All workshop registrations were due by March 12. Please check with the registration desk in Denver if you are interested in any of the below workshops.
Workshop 3.
Becoming a Practicing Anthropologist: A Workshop for Students Seeking Non-Academic Careers
Wednesday 12:00-3:00
NOLAN, Riall (Purdue) This workshop shows students (undergraduate, Master’s and PhD) how to prepare themselves for practice, even within a traditional anthropology program. Six areas will be covered: 1) Practice careers; 2) Practice competencies; 3) Making graduate school count; 4) Career planning; 5) Job-hunting; and 6) Job success. The workshop is three hours long. rwnolan@purdue.edu
Limited to 30 participants
Cost $20
Workshop 4.
Rapid Qualitative Inquiry: Learning about and Contributing to a Significantly Revised Understanding of Rapid Assessment Process (RAP)
Wednesday 3:30-5:20
BEEBE, James (Gonzaga) Two hour workshop on team-based Rapid Qualitative Inquiry focused on suggestions for how it should differ from RAP in terms of flexibility, use of technology to speed-up and improve the process, ethics, and relationship to case-study, participatory and action research, and policy studies. Will include practice team interviewing and analysis. Participants are encouraged to contact beebe@gonzaga.edu, visit Information about Rapid Qualitative Inquiry at http://rapidassessment.net, and share their experiences during the workshop. beebe@gonzaga.edu
Limited to 25 participants
Cost $15
Workshop 5.
Anthropologists in Evaluation: An Orientation to Practical Applications
Thursday 8:00-11:00
BUTLER, Mary Odell (UMD) and BOHREN, Lenora (CSU) This workshop is an introduction to evaluation from an anthropological perspective. It focuses the value for evaluators of an emic or insider’s perspective, a non-judgmental orientation, contextualization of data, and a holistic perspective. Discussion will consider participatory approaches, a trend in evaluation that reflects a basic value in anthropology and increases the usefulness of evaluation for decision making. It acquaints participants with the audiences and markets for evaluation, including corporations, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions. This workshop is particularly valuable for individuals beginning to explore employment opportunities in evaluation. Participants will engage in hands-on, practical evaluation-related activities. maryobutler@verizon.net
Limited to 20 participants
Cost $25
Workshop 6.
Text Analysis
Thursday 9:00-5:00
GRAVLEE, Clarence (UF) and WUTICH, Amber (ASU). 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. Participants must bring a laptop that runs PC programs. Several programs allow Mac users to run Mac and PC and switch back and forth between them.
Limited to 20 participants
Cost: $95, includes lunch and coffee break
Workshop 8.
Critical Applied Anthropology through Digital Storytelling
Friday 8:00-5:20
OTAÑEZ, Marty (UC-Denver) and GUBRIUM, Aline (UMass). Explore digital storytelling strategies and attendant ethical issues through hands on participatory video work. Each participant will perform short speaking/writing exercises, craft a 100-word narrative on health equity praxis, and receive an introduction to video editing skills for producing a digital story. Potentialities for production, dissemination, and analysis of digital stories in the service of anthropology will be discussed. How can innovative practices in digital storytelling offer new modalities for anthropological research, support a grassroots policy making process, and offer new ground in the crisis of representation? We welcome experimental narratives and digital technologies that challenge existing models of auto-ethnography and critical applied anthropology. Facilitators provide Mac computers with Final Cut video software used in the session. No video editing or digital storytelling experience necessary. marty.otanez@ucdenver.edu
Limited to 10 participants
Cost $115
Workshop 9.
Social Network Analysis
Friday 9:00-5:00
JOHNSON, Jeffrey (E Carolina U) and MCCARTY, Christopher (UF). 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 must bring a laptop that runs PC programs. Several programs allow Mac users to run Mac and PC programs and switch back and forth between them.
Limited to 20 participants
Cost $95, includes lunch and coffee break
