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Help select the 2011 SfAA Podcast sessions due by 1/18

15 Jan

It’s that time again! We’re currently working to select the 17 sessions that will be recorded by the SfAA Podcast Team at the 2011 Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. Just like the last four years, these sessions will start to appear on this site in April as free audio recordings.

As co-manager, Yumiko, has already started to innovate the project. This year we’re using a survey tool to collect the many suggestions we get. We’d love to have your suggestions so please fill out the survey by the end of the day on Tuesday Janaury 18.

We’re asking for your help so that we can ensure a wide range of topics and interests are covered. We would like to request your input on what sessions we should record. Suggested selection criteria include:

  • Topic is “hot”
  • Topic is of widespread interest to many people
  • Well known speakers
  • Student speakers
  • A wide range of all disciplines and the four sub-disciplines are included
Please let us know your session suggestions by filling out our survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5RV8576!
We’ve created this survey off of this version of the program.

If you have comments or suggestions about the survey or the experience please email the team at sfaapodcasts(at)gmail(dot)com

Selecting the 2009 round of SfAA Podcasts

5 Jan

Happy New Year!

 

Planning for the 2009 round of SfAA Podcasts is now underway. We’re asking for your help in selecting the 20 sessions that will be recorded so that we can ensure a wide range of topics and interests are covered.

Suggested selection criteria include:

  • Topic is “hot”
  • Topic is of widespread interest to many people
  • Famous speakers

The preliminary program can be found here. In listing sessions, it would be helpful if you could copy and paste the session number and the session name, e.g. “W-01 Lessons and Questions from Applied Settings” directly from the program into an email or Word doc. We would like to request your suggestions by Friday, January 15. Please send them to Jen Cardew at jencardew@gmail.com or post them here in the comments field.

 

Every year people come up to me at the conference and ask why their session wasn’t recorded or how we select sessions so now is your chance to speak up ;)

Podcasts of the “Working with Govt. Agencies” sessions from the SfAA are available.

26 Apr

There was a two part series at the SfAA meeting entitled “Working with Governmental Agencies.” The sessions did not get as much attention as I expected them too. After all, Montgomery McFate is one of the most talked about anthropologists in the world these days and she was on the first part of the panel.

The SfAA Podcast team received permission to record four speakers from this two part panel. McFate’s paper is not included. The others are interesting though. You can find them here.

2008 SfAA Podcasts- Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century Parts I and II are up

21 Apr

The second and third podcasts from the 2008 SfAA Podcasts are now available at SfAApodcasts.net

The session chairs Phil Young and Carla Guerrón-Montero have put together a nice summary of the main points for this two part COPAA sponsored session.  All of the speakers in this session have a NAPA Bulletin in-press that will be a more throughout account of the SfAA papers.

Tentative schedule of 2008 SfAA Podcasts

1 Apr

(x-posted at www.SfAApodcasts.net)

I’ve posted the tentative schedule of the 2008 SfAA Podcasts. I say it’s tentative because timely publication of the blog posts and audio is dependent on the speakers to an extent- I need them to submit their bio info for the post as well as electronic versions of the papers and PowerPoints (this is optional, but I encourage it). It’s also tentative because I may publish podcasts early if I have extra time to work on the editing. I chose the order based on the ease of coordinating with speakers and the amount of editing involved with the audio files.

Here is the (very) tentative schedule of podcasts for the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology (SfAA).

14 April 2008 Presidential Plenary Session in Honor of John van Willigen: The Art and Science of
Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century

17 April 2008 Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century, Part I

21 April 2008 Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century, Part II

24 April 2008 Working with Governmental Agencies, Part I

28 April 2008 Working with Governmental Agencies, Part II

5 May 2008 The Scholar-Practitioner in Organizational Settings

8 May 2008 For Love and Money: Employment Opportunities in Medical Anthropology (SMA)

12 May 2008 COPAA International Invited Speaker

15 May 2008 Embodied Danger: The Health Costs of War and Political Violence (SMA)

22 May 2008 Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences

26 May 2008 Practitioners Rise to the Challenge: A Discussion of Methods in Business
Ethnography

29 May 2008 The Flawed Economics of Resettlement and Its Impoverishing Effects: What Can Social Scientists Do?

2 June 2008 Visualizing Change: Emergent Technologies in Social Justice Inquiry and Action,
Part I: Digital Storytelling and PhotoVoice

5 June 2008 Visualizing Change: Emergent Technologies in Social Justice Inquiry and Action,
Part II: Participatory Mapping and Visual Arts

12 June 2008 SMA Plenary Session: The Political Construction of Global Infectious Disease
Crises

16 June 2008 Anthropology Engages Immigration Reform

19 June 2008 Anthropology of the Consumer

American Anthropological Assoc. (AAA) launches a podcast series

1 Apr

This is from the AAA eNews for April 2008:

“Tune in regularly to our bi-weekly podcast for news and updates on the AAA. To listen to the podcast, visit the AAA website and look under the “New Features” section on the homepage. To download the most recent podcast, please visit this site.

To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, please visit this site“

While I’m sure they will not be quite as awesome as the SfAA podcasts, I can admit I am a bit biased towards the SfAA podcasts ;)

I’ll be interested to see how ‘successful’ the AAA’s podcasts are. One thing I noticed in their announcement was they didn’t provide an explanation about what a podcast is, etc. If I’m having trouble making these concepts accessible within the SfAA I can only imagine that the AAA will face similar struggles.

Regardless, I appreciate the AAA’s move into the 21st Century- I doubt they’ll do any sessions from the conference though…

SfAA Podcasts in Memphis, TN

20 Mar

I’ll be headed to Memphis on Tuesday, March 25th for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). While there the SfAA Podcast team will be recording seventeen sessions (tba soon) and the Friday night awards for another round of the SfAA Podcasts!

If you’re a fan of the SfAA Podcasts (and why wouldn’t you be?) and want to show your support head over to the website and download one of our nifty badges (directions are there on how to do it).

If you’re headed to Memphis for the conference then make sure to stop by our info table near registration on Wednesday to pick up some of our cool swag. Sticker Giant is sponsoring the project so we’ll have some awesome stickers and other goodies for you.

And you can keep up with me and/or the SfAA Podcast project on Twitter :)

Deadline for SfAA Podcast team member applications extended to February 1, 2008

28 Jan

(x-posted at SfAA Podcasts)

That’s right, we’ve extended the deadline until Friday. We’re looking for a few more people to join our team and we’ve expanded our search to include recent graduates (graduated from grad or undergrad in 2007).

Here’s the original post about the team member application:

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Podcast team announces six openings for team members to participate in an ongoing podcasting project at the 2008 SfAA Annual Meeting, March 24 – 29, 2008, in Memphis, TN. The primary responsibility will be to audio record sessions and publicize the SfAA podcasts at the SfAA Annual Meeting. Interested individuals will be asked to dedicate 15 hours to the project between February 15 and April 30, 2008. All team member positions have identical duties and are open to any student, undergraduate or graduate, who will be attending the 2008 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in Memphis, TN March 24 – 29, 2008. Previous experience in audio recording or podcasting is not necessary as there will be training involved.

The SfAA Podcasts project began at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in Tampa, Florida, managed by Jen Cardew. This year the project will be co-managed by Jen Cardew and Diana Harrelson. The goal of the 2008 SfAA Podcast team is to record 15 selected sessions, to be published to the web as free podcasts, making the meeting accessible to students who cannot travel as well as to members of other disciplines. Please visit this page for more information.

The deadline for applications is January 28, 2008 February 1, 2008. The application process is described in this PDF document:Team Member Application

Please help us spread the word about the available team member positions and link back to this page!

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!!

The application for applying to be a member of the SfAA Podcast team is now available!!

9 Jan

(x-posted at SfAApodcasts.net)

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Podcast team announces six openings for team members to participate in an ongoing podcasting project at the 2008 SfAA Annual Meeting, March 24 – 29, 2008, in Memphis, TN. The primary responsibility will be to audio record sessions and publicize the SfAA podcasts at the SfAA Annual Meeting. Interested individuals will be asked to dedicate 15 hours to the project between February 15 and April 30, 2008. All team member positions have identical duties and are open to any student, undergraduate or graduate, who will be attending the 2008 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in Memphis, TN March 24 – 29, 2008. Previous experience in audio recording or podcasting is not necessary as there will be training involved.

The SfAA Podcasts project began at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in Tampa, Florida, managed by Jen Cardew. This year the project will be co-managed by Jen Cardew and Diana Harrelson. The goal of the 2008 SfAA Podcast team is to record 15 selected sessions, to be published to the web as free podcasts, making the meeting accessible to students who cannot travel as well as to members of other disciplines. Please visit this site for more information.

The deadline for applications is January 28, 2008. The application process is described in this PDF document:Download file

Please help us spread the word about the available team member positions and link back to this page!

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!!

Download file

What sessions would YOU like to see recorded at the Memphis, TN meeting?

8 Jan

(x-posted at SfAA Podcasts and in the SfAA Ning Community)

I’ve started a discussion about which sessions people would like to have recorded at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in the SfAA Ning Community SfAA Podcast group. Membership to the SfAA Ning Community is free and open to everyone.

Here is a copy of the post (PLEASE RESPOND AT SfAA Podcasts OR the Ning Community):

Hello everyone!

We decided not to host a poll of the www.SfAApodcasts.net website but we’d still like to hear what sessions you would like to have recorded!

Here’s your assignment: Go through the SfAA preliminary program (available here: http://sfaa.net/sfaa2008.html) and pick what sessions you’d like to have recorded at the 2008 Annual Meeting.

Please consider:
*Topic is “hot”
*Topic is of widespread interest to many people
*Famous speakers

You can vote for your own session to if you want. SUGGESTIONS ARE DUE JANUARY 18. You can post them here or email them to me (jencardew@gmail.com). Please include the session number, e.g. S-46, and the session title.

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