See below for the schedule of presentations and meetings, organized by academic year.
2018-2019: (all times 1-3 p.m., Randall Hall 212)
September: Organizing meeting
October 5: Problem-Solving in field methods: A group discussion
November 9: David Flood, Anthropology (paper subject: categorizing people as a matter of class-marked ideological stances)
January 25: Xinyan Peng, Anthropology(“Cubed in a Global City: Glamour and Discontent of White-Collar Work in Shanghai.”)
February 22: Allison Pugh, Sociology (“Beyond the ‘Trust Me’ Fallacy: Value, Rigor and Resonance in Qualitative Methods.“)
March 22: Tess Farmer, MESALC (paper subject: charitable water fountains in Cairo) CANCELED
April 12: Annual lecture (Harrison Institute Auditorium 1-3 p.m.) and workshop (212 Randall Hall 9:30-11:30 a.m.): Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago
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2017-2018:
December – Special Panel: “After August: Reflections on Activism at UVa during the Summer of Hate.”
January: Rachel Wahl, Curry School. “Dialogue in Bad Times.”
February: Fauzia Husain, Sociology.
March 16: Caitlin Wylie, Science Technology and Society, School of Engineering.
March 30: Panel on “Digital Ethnography,” featuring Meredith Clark, Media Studies; Rafael Alvarado, SHANTI; and Michelle Morgenstern, Anthropology.
April 20: Karen Ho, Anthropology, University of Minnesota, and author of Liquidated, an Ethnography of Wall Street. Ho will conduct a workshop with us Friday morning 9-11, and deliver a public lecture 1-3 p.m.
2016-2017:
October: Chenyu Wang, Curry School. Multisited fieldwork on an educational volunteer NGO in China.
November: Aynne Kokas, Media Studies. “Farm Labor, Film Labor: How Below-the-Line Work Shapes Sino-US Film Production.”
February – Gertrude Fraser, Anthropology. “Dread in the Morning, Disappointment at Night: Reflections on a Sabbatical Year of Academic Writing.”
March – David Flood, Anthropology.
April – Feyza Burak-Adli, Women, Gender & Sexuality and Middle East Studies. On Sufism, Modernism and Gender in Turkey.
2015-2016
September: Organizational meeting.
November: Jaime Hartless, Sociology. “You’ve Got a Friend in Me?”: Complicating Understandings of Allyship in Feminism and LGBTQ Activism
January: Andre Cavalcante, Media Studies and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
February: Jeff Guhin, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
March: Rachel Wahl, Curry School
April: Lisa Messeri, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society in the Department of Engineering and Society.
2014-2015
September: Denise Walsh, Politics and Women, Gender & Sexuality: “When Rights Go Wrong: Group Rights and Women’s Rights in Liberal Democracies.“
October: ***Meeting Canceled***
November: Part 1: Anup Gampa and Walt Heinecke, Curry School: IRB discussion. Part II: Francesca Tripodi, Sociology: dissertation project on media and community identity
December: David Eddy Spicer, Curry: “Wrangling with realist synthesis: Evolving practice in the development of a systematic, qualitative review of school accountability in developing countries”
January: Andrea Press, Professor of Sociology and Media Studies
February: Group discussion of teaching about qualitative methods; exchange of syllabi, etc.
March: Methods training Part II: how we conceive of and teach qualitative methods, across the disciplines.
April (9-10): Annette Lareau, Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
2013-2014
September: Organizational meeting
October: Michelle Kisliuk, Music
November: Walt Heineke, Curry School
December: George Mentore, Anthropology: “Skepticism and Ethnography.”
January: Rachel Rinaldo, Sociology: “Global Ethnography.”
February: Tonya Moon, Curry School and IRB-SBS
March: Sherry Ortner, UCLA Dept. of Anthropology: “Ethnography never stands alone: The many methodologies of Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream”
April: Andre Cavalcante, Media Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality: “Struggling for Ordinary: Media, Transgender Audiences & Everyday Life.”