| Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
Text Analysis: Systematic Methods for Analyzing Qualitative Data
Sponsor: Society for Anthropological Sciences
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: 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.
Organizers: H Russell Bernard (University of Florida)
Presenters: Amber Wutich (Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change) and Clarence C Gravlee (University of Florida)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction to GIS As Method and Application In Anthropological Research
Sponsor: Culture and Agriculture
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: This one-day course provides an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS) as a brilliant emerging information technology for cultural anthropology research. In a relaxed environment, the course will introduce participants to: (1) the structure of spatial data; (2) the acquisition of spatial data; (3) the incorporation of global positioning systems (GPS) and remote sensing (aerial and satellite) imagery; (4) ethical management of spatial data (5) procedures for attaching attribute values to spatial data; and (6) various analytical methods appropriate for exploring and answering culturally-informed research. The introductory course utilizes ArcGIS 10 software and will provide 60-day licenses for professionals and one-year licenses for students; participants provide their own laptop computers. Participants will emerge with the basic skills and software necessary to continue using GIS to compliment their own unique anthropological research needs.
Organizers: Andrew Tarter (University of Florida - Dept of Anthropology) and Edward Gonzalez-Tennant (Monmouth University)
Getting An Article Published In a Peer-Reviewed Journal
Sponsor: Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Workshops Abstract: The SHA workshop will address how to prepare a paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in anthropology.
Organizers: Michael Harkin (University of Wyoming)
Presenters: George Fitzpatrick Mentore (UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA)
NAPA Workshop On Project Management
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Workshops Abstract: Outside academia, a successful project is defined not by the grade received but by its completion on time, within budget, and to the requirements of the sponsor and other stakeholders. Many clients, employers, regulators, and funding organizations now expect projects to be managed according to the procedures defined in the Project Management Institute's Body of Knowledge (PMBOK, a worldwide professional standard). This workshop presents an overview of PMBOK concepts and methods. Topics will include scope definition, stakeholder analysis, requirements elicitation, workplans, scheduling, cost control, and status reporting. While the case study in the session presents an ethnography project, the examples should be applicable for anthropologists working in archeology, resource management, advocacy, and other fields. Participants should select an actual current or past project to work on and should bring a paper notebook for hands-on exercises. Based upon the interests of the group, issues for discussion might focus upon the definition of success criteria, change control, sponsorship, documentation requirements, projects vs. operations, management without authority, and cross-cultural teamwork. Patricia Ensworth is a business anthropologist and the author of "The Accidental Project Manager: Surviving the Transition from Techie to Manager" (Wiley 2001). She is President of Harborlight Management Services and holds a Project Management Professional certification. During her career she has managed projects for employers and clients in domains such as financial services, telecommunications, health care, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. She is a faculty member of the American Management Association and the City University of New York.
Organizer: Patricia Ensworth (Harborlight Management Services)
Wallace, Tim (North Carolina State) and George Gmelch (San Francisco) NAPA Workshop On Ethnographic FIELD Schools: HOW They Work and Why They ARE A MUST for Anthropologists and Students
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Workshops Abstract: WALLACE, Tim (North Carolina State) and George GMELCH (San Francisco) NAPA WOKSHOP ON ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD SCHOOLS: HOW THEY WORK AND WHY THEY ARE A MUST FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND STUDENTS This workshop is designed to assist both students and program trainers in leading and conducting ethnographic field schools. The main focus of the workshop concerns on-site training practices, techniques, tips, pitfalls, time and student management, IRBs 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, how to decide which ones are best and payoffs for students and program leaders. The presenters between them have over 30 years of experience in leading field schools.
Organizers: James Tim M Wallace (NC State University)
Presenters: George Gmelch (University of San Francisco)
NAPA Workshop On issues In International Consulting
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: Anthropologists who work as international consultants to development agencies, NGOs and civil society organizations often have the opportunity to influence policies and programs, ultimately to improve people's lives. But, the ability to make a difference depends largely on understanding and learning to navigate an environment - often highly bureaucratic - that is very different from what they may have come to expect as domestic consultants, academics, or scholars. Looking at specific cases, this interactive workshop provides an introduction to practical, substantive and ethical issues that the international consultant is likely to face, including contractual agreements, time management, logistics, compensation, methodology, perspective, relationship building, etc.
Organizers: Eva Friedlander PhD (Planning Alternatives for Change) and Pamela J Puntenney PhD (Environmental & Human Systems Management)
NAPA-NASA Student Workshop: Funding, Fellowships, Transferring, and Admissions
Sponsor: National Association of Student Anthropologists
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: This workshop addresses: 1) the transfer student application/funding process at the undergraduate level, 2) the graduate admission process, 3) advice on pursuing a MA or PhD, and 4) information about scholarships, fellowships, and field funding opportunities at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Organizers: Sabrina Nichelle Scott (Lillian Rosebud) and Alexander J Orona (Cambridge University)
Presenters: Nancy Romero-Daza (University of South Florida), David A Himmelgreen (University of South Florida), Valerie V Feria-Isacks ( Foothill College) and Nicole Ryan (University of North Texas)
NAPA Workshop On Rapid Research In Public SettingsSponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: Anthropologists excel at immersing themselves in research settings for extended periods of time. It's what we're trained to do. But when we conduct applied research for commercial clients we typically need to learn as much as we can in the shortest possible time frames. This workshop focuses on observational tools and techniques that will enable you to generate useful data sets and hypotheses in as little as 30 minutes or less. We'll consider the observational opportunities and constraints specific to variety of public cultural settings such as urban streets, retail spaces, and special events. We'll discuss techniques for adding rigor and effectiveness to our observations of environments, artifacts, and behaviors in these settings, as well as simple, everyday tools for unobtrusively documenting and organizing what we observe. During a short breakout session, using the conference venue as an impromptu field site, participants will have a chance to put one or more tools and techniques into practice, each revealing something significant about this particular cultural space that most of us would have probably overlooked. The workshop will include a discussion of the different roles that rapid observational research can play in an applied study - as a standalone piece of guerrilla research, as a tool for generating initial hypotheses, or as a complement to more extensive and immersive research methodologies. We will also discuss ways that rapid observational research can help applied anthropologists make inroads with potential clients and win new business.
Organizer: Mike Youngblood (The Youngblood Group)
NAPA Workshop On Pattern Recognition In Evolution and In Ethnographic Analytics Brigitte Jordan (Independent) and Chad Maxwell (StarCom)
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: Global sociodigitization has led to the rise of analytics for making sense of "Big Data", the mega data streams and depositories growing exponentially "in the cloud." In this workshop we explore pattern recognition during human evolution, and ethnography as it relates to "Big Data" and analytics. Our ancestors, as they evolved from ground-dwelling, four-legged creatures to Homo sapiens, relied on increasingly sophisticated ways of recognizing patterns for survival in ever changing environments. Human "patternality" (the ability to detect patterns) now relies on additional, extrasomatic technologies for augmenting the senses - much in contrast to the sense-making of other creatures with whom we share a common ancestry. Through anatomical, cognitive and social transformations they developed sophisticated technologies that came to underlie their (our!) way of making sense of the world. We wonder if current issues of data overflow and analytic category insecurity can possibly be addressed by tracing patternality from an evolutionary perspective. Today's data accumulations are beyond our current sense-making capabilities. Is the species constructing a new kind of patternality for making sense of the world through analytics? In this workshop we will explore the evolutionary grounding of new kinds of pattern recognition for developing an Ethnographic Analytics. The workshop asks what anthropology can contribute to the current hot debate about sense-making in the digital age. We essentially argue that a new kind of pattern recognition has to evolve for these massive, underground, algorithm-driven digital formations and wonder if and in what ways ethnography could and should play a role.
Organizer: Brigitte Jordan (Independent)
SAE Mentoring Workshop: Practicing Anthropology
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Workshops Abstract: This workshop aims to provide a "mentoring space" for junior scholars where they can receive tips and guidance on different aspects of their anthropological training and career building. Senior anthropologists will share their knowledge and experience as well as providing resources and strategies that they have found useful and productive on the following five themes:
1. Building and maintaining a scholar and professional network: They say a network gradually happens on its own, but does it really? Mentored by Jennifer Patico, Georgia State University;
2. Grant proposal/writing: What would make your application different than the other 500? Mentored by Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College;
3. Pre-fieldwork, Doing fieldwork and Post-Fieldwork: Anxiety management (from too little data to too much of it); How to start the fieldwork; Memorable mistakes and how to learn from them; Uncomfortable/unexpected situations: what to do?; Recording and transcribing. Mentored by Jillian Cavanaugh, Brooklyn College CUNY;
4. Building an undergraduate course syllabus and effective course teaching: How to teach Anthropology of Europe; How to smuggle it in other kind of classes; Using audio/visual material to enrich effective teaching. Mentored by Susan Carol Rogers, NYU.
5. Getting published: How to find resources/venues available to Europeanists; Writing a cover letter. Mentored by Gustav Peebles, the New School for Social Research. The workshop will be divided into five roundtables, with one roundtable per theme. Each participant will be assigned to one theme of his/her preference within the limits of space availability.
Organizers: Sena Aydin (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)), Fabio Mattioli (CUNY Graduate Center) and Heidi L Bludau (Indiana University and Monmouth University)
Presenters: Jennifer J Patico (Georgia State University), Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin College), Jillian R Cavanaugh (CUNY Brooklyn College and CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center), Susan Carol Rogers (New York University and New York University) and Gustav Peebles (The New School)
| Friday, November 16, 2012 |
NAPA Workshop On Heritage Tourism: Theory and Praxis
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Workshops Abstract: CASTAÑEDA, Quetzil (OSEA / Indiana) and WALLACE, Tim (North Carolina State) NAPA WORKSHOP ON HERITAGE TOURISM: THEORY AND PRAXIS This workshop is designed for graduate students and faculty who are initiating studies of tourism or who have already conducted initial work on tourism issues but seek a new grounding and foundation upon which to further develop, design, theorize, and put into practice 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 create and design courses. The workshop provides a critical understanding of the history of heritage tourism research in anthropology, including major research issues, theoretical framings, methodological approaches, and alternative formulations. The core of the workshop combines seminar style discussion with interactive learning activities. The goal is for participants to be able to take these tools and apply them directly to their own ongoing research by developing new kinds of research questions and modes of study that correspond to the assessment of this interdisciplinary field presented in this forum. Each participant receives a workshop course "book" that includes materials such as bibliographies, syllabus, publishing aides, and an analytic guide to key theories and methodologies.
Organizers: Quetzil E Castaneda (OSEA Open School Ethn Anth) and James Tim M Wallace (NC State University)
HOW to Write A Grant Proposal: An Introduction to Grants and Programs At the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation Session
Sponsor: Wenner-Gren Foundation/National Science Foundation
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: 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.
Organizers: Leslie C Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation) and Deborah Winslow (National Science Foundation)
NAPA Workshop On "First Impressions for a Lasting Impact: Using Elevator Speeches and Strategic Network Ties to Strengthen Your Networking Success"
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: In this interactive workshop, "First Impressions for a Lasting Impact: Using Elevator Speeches and Strategic Network Ties to Strengthen Your Networking Success," you will develop and practice your elevator speech and learn specific strategies for capitalizing on network ties. Receive advice and coaching to help you increase your professional networking success. This workshop is applicable to students, academics, and practitioners at all career stages.
Organizers: Sabrina Nichelle Scott (Lillian Rosebud) and Edward Liebow (Battelle Memorial Institute)
Presenters: Sabrina Nichelle Scott (Lillian Rosebud) and Edward Liebow (Battelle Memorial Institute)
Using Social Media As A Tool for Ethnographic Researchers
Sponsor: Society for Visual Anthropology
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 10:30 AM-1:30 PM
Workshops Abstract: Are you wondering what YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook have to offer the anthropologist? This workshop will guide you through the reasons why social networks and online tools are necessary in today's visual and mobile world. More importantly, you will develop your own online site during the workshop. We will spent time designing at least one social network for each session participant. We will outline how to use social media/online tools to propose, conduct, coordinate, analyze and present ethnographic research. Please bring your laptop and photos/videos of yourself/your projects and be ready to start your own online brand. This session is limited to 30 people who will explore why texting, chatting, blogging, poking, friending and youtubing are key skills in 21st Century anthropology. Information includes: planning your online social strategy, setting goals and objectives, gathering your digital assets, launching your sites, tracking social involvement, using social tools for marketing, the pros and cons of educational versus promotional marketing strategies, taking inventory of what you have to share, writing for the social space, and using tracking tools to figure out who is interested in your work. At the end of this session, one participant will win a digital camera so they can easily take video and stills to continue growing their social presence online. Participants are encouraged to contact Maren Elwood prior to the session with questions to ensure they have everything necessary to participate in the workshop. 831 238 5503
Organizer: Maren Lee Elwood (On-Site Research Associates)
Rethinking Context and Theory In Ethnographic Research Design
Sponsor: Council on Anthropology and Education
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Workshops Abstract: What are the implications of globalization and new media technologies for how ethnographers conceive their research projects? How can ethnographers enhance their reflexive awareness of how to use theory in their work? This workshop assists ethnographers in defining relevant contexts for their research projects and in using theoretical frameworks to guide and focus them. It examines criteria for "ethnographizable" contexts and sites that researchers should prioritize. It also provides a means for participants to begin to achieve greater theoretical reflexivity: to attain heightened awareness of how their theoretical frameworks may be used to shape multiple dimensions of research design, from developing research and interview questions, to identifying observational sites and other sources of data. The primary aim of the workshop is to enhance ethnographers' abilities to do meaningful work in contemporary settings and to achieve greater transparency and reflexivity in how they design research projects and develop their research proposals. Participants will be asked to bring draft research questions to the workshop. Workshop organizers will provide guidance in how to think through each of the topical areas and will share examples. Participants will engage in hands-on research planning activities and will receive group feedback as well as individual feedback from the workshop organizers. Topics and Activities 1. Developing theoretically informed ethnographic research questions. 2. Identifying relevant contexts and sites for ethnographic research projects. 3. Identifying multiple types of data sources and means of learning in the "field." 4. Writing effective interview questions.
Organizers: Peter W Demerath (University of Minnesota) and Lesley Bartlett (Teachers College, Columbia University)
NAPA Workshop On Marketing Oneself As An Anthropologist In a Variety of Interdisciplinary Settings
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Workshops Abstract: This workshop addresses finding career opportunities in interdisciplinary settings such as government, community-based, corporate, and non anthropology academic departments. Based on the presenter's work experience and non-traditional career trajectory, she will cover how to interview for these positions and ultimately be successful in them. In this workshop, the presenter will address how to research these opportunities as well as how to interview effectively once they find them. The presenter will then provide participants with strategies for carving one's niche in the position. Lastly, the presenter will discuss how to maintain an active role in the world of anthropology while also working to establish one's identity in another disciplinary realm. The workshop is two hours long.
Organizer: Amy Raquel Paul-Ward (Florida International University)
Workshop On Teaching Gender and Sexuality: Pedagogy At the Intersections
Sponsor: Association for Feminist Anthropology
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: Following its successful 2011 inception, the 2012 workshop continues to encourage audience discussion, with presentations as a starting point. The ultimate goal is to create dialogue among teachers on pedagogical approaches to intersectionality. Often, students' notions of gender and sexuality fall dangerously close to essentialized understandings, overlooking cultural complexities of self and social relations. As teacher-anthropologists, we are obligated to examine the best ways to elucidate comprehension of complex identities, so that students gain an understanding of their social world which promotes social justice. Fostering an engaged pedagogy, Erica Lorraine Williams will discusses innovation in the classroom, such as use of student theatrical skits to express academic concepts, and student organization of a mini-conference on sexuality. Debra Curtis focuses on sexual agency, and the border between consent and coercion. Through in-class comparison of subjects, she illustrates power differences between women crucial to an understanding of intersectionality. Charlotte Haney presents student work from her course Medicine, Bodies, and Culture. In an assignment she calls "Art of Protest: Embodied States of Gender", students craft art that challenges gender beliefs. By allowing students to challenge the normative, art confronts students with multiple dimensions of social relationships and subject formation. Jose Leonardo Santos explains how teacher modeling allows students to explore their own intersectionality. He presents himself as a second-generation highly educated Latino male feminist with a mood disorder, asks students to explore this intersectionality as an example, then begins a small group exercise where they explore their own identities.
Organizers: Jose L Santos PhD (Metropolitan State University) and Sophie Bjork-James (CUNY Graduate Center)
Presenters: Debra Curtis (Salve Regina University), Charlotte A Haney (Case Western Reserve University), Erica L Williams (Spelman College) and Jose L Santos PhD (Metropolitan State University)
How to Find an Academic Job
Sponsor: American Anthropological Association
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
This workshop focuses on the academic job search. We discuss differences in different kinds of academic jobs, and outline the general process of job application, interviews, and negotiations. We will also cover topics such as what works best on a CV and a cover letter, as well as what kinds of questions you may be asked and what questions you should ask. Finally, we will discuss what to do if you get a job offer, and what the options are if you do not.
Organizer: Lynn Goldstein
SHA Poetry Workshop
Sponsor: Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Time/Date: Friday, November 16, 2012: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: This is a Society for Humanistic Anthropology Workshop where poets dealing with anthropological themes can share and discuss their work in a supportive setting.
Organizers: James M Taggart (Franklin and Marshall College) and Renato I Rosaldo (New York University)
| Saturday, November 17, 2012 |
Photography for the Field - Part 1: Camera and Photography Basics
Sponsor: Society for Visual Anthropology
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Workshops Abstract: This workshop focuses on producing effective digital photography in the field. First, we will discuss the fundamentals of common digital cameras, 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.
Organizers: Jonathan S Marion (University of Arkansas)
Presenters: Jonathan S Marion (University of Arkansas) and Jerome W Crowder (U. Texas Medical Branch (Medical Humanities))
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
Sponsor: Society for Anthropological Sciences
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: 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 of these programs are available. Participants furnish their own laptops.
Organizers: H Russell Bernard (University of Florida)
Presenters: Jeffrey C Johnson (East Carolina University) and Christopher McCarty (University of Florida)
NAPA Workshop On Developing An Anthropological Career for a Lifetime
Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: This workshop helps prepare students and career-changers for the shifting 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. After framing these key topics, the workshop leader will introduce a series of professional development exercises that participants can do on their own. We will practice one of these professional development exercises together as a group and provide feedback to participants. The workshop is two hours long.
Organizer: Sherylyn H Briller (Wayne State University)
Anthropology Graduates: From Student to Career
Sponsor: AAA Department of Academic Relations and Practicing and Appllied Programs
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: Mom will ask, "What can you do with a degree in anthropology?" If you want the answer, then you need this session! Applied anthropologists Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins, authors of "The Anthropology Graduate's Guide From Student to a Career" (Left Coast Press), will present a set of practical steps to assist you through the transition from your career as a student into a career in a wide range of professions that an anthropology degree can be used. The stories, scenarios, and activities presented in this session are intended to inform you how to plan for the transition from student into a career, write your letter of introduction, construct your resume, and best present the knowledge, skills, and abilities learned in class to prospective employers. Ellick and Watkins' approach helps you create a portfolio that you will use time and time again as you build your career.
Organizers: Kathleen Terry-Sharp (American Anthropological Assn)
Presenters: Carol J Ellick (Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants) and Joe E Watkins (University of Oklahoma)
Photography for the Field - Part 2: I've Taken the picture…now What???
Sponsor: Society for Visual Anthropology
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 10:15 AM-12:15 PM
Workshops Abstract: 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.
Organizers: Jonathan S Marion (University of Arkansas)
Presenters: Jonathan S Marion (University of Arkansas) and Jerome W Crowder (U. Texas Medical Branch (Medical Humanities))
Dissolving Boundaries of Power Through Community-Based Research: Photovoice Methodology As a Tool for Social Action
Sponsor: AAA Committee for Human Rights
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: Community-Based Research (CBR) is research with a community, in contrast to research on a community. Addressing a topic of local importance while using a partnership approach for all stages of inquiry, it breaks down barriers between researchers and researched (Minkler 2004). The resulting co-learning and capacity-building can inform social action to address community-defined issues (Wallerstein 1999). PhotoVoice (PV) is a type of CBR. Community members work with technical advisors/ethnographers, using photography as an ethnographic technique to document issues from their own perspective. By recording visual images of community activities and conditions related to a community-defined topic of concern, participants can identify and represent resources and problems relevant to that concern. In the tradition of visual anthropology and ethnographic photography (Ruby 1996; Sapir 2010), the PV technique records images as data that are amenable to documentation and qualitative analysis. PV enables individuals to "(1) record and reflect their community strengths and concerns, (2) to promote critical dialogue and knowledge about personal and community issues through large and small group discussion of their photographs, and (3) to reach policy-makers" (Wang, Cash, & Powers 2000, p.82). PV has been used successfully with diverse populations and topics and is especially useful for studying hard-to-reach communities and engaging in action-oriented research. (Lykes et al. 2003; Catalani & Minkler 2009). This interactive workshop covers each step of PhotoVoice methodology as it relates to the process of social action, grounding discussion in examples from session leaders' research on U.S. foster care and occupations in Belize and Guatemala.
Organizers: Margaret A Perkinson (Saint Louis University)
Presenters: Margaret A Perkinson (Saint Louis University), Amy Raquel Paul-Ward (Florida International University) and Paula Jo Belice (Cardinal Stritch University)
SAE ROUNDTABLES:
- Roundtable Discussion On Writing and Luncheon with Helena Wulff
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 12:15 PM-2:15 PM
Workshops Abstract: As the interest grows in writing as an anthropological practice, this roundtable will explore how textual genres and styles develop in relation to the knowledge production of different anthropological communities engaged in European studies. Once the anthropology of Europe centered on Mediterranean research, with gatekeeping concepts such as "honor and shame"; now it is spread over the entire geographical region, and topics range from national heritage and expressive cultures to post-'89 European integration and Eurozone economic inequality. Still, many studies do not take much note of the European context. So when does Europe matter in textual representations of research in Europe? If Europe is an imagined community - how is it constructed from different vantage points by anthropologists and informants respectively from Eastern, Central, Northern, Western and Southern Europe? In what ways do different anthropological traditions and training systems across Europe, the United States and further afield shape the textual productions? As far from every field study in Europe is conducted in English, what is the role of language and translation in knowledge production, publications and conference circuits? Does "writing Europe" entail addressing mainly Europeanists and/or other specialists? Are experimental writing genres such as the very short essay, ethnographic fiction and creative non-fiction included in the anthropology of Europe? Have new media made the anthropology of Europe more visible and varied in style and genres? How is "writing Europe" seen from the American point of view?
Organizers: Marcy Brink-Danan (Brown University - Department of Anthropology)
Presenters: Helena Wulff (Stockholm University and Stockholm University)
- Roundtable Discussion On Multiculturalism and Luncheon with Pnina Werbner
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 12:15 PM-2:15 PM
Workshops Abstract: Multiculturalism in many European countries has been under attack on different fronts, directed in particular against Muslims populations but not only. At the same time European cities like London, Paris, Berlin and many others have witnessed a growing ethnic and religious diversity of their populations. They are said to be 'cosmopolitan', and in many ways they are, what the top-down state policies. Multiculturalism 'from below' appears to be thriving. At the same time, European gateway cities are also places where migrants live enclaved, encapsulated lives. They may limit their social exchanges to the market or workplace. They do not necessarily have convivial relations with their neighbours. Some cities have also experienced occasional manifestations of xenophobia, especially from right wing groups and movements. Cities can be cosmopolitan. They may also be at certain historical periods, as Humphreys recently has argued, 'counter-cosmopolitan'. The aim of this SAE roundtable will be to share views on these conflicting social trends.
Organizers: Marcy Brink-Danan (Brown University - Department of Anthropology)
Presenters: Pnina Werbner (Keele University)
- Roundtable Discussion On Language and Superdiversity and Luncheon with Marco Jacquemet
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 12:15 PM-2:15 PM
Workshops Abstract: This roundtable will explore sociocultural and linguistic mutations resulting from encounters in Europe between migrant flows and mobile texts. This is an opportunity for researchers interested in migration in Europe in the past two decades to share their insights and observations. The face of migration in Europe has changed dramatically since 1991. Prior to that moment, migrants belonged to easily identifiable groups and often became sedentary in the host country, forming recognizably 'ethnic' communities in the large urban centers of Europe (for instance, Turks in Germany or Moroccans in France). After the end of the Cold War, a new wave of migration emerged, involving far more diverse populations from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As patterns of migration differed, so did its motives and forms. People still entered Europe as labor migrants, but also as refugees, short-time migrants, transitory migrants, and so forth. It is now much more difficult to determine migrants' local presence and status, the trajectory of their movements, their presumed motives for migration, their 'career' as migrants (sedentary versus short-term and transitory), and their communicative practices (Vertovec 2007, Blommaert et al. 2011). This superdiversity is especially evident in digital communication, including the diasporic productions of videos, photos, or writings posted on global social media. In particular, this roundtable would like to investigate the role digital communication plays in the emergence of social movements fighting against migrants' deteriorating quality of life and lack of economic opportunities throughout Europe.
Organizers: Marcy Brink-Danan (Brown University - Department of Anthropology)
Presenters: Marco Jacquemet (University of San Francisco)
- Roundtable Discussion On the European Economic Crisis and Luncheon with Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 12:15 PM-2:15 PM
Workshops Abstract: Since late 2009, the European Economic crisis has refigured relationships on various scales and levels both within the European Union and beyond its fluctuating borders. The chain of events, also known as the European Sovereign Debt Crisis or the Eurozone Crisis, made some spectators claim that "the ties that bound Europe are now fraying," while others called for a "financial firewall" that would "stop contagion" by "backstopping the credit of "other shaky nations." More generally, biological, cybernetic, fire-fighting, and criminological metaphors have been used to describe the crisis, declare causes, and ascribe faults. Along these lines, the derogatory acronym PIGS, which had previously referred to the "weak economies" of Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain, and has since the crisis been expanded to PIIGS to include Ireland. In this SAE Roundtable luncheon, we will discuss how to study the crisis, its conditions, effects, and perceptions, in various places around and beyond Europe. What new insights can we gain about the relationships between supranational political segmentation (as in German suggestions to contract the EU) and political-economic activism (as in the European Financial Stability Facility, Stability Mechanism, and other European Central Bank initiatives)? How can we shed light on the contested negotiation of concepts like debt, obligation, subsidiarity, austerity, expertise, politics, and government? How can we connect these formulations to a wider framework for the study of transnational processes and supranational projects in Europe?
Organizers: Marcy Brink-Danan (Brown University - Department of Anthropology)
Presenters: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada (Harvard University - Department of Anthropology)
- Roundtable Discussion On Race, Religion, Secularism and Luncheon with Mayanthi Fernando
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 12:15 PM-2:15 PM
Workshops Abstract: Secularism is commonly understood as the separation of religion and politics, and as the relegation of religion to the private sphere of belief. However, scholars have begun to argue that secularism actually entails the governmental regulation of religious life in order to produce subject-citizens versed in the particular norms - ethical, political, sexual - of European secularity. Indeed, the rendering of religion into private belief often involves the (re)definition of 'religion' and the transformation of religious communities by political and legal practices. This roundtable takes up the contemporary configurations of the secular in Western and Eastern Europe, attending to the intersection of race and religion in the production of minority difference and majority identity. What do we make, for instance, of the emergence of 'Muslim' as a concurrently religious, cultural, and ethno-racial category, one that seems to fundamentally confuse and conflate race, religion, culture, and ethnicity? How is it that Muslims are, simultaneously, compelled to privatize their religious identity and publicly recognized as essentially 'different'? How can we think productively about this entwinement of secularization and racialization in conjunction with both the history of Jewish Emancipation and the present configuration of Jewishness? Moreover, how should we conceptualize the relationship between secularity and Christianity? Does the emergence of (post)Christian Europe as a racialized formation signal a nexus of race/religion always already integral to Christianity? Taking up these and similar questions, the roundtable will examine how race and religion intersect in the construction of secular citizenship and national identity in Europe.
Organizers: Marcy Brink-Danan (Brown University - Department of Anthropology)
Presenters: Mayanthi L Fernando (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Roundtable Discussion On Borders, Materiality and Signification and Luncheon with Rozita Dimova
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 12:15 PM-2:15 PM
Workshops Abstract: How do borders become visible? What marks their materiality and how do borders cope with multiple significations attached to them during and after radical regime changes? In this roundtable we will revisit the 20th anniversary of the "new democracies" which emerged in South-Eastern Europe after the end of socialism, as well as the (pending) EU accession. We will address the multiple sediments left by intersecting borders across different temporal and spatial axes in and beyond this region. We will discuss material manifestations of borders in different contexts, production of meanings in areas where borders exist, as well as changes of borders' meanings as they shift or become redefined by particular social factors and processes. We will try to go beyond the binaries between material/immaterial or visible/invisible, but rather to think about materiality through Ranciere's notion of "the distribution of the sensible" in which sense perception simultaneously discloses the existence of something in common but also delimits the distinctive parts and positions within the common (Rancière 2004). This, combined with Benjamin's approach to materiality as a spatially and temporally situated "force" revealing of the limits of (interpretation of) history as a legitimizing academic and ideological faculty, could offer a conceptual ground on which we can talk about time/space, visibility and material presence of a border (Benjamin 1999).
Organizers: Marcy Brink-Danan (Brown University - Department of Anthropology)
Presenters: Rozita Dimova (Humboldt University)
Writing Ethnography
Sponsor: Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: The SHA workshop will feature a discussion led by anthropologists who have had a great deal of experience publishing ethnographic work in a variety of formats.
Organizers: Alma Gottlieb (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Presenters: Philip Graham (U. of Illinois)
Benign Guile: An Introduction to Final Cut Pro Ethnographic Film Editing (Macintosh laptops only)
Sponsor: Society for Visual Anthropology
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: Only for beginning digital editors - Mac laptops only - no PCs! With attendees working on their own Mac laptops, the workshop will introduce basic editing techniques using Final Cut Pro X (a 30 day free trial of which must be downloaded to one's laptop in advance of the workshop). The class emphasis will be on ethnographic / documentary shooting and editing techniques, particularly match cuts, "L" cuts, cut-aways and the use of subtitles. The premise of the workshop is that video editing achieves the goal of clarifying intelligible ethnographic statements through the use of benign guile - editing practices whose reality-transforming art is invisible to all but knowledgeable film editors. Requirements for the workshop: attendees must bring a MAC laptop that is loaded with Final Cut Pro X - either the application itself or the 30-day free trial which may be downloaded at: http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/. Be sure that the laptop is running OS X v10.6.8 or OS X v10.7.2 or later. Also bring an external hard drive. Workshop instructor will provide footage to edit. For handouts, email Peter Biella in advance at biella@sfsu.edu.
Organizer: Peter Biella (San Francisco State University)
Crafting Narrative Ethnography
Sponsor: Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: This workshop will provide practical advice on converting experiences from the field into compelling ethnographic narratives.
Organizer: Julia L Offen (Cornell University)
Student Publishing Workshop
Sponsor: National Association of Student Anthropologists
Time/Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Workshops Abstract: This workshop covers practical advice for graduate and undergraduate students interested in publishing, as well as those looking to expand their dissertation into a book.
Organizers: Valerie V Feria-Isacks ( Foothill College) and Alexander J Orona (Cambridge University)
Presenters: Melissa L Caldwell (University of California Santa Cruz)