sae events held AT THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETINGS IN San Francisco, 2012
From Marysia Galbraith, SAE 2012 Program Chair:
We hope you will come early and stay late in San Francisco for the celebration of Society for the Anthropology of Europe's 25th Anniversary at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November.
We have an extraordinary collection of special events, panels, and speakers.
Highlights include:
- William A. Douglass Distinguished Lecture by Ulf Hannerz, Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden, and a renowned scholar of urbanism and globalization. His talk, "Neighbors in a South Swedish Village: Globalization, Small-Scale and Unexpected" will be at 6:15 PM on Friday, November 16, followed by a reception.
- SAE Invited Session "Twenty-Five Years and Beyond: In Celebration of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe" on Saturday, November 17 from 8-11:45 AM.
- Events of special interest to students include:
- the session "New Directions in the Anthropology of Europe: The SAE Student Paper Prize," on Saturday, November 17 from 1:45-3:30 PM.
- the SAE Mentoring Workshop: Practicing Anthropology, on Thursday, November 15 from 3:30-5:30 PM, which will offer advice about professional networking, grant writing, fieldwork, course development, and getting published. There is an additional fee for this event
And there's more:
- Representatives of the European Research Council will give an overview of funding opportunities available through the ERC on Friday, November 16 from 12:15-1:30 PM.
- the annual SAE Roundtable Luncheon will be on Saturday, November 17 from 12:15-2:00. There is an additional fee for this event.
- A tour of Little Italy on Saturday, November 17 from 2:15-6 PM. There is an additional fee for this event.
In addition to all of these special events, SAE-sponsored panels span the first through the last sessions of the AAA conference. They also engage with a wide range of topics, including Europeanization, policy, memory, self, minorities, politics, art, and Michael Herzfeld's recent book "Evicted from Eternity."
Finally, the SAE Business Meeting will be on Friday, November 16 from 12:15-1:30 PM. All SAE members and scholars interested in the anthropology of Europe are encouraged to attend.
More information about SAE sponsored events can be found at:
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2012/webprogrampreliminary/SAE.html
Saturday 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM
The SAE Roundtable Luncheon brings anthropologists together in an informal setting to discuss topics that reflect new and emerging directions in the anthropology of Europe. Lunch is served at a convenient location in the conference hotel. Each table has a host who typically leads six-seven participants in lively conversation. Unlike the standard AAA session, this format allows face-to-face interaction among anthropologists at different stages in their research experience and professional trajectories. This is a great opportunity for emerging scholars to connect with senior Europeanists. Special, affordable rate for students!
If you have already pre-registered, log in to the AAA website, and go to your My Payments, Receipts & Transactions page (see the left column on the AAA site) and click on Add Workshops/Special Events:
Then, scroll down and look for "SAE Roundtable Lunch" items. Each roundtable is listed separately (keep going down the list because they are not all grouped together). Make sure you sign up right away because there are only 8 seats at each table.
Society for the Anthropology of Europe Roundtables
Borders, Materiality and Signification with Rozita Dimova
On Race, Religion, Secularism with Mayanthi Fernando
Language and Superdiversity with Marco Jacquemet
Multiculturalism with Pnina Werbner
Writing with Helena Wulff
European Economic Crisis with Naor Ben Yehoyada
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE: THE SAE STUDENT PRIZE PAPER ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Saturday, 1:45 PM-3:30 PM
More information on the finalists and event
SAE Business Meeting
Friday 11/16/2010 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
The distinguished lecture, the invited and volunteered sessions, roundtables, and SAE Business Meeting are open to all AAA meeting attendees. Current as well as prospective SAE members are particularly encouraged to come and get together.
*William A. Douglass Distinguished Lecture
by Ulf Hannerz, Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden, and a renowned scholar of Urbanism and globalization. His talk, "Neighbors in a South Swedish Village: Globalization, Small-Scale and Unexpected" will be at 6:15 PM on Friday, November 16, followed by a reception / cash bar.
SAE Mentoring Workshop: Practicing Anthropology
Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Time/Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Register through the AAA registration website.
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)
