigitte Jordan
In the 1970s, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center pioneered the involvement of social science researchers from anthropology and sociology in the innovation and design of technology and better ways of working. Historically, work practice researchers and members of the business consultancy partnered to engage in customer projects - a model under which researchers "hand off" their findings and data to subject matter experts who interpret them and implement a solution. Since 2003, Xerox has been engaged in an initiative to transfer knowledge about how to conduct ethnographically-grounded work practice studies to the subject matter experts so that they themselves may produce the kinds of knowledge traditionally generated by researchers.
This workshop explores the traces, the tidemarks and the legacies of this growing trend to transfer ethnographic capabilities to subject matter experts who have no prior anthropological training. First, how has the transfer of anthropological methods created traces in the form of value-added capabilities in a variety of industries? Second, what kinds of tidemarks have been established organizationally by enabling subject matter experts to use ethnographic methods? And third, what legacy is this growing trend shaping in the landscape for anthropological work in industry? Two case studies will be shared to ground the open discussion: one describes how a center for fieldwork competence was established within Fujitsu Ltd., and the other details how a self-sustaining group of certified work practice analysts was established within a Xerox business group.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
3-0615 - Marketing the Anthropological Lens
Rita M Denny and Patricia L Sunderland
This workshop introduces participants to the commercial work and world of consumer research. It explores how anthropology and anthropologists can and do contribute in this space. Designed for graduate students, practitioners, or faculty with an interest, the workshop is organized by case studies in order to illustrate both analytic frames and methods.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
3-0620 - SHA Workshop On How to Turn Your Dissertation Into a Book
James M Taggart and Alma Gottlieb
In this workshop, Alma Gottleib will lead a discussion on the ways to turn a dissertation into published book. Participants are encouraged to bring sample of their work to share with others in a discussion of how to write interesting and useful ethnography.
1:30-5:30 p.m.
3-0630 - Introductory Participatory Design Workshop: Overview and Introduction to Methods
Nancy Fried Foster
Have you ever found it difficult to use a product or space that initially attracted you by its design? A software engineer can design elegant software and an architect can design a beautiful building using the professional training and tools of their trades. However, that software or that building, though elegant or beautiful, might be hard to use or might not meet the needs of the people for whom it is meant. Participatory design addresses this problem by including many more people – stakeholders, specialists, users – in the design and development process, thus increasing the amount of information about local practices and needs that informs the entire development cycle, from conceptualization through implementation.
It is easy for a software engineer to participate in a software development project because s/he brings professional expertise to the process and is understood and accepted as a central and legitimate participant. But how can a non-specialist, even someone who knows nothing about computer code, participate in the process? In participatory design, a social scientist uses methods drawn from the ethnographer's toolkit to enable non-technologists to contribute their expert knowledge to the process.
In this workshop, an anthropologist who facilitates participatory design processes in academic libraries and higher education and who teaches others how to do this work in the US and internationally will present an overview of PD; review some key methods, including an in-depth interactive experience; and conclude with a facilitated discussion of the benefits and applications of participatory design.
The workshop is recommended for beginners who wish to develop an initial familiarity with the participatory design field, particularly faculty members who may want to engage students in participatory design as part of a methods class, or graduate students who are exploring alternatives to academic careers.
3:30-5:30 p.m.
3-0905 - Hanging Out Your Shingle: Practical, Strategic and Ethical First Steps for Anthropological Contract Work Part 2
Ken C Erickson and Stephanie Paladino
This is the SECOND HALF of a four-hour, continuous workshop. Participants who can only register for one half should register for Part 1, as content will not be repeated across both sections. Hanging out a shingle comes with risks and rewards; the usual anthropological graduate program will not prepare you for the preparation, marketing, budgeting, costing, and pricing of your work. How will you do this? How will you find clients? How will you protect your data, your respondents or participants, your relationship with your clients and co-researchers? How do you assess your fitness for the occupational hazards of self-employment? This interactive workshop will provide practical tools for the front-end tasks of anthropological consulting and contracting. Participants in this two-hour, second part of a four-hour, two-part workshop will gain hands-on experience costing and pricing anthropological work using a budget template. Sample non-disclosure agreement, contract, budget planner, and team-compact language will be provided and discussed. This is not a workshop on methodology or on research project management; it is a workshop on the business of marketing, planning, writing, and negotiating anthropological contract work in a way that promotes clear expectations, addresses ethical concerns, and provides a foundation for a sustainable research practice. Bringing your own laptop is highly recommended for practice with and discussion of sample materials. PARTICIPANTS MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH PART 1 AND PART 2, SCHEDULED ONE AFTER THE OTHER, IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE FULL FOUR HOUR WORKSHOP.
Friday, November 18, 2011
8:00-10:00 a.m.
4-0200 - HOW TO FIND AN ACADEMIC JOB
Lynne Goldstein
Workshop covers how to search for an academic job, how to prepare application materials, request letters of reference, how to operate in interviews, and how to handle job negotiations.
8:00-10:00 a.m.
4-0205 - Photography for the Field (Part 1): Camera and Photography Basics
Jonathan S Marion, Jonathan S Marion and Jerome W Crowder
This workshop focuses on producing effective digital photography in the field. First, we will discuss the fundamentals of the common digital camera, their various features, their utility, and how to effectively use them in the field. This includes a discussion about sensitivity (ISO), shutter speed, aperture settings, image resolution, zoom, flash, memory, power, etc., as well as some basics of composition theory. Our goal is to help you learn about your camera so you can take the photos you want.
[NOTE: this is a standalone workshop and can be taken with OR without Photography for the Field (Part 2)!]
8:00-10:00 a.m.
4-0210 - Teaching Anthropology of Religion
Natalia K Suit, Gregory Starrett, Daniel M Varisco, John A Napora and James S Bielo
What do we teach when we teach anthropology of religion? In spite of living in what some commentators of social life have diagnosed as a "global religious revival," anthropologists focusing on religion find their interests surprisingly marginalized in the discipline. Moreover, a quick look on-line at the course offerings at various universities and colleges indicates that it is often hard to tell the difference between courses offered in the Religious Studies Departments and those offered by the anthropologists of religion. The syllabi on anthropology of religion circulating the Internet tend to follow a fairly standard topical model that lists a number of categories such as: magic, ritual, sacrifice, shamanism, etc., that have been traditionally studied by anthropologists throughout the history of this discipline. Does this normative approach help students engage religious developments in contemporary world? Does it turn anthropology of religion into an effective tool for understanding current entanglements of politics, economy, law or ecological movements with what we call religion?
This workshop is intended as a forum for discussion of how to teach anthropology of religion in more effective ways (and how to turn anthropology of religion from a course that draws a handful of students into one that tops enrollments.) We would like to look at some innovative ways of structuring syllabi and incorporating social media and audio-visual components into teaching. It is our goal to promote methods that will help students to understand why religion is such a powerful force in today's global politics and what is the relationship of religion to violent rhetoric present in the media.
Our workshop is directed not only to graduate students who are preparing to teach a class in anthropology of religion but also to those who have already taught this class and are looking for inspirations.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m
4-0325 - Digital Audio Field Recording for Ethnography
Amy Goldenberg and Andy Kolovos
This day-long workshop provides both a general introduction to digital audio field recording options for ethnographers, and an overview of digital preservation best practices to assist researchers with the preservation of their digital audio recordings—in the field and into the future.
The first half of the workshop focuses on digital audio and field recording. It includes an overview of audio recording technology and the nature of digital audio, a discussion of microphones and microphone technique suited to the field recording situations ethnographers commonly encounter, and presents information on current audio recorders, their applications and cost.
The second half the workshop is dedicated to discussions of digital preservation best practices for the short, medium and long-term preservation of field-generated audio recordings. We discuss the computer¹s role in interfacing with digital field recording equipment, examine a variety of hardware and software options, discuss and emphasize the formulation and implementation of a future technology plan for ethnographic digital audio research collections.
Workshop participants are encouraged to bring their own recording equipment for discussion.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
4-0326 - Text ANALYSIS: SYSTEMATIC METHODS for Analyzing Qualitative DATA
H Russell Bernard, Amber Wutich and Clarence C Gravlee
This one-day course provides an introduction to systematic methods for analyzing qualitative data. Topics covered include: techniques for identifying themes, tips for developing and using codebooks, and suggestions on how to produce qualitative descriptions, make systematic comparisons, and build and formally test models. The course is not a software workshop, but we will introduce participants to software packages that can facilitate the systematic analysis of qualitative data.
10:00-11:45 a.m.
4-0335 - How to Write a Grant Proposal: An Introduction to Grants and Programs At the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation
Leslie C Aiello and Deborah Winslow
How do you write a successful grant proposal for either the Wenner-Gren Foundation or the National Science Foundation? We will provide a brief overview of our grant programs for faculty and graduate students. We will also give you the chance to find what makes a proposal successful, what the most common pitfalls are and finally dispel the myths that surround the funding process. We will focus on how proposals are processed and evaluated in both agencies and how your proposal can get the attention it deserves.
10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
4-0510 - Photography for the Field (Part 2): I've Taken the picture -- now What???
Jonathan S Marion and Jerome W Crowder
So you've taken a picture -- now what? We will begin by taking the images out of the camera and placing them into your computer in an organized fashion, creating folders, renaming images, optimizing for the web and developing a basic system or database for easy retrieval. We will cover editing basics like cropping, adjusting levels, saturation and contrast, and even reducing red-eye and cleaning images. We will also discuss the differences between .jpg and .tiff formats, when to you use each one, preparing digital images for publication, (B&W or color), and a variety of ways to safely store these images. Lastly, we will cover how to use images in the field, to elicit discussion, make notes into image header files, and setting up a basic slideshow for others to view.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
4-0520 - The UN/Civil Society Interface: Walking and Working the UN Corridors
Eva Friedlander PhD and Pamela J Puntenney PhD
This workshop will introduce participants to the way in which civil society interfaces with the UN and the potential for anthropologists to influence the work in which it engages. It will deal with the various roles that organizations and individuals can play vis-a-vis the UN and its specialized agencies. This includes ways anthropologists can have a substantive input at regular UN meetings of committees, commissions, conferences, forums, etc. Examples will be provided of where and how anthropologists and their expertise have had some influence on the substantive issues with which it engages.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
4-0685 - Preparing Undergraduates to Practice Anthropology
Anne J Goldberg
Preparing undergraduates to use anthropology after graduation requires pedagogy aimed at building the skills most sought after by employers, and helping students to communicate their skills effectively. This workshop will connect desired outcomes for students to classroom exercises and techniques. Attention will be given to ways of intentionally building skills from introductory courses to senior seminars. These techniques can be used in courses on applied anthropology, but can also be integrated into anthropology courses without an applied focus. The workshop will be designed with input from current practicing anthropologists from both the academy and outside, and advice from employers of anthropology undergraduates.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
4-0690 - Free Software for Writing and Managing Fieldnotes: New Release of Fieldworks Data Notebook
G Tomas Woodward and James Tim M Wallace
This workshop is an interactive demonstration of the basic features of FieldWorks Data Notebook. The Data Notebook is designed for writing and managing field notes. In this new and free release, the Data Notebook has been embedded in SIL's FieldWorks Language Explorer 7.0 (FLEx) giving it broader and more powerful options. The Data Notebook comes with standardized and customizable templates for data input and several ways to search, retrieve, and review data. Multi-language and script technologies allow its use in almost any linguistic environment in the world. Best of all, FieldWorks is free. It can be downloaded from the SIL server at: http://fieldworks.sil.org/download/beta. System requirement: FieldWorks operates on Windows systems. While a Mac version is not yet available, the program is functional on Macs with a Windows partition.
1:45-3:45 p.m.
4-0870 - "It's Who You Know: Using Networking Techniques and Strategies to Increase Your Networking Success."
Sabrina Nichelle Scott, Jen A Cardew Kersey, Edward Liebow, Edward Liebow, Jen A Cardew Kersey and Sabrina Nichelle Scott
In this interactive workshop, you will apply networking techniques and develop a personalized networking strategy to increase your professional networking success. As a workshop participant, you will learn the characteristics of great networkers and practice specific strategies for capitalizing on the strength of weak ties. During this workshop, you will increase your knowledge and build skills in networking both off and online in various communities of practice. This workshop is applicable to students and practitioners at all career stages.
3:30-5:30 p.m.
4-0975 - Anthropology In Focus Groups: Expanded Opportunities for Anthropologists In Marketing Research
Robert J Morais
For most anthropologists engaged in marketing research, ethnography is their unique selling proposition. However, despite the recognized value of ethnography as a business research technique, limited time and budgets mitigate against more frequent adoption of the methodology by marketers. For these reasons, and because some business executives still do not know precisely what ethnography is or comprehend what practical heuristic purpose it serves, their methodology of choice for qualitative research is typically a focus group. When business anthropologists restrict their research capability to ethnography and eschew focus groups as an inferior research technique, they limit their opportunities for business employment. This workshop will describe how anthropologists engaged in marketing research can incorporate focus room interviews into their methodological repertoire and retain their unique perspective as anthropologists. If they choose to expand their skill set as suggested, anthropologists in business will generate additional employment options.
3:30-5:30 p.m.
4-0980 - Beyond Bullet Points: How to Create a Visual Presentation
Jen A Cardew Kersey
This workshop will be a hands-on guide for both students and professionals that are looking to take their presentations beyond bullet points. Topics will include how and when to use symbolic or representative pictures, ways to illustrate findings other than bullet points, free online tools for visualization, the types of frameworks that can be used in fieldwork to deliver insights about users, and examples of visualization exercises that can be used in fieldwork. In addition to an overview of design principles for creating a visually stunning presentation, participants will be shown examples of client presentations. Attendees will be given a reference guide to take with them. Participants are encouraged to bring laptops with presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint) to the workshop. The focus of this workshop is how to create client presentations and the contents should be applicable to all presentations. Knowledge of how to use presentation software isn't necessary, it is recommended. PowerPoint will be the software used in the workshop.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
8:00-10:00 a.m.
5-0170 - Graduate Student Workshop On Sanity, Seamlessness and Purposefully Engaging the Stages of Your Graduate Career
Kevin M Foster
This interactive workshop will identify critical stages in the graduate student career cycle and provide an opportunity for students to engage and consider challenges and opportunities with each. Topics include: building community in local and national contexts; applying for external funding; presenting at conferences; effective networking; building a dissertation committee, preparing for the field, first publications; and the job search. While each topic could be addressed at length on its own, this workshop will provide an overview and framing for students to further engage each of these topics and others in ways that are purposeful, maximize opportunity, and avoid common traps.
8:00-10:00 a.m.
5-0175 - Publishing Workshop
Melinda Bernardo and Alexander J Orona
Do you think your term paper could make a great journal article, but are unsure how to begin the process? This workshop is for you! We will discuss different types of academic and non-academic journals, how to navigate the peer-review process, and specific strategies for first-time authors.
8:00-10:00 a.m.
5-0180 - SHA Workshop On Narrative Ethnography: Finding and Crafting the Stories In Your Ethnographic Research
James M Taggart and Julia L Offen
This active workshop will facilitate participants' narrative ethnographic writing development by helping people to focus in on key experiences and moments in cultural events which evocatively convey larger conclusions from their research. This workshop will be of particular interest to students and those currently or recently engaged in anthropological fieldwork.
9:00-10:00 a.m.
5-0265 - Anthropologists In Evaluation: An Introduction to Concepts and Practical Applications
Mary Odell Butler and Lenora Bohren
This workshop is an introduction to evaluation concepts and methods from an anthropological perspective. The workshop will focus on the value for evaluators of an emic or insider's perspective, a non-judgmental orientation, contextualization of data, and a holistic perspective. Discussion will consider participatory or collaborative approaches, a trend in the field of evaluation that reflects a basic value in anthropology and increases the usefulness of an evaluation in terms of improving programs and products and informing decision-making. It will also acquaint participants with the various audiences and markets for evaluation, including corporations, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions. This workshop is particularly valuable for individuals beginning to explore employment opportunities in evaluation. Participants will engage in hands-on, practical evaluation-related activities and exercises designed to highlight critical evaluation concepts and. The exercises will be interactive and participatory in nature.
10:25 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
5-0450 - Tourism RESEARCH Workshop: THEORETICAL Frameworks, APPROACHES and PRACTICES
Quetzil E Castaneda and James Tim M Wallace
This workshop is designed for graduate students and faculty: (a) who are initiating research in the anthropology of tourism or (b) who found themselves unwittingly after the fact dealing with tourism in their research site but don't have prior training in tourism studies, and (c) those who teach or plan on teaching courses in the anthropology of tourism and would like an alternative theoretical approach and synthetic overview of the field as a means to develop courses. The workshop provides a critical understanding of the history of tourism research in anthropology, including major research issues, theoretical framings, and methodological approaches. While providing a synthesis of predominant and orthodox appraches, the workshop introduces participants to the organizers' alternative formulations and heterodox vision of the field. The workshop is conducted seminar style with interactive participation. Participants who have enrolled in the workshop with AAA are asked to send an email to quetzil@osea-cite.org and to tmwallace@mindspring.com to receive pre-workshop information and access to website. Workshop lasts TWO HOURS.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
5-0455 - "Teaching Anthropology Through a Human Rights Lens"
Julie Reyes, Gretchen Schafft and Julie Reyes
Considering teaching a course of human rights, or augmenting one you already teach? As synonymous as anthropology and human rights are, they don't always come together in courses we provide the way we wished they would. This workshop reviews what some of the best practices are when teaching anthropology through a human rights lens and offers practical advice on how to be more explicit in addressing issues that concern all of us. We will be using a data base developed in higher educational institutions around the United States, and exploring ways to promote, protect, and research human rights. Our workshop will encompass human rights pedagogy from the conceptual to the applied.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
5-0460 - Workshop On Teaching about Gender and Sexuality
Sophie Bjork Statzel, Harjant Gill, Charlene E. Makley, Jose L Santos PhD and Ann M Kakaliouras
This workshop is designed to share resources and best-practices on teaching about gender and sexuality. There will be four 15-minute presentations on specific practices and strategies on teaching about these topics followed by a discussion session. Participants are encouraged to share assignments, lectures, resources, and strategies they have found useful and productive.
Specific topics covered in the workshop will include: Masculinity studies; using film to teach about sexuality studies; intersections of race and gender in media; assignments that encourage students to consider their own gender identity; teaching transgender issues; and cross-cultural perspectives on gender.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
5-0545 - SHA Workshop On Writing Poetry
James M Taggart and Renato I Rosaldo Jr.
Participants in the Society for Humanist Anthropology Poetry Workshop will have the opportunity to share their poetry with their peers once again under the guidance of Renato Rosaldo.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
5-0550 - Stress Management and Building Self-Esteem for Students and Beginning Professionals
Teresita Majewski
This workshop will help students and beginning professionals learn how to develop and practice stress management and self-esteem-building skills, which are essential for career development whether one is an academic or practicing anthropologist. The presenter will set the stage by sharing real-life examples that underscore the importance of self-knowledge and maintaining balance in one's personal and professional lives. The balance of the workshop will involve small-group work and collective sharing of insights. Dr. Teresita Majewski, RPA, FSA, vice president and chief operating officer of Statistical Research, Inc., will lead the workshop. Her experience has spanned more than 25 years in academic and practicing settings, and she has balanced her anthropological career with civic and professional service and a full personal life, often by employing creative and sometimes unconventional (by anthropological standards) strategies. But even the paths of the most-successful professionals are not smooth. The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the tools necessary to make the transition from "unsure/"insecure" undergraduate/graduate student to "confident professional," while weathering the inevitable challenges and setbacks by understanding and managing external and internal stresses.
1:30-3:30 p.m.
5-0560 - Presenting Yourself In Professional Life
Cathleen E Crain, Nanthaniel Tashima and Mark C Edberg
Cathleen Crain and Niel Tashima, Managing Partners of LTG Associates, and Mark Edberg, a professional anthropologist and now professor of anthropology at George Washington University, will host a workshop on presenting yourself and your ideas in ways that will get you the kind of attention you want. Cathleen, Niel, and Mark are senior professional anthropologists who have worked domestically and internationally in policy and program in health and human services arenas.
The workshop will focus on practical means and methods for developing and delivering effective presentations including papers, speeches, and engaging in professional exchanges. Interactive skills-building will be a focus of the workshop. Through brief activities, participants will be exposed to learning how to effectively employ PowerPoint presentations, construction of visual support tools, how to work with an audience, how to utilize space in a presentation, and, audience assessment. Other topics to be addressed in the workshop will include practical advice on presenting yourself in a variety of professional contexts.
3:00-4:45 p.m.
5-0845 - NASA Mentorship Workshop
Sarah R Taylor
3:30-5:30 p.m.
5-0855 - SHA Workshop On Writing Fiction and Non-Fiction
James M Taggart, Billie Jean Isbell and Catherine J Allen
Billie Jean Isbell and Catherine Allen will lead this SHA workshop on writing fiction as well as non-fiction from ethnographic events. Participants will have the opportunity to read passages from their own work during an open-mike period.
3:30-5:30 p.m.
5-0860 - SHA Writers' GROUP Workshop
James M Taggart and Renato I Rosaldo Jr.
The participants in this workshop are strongly encouraged to bring, share and comment on samples of ethnographic writing in any genre (prose, poetry).
4:00-6:00 p.m.
5-1020 - From Which Self Do I Speak? Fluid Selves In Health Care Research
Kristi M Ninnemann, Hiba Zafran, Rebecca J Lester, Kristi M Ninnemann, Hiba Zafran, Rebecca J Lester, Timothy McCajor Hall, Devon Emerson Hinton, Douglas Hollan and Allison V Schlosser
Clinician-researchers face multiple tensions in their dual interpretive practices. These tensions are experienced by researchers who become practitioners, clinicians-turned-researchers, and people who examine institutional cultures in health care, their patients and/or their colleagues. In keeping with this year's theme of fluidity, the aim of this interactive workshop is to provide a collegial space in which clinician-researchers can unpack and explore the conflicts and richness inherent in their multiplex roles. Tensions to be explored include those found in the deceptively calm lakes between academic theory and clinical practice, the stormy seas of ethics vs. moral experience in dual roles, and the ebb and flow of which self speaks at which time, and why. The practices of 'native' and applied anthropology, person-centered ethnography and 'auto- ethnography', as well as the complicated layers these positions and methods entail will be highlighted and discussed in this workshop, specifically in the ways they relate to anthropological research conducted by clinicians in domains of health care. Merging anthropological theory with clinical philosophies, this 3-hour discussion will both outline some answers and raise the kinds of questions which are important to reflect on, especially in consideration of the vulnerable populations with which clinical-researchers frequently work.
To cultivate the depth of discussion, workshop participants will be guided through reflective activities in order to share thoughts, and personal as well as professional experiences, in order to wade through questions which resonate with the attendees. Some of the anticipated issues to be explored are: Motivations/passions that lead to taking this complex position; Variations in positionality; How to engage in reflexivity; Ethical/moral dilemmas; Reactions by both academic and clinical colleagues; Degrees of separation from the 'subject'; Study designs, analytic strategies, and impact on methodological rigor; Applied and/or translational struggles; and Career trajectories.