Posts Tagged ‘News’
Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on January 9, 2008
(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
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on November 7, 2007
That’s right, the AAA now has a blog (note that it’s a free blogspot blog – see, it doesn’t have to cost much money to step into the 20th Century 
The first (and only) entry is about the “AAA Board Statement on HTS” (the embedded anthropologists in the military). There are a few comments on the entry. I’m not sure if the blog was started to comment on the Board’s decision or not, it doesn’t really matter what the reasons were – I just hope someone will keep it up.
I’m very happy to see the amount of discussion that took place in the last few weeks regarding the HTS. There was much discussion on blogs, listervs, the SfAA Ning network, etc. It seems that once the discipline has some dilemma that people will bond, unite, and discuss it – it’s nice to see some soft of community 
Here are a few entries about the AAA blog from other anthropology bloggers:
AnthroBlogs
Savage Minds
Anthropology.net
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on November 6, 2007
I’m not going to get into the fact that conferences are expensive, nor will spend anytime on the irrelevance of conferences, the rise of “unconferences,” or any other critique of them. I have my opinions of conferences, and for the most part it seems a bit contradictory that I’ll be attending so many… but I’m a student, I get discounts (I’ll take advantage while I can
Today, Tim and I registered for the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) in Miami, Florida. Part of our discussion to go was simply because it’s so close to home for us (home is Tampa, FL) and the affordable cost of the trip (early registration is only $150 for non-students, $50 for students). But, I’m looking forward to FOWA because it’s not anthropology – it’ll help me to expand my horizons a bit. Plus, it’s neat that Tim (total geek) and me (totally awesome) can go to the same events and enjoy them (we went to BarCamp Orlando and had a lot of fun). BarCamp Miami is during FOWA, so we’ll be there too
Two weeks after FOWA, Tim and I will be headed to Austin, TX for SXSW. We’ll be there for the Interactive part, so again, it’s cool we can go together (we’ll get totally different things from the sessions) and I’ll be expanding my horizons. Really excited about SXSW.
Two weeks after SXSW, I’ll be in Memphis, TN for the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Meeting. I always have a good time at the SfAA Meetings, and I’ll be doing the SfAA Podcasts again in Memphis (much news about that project – I’ll post about it soon!).
Late February – early April is going to be super busy! EPIC is in Denmark next year… I hope to be there – but who knows! I’m currently taking a break from working on our paper for the American Anthropological Assoc. conference (AAA) this year in DC – that takes place at the end of November.
I’m really not looking forward to being busy or being away from home that much – BUT, like I said, I’ll take advantage of the student discounts and University funding while it lasts
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on November 1, 2007
Many moons ago, myself and a couple of students at Wayne State University (Amy Goldmacher & Chris Miller) discussed creating a blog for student anthropologists.
We all met up at the EPIC conference last month and were re-energized about this idea. The focus has changed a bit, I think we’re going to try to create a dialog about what students should know about industry that they won’t learn in school, about collaborating with other disciplines, and also a mentoring type site.
More to come in the next few weeks, we have a teleconference planned. For now, be sure to check out the blog at http://studentanthro.org/ Chris Miller has begun to post already.
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on June 25, 2007
I’m headed out to California for two weeks. If you’re interested, you can follow my adventure on my Twitter feed if you are interested. I’ve also added the Twitter app on my facebook page.
Also, if you haven’t checked out PhD (Piled Higher & Deeper) comics, you really, really should; it’s hilarious and a great way to waste time. Their latest comics has to be one of my all time favorites and I think most of you will get a kick out of it too. LINK
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on June 2, 2007
Check out the story here.
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on May 24, 2007
The recording of this particular session did not go well- the audio file was lost in a see of static, however, the blog post is up. Some participants submitted information about themselves such as email, website and one participant submitted their slides.
This is the last of the podcasts (well, blog posts) from the SfAA Meeting. I’m still going to update the site with the progress towards next year, opportunities to volunteer, etc.
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on May 21, 2007
“Applying Linguistics in the Classroom & Beyond” is up at SfAA podcasts.net. This is the last podcast to be published from the 2007 SfAA meeting. We’ll have one more blog post- but there isn’t an audio recording to go with it.
This particular podcast is of a session that I participated in at the conference. I was asked last minute to present and agreed… the session had already been selected to be recorded, so I had to agree (it would be a little hypocritical for me to do the podcasts and decline to be recorded
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Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on May 7, 2007
I received an email from the SfAA this morning about a new community, here is the blurb from the email: “The SfAA Social Network is for members of the Society for Applied Anthropology and other applied social scientists who are interested in sharing information about their interests, work, expertise, and research.”
You can visit the site here. I’m not sure if you have to be a member of the SfAA. I joined this morning and there were 45 members, now there are about 100. The site seems pretty straight-forward and easy to navigate, and I have to say I love the idea of it- just think, anthropologists might keep in touch throughout the year (and not just at conferences) with this. I’ve had good results with the podcasting and that website, so I’m thinking we don’t give anthropologists enough credit when it comes to technology… this might just work
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