SSSWARM
Sydney Staff & Student Workshops in Anthropology, Research, and Methods
past events in S2 2023
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WORKSHOP: Thursday 3 August
1:30 - 2:30 pm, Social Sciences Building A02 Room 441 and on Zoom (link here)
Presenter: Sophie Chao (University of Sydney)
Title: The body as method (more info here)
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GUEST EVENT: Wednesday 9 August
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Social Sciences Building A02 Room 441 and on Zoom (link here)
Presenter: Timothy Neale (Alfred Deakin Institute)
Title: Scraps, scavengings, and being scavenged (more info here)
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WORKSHOP: Thursday 7 September
1:30 - 2:30 pm, Social Sciences Building A02 Room 441 and on Zoom (link here)
Presenter: Gregoire Randin (University of Sydney)
Title: Fieldwork reflections on the realities of decolonizing ethnography in Fijian iTaukei (Indigenous) communities (more info here)
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GUEST EVENT: Wednesday 13 September
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Social Sciences Building A02 Room 441 and on Zoom (link here)
Presenter: Rihan Yen (University of California San Diego)
Title: Coyote's method (more info here)
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GUEST EVENT: Wednesday 20 September
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Social Sciences Building A02 Room 441 and on Zoom (link here)
Presenter: Elizabeth Chin (ArtCenter College of Design)
Title: Electronic story quilts (more info here)
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GUEST EVENT: Wednesday 4 October
3:30 - 5:00 pm, Social Sciences Building A02 Room 441 and on Zoom (link here)
Presenter: Yancey Orr (University of Sydney/Smith College)
Title: Methodological Dividualism: Experimental Methods to Studying Life in Bits (more info here)
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GUEST EVENT: Wednesday 18 October
3:30 - 5:00 pm, Social Sciences Building A02 Room 441 and on Zoom (link here)
Presenter: Tom Bratrud (Bergen University)
Title: ‘Proper’ ethnographic fieldwork in the digital age: ambitions, experiences and lessons from rural Norway
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past events in S1 2023
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GUEST EVENT: Thursday 16 March
Presenter: Matthew Gutmann
Title: Sinking or swimming in methods? (more info here)
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GUEST EVENT: Monday 27 March
Presenter: Nicholas Peterson (Australian National University)
Title: Doing ethnography (more info here)
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WORKSHOP: Thursday 6 April
Presenter: Misty Shan-el-Shalam (University of Sydney)
Title: Ethnography as a method of data collection for qualitative research (more info here)
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WORKSHOP: Thursday 4 May
Presenter: Luis Angosto Ferrandez (University of Sydney)
Title: So what does a national flag really mean (more info here)
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GUEST EVENT: Monday 22 May
Presenter: Megan Warin (University of Adelaide)
Title: Multi-object ethnography (more info here)
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past events in S2 2022
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WORKSHOP: Monday 1 August
Presenter: Angela Wong (University of Sydney)
Title: A World between Worlds: Vietnam's Boatpeople in Liminal Spaces of the post-Vietnam War Exodus
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WORKSHOP: Monday 5 September
Presenter: Thuy Duong Tran (University of Sydney)
Title: Queer Identity Formation in Socialist Vietnam – Reflection on Research Methods
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WORKSHOP: Monday 3 October
Presenter: Dominic Sidoti (University of Sydney)
Title: The Permanent Reduction of Anxiety: Devereux and Fieldwork in a Remote Aboriginal Community
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WORKSHOP: Monday 7 November
Presenter: Meherose Borthwick (University of Sydney)
Title: Navigating Difference
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WORKSHOP: Monday 5 December
Presenter: Dr Robbie Peters (University of Sydney)
Title: The Ethical Stakes of Pseudonyms