2016 Annual Meeting Activities

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16 Kicking off all NAPA activities at AAA will be a Wednesday afternoon session on anthropological practice and impacts in a number of settings.IMPACTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: MAKING MEANING IN VARIED ENVIRONMENTS (2-0485)4:00 PM – 5:45 PMOrganizer: Alison Montgomery, Millennium Challenge Corporation THURSDAY, Nov. 17 NAPA GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETING (3-0651)12:15 PM – 4:15 PM(This event will…

Virtual Access to Conference on Friday, Nov. 27

This is the third international conference “Why the World Needs Anthropologists: Burning Issues of Our Hot Planet,” organized by the EASA Applied Anthropology Network along with other organizations. It will take place on Friday November 27, 2015 in Ljulbjana, Slovenia starting at 1:00 pm CET. This link will allow you to attend the conference virtually:  …

2015 Annual Meeting Activities

Wednesday, November 18 8:00 AM-12:00 PMSession #2-0010. NAPA WORKSHOP: GETTING ANTHROPOLOGICAL WRITING PUBLISHED. Mitch AllenSession #2-0020. NAPA WORKSHOP: MIXED METHOD EVALUATIONS, QUALITATIVE, QUANTITATIVE OR WHAT? Fatimah Williams Castro and Mary Odell Butler 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Session #2-0195. NAPA WORKSHOP: APPLIED CAREERS FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS: JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES AND TIPS. Fatimah Williams Castro 2:00 PM-3:45 PM Session…

2014 AAA Annual Meeting Audio Archive

At the 2014 AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, three NAPA sessions were audio recorded. One was a NAPA Invited Roundtable; the other two were part of a special four-part series presented in close collaboration with the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA), with presenters consisting of WAPA members. NAPA Invited Roundtable: The Practice of Anthropology:…

2014 Annual Meeting Activities

WEDNESDAY, December 3 12:30 PM-3:30 PM. NAPA Workshop: Mixed Method Evaluations, Qualitative or Quantitative or What? Mary Odell Butler. Park Tower 8219 3:45 PM-5:45 PM. NAPA Workshop: (FREE) Software for Writing and Managing Fieldnotes: FLEX DATA Notebook for PCs. James (Tim) M. Wallace and Julie Green. Park Tower 8219 6:00 PM-8:00 PM. NAPA Workshop: The Ethnographic Field School: How…

2013 Annual Meeting Activities

Chicago, IL WEDNESDAY, November 20 2:00 to 3:45 PM. ENGAGING PUBLICS BEYOND the ACADEMY: PROBLEMATIZING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THE STUDY OF RACE AND HIPHOP. Jericha Russell and Melissa D Hargrove 4:00 to 5:45 PM. ANTHROPOLOGISTS ON the JOB MARKET: HOW DEPARTMENTS AND JOB-SEEKERS CAN RESPOND to the EMPLOYMENT CRISIS. Karen Kelsky, Sarah Kendzior, Darcy L Hannibal, Kimberly Danelle…

2012 Annual Meeting Activities

San Francisco, CA THURSDAY, November 15 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. NAPA Workshop:  Project Management. Organizer: Patricia Ensworth (Harborlight Management Services) 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. NAPA Workshop:  Ethnographic FIELD Schools: HOW They Work and Why They ARE A MUST for Anthropologists and Students. Organizer: James Tim M Wallace (NC State University). Presenter: George Gmelch (University of San Francisco) 11:00 AM-1:00 PM. NAPA Workshop: …