| Cost |
Description |
Presenters |
| Thursday, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM |
39 |
1-108 |
TOUR: Interpreting the Archaeology of 'We The People': A Behind the Scenes look at the Public Archaeology at Independence National Historical Park |
Complimentary
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Archaeology Division
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Explore archaeological interpretations created during the American bicentennial and then investigate the Park’s current phase of public engagement, 30 years later, including a public archaeology lab, a 3D digital media project, and civic engagement-driven excavation. Tour convenes five blocks East at the Independence Visitors Center at 6th and Market Streets. Dress warmly.
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Patrice Jeppson, Glen Muschio, and Jed Levin |
| Saturday, 10:30 AM-12:30PM |
38 |
3-081 |
Evaluation Anthropology in the Field: Application in Case Study Evaluation |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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This workshop will explore how evaluators use case studies, an increasingly important mode of evaluation for anthropologists. Case studies are characterized by a holistic approach that is context sensitive. They naturally incorporate anthropological methods such as ethnography and participant observation, but may bring in more quantitative approaches as well. A brief presentation of the theory and method of case study evaluations will be followed by a participatory exercise in evaluation design, implementation and interpretation using a case study approach. This workshop is designed to build on the participants' interests in evaluation rather than to serve as an introduction to evaluation methods.
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Lenora Bohren and Mary Odell Butler and Susan Squires |
| Friday, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM |
37 |
2-073 |
Now What? Post -Fieldwork Workshop on the Analysis of Tourism Research |
Regular: $30
Student: $15
Regular Non-Member: $60
Student Non-Member: $30
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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This workshop is designed for graduate students and faculty who have already completed extensive fieldwork based research on tourism-related ethnographic issues and who confront the question: "What do I do now with all this?!" This workshop is designed as a post-op debriefing or "round two" for participants of previous tourism workshops conducted by the organizers. This workshop is equally designed for researchers at any degree-level who have completed substantial ethnographic research project in the anthropology of tourism and who now seek to develop analyses and write up their ethnography. This workshop provides a grounded approach to help you assess the nature of your completed or nearly-completed project, the quality of the data and information you have collected and the significance of the knowledge you have produced about tourism. Using a forum or focus group dynamic, participants are encouraged to voice their troubles in creating interpretations, descriptions, ethnographic narratives, conceptual coherence, and analytical focus out of their competed research. Building on this dialogue, the organizers guide participants in the practical use and development of appropriate and significant theoretical frameworks. The goal of workshop is help each participant not only resolve problems they encounter in the write-up stage, but also to provide theoretical tools to create significant analyses that can make major contributions to tourism studies.
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Quetzil Castaneda and Tim Wallace |
| Friday, 8:00 AM- 10:00AM |
36 |
2-023 |
4th Napa Workshop on Leadership Opportunities and Engaging in UN process |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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PJ Puntenney |
| Thursday, 2:30 PM-4:30 PM |
35 |
1-151 |
Tourism Research: Workshop in New Theories, Methods and Practices |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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This workshop is designed for graduate students and faculty who are initiating research in or teaching on anthropology of tourism, as well as for those who have already conducted initial design, theorized and put into practicw anthropological research on tourism. This workshop is also ideal for those of us who teach or will teach courses on tourism and would like to have an alternative theoretical approach and synthetic overview of the field as a means and platform to tourism research in anthropology, including major research issues, theoretical framings, and methodological approaches. While providing a synthesis of predominant and orthodox approaches, the workshop also introduces participants to the organizers' alternative formulations and heterodox vision of the field. The core of the workshop combines seminar-style discussion with interactive learning activities. The goal is for participants to take these tools and apply them directly to their own ongoing research, to assist in further developing and elaborating their own distinctive research projects. Each participant receives a workshop course "book" that includes materials such as bibliographies, syllabi, publishing aides and an analytic guide to key theories and methodologies.
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Quetzil Castaneda and Tim Wallace |
| Thursday, 1:00 PM-3:00PM |
34 |
1-106 |
Fieldworks Data Notebook: Software for Writing and Managing Field Notes |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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A fast-paced, interactive demonstration of FWDN. This data collection and management software is Windows based with standard templates for data input plus several ways to search and review field notes. FWDN allows customized interfaces and fields. Multi-script technology provides access to almost all linguistic environments. FWDN is free. Download at: www.sil.org/computing/fieldworks/DataNotebook.html.
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Tom Woodward and Tim Wallace |
| Thursday, 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM |
33 |
1-075A |
Taking Anthropology Online: Strategies for Teaching and Scholarship |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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Informants, students, communities, culture, inequality, data — all increasingly have a life online. This workshop will cover the basics of anthropology online, with a focus on content production, scholarship and teaching. Specific areas covered include: blogging, social networking, online video, podcasts and wikis.
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Daniel Lende |
| Thursday, 10:30 AM-12:30PM |
32 |
1-073 |
Public Policy as Anthropological Process: Strategy Development Using an Empowerment Model |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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Sound public policy is the result of sound anthropological process. Rather than viewing our enterprise as strictly research based, which leads to a limited advocacy model, an applied process is based on fostering citizen empowerment through reflection and action. After briefly comparing these two models, presenters will describe how an empowerment model led to significant policy changes in the federal government, in selected local governments and in corporations. Most of the workshop will be devoted to participants' strategy development for their home settings.
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Keven Preister and Trish Malone |
| Thursday, 8:00 AM-11:00 AM |
31 |
1-031 |
Applying Anthropology in the Classroom: Resources and Techniques |
Regular: $30
Student: $15
Regular Non-Member: $60
Student Non-Member: $30
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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This workshop is designed to assist new professors in developing courses in introductory cultural anthropology with an applied perspective. The workshop will address how to use your ethnographic research in the classroom, identifying textbooks and applied ethnographies, and available resources that can enhance your courses.
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Susan Andreatta and Gary Ferraro |
| Thursday, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM |
30 |
1-029 |
The Ethnographic Field School: Techniques and Tips for Organizing and Leading Them |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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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 field note-taking, relationships with host communities, preparing participants for culture shock, working with informants, incorporating computers into the training, record keeping software, student report writing tips, liability issues, sudden conduct issues, health issues and budgeting. Workshop participants receive copies of a manual for preparing an ethnographic field school program and URL links to valuable websites for consultation.
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Tim Wallace and George Gmelch |
| Wednesday, 4:00 PM-7:00 PM |
29 |
0-097 |
Leading Engaging Workshops |
Regular: $30
Student: $15
Regular Non-Member: $60
Student Non-Member: $30
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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Learn ways to adapt your research or your academic teaching to create fun and informative participatory workshops for adult learners; some topics: creating memorable exercises, structuring the training session, sparking engaging discussions, designing training materials, bringing in your participants' knowledge. Please bring some of your own materials along if you want to work on a particular training you are putting together. Presenter Jenny Beer teaches negotiation at Wharton (U Penn) and as an independent consultant has led workshops in cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution topics for many years.
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Jenny Beer and Lenora Bohrem |
| Wednesday, 3:30 PM-6:30 PM |
28 |
0-074 |
Empowerment Evaluation: Building Evaluation Capacity in Schools, Hospitals, and Community-Based Organizations |
Regular: $60
Student: $30
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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The purpose of empowerment evaluation is to help build evaluation capacity and enable people to accomplish their objectives. This workshop will provide participants with the tools required to facilitate an empowerment evaluation, including the three steps of empowerment evaluation: (1) mission, (2) taking stock, and (3) planning for the future.
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David Fetterman |
| Wednesday, 12:00 PM- 3:00 PM |
27 |
0-035 |
Negotiation Skills |
Regular: $60
Student: $30
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National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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This workshop is for anyone who wants to improve their negation skills. We will discuss formal negotiations (such as job searching, hiring, budgets) and informal ones (colleagues, field sites, administration). Participants will also have hands-on practice. Presenter Jenny Beer is an anthropologist and mediator who regularly teaches negation at Wharton (U Penn).
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Jenny Beer and Lenora Bohrem |
| Wednesday, 5:00 PM- 7:00 PM |
26 |
0-107 |
Funding & Distribution of Ethnographic Film |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Visual Anthropology
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This workshop is designated for anthropologists who work in visual media, currently have a film project in development, and are interested in exploring their options for creating a viable business plan for that project. Open to both experienced and first time filmmakers.
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Cynthia Close |
| Wednesday, 12:00 PM- 3:00 PM |
25 |
0-036 |
Video Camera Technique for Professional Results with Inexpensive Video Equipment |
Regular: $60
Student: $30
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Society for Visual Anthropology
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With a $500 video camera and a laptop computer, you can shoot, edit and distribute an ethnographic film. This workshop focuses on how to shoot video to make that film look polished and communicate effectively. On the shooting side it includes shooting coverage that can be easily edited, recording clean sound, the most useful accessories, and making people look good. John Bishop has shot and edited more than 20.00 films and taught video production and ethnographic film at UCLA for 12 years.
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John Bishop |
| Wednesday, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM |
24 |
0-067 |
Photography for the Field, Part 2: I've taken the picture ….now what? |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Visual Anthropology
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So you've taken the 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 use each one, preparing digital images for publication, B&W versus 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, making notes into image header files and setting up a basic slideshow for others to view.
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Jonathan Marion and Jerome Crowder |
| Wednesday, 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM |
23 |
0-034 |
Photography for the Field, Part 1: Camera and Photography Basics |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Visual Anthropology
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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), 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.
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Jonathan Marion and Jerome Crowder |
| Saturday, 8:00 AM-11:00 AM |
22 |
3-051A |
Field Methods in Ethnoecology |
Regular: $60
Student: $30
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Society for Anthropological Sciences
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This half-day course provides an introduction to field methods used by ethnoecologists and ethnobiologists. An emphasis is placed on how to collect and analyze data on traditional ecological knowledge and ethnotaxonomy. The course will also introduce software packages used by anthropologists and ecologists in the field. In addition, techniques for proper collection of ethnobiological specimens will be presented.
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J Richard Stepp |
| Saturday, 12:00 PM- 3:00 PM |
21 |
3-084 |
Cultural Consensus Theory |
Regular: $60
Student: $30
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Society for Anthropological Sciences
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Cultural consensus theory aids researchers in estimating the culturally appropriate answers to a series of related questions (Weller, in Field Methods, 20.0007). It also estimates each informant's knowledge concerning the questions. This workshop will give an overview of the theory, describe formal and informal models, and provide examples. The presentation will be at an introductory level reviewing basic concepts necessary to understand how to apply consensus theory, including the development of interview materials, sample size information, and analysis options.
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Susan Weller |
| Thursday, 9:00 AM - 5:00PM |
20 |
1-041A |
Text Analysis: Systematic Methods for Analyzing Qualitative Data |
Regular: $80
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Society for Anthropological Sciences
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This one day course provides and 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.
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Clarence Gravlee & Amber Wutich |
| Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00PM |
19 |
2-050A |
Introduction to Social Network Analysis |
Regular: $80
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Society for Anthropological Sciences
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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.
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Jeffrey C Johnson and David Kennedy |
| Thursday, 3:30 PM-5:30 PM |
18 |
1-154 |
Poetic Writing for Anthropologist |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology
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From the days of Benedict and Sapir, anthropologist have experimented with writing poetry born of their ethnographic encounters. Deepen your poetic imagination in this workshop with a distinguished anthropologist. From exploring fertile intersection of poetry and ethnography to discussing the nitty-gritty of anthropological poetry, you'll emerge from this workshop inspired.
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Renato Rosaldo |
| Thursday, 1:00 PM-3:00PM |
17 |
1-105 |
Submitting to a Peer-Reviewed Journal |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology
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Experienced interdisciplinary journal editor Michael Harkin leads participants through the fundamentals of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal and will cover topics including finding the right journal, submitting your work, responding to editorial feedback and understanding the production process. We will also discuss the production of special issues of a journal.
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Michael Harkin |
| Thursday, 10:30-12:30 |
16 |
1-072 |
How to Publish Your First Scholarly Book |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology
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SUNY Press Director Gary Dunham will cover fundamentals of publishing your fist book, emphasizing: detailed breakdown of the academic publishing process; how to research, select, contact and communicate with your publisher; how to respond to readers' reports; basic elements of a publishing contract and how to handle rejection.
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Gary Dunham |
| Thursday, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM |
15 |
1-028 |
Ethnographic Writing and Its Discontents |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology
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This workshop explores issues of ethnographic writing, as process and product. The prize winners for the Victor Turner Prize for ethnographic writing serve as exemplars for the contemporary revisioning of ethnography and its implications for both theory and practice. Participants are urged to discuss their own impasses and evolving manuscripts.
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Regna Darnell |
| Saturday, 12:15 PM- 1:30 Pm |
14 |
3-106A |
SAE Roundtable |
Regular: $45
Student: $15
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Society for Anthropology of Europe
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The SAE Roundtable Luncheon brings anthropologists together in an informal setting to discuss topics that reflect new and emerging directions in the anthropology of Europe. Lunch will be served on Saturday, at a convenient location in the conference hotel. Each table has a host who typically leads about six participants in lively conversation. Unlike the standard AAA session, this format allows face-to-face interaction among anthropologists at different stages in terms of research experience and professional trajectories.
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- Table 1: CARTER, Donald (Hamilton) Breaking the Visible Barrier: Invisibility, Belonging and the Long March to Humanity
Ralph Ellison once suggested that people be allowed to recognize themselves as themselves despite what others may believe them to be, a vigilant and impassioned call to seek balance amid the countervailing and discursive tensions of social erasure and the integrity and autonomy of an affirming subjectivity. In contemporary Europe many newcomers hope to create a place for themselves in a social world that at times relegates them to invisibility. And yet a new Europe carefully envisioned may offer an equitable cultural space for those thrown together by circumstance, postcolonial conditions and global capitalism. This new convergence of fortunes may present an opportunity for both newcomer and the established to exploit the ambiguity in the process and nature of European self-representation. Europeans old and new may transform established conventions by inhabiting a now potential social ontology. Considering the social invisibility of many newcomers and a struggle to envision "blackness," race, sexuality and other distinctions in and among differential notions of social imagination and belonging. This roundtable explores some of these emergent nodes of cultural identity that we have yet to imagine and what impact they might have on the politics of recognition and the making of newly inclusive social orders. It also examines the role and nature of ethnographic inquiry in shaping or being shaped by these processes.
- Table 2: HEMMENT, Julie (U. of Massachusetts Amherst) Forging collaborative ethnography in Europe
At a time when world events push us to ask hard questions about the future and relevance of the discipline, this roundtable rethinks one of its most endangered aspects: the paradigm of the lone ethnographer. Working collaboratively with research subjects in Europe offers a means to overcome the U.S.-centrism of the discipline. It also represents a strategy to tackle some of its methodological and ethical challenges: conducting multi-sited research; working with mobile (diasporic, migrant) publics; achieving a more socially engaged or activist anthropology. My own thinking on this topic is shaped by the two collaborative projects I have conducted thus far: (1) a participatory action research project with Russian feminist activists, 1997-98 and (2) an NSF-funded collaborative research project with Russian social scientists and their undergraduate students, 2008-10. These case studies make for interesting comparison, for crucially, they involve the same players: scholars and activists associated with the provincial Russian women's group Zhenskii Svet. The move from the first to the second project was prompted by both structural forces (political economic change and shifting geopolitical relations) and personal change (shifting professional status), and involved a significant reframing. In this discussion, we will consider both modes and methods of pursuing collaborative ethnographic projects as well as the forces that may propel us to undertake them. Some of the questions we may explore include: How effective might collaborative ethnography as a mid-career strategy be? How can we pitch collaborative ethnography to potential funders? What are proven methodologies and technologies of collaboration? To what extent might collaboration serve as a mode of activist engagement?
- Table 3: KRAUSS, Werner (U. of Texas at Austin) Alternative Energy Landscapes in Europe
Sustainable energy supply is one of the most pressing challenges in the contemporary world. Global warming and the resulting necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the depletion of natural resources and dependency on incalculable markets all demand the implementation of alternative energies worldwide. Energy has become a top priority for the European Union, and the European Commission has already established the rules for achieving 20 percent of energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020, alongside the goal of 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. European landscapes exemplify the transformative processes that are already underway and that will be our focus in this roundtable. With Denmark, Germany and Spain as the leading producers of wind energy, ever more European countries have begun to invest into this newly emerging energy market. This roundtable seeks to bring together contributions about the emergence of alternative energies, including individual case studies, the tracing of local-global relations, or perspectives from science & technology studies, in order to establish a network on the study of newly emerging energy landscapes. We will address the implementation of alternative energies through the lens of the ethnography of European landscapes and ask: How did alternative energies such as wind energy, biogas or bio-fuel production evolve in specific European landscapes? How did these transformations occur? What kind of conflicts did emerge? How do these transformations alter established networks, and who does profit from this development?
- Table 4: LEINAWEAVER, Jessaca (Brown U.) Following Anthropology to Europe: Immigration and Disciplinary Shifts
"Ethnographers work in the developing world or in ethnic enclaves in Europe," those who click through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative's online research ethics training will be told. Europeanists are familiar with this tension between anthropology's historical purview to study the Other, and the compelling human issues their fieldsites present (as are, for similar reasons, anthropologists working on urban U.S. populations). These issues may be new, however, to scholars who have been working in other fieldsites and are only recently coming to Europe trailing after immigrants from our earlier fieldsites in the "developing world." This roundtable invites the participation of scholars who are following their migrant interlocutors to Europe: Does research on migrant populations within Western European nations reify or contest traditional area studies categories? How do we define the "area specialty" of a scholar studying, for instance, Ecuadorian migrants performing on a street corner in Madrid or Paris or Berlin, and does such a project tell us more about Andean cultural practices or Western European ones? How do calls to study hybridity, transnationalism, or deterritorialization fit with the area studies foundations of anthropology department curricula, job postings, or funding possibilities? Rather than posit their end, can we argue that the ends of area studies — most prominently, interdisciplinary communication and an effort to de-parochialize developed regions' interests — remain critically significant? This roundtable anticipates comparative conversations about, on one level, the experiences of migrants to Europe, their connections to their home countries, and the degree to which European nations are incorporating migrants or addressing migrant issues; and on another level, the experiences of their ethnographers who may have shifted fieldsites midstream and who are contemplating the possibilities and limitations that a relocated research project brings.
- Table 5: MUEHLEBACH, Andrea (U. of Toronto) Post-Fordist Affect
The institutions commonly considered paradigmatic of Fordism, such as stable labor regimes, the patriarchal family, and a strong, welfarist state are, even as they appear to be vanishing, actively mourned by many Europeans today. These seemingly bygone institutions and the kinds of affective attachment they continue to bring forth thus retain much social force as people attempt to recapture or at the very least approximate "Fordist" feelings of stability and belonging in these rapidly changing times. Fordism is thus perhaps less helpfully thought of as a past era than a locus for nostalgic yearnings and desires that crucially intervene in and impact the neoliberal present — a present all too often conceptualized as a radical break from the past. In Italy, for example, the restructuring of the care sector operates as much through neoliberal processes of rationalization as it marshals institutions (such as unions) and emotions (such as the desire on the part of citizens to achieve stability and social belonging through work) that are often associated with Fordism. This roundtable luncheon provides space for reflections on the social life of Fordist forms and feelings across the Fordist/post-Fordist "divide." Questions we might discuss are: Where do these yearnings originate, how are they circulated and communicated across social domains, and what is their shape and meaning as they get articulated under fundamentally shifting social, political, and economic conditions? How, for example, does this nostalgia give rise to hybrid forms of statehood and statecraft that are both weak and strong, withdrawing and interventionist? How does mourning for the stable workplace or patriarchal kin arrangements provide the grounds upon which past and present (emotive) practices get amalgamated, reoriented, recontexualized? What cultural and social work do memories of Fordist securities and stabilities do in contemporary Europe?
- Table 6: SEREMETAKIS, C. Nadia (U. of Peloponnese) Re-Culturalizing Europe: From 'Cultural Managements' to Performing Ethnography
European society is experiencing a "cascade" of state and media phraseology on and of "management" as the only effective solution to the multiple crises — economic, social and cultural — that characterize the diasporic era of globalization. Management is (re)emerging as a generalized "grammar" of social and cultural reparation. This is also evident in the novel academic specializations — such as Cultural Management or Management of Cultural Heritage, among others — that (re)mediate anthropology, for instance in Greece. Which infrastructure, which processes account for the reception and prevalence of this "grammar"? What social theories and pedagogy does this "novel language" resonate and promote? How does "managerial culture" affect everydayness, upon which it is inscribed? This roundtable considers the response of ethnography, as both research method (science) and text (literature) devoted to the quotidian. Can ethnography as performance and/or performance ethnography counter current crises that fracture everyday life experience? Thinking, for instance, of physical disasters in Greece — the private is always the first and ongoing casualty of a disaster — how could a series of public, participatory, multimedia ethnographic events reclaim the social, historical and sensorial body, offering thus an alternative to "Cultural Management"? Starting from this point, with a mini "demonstration" of how performing ethnography on and of a specific disaster event engaged and mobilized a whole region, we will discuss the above issues.
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| Thursday, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM |
13 |
1-178 |
Designing and Teaching SUNTA-Based Introductory Courses |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Society for Urban National and Transnational Anthropology
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Introductory courses need not be consigned to teaching the "savage slot." An experienced instructor with extensive knowledge of the SUNTA literates offers a variety of models for teaching the basic course today. Participants can design their own course. Issues of curriculum fit, use of texts and evaluation are covered.
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Robert Rotenberg |
| Friday, 10:30 AM-12:30PM |
12 |
2-072 |
Collaborative Autoethnography |
Regular: $40
Student: $20
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Council on Anthropology and Edulcation
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This workshop will provide participants with a methodological introduction to collaborative autoethnography and hands-on experiences with the collection and analysis of autoethnographic data. Unlike the solo endeavor of independent autoethnography, collaborative autoethnography engages a group of researchers to collectively explore their cultural assumptions, identities and positionalities in relation to others.
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Heewon Chang, Faith Ngunjiri and Kathy-ann Hernandez |
| Saturday, 12:30 PM- 2:30 PM |
11 |
3-108 |
How to Sell Yourself: Creating Anthropological Curriculum Vitas (CV's) and Résumés |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for Student Anthropologist
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You've worked hard to get that degree in anthropology — now it's time to get a job so you can put that degree to use. This hands-on workshop will help you understand the difference between a résumé and a CV, how to create them, and strategies you can use to promote your unique anthropological skill set. Participants are encouraged to bring their current CV or résumé.
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Marcy Hessling and John Trainor |
| Saturday, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM |
10 |
3-032 |
Getting Published: A Guide for Students |
Regular: $20
Student: $10
Regular Non-Member: $40
Student Non-Member: $20
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National Association for Student Anthropologist
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Think that term paper might make a great journal article but you're unsure how to get started? Then this workshop might be for you! We'll talk about different types of academic and non-academic journals, how to navigate the peer-review process and explore strategies specifically designed for first-time authors.
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Marcy Hessling and John Trainor |
| Friday, 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM |
9 |
2-075 |
Committee For Human Rights Advocacy Training Workshop (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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The Advocacy Training Workshop assist AAA members in identifying effective ways to advocate for human rights in their places of research and offers an opportunity for AAA members to share advocacy experiences.
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Shannon Speed and Richard Wilson |
| Friday, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM |
8 |
2-027 |
Legislative Advocacy Workshop (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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With the hectic pace on Capitol Hill and in state capitols, sometimes it's all you can do to just get legislators to pay attention. Whether you're deeply involved in an advocacy effort, aren't sure where to get started or just want to share your views (and have them heard), this is the session for you. Stephanie Vance of Advocacy Associates will share a few "insider" secrets for effective communication with elected officials. She'll talk about the four keys to effective advocacy, the 10 things NOT to say, and the one thing that ALWAYS works.
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Stephanie Vance |
| Friday, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM |
7 |
2-026 |
How to Write a Grant Proposal: An Introduction to Grants and Programs at Wenner-Gren and NSF (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
Wenner-Gren Foundation
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How do you make your proposal stand out in a pile of over 500? The Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation will provide a brief overview of their grant giving programs for faculty and graduate students and give you the chance to find out what a funding agency is looking for, 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.
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Leslie Aiello and Deborah Winslow |
| Saturday, 4:00PM-5:45 PM |
6 |
3-176 |
NASA/AAA Student Mentoring Workshop |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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This workshop is an opportunity for both graduate and undergraduate students to meet in small groups with professional anthropologists in an informal atmosphere. Topics include: applying to grad school, how to survive once you've been accepted, preparing for fieldwork, tips for getting your research published, and how to find a job – academic and applied. For the full list of topics and mentors, please send an email to hesslin2@msu.edu prior to or upon registering.
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| Friday, 8:00 AM-10:00AM |
5 |
2-027A |
How to Find an Academic Job (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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This workshop will explore a variety of topics related to academic employment: sources of academic employment, how to contact potential employers, how to write a cv or a résumé, interview do's and don'ts, how to respond to a job offer, and how to cope with disappointment. Sources of additional information will be provided to participants. This workshop is being offered free; use the registration form on the AAA website to reserve a space. Seats are on a first come first served basis.
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| Saturday, 9:00:AM- 12:00 PM |
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3-053 |
How to Write a Research Proposal (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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Writing a good research proposal is not easy. A good idea alone is not enough to convince reviewers and program managers that a project should be supported. There are a variety of steps involved in the production of an excellent grant proposal. First and foremost, authors should understand the needs and expectations of the target agency. The proposal writing process should always begin with ethnography of the granting agency itself. The next step involves crafting the proposal. In cultural anthropology, however, this is often difficult since practitioners utilize a vast repertoire of both theories and methodological approaches in the course of their ethnographic research. Such eclecticism often obscures the common elements underlying the research process, the link between theory and method, and other design issues. The overall goal of the workshop is to provide information on how to develop and write a well-conceived research proposal. The primary objectives of the workshop are: (1) to provide a framework for discovering and understanding just what granting agencies want, and (2) to provide participants with a basic understanding of a well-structured research proposal. Workshop content will emphasize a broad spectrum of research design issues, but with a heavy emphasis on the link between theory and method. Some of the topics considered include: (1) the link between theory and development of research objectives, concepts, definitions, variables, measures, and hypotheses; (2) research design and threats to validity; (3) the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches within the ethnographic context; (4) systematic data collection procedures; (5) probability and non-probability sampling: (6) statistical analysis; (7) Introduction to data structures and management in both a qualitative and quantitative context; (8) text and narrative data
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| Thursday, 3:30 PM-5:30 PM |
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Round Table Discussion about Teaching with Winners of the AAA/Oxford Press Undergraduate Teaching Award (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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Three winners of the AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology will meet with up to 15 participants in a round table discussion about teaching, led by participants' questions. Participants may sign up for either or both the "regular" workshop and this round table discussion.
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| Thursday, 3:30 PM-5:30 PM |
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Teaching Tips From the Winners of the AAA/Oxford Press Undergraduate Teaching Award (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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This "regular" Workshop, like previous Teaching Workshops, will feature six winners of the AAA/Oxford University Press teaching award. Each speaker will present general ideas to improve teaching: knowing one's audience, dealing with the culture of the classroom, taking advantage of the "teaching moment," using student research to teach, and hands-on activities in the classroom. There will be time for discussion at the end of the workshop.
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| Thursday, 10:00am - 12:00pm |
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1-041B |
Leadership Workshop (SOLD OUT) |
Complimentary
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American Anthropological Association
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This is a workshop for anthropologists at early stages of their careers who are curious about leadership and governance in learned societies, with a special emphasis on anthropological societies. The workshop uses the AAA itself as its main case study and focuses on structures in place, internal and external challenges, institutional opportunities, financial and legal limitations, and deliberative processes by which policies get adopted, changed, and modified. Current and past AAA Executive Board members will participate.
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| Saturday, 7:30 PM-9:30 PM |
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CMA Reception |
Regular: $35
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Council for Museum Anthropology
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Interested in museum anthropology as a career? Interested in material culture, cultural property or museums as venues for the representation of human culture? Come to the CMA reception!
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