# data[].attributes.body
On this wall you can create posts - be it online events (courses, workshops, lectures etc.), thoughts and other.

Press the pink "+"-button in the right corner and start to create...

/Vit

# data[].attributes.headline
Ivy League stuff! (free online courses on a variety of fields)

# data[].attributes.subject
Ivy League stuff! (free online courses on a variety of fields)

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/?fbclid=IwAR398RadxQP3LSWAAMwGOcjFFbTuDhAb5eQmUE-o2XBnj8lyrOqK47uXWag

# data[].attributes.body
COVID-19: Responsive Teaching and Learning in Anthropology - A Two-Part Webinar Series

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
2020 Webinars

COVID-19: Responsive Teaching and Learning in Anthropology - A Two-Part Webinar Series

Part 1
Wednesday, March 18
1 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT

Part 2
Tuesday, March 24
1 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT

Due to COVID-19, we're all now teaching and learning solely online, but how can we respond while staying true to our core pedagogical goals and values? How do we integrate the COVID-19 phenomena (social construction of vulnerability, community impacts and evaluating interventions, strengthening health systems) into lesson planning? How do we promote (and measure) student engagement? In this two-part webinar series, we will discuss assignments, assessment, what is working and what challenges remain, and share some of the "best" practices and curriculums being offered.

Specifically, we will exchange ways to:

Build engaging and profound learning materials quickly and relatively easily;

Create a weekly rhythm that is consistent and predictable for students (and you);

Create a stronger sense of social presence and community

Build-in accessibility and flexibility that accommodates student needs without creating busier work and chaos for instructors;

Maximize accessibility for a wide range of students and technologies;

Create assignments that don't just feel like "busy work" and may help students use the tools of anthropology to understand and navigate the world at this time;

Create assessment practices that encourage deep learning and reflection.

Presenters:

Angela Jenks, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the UC Irvine; Editor in Chief of the Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal.

Michael Wesch, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and co-founder of anth101.com, a free alternative to introductory textbooks

Registration
These webinars are FREE and open to the public. Register Today (Select 'AAA webinar' as 'meeting type')

COVID-19: Fear, Stigma and Steps Forward

Thursday, March 19, 2020
1:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT

Everyone's talking about COVID-19, but what's fact and what's misinformation? The virus has now spread to over 100 countries and surpassed 125,000 confirmed cases globally, and the World Health Organization has officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. As community spread transmission increases, steps toward mitigation are essential. Social distancing practices are being implemented with the hopes of 'flattening the curve' to give health care systems the ability to respond. While understanding the epidemiological components of the virus are essential, we also need social science perspectives included to ensure the best collaboration possible across expertise.

This webinar, hosted by AAA and presented by the Society for Medical Anthropology's special interest group Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies (ARHE), will discuss the following:
Outline of Topics

Update On Current Situation

Misinformation, Logics, & Tactics

Fear, Stigma, & Steps Forward

Speakers

Jennifer Nuzzo, Ph.D.,John Hopkins Epidemiologist

Samuel Spies, Ph.D.,Social Science Research Council

Monica Schoch-Spana, Ph.D.,Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Moderator: Kristin Hedges, PhD, Grand Valley State University
Registration
This webinar is FREE and open to the public. Register Today (Select 'AAA webinar' as 'meeting type')

2019 Webinars

Providing Expert Testimony: Promises and Pitfalls of Engaging in Immigration Proceedings

Friday, October 18, 2019
11:00 a.m. CDT / 12:00 p.m. EDT

A webinar organized by the Anthropologist Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees (AANIR), co-Sponsored by theSfAA Migration TIG and Immigration Initiative, and hosted by AAA.

The Anthropologist Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees seeks to harness the knowledge, skills, and political platforms of engaged anthropologists to support and advocate on behalf of immigrants and refugees on our campuses and in our communities.Building on the success of our twoprevious AAA-sponsored webinars, and drawingon the increasing demand for and interest in providing expert witness declarations in the current political climate, this webinar focuses on the topic of "Providing Expert Testimony." Invited speakers include anthropologists and lawyers who will discuss:

When is it appropriate or inappropriate to lend professional authority to asylum petitions or other immigration proceedings?

When do we as anthropologists have sufficient expertise or empirical evidence to engage productively in thesehearings?

What are some of the professional and ethical challenges involved in supporting asylum petitions and other immigration cases while not over-generalizing suffering in countries of origin nor contributing to essentialized and negative portrayals of asylum seekers' homelands?

What are some best practices in this work(e.g. establishing relationships with particular pro bono attorneys or non-profit legal services providers)?

What can we learn from the ways anthropologists and other social scientists in other global/transnational contexts have engaged productively in these legal proceedings?

How can anthropologists discern whether or not to engage in this particular form of advocacy (e.g. over other forms of engagements/given limited time, professional precarities, etc.)?

Speakers:

Aidin Castillo, Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, CA

Beatriz Reyes Foster, University of Central Florida

Lauren Heidbrink, California State University-Long Beach

Leila Rodriguez, University of Cincinnati

Facilitator: Whitney Duncan, University of Northern Colorado

Measles Outbreak: Applying Anthropological Understanding to Vaccine Hesitancy

Thursday, May 30, 2019
11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT

Presenters:

Kristin Hedges (Grand Valley State University) Welcome and Introduction

Leslie Rodriguez (CDC): Overview of current measles outbreak

Elisa Sobo (San Diego State University): Vaccine Selectivity, or: Herd immunity is for sheep

Karen-Sue Taussig (University of Minnesota): Belief in Science

Shelley Lees (AViD Project): Vaccination during medical emergencies

In 2000, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention declared measles 'eliminated' from the United States. However, this year the United States has reached the highest number of cases in 25 years. The measles outbreak here in the US is fueled by a global resurgence in the virus. The World Health Organization has recorded more than 112,000 cases globally so far this year. The director-general of the WHO, has called the rise in measles a 'global crisis'. This resurgence is connected with lower vaccination rates. In order to completely stop the spread of measles transmission more than 95 percent of a community needs to be immune.

The AAA will be hosting a webinar put on by the Society for Medical Anthropology special interest group Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies (ARHE). This webinar will focus on the current Measles outbreak. Topics covered will include an overview of the outbreak, understanding vaccine selectivity, contextualization within the era of 'believing in science', overview of The Vaccine Confidence Project, and the AViD project. We will conclude with an interactive question and answer session. As a field, anthropologists have a lot to offer in terms of rapid and effective responses during health emergencies. We are excited to invite all participants to actively engage in a conversation about response efforts.

2018 Webinars

Charting your Course: Developing a Personal Strategic Plan

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Presenter: Melissa Vogel, PhD
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Business Anthropology Program
Clemson University

As higher education administration continues to be heavily influenced by business practices, and employment opportunities for anthropologists are more often found in the private sector, it is essential that individual anthropologists start thinking more strategically about their career paths and how they intersect with their own personal and professional goals. Graduate programs often expose students to only one, narrowly defined path that nearly always leads to a tenured faculty position at a research university, yet few will actually reach this goal and many more may not want to. This webinar is designed to help you identify your short and long-term goals and create a step-by-step plan on how to achieve those goals. Participants will also be encouraged to explore a wide range of career possibilities and to incorporate their concerns for work-life balance and job satisfaction. This webinar is relevant to anthropologists from all subfields and career stages, from students to mid-career professionals.

Immigration in the Trump Era

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

In a time when the core anthropological values of multiculturalism, cross-cultural understanding, international diversity, and racial inclusion are under threat, many anthropologists are reflecting deeply upon our roles as teachers, researchers, and engaged scholars. In this webinar we follow from our recent Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots series to discuss our work alongside immigrant communities and undocumented students as forms of solidarity or a compañamiento and as acts of resilience and resistance as we adapt to the current political moment.

Participants:

Whitney L. Duncan, University of Northern Colorado

Lauren Heidbrink, California State University, Long Beach

Mariela Nuñez-Janes, University of North Texas

William Lopez, University of Michigan

J.C. Salyer,Barnard College, Columbia University, andArab-American Family Support Center

Wendy Vogt, Indianapolis University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Kristin Elizabeth Yarris, University of Oregon

References/Suggested Reading
Presentation Slides (PDF)

2017 Webinars

Protecting Immigrant and Undocumented Students

Townhall with Anthropologists Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees

March 15, 2017

This webinar discusses the ramifications of recent Executive Orders on vulnerable populations in educational settings. Panelists include anthropologists from Anthropologists Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees (AANIR) and the legal experts from AILA and E4FC who are working to craft solutions for professors and campuses interested in protecting the rights of their undocumented students and their families.

To join the private AANIR Facebook and Google groups, email Whitney Duncan at whitney.duncan(at)unco.edu

Additional Resources:
Presentation slide deck Webinar chat box transcript AILA website E4FC website
Zika Frontline Research: Preliminary Findings

January 18th, 2017

This webinar builds on April 2016's "Understanding and responding to the Zika crisis from an anthropological perspective." The SMA Zika TIG group presents their preliminary research findings from the field. Most recently, Zika has been downgraded from a public health emergency and response efforts are shifting to focus on long term care plans for impacted communities.

Additional Resources:
Presentation slide deck Webinar chat box transcript
SMA Zika Temporary Interest Group (TIG) Facebook Page
Zika Targeted Interest Group (TIG) Research Assessment Survey
2016 Webinars

Watch " Top Tips for Effective Presentations: A Webinar for Annual Meeting Presenters"
With Jeff Martin, AAA's Director of Communications
(originally presented November 8, 2016)

Understanding and responding to the Zika crisis from an anthropological perspective

On April 29, 2016, the Society for Medical Anthropology in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association sponsored this webinar put on by the Zika TIG group. This webinar focused on a broad range of issues surrounding the Zika epidemic. Topics covered include disease ecology/biology of the Zika virus and principal mosquito vector, sociocultural dimensions of risk including poverty and pregnancy, and current response efforts. A large portion of the time was spent on interactive discussion. As a field, anthropologists have a lot to offer in terms of rapid and effective response to this virus.

Resources mentioned in this webinar:
SMA Zika Temporary Interest Group (TIG) Facebook Page

World Health Organization Risk Communication the context of Zika virus (English, Spanish, and Portuguese editions available)

Zika, the film by Vozes da Igualdade

Katie Hinde: "Mammals Suck"

March 23, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. EDT

Why Milk Matters from the Bush to the Bench to the Beside: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Clinical Approaches to Lactation Biology Research

More details

Amy Santee: Practicing Anthropology in User Experience, Design and Business.

January 6, 2016: Amy Santee is an independent user experience and design research consultant based in Portland, OR. Her work spans a breadth of sectors and industries, including retail, e-commerce, healthcare, computer hardware and software, consumer technology, automotive, insurance, home improvement, and community development. In addition to freelancing, she has worked within corporate, agency and start-up design teams. She combines her anthropology training with a user-centered design approach to solve real problems, advocate for people and their values, and help businesses feel confident in their decisions. She received her MA in Applied Anthropology from The University of Memphis (2011) and her BA in Anthropology from Eckerd College (2009). She blogs about business, design, anthropology and careers at www.anthropologizing.com.

Program note: The video starts to play just after the announcer begins to read Amy's bio.

2015 Webinars

Quetzil E. Castañeda, Anthropology of Tourism: Review of History of Field, Approaches, Paradigms and Current Directions

October 21, 2015

Augustin Fuentes and Lisa Jones-Engel: People, Primates and Pathogens: Integrated approaches to Health, Disease, and the human-animal interface

September 16, 2015 2 PM Eastern

The AAA welcomes back Agustin Fuentes for another Webinar Wednesday, this time joined by Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. Utilizing Lisa's recent work "The Bedey/Badarwala/Ahikuntaka of South Asia" as a case study, they will explore health, evolutionary histories, and the current complexities of "emerging" dieseases, highlighting the applied context/outcomes of anthropology in the field. The webinar will be split between a 40 minute conversation between the two presenters and a 20 minute Q&A period.

Agustín Fuentes, trained in zoology and anthropology, is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His research delves into the how and why of being human. From chasing monkeys in the jungles and cities of Asia, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining what people actually do across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our closest relatives tick. Fuentes is author of Race, Monogamy and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature (University of California Press).

Dr. Jones-Engel is a primatologist who has worked for the better part of her career at bio-medical research centers in the United States. Her primate research career has straddled the field, the natural habitat for nonhuman primates, and the research laboratory. For 30 years she has worked at the human-primate interface in Asia, characterizing the way that humans and macaques interact and developing strategies to detect the infectious agents that are transmitted at this porous boundary. Her research continues to illustrate the concept that both historically, as well as contemporarily, humans and nonhuman primates often constitute a single reservoir in which pathogens can evolve and emerge. She began her exposure to primates at the age of 17 working as a field research assistant for Dr. Birute Galdikas in Kalimantan, Indonesia. She then went on to receive her BA from Cornell University and while completing her MA at NYU she worked as an animal technician at LEMSIP where she hand-reared three young chimpanzees under the tutelage of Dr. Jim Mahoney. Positions supervising primate rehabilitation centers in Africa and Thailand and twin daughters kept her quite busy until she completed her PhD at the University of New Mexico in 2002. For the past 10 years she has been at the Washington National Primate Research Center where she has built a multidisciplinary, international research program (Evolution and Emergence of Infectious Diseases) that integrates microbiology, epidemiology, bioinformatics, GIS and primatology as well as human and veterinary medicine.

The event will be held September 16th at 2 PM Eastern. Register for the event here! the password is "anthro".

Lenore Manderson: Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century

September 2, 2015 2PM Eastern

The AAA's Webinar Wednesday is back for the Fall Semester. Medical anthropology has expanded in its fields of study and the number of people who identify as medical anthropologists. Yet it is hard to describe what we do: studying people's experience of sickness and heath, care seeking and care, seems banal and inaccurate. Medical anthropology helps make sense of suffering and recovery as a social experience; it carries us into refugee camps, birthing centers, factories, boardrooms, gaols, rehabilitation centers and schools, across countries and between communities. Many medical anthropologists are employed outside of academic settings: in government ministries and departments of health and other government departments, aid agencies, international and local NGOs, multilateral agencies, health care organizations, and private foundations. Others of us collaborate with such organizations for short-term periods.

In this webinar, I will discuss four areas of medical anthropological research, practice, and application: Changing Childhoods, Chronicity, Health and Illness; Climate Change; and War and Violence. I will draw on work associated with my current work on a handbook (The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology) I am writing with Elizabeth Cartwright (Idaho State University) and Anita Hardon (University of Amsterdam), out April 2016. By the end of this webinar, you should be familiar with:
* Some of the fields in which medical anthropologists work in communities, clinics and laboratories, on a diverse range of health and social issues,
* How medical anthropology has been applied in practical ways to improve public health
* The employment opportunities available to medical anthropologists.

Lenore Manderson is internationally known for her work in anthropology, social history and public health. She has played a lead role in training and research in inequality, social exclusion and marginality, the social determinants of infectious and chronic disease, gender and sexuality, immigration, ethnicity and inequality, in Australia, Southeast and East Asia (including Malaysia, China, Thailand, the Philippines and Japan), South Africa and Ghana, and most recently in the Solomon Islands. Much of her work with Indigenous and immigrants Australians, and in infectious disease, is applied; this includes the development of guidelines for practice to enhance access to services and to provide cultural appropriate services. At the University of the Witwatersrand, she is developing a program of work around medical interventions, technology, access and equity. At Brown University, her work includes a five-year program bringing together the natural and social sciences, humanities and the arts in conversations on environmental change and sustainability. She also teaches in the IE Brown Executive MBA.

Larissa Sandy: Sex Work in Cambodia

May 20, 2015

It is very difficult for many people to understand sex work in Cambodia in terms other than trafficking, and so this webinar attempts to challenge and transform conventional thought and theory about sex work in non-Western modern settings like Cambodia.

In the webinar, I explore women's pathways into sex work and highlight how this often begins with a series of constraints and choices that cannot be disconnected and which renders their identification as victims of trafficking or free agents highly problematic. The webinar shifts the focus of debate from very simplistic dichotomies by concentrating on descriptions of women's lives rather than beginning with a prior assumptions (e.g. sex workers as victims enslaved in prostitution).

I consider some of the difficulties surrounding the intersection of structural factors with subjective choices in sex workers' everyday lives and analyse how Cambodia's transitional economy and development plans shape sex working women's trajectories into and experiences of sex work, and debt bondage in particular. By exploring sex work through an anthropological lens, the webinar examines women's involvement in the sector as part of the moral and political economies of sex work. It also discusses how sex work can be understood as a rational economic choice and a vehicle through which important social and cultural obligations fulfilled as well as reflecting on the pressing need to critically re-think the trafficking/sex slavery label.

Bio: Larissa Sandy is an anthropologist at RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia) where she lectures in the Criminology program. Her research examines sex work and women's agency; contract labour, debt bondage and other forms of unfree labour in sex work; sex worker activism; and the global politics of sex work regulation. Before joining RMIT University, Larissa was a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Criminology at Flinders University, where her research explored the effects of human trafficking laws and interventions for male and female sex workers in Cambodia. She is author of Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, Sweat and Tears (Routledge).

March 18, 2015: Applied Anthropology in the National Parks

As the National Park Service (NPS) approaches its centennial in 2016, the NPS Cultural Anthropology and Archeology Programs continue to engage in research with deep roots in communities across America. By partnering with universities and scholars in the CESU Network (Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units), the NPS funds applied research in ethnography and archeology.This session will introduce current, completed, and upcoming NPS-CESU research; how to submit letters of interest for research through the CESU network; and how students may become involved in applied work in parks.

parks; applied; heritage; research; government

Links:
NPS Cultural Anthropology Program: www.nps.gov/ethnography

NPS Archeology Program: www.nps.gov/archeology

Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Network: www.cesu.org

Joe Watkins is the Supervisory Cultural Anthropologist, American Indian Liaison Officer for the NPS, and Chief of the NPS Tribal Relations and American Cultures. He oversees the Park Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Program, the Tribal Historic Preservation Program, and the Cultural Anthropology Program from the NPS Washington Area Service Office.

Stanley Bond is the Chief Archeologist for the National Park Service and Consulting Archeologist for the Department of the Interior. He has managed a number of CESU projects as a NPS Archeologist, Resource Manager, and Superintendent. Current CESU projects sponsored by the NPS Washington Archeology Program include a Southwest mission travel itinerary, a webinar lecture series, work with Latino high school students, analysis of digital imaging practices, and training for Afghan cultural heritage professionals.

Jennifer Talken-Spaulding is the Regional Cultural Anthropologist for the NPS National Capital Region. She manages multiple applied anthropology projects and a student internship program in support of national park units in three states and the District of Columbia. Research topics include contemporary communities, heritage preservation, and urban subsistence fishing.

Tom Fish is the National Coordinator for the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network. Tom works across government, academia, and the NGO community to facilitate collaborative research, technical assistance, and education/capacity development in support of public trust resource stewardship. Tom's work covers a wide range of topics relating to land use planning, marine conservation, applied social science and human dimensions, and training for protected area managers in the U.S. and abroad.

March 4th, 2015: Partnering Anthropology and Evaluation:What do we gain? A presentation by Mary Butler

Abstract
This webinar will look at how evaluation and anthropology can be mapped onto each other to create Evaluation Anthropology, an approach to value questions that is stronger than either approach alone for evaluations of programs that are culturally embedded. We will look at how evaluation and anthropology reinforce one another, building methods and theories in Evaluation Anthropology and how our training as anthropologists supports out work as evaluators.

What is Evaluation Anthropology and how do we use it?

The contribution of evaluation

The contribution of evaluation

Building Theory: The role of science

Building Methods: The role of ethnography

Pitfalls: Common problems with client assumptions

Evaluation Planning: One way to do it.

Mixed Methods: Synthesis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data

What qualifies anthropologists to do Evaluation Anthropology

What skills do I need to add.
Bio
Mary Odell Butler is an anthropologist-evaluator with 35 years of experience in research design, management, and supervision of evaluations and other research projects and 12 years of university teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate levels.She has special expertise in program evaluation, evaluation research, and case study methods and have conducted numerous projects for CDC, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and private foundations.

She is employed by Westat as a Senior Analyst supporting work in public health program evaluation.She is retired from twenty years as a Research Leader and Office Director at the Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation.She is an adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland and at the University of North Texas. In this capacity she teaches graduate courses in evaluation.Among her publications is Evaluation: A Culture Systems Approach, in press for release in summer 2015 and Creating Evaluation Anthropology: Introducing and Emerging Sub-Field (NAPA Bulletin 24, 2005).

February 18, 2015: Sometimes Practice Makes Perfect: Cultural Changes in the Training of Anthropologists with Elizabeth Briody
Abstract
If you are either a faculty member or a student interested in training related to professional anthropological careers, this webinar is for you!

Interest in anthropological practice has never been higher.Students continue to seek greater job market preparation yet many faculty wonder how to help them.We will talk about:

Key differences between "traditional" anthropology programs and applied/practicing-oriented programs

Commonalities across high performing applied programs

Four distinct models of program effectiveness, highlighting the cultures of the University of Memphis, University of Maryland-College Park, Northern Arizona University, and the University of North Texas

If you are a faculty member: How do you build a program with a focus on application and practice?

If you are a student: How do you choose a program that will work for you?
Bio
Elizabeth K. Briody, Ph.D. is Founder and Principal of Cultural Keys LLC, a firm that helps companies and nonprofits understand and address organizational and cultural-change issues. Briody has helped clients in many industries, including those at General Motors where she worked for 24 years. She is currently a member of the AAA Executive Board and just completed her service as Chair of the AAA Working Group on Mentoring.

The event is complimentary, and you can view it here, a YouTube video will be made available shortly.

2014 Webinars

December 17, 2014: Mastering the Campus Visit with Karen Kelsky

Dr. Karen Kelsky is the founder and principal of The Professor Is In, a blog and business dedicated to helping Ph.D.s turn their advanced degrees into jobs. A former R1 tenured professor in Anthropology, and department head in the Humanities, Dr. Karen demystifies the unspoken rules that govern university hiring. In addition to blogging on every aspect of the job market, from building a competitive record and planning a publishing trajectory, to writing job applications, interviewing, and negotiating an offer, Dr. Karen works directly with clients on their individual job searches. She also has a book in press with Random House, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. It comes out August 4, 2015.

In this webinar, I walk you through the basic expectations and potential pitfalls of the dreaded Campus Visit (sometimes called a Fly-Out) in Anthropology. There will be time for Q and A at the end, so bring questions! We will examine:

-The basic organization of a campus visit

-The job talk and Q and A

-The single biggest pitfall for candidates

-The teaching demo

-The initial arrangements and scheduling

-Handling meals gracefully

-Preparing for the visit

-What to wear, especially in cold weather

- Meetings throughout the day

November 5, 2014: Social Network Analysis for Qualitative Research

Samuel Gerald Collins is an anthropologist at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. His research examines the urban as the confluence of people and social media. He is the author of various books, book chapters and articles, among them All Tomorrow's Cultures: Anthropological Engagements With the Future (Berghahn, 2008), Library of Walls (2009) and, along with co-author Matthew Durington, Networked Anthropology (Routledge, 2014). He is currently in Seoul on a Fulbright Grant.

Webinar Summary:

1. Terms for Social Network Analysis.

2. Using NodeXL

3. Case Study 1: Who are my interlocutors?

4. Case Study 2: Where is my field site?

5. Case Study 3: What happened to my research?

6. Additional Resources

October 15, 2014: Mobile Economies

In September 2014 Apple unveiled its new iPhone 6, which also features Apple Pay, a mobile payment system. Although mobile payments have been slow to take off in the United States and other countries, they are extremely popular in Kenya, where billions of dollars are transacted by almost 20 million account holders. Development economists hope that mobile money will be a part of a new "cash-light" future, bringing the benefits of financial inclusion to millions in developing settings.

The webinar takes an anthropological view of mobile money in Western Kenya as a form of communication, shaped by local cultures of friendship and kinship, and by the direct and often private connections that mobile phones allow. I use social network analysis to examine features such as reciprocity, centrality, and brokerage in the social networks of mobile money. This webinar will engage us in a conversation about the use of mobile phones cross culturally, and about how we can use new methods to understand the cultural and social impact of mobile phones.

Sibel Kusimba is an anthropologist in residence at American University. She has been conducting anthropological fieldwork in Kenya since 1993. Her initial research interests were in Paleolithic, protohistoric and recent hunter-gatherers; her 2003 book, African Foragers, was named an outstanding academic book by the American Library Association. Since living through the mobile phone revolution in Africa, her interests have turned to the social and cultural impact of mobile phone communication, in particular the use of mobile money. For two field seasons she has traced the social networks of mobile money in families and communities, sponsored by the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California at Irvine.

September 17, 2014: Ken C Erickson

Doing "Consumer" Anthropology, Warnings and Advice*

Dr. Erickson is the CEO of PacEth -- a small market and design research firm that uses anthropological methods to help organizations understand consumers and design better products and services for them -- and International Business faculty member at the Darla Moore School of Business, U. South Carolina

Whether its burgers or Boeing, anthropological technique and theory have found significant purchase in the business world. Sometimes. The questions Anthropologists ask often lead to discomfiting revisions in thinking about who buys products and services and what using or experiencing them means. Bringing anthropological stories to the enterprise table can even raise fundamental questions about the nature of business.

Fundamental questions (about value, valuation, sustainability, and suffering caused by organizations, for example) need not be laid aside while asking and answering enterprise tactical questions. Using video examples and tales from the field, this webinar offers tips and tricks for finding an anthropological focus that can be heard and, sometimes, become levers to think about and change organizational practices.

You can now view the recording of the webinar here.

May 8, 2014: Harjant Gill

Ethnography And Film

On May 8, 2014 at 2 PM Harjant Gill will lead the fourth installment of AAA's Webinar Wednesday (mixing it up on THURSDAY). Harjant Gill is an assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University, Maryland. He received his PhD from American University in 2012. His research examines the intersections of masculinity, modernity and migration in India. Gill is also an award-winning filmmaker and has made several films that have screened at film festivals and academic conferences worldwide. His latest documentary, Roots of Love explores the changing significance of hair and turban among Sikhs and is currently being screened on BBC World News, BBC America, Doordarshan (Indian National TV) and on PBS channels nationwide. Gill is currently co-directing the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Film & Media Festival. His website is www.TilotamaProductions.com.

Harjant's full film can be viewed here.

May 5, 2014: Nicholas Wade and Agustin Fuentes

A Troublesome Inheritance - A discussion on genes, race and human history with author Nicholas Wade and Agustin Fuentes

On May 5, 2014 at 1pm a lively discussion between author Nicholas Wade and anthropologist Agustin Fuentes will be moderated by AAA Executive Director, Dr. Edward Liebow. You can view the webinar straight from WebEx here, or view it on YouTube here.

Nicholas Wade received a B.A. in natural sciences from King's College, Cambridge. He was deputy editor of Nature magazine in London and then became that journal's Washington correspondent. He joined Science magazine in Washington as a reporter and later moved to The New York Times, where he has been an editorial writer, concentrating his writing on issues of defense, space, science, medicine, technology, genetics, molecular biology, the environment, and public policy, a science reporter, and a science editor. Wades latest book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (Penguin Press) will be available on May 6.

Agustín Fuentes , trained in zoology and anthropology, is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His research delves into the how and why of being human. From chasing monkeys in the jungles and cities of Asia, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining what people actually do across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our closest relatives tick. Fuentes is author of Race, Monogamy and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature (University of California Press).

March 19, 2014: Mark Aldenderfer: The Bar is Very High: Academic Dossier Evaluation and What to Expect

Mark Aldenderfer, UC Merced will lead the third installment of AAA's Webinar Wednesday series. Presenting on the topic of academic dossier evaluation, Mark will address topics that include:

Crafting tenure dossiers and the importance of publishing records (including online publishing)

The realities of what PhDs can expect during the tenure evaluation process and being prepared

Department culture and the expectations of deans, chairs, admins and colleagues

The webinar will be of particular interest to graduate students, recent PhDs, as well as AAA Section Leadership and volunteers.

Mark S. Aldenderfer is an American anthropologist and archaeologist. He is the Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at the University of California, Merced. He has served as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Aldenderfer received his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1977. He is known in particular for his comparative research into high-altitude adaptation and for contributions to quantitative methods in archaeology. He has also served as editor of several journals in anthropology and archaeology.

Missed the webinar? Download and view it by clicking here. Download the webinar's presentation here.

February 19, 2014: Rosemary Joyce

Best Practices: Recruitment and Retention of underrepresented minorities into anthro programs
On February 19, 2014 at 2pm ET, AAA will host a webinar event with Dr Rosemary Joyce on the topic of Best Practices:Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minorities in Anthropology Programs.The webinar will be of particular interest to anthropology students, faculty, department chairs and administrators. The program will cover topics such as:

*Developing a pipeline-reaching out to minority students through strategic partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and professional organizations
*Inclusive admissions processes-moving away from GRE scores to screen out applicants and looking carefully at GPAs and other indications of academic merit
*Mentoring for retention and completion-clearly defined benchmarks of progress, and formal required consultation of students and faculty to communicate progress and benchmarks

Rosemary Joyce, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, received the PhD from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1985. Currently Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at Berkeley, she oversees graduate admissions, academic careers, and professional development that annually produce the largest number of doctorates granted to students from under-represented populations. As a member of the anthropological archaeology program at Berkeley, she was a co-recipient of the Leon Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service from the Committee on Student Diversity and Academic Development of Berkeley's Academic Senate in recognition of the success of the program in increasing diversity. She has been a mentor of undergraduates in the McNair and Mellon-Mays programs and in the UC Presidential Postdoctoral program intended to increase diversity among faculty in academia.

Click here to review the recorded event
Click here to download a PDF of the PowerPoint used in the webinar.
Password: anthropology

January 22, 2014: Riall Nolan

The webinar topic is professional development and career building for anthropologists outside of the academy.

Program topics will include CV writing, job search tips, interviewing and more.

This webinar will be of particular interest to advanced graduate students, those who have recently earned their PhD and those seeking practicing anthropology careers.

Click here to view the recorded session

Click here to download the PowerPoint used in the webinar

Make sure to download all necessary software before the event begins.

Password: anthropology

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Part 1Wednesday, March 181 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT Part 2Tuesday, March 241 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT Due to COVID-19, we're all now teaching and learning solely online, but how can we respond while staying true to our core pedagogical goals and values?

# data[].attributes.body
A series of audio documentaries for unsettled times.

A series of audio documentaries or “thought-works” created and produced by researchers in the humanities and social sciences at Södertörn University, Sweden. In collaboration with Södertörn Publications and Södertörn university library.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
A series of audio documentaries or " thought-works" created and produced by researchers in the humanities and social sciences at Södertörn University, Sweden. In collaboration with Södertörn Publications and Södertörn university library.

Speak, you also. By Paul Celan.
Speak, you also,
speak as the last,
have your say.

Speak -
But keep yes and no unsplit,
And give your say this meaning:
give it the shade.

Give it shade enough,
give it as much
as you know has been dealt out between
midday and midday and midnight,

Look around:
look how it all leaps alive -
where death is! Alive!
He speaks truly who speaks the shade

But now shrinks the place where you stand:
Where now, stripped by shade, will you go?
Upward. Grope your way up.
Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer.
Finer: a thread by which
it wants to be lowered, the star:
to float further down, down below
where it sees itself gutter: on sand dunes
of wandering words.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Speaking the shade - A series of audio documentaries for unsettled times

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Speak, you also. By Paul Celan. Speak, you also, speak as the last, have your say. Speak - But keep yes and no unsplit, And give your say this meaning: give it the shade.

# data[].attributes.headline
Free webinars from Cisco Webex (alternative tool to ZOOM) on remote working and education

# data[].attributes.subject
Free webinars from Cisco Webex (alternative tool to ZOOM) on remote working and education

# data[].attributes.body
Apply for the coming webinars or hear the recorded ones.

# data[].attributes.body
To support measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, EUA cancelled this year’s Annual Conference ‘Universities building a better Europe’, but is organising three webinars in live streaming.
​

Friday, 17 April: Strength in numbers – can university alliances change the game?

Wednesday, 22 April: Promoting universities’ societal engagement

Friday, 24 April: Making a difference through partnerships

Registrations for all webinars are open until the start of the webinar. The webinars will be posted on the EUA YouTube channel after the online event.

# data[].attributes.headline
E-resources - free during the current circumstances

# data[].attributes.subject
E-resources - free during the current circumstances

# data[].attributes.body
Södertörn library gathered all possible free e-resources that are in many cases otherwise closed

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Please note:

Access and scope vary depending on the publisher

Access is given for a limited time

The library provides this information but cannot control the extent of available content

The content on this page is divided into three groups: free access to parts or entire content of collections, free access to Covid-19 related information, and finally free access to remote learning resources.

If you have any questions, please contact us: biblioteket@sh.se

Access to parts or entire content

Berghahn
Free access to all Berghahn Journals until 30 June. Free eBooks for individual users until 30 April. Use discount code REMOTE20. A growing number of Open Access texts available for direct download.

JSTOR
Expanded access to ebooks . 26 Public Health journals are available for free access through 30 June, 2020. For participating academic institutions that currently license some, but not all, JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections, JSTOR will turn on access to all unlicensed collections at no cost.

Resources and articles on COVID-19

Many publishers have signed a Welcome statement on the subject of research findings and data relevant to the coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak.

American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Freely available Novel Coronavirus Resources and free access to research articles published over the last year in ASM's 16 scholarly journals.

American Society of Nephrology
Resources for Outpatient Dialysis Facilities .

Cochrane
Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures ,
Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care

Wiley Online Library
Novel Coronavirus Content Free to Access . Access to a free, real-time feed of the latest research and news on COVID-19, powered by Scitrus , Atypon's AI-driven personalized discovery application. Two free Special Collections on COVID 19 at the Cochrane Library . Free resources from Wiley for those interested in exploring historical perspectives on epidemics, methods used to control their spread, and associated health policies, see: Europe, 1817 or UK, 1854 or Hastings, 1873 or Sydney, 1895 .

Remote learning resources

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Open e-resources during the Corona pandemic

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Please note: Access and scope vary depending on the publisher Access is given for a limited time The library provides this information but cannot control the extent of available content The content on this page is divided into three groups: free access to parts or entire content of collections, free access to Covid-19 related information, and finally free access to remote learning resources.

# data[].attributes.body
20 May 2020
Topic: New ways of governance, partnership and education

27 May 2020
Topic: Economic and social and education recovery

3 June 2020
Topic: Human & civil rights protection

10 June 2020
Topic: General response to COVID-19
Region: Arab countries

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
GNLC Webinars: UNESCO learning cities' response to COVID-19

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
In order to exchange solutions, discuss contingency plans and share distance-learning approaches, members of the UNESCO GNLC will convene webinars organized by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL). Non-member cities are also invited to join the online events, share their experiences and learn from other cities.