Workshops
Workshops will be held onsite during the Annual Meeting in Tampa, only for in-person registrants. To purchase Annual Meeting registration and reserve your space at a workshop, log in or create an account in the AAA Community Hub. Click on the links below to find out more about workshops at the Annual Meeting.
Special Events and Offsite Tours
We have a great selection of special events, walking tours and bus tours available at the Annual Meeting. Below are some that require preregistration. Please take a look and if you are interested, sign up to secure your space today!
Events by Date
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Getting in the Door – Resume Design & Job Materials that Work
8:30am – 11:30am
NAPA
In this session, participants will be taught about how employers review materials from job seekers. From this understanding, participants will learn how to develop materials that speak the language of the employer and can move them from the pile to being prospects!
Demystifying the editorial process: Gleanings/CAFE workshop
12:30pm – 2:00pm
C&A
This 60-minute, roundtable-style workshop will demystify the editorial process to graduate students, junior scholars, and anyone else in attendance.
A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Skills for Understanding and Utilizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Professional and Practicing
12:45pm – 2:15pm
NAPA
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the history, theory, and practices that ground current DEI in the workplace and other settings in which professional and practicing anthropologists function. At the end of this workshop, we want participants to learn how to have trust building conversations that transition into trust building relationships among professional and practicing anthropologists and others.
Ethnographic Songwriting and Poetry: An Interactive Workshop
1:00pm – 3:00pm
SHA
This half-day workshop will focus on ethnographic songwriting and poetry. It will start off with a series of whole group creative exercises and then small group workshops to enhance the quality and impact of our work. Participants are encouraged but not required to bring fieldnotes and other documents from their inquiry projects, musical instruments, or simply pen and paper.
Teaching Intro to Cultural Anthropology
2:30pm – 4:00pm
AES
How can we make Intro to Cultural Anthropology the most important class an undergraduate takes in college? Strategize together about how to transform the classroom (in person and online) into a dynamic laboratory for developing and applying anthropology’s toolkit and making anthropology relevant to our students’ lives. The workshop will be led by Ken Guest, author of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age, and is sponsored by the American Ethnological Society.
Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology
10:30am – 3:45pm
CMA
The 2024 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology is hosted in partnership with the Sulphur Springs Museum, Tampa, Florida. This full-day Council for Museum Anthropology event provides students and early career professionals with an introduction to the method of “Photo Voice,” and its use within community museology, archival and documentary practices. Participants will experiment with Photo Voice techniques in the second half of the session. Pre-registration is required. There is no cost and transportation to/from the venue, as well as lunch, is provided. The event is made possible by a generous donation from Prof. Corinne A. Kratz.
Ybor City Walking Tour
2:00pm – 4:00pm
ASA
A two-hour walking tour led by history professor, Gary Mormino. an expert on Ybor City. It will introduce anthropologists to a community famous for hand-rolled cigars, labor activism, and extraordinary ethnic mutual aid societies.
We meet at the Ybor City Museum State Park; 1818 E 9th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605 – a free trolley ride from the conference.
Other tour locations will include:
- An Italian club and possibly a Cuban club,
- Historic buildings related to cigar production and ethnic communities
- Jose Marti Park, actually owned by the Cuban State.
SAE Excursion to Tarpon Springs: A Multi-sensory and Embodied Introduction to the Greek-American Community’s Cultural Life and Histories
2:00pm – 10:30pm
SAE
Tarpon Springs, with its large Greek community and ongoing ties with the Aegean islands, is renowned for its sponge economy, innovative musical traditions, dance education, popular religious practice and vibrant social life. On this interactive excursion, participants will learn about the changing technologies of sponge diving, undertake a walking tour of Greek Town, and meet and hear from community leaders. Over Greek food and drink, we’ll hear musical histories, learn a dance or two and join in Greek-American sociability, accompanied by local musicians. A cultural experience and a networking opportunity. Pre-registration is required. Deadline November 12. Full details.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Introduction to Effective Storytelling
8:30am – 11:30am
NAPA
An important attribute/skill of good anthropologists is the ability to communicate with an audience rapidly and effectively. In this workshop, we will begin the session by defining the elements of a good story and its communication to a lay audience. We will then have four anthropologists each tell a story about their work using the discussed framework. After each story, the session chair and the presenters will discuss how the frame worked and what was most effective about the story. After the three stories and discussions are completed, the audience will be invited to participate in a story-generating exercise. The final activity will be a facilitated group discussion.
A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Magic, Bones & Rituals-Marketing Anthropology in Complex Times
12:00pm – 2:00pm
NAPA
This dynamic NAPA workshop will help developing PPA anthropologists demystify anthropology for non-anthropologists and market the robust and valuable skillsets anthropologists bring to diverse fields and positions. Participants will draft a Vision Statement and Orienting Presentation that serve to build and market their professional brand.
EthNote: a new digital tool for field note collection, sharing, and processing
2:30pm – 4:00pm
This interactive workshop introduces participants to the of use EthNote, a digital tool for collecting, processing, and analyzing qualitative data, that addresses challenges related to working collaboratively with ethnographic fieldnotes in interdisciplinary research.
Feminist Anthropology Mentoring Speed Networking Event
9:00am – 10:00am
AFA
This event will be a “speed dating” style mentoring meet and greet. Participants will register in advance to be either mentors or mentees. They will meeting in small groups with prompts to exchange about their scholarly interests and experiences for five-seven minutes, and then switch and move on to the next person.
To register, please write to drhannaf@central.uh.edu with your name, affiliation, and whether you’d like to participate as a mentor or mentee.
Lunch at Columbia Café at the Tampa Bay History Center
12:15pm – 2:00pm
ASA
The Association of Senior Anthropologists (ASA) annual lunch will take place in a private banquet room, with a with a choice of vegetarian or non-vegetarian three course lunch, served buffet style. The Columbia Café was founded in 1905 by Cuban immigrant Casimiro Hernandez, Sr. The chairs in the Café at the Tampa Bay History Center were originally used in the Don Quixote dining room at the original Ybor City location in 1935. Transition of ASA leadership, and other acknowledgements will take place at the lunch. Please arrive no later than 12:15 for the lunch at Columbia Café at the Tampa Bay History Center. Please do NOT go to any other Columbia Café. bar, built more than a century ago in 1905 at Columbia Ybor City.
Guided Tour of Tampa Bay History Center
2:15pm – 4:15pm
ASA
The History Centre is one of Tampa Bay’s premier cultural venues and an anchor of the Tampa Riverwalk on Water Street. There are three levels of exhibit galleries on multiple themes reflecting collective history and future. The museum has a long-standing relationship with Florida Native American groups. Exhibits will change after July 2024 so check the website. Rick Feinberg has arranged for a local representative of the museum to provide us with a tour of interest to anthropologists.
Friday, November 22, 2024
Grant Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the NSF
8:30am – 10:00am
Danilyn Rutherford, the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Jeff Mantz, Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation, will offer a workshop designed to help anthropologists navigate the process of getting a grant. They’ll describe the various funding opportunities their agencies offer, say something about the review process, and offer helpful tips on how to write a winning proposal. There will be plenty of time for questions. This event will be suitable for students and seasoned scholars alike.
Environmental Injustice and Place-Keeping Walking Tour
9:00am – 11:00am
A&E
An interactive walking tour in the Tampa Heights neighborhood focused on environmental and social injustices past and present, co-organized by Anthropology & Environment (A&E), Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association, Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), American Ethnological Society (AES), with support from AAA Community Engaged grant and the NSF-supported BlueGAP project (led by Univ. S. Florida). The purpose of the workshop is to provide space for AAA attendees and community members to dialogue around key issues of environmental injustice and the ways residents have responded to reclaim and recreate their own urban spaces, in order to exchange knowledge and expertise, as well as build a network of anthropologists and activists working on these topics in other locations.
How To Write Better
11:00am – 12:00pm
How often have you read an academic article and thought, “Wow, this is much more awkward to read than it needs to be?” This workshop is for scholars who wish to improve their own academic writing in terms of clarity, impact, and accessibility to the public.
Teaching anthropology students to synthesize information from sources
12:45pm – 2:15pm
Synthesis is a high-level cognitive activity that students may struggle to apply in their academic work. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to scaffold synthesis instruction into their anthropology classes and into their programs.
Archival Search & Research 101
2:30pm – 4:00pm
CMA
Synthesis is a high-level cognitive activity that students may struggle to apply in their academic work. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to scaffold synthesis instruction into their anthropology classes and into their programs.
No Special Events
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Integrating Ethnography in Community Engagement Efforts in Higher Education
8:30am – 10:30am
ALLA
Ethnography is a great tool to integrate into service learning, internships, undergraduate research, and community engagement efforts. Join this workshop to explore ways to engage students in and outside of the classroom by using anthropological practices to promote community engagement and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Graduate Student Research Design Workshop
8:30am – 12:30pm
ALLA
Spend the morning with representatives of the National Science Foundation and Wrenner Gren for a workshop on writing grant applications, understanding the review process, and addressing common issues anthropology students face. Direct feedback will be available for students who come with prepared work. Snacks will be provided. Space is limited to 25 participants. ALLA and ABA members will have priority.
Publishing and Sharing Your Community-Engaged Science/Social Science Work
12:45pm – 2:15pm
In this workshop we discuss multiple options for shaping your community-engaged science/social science work and publishing and posting to broad national and international audiences. Participants whose work addresses and advances community priorities can network with other anthropologists with similar interests, identify options for publishing, posting and advertising their work, and receive feedback on their papers and other products.
Tampa Bay Black Cemeteries Bus Tour
9:00am – 11:00am
The Tampa Bay Black Cemeteries Bus Tour will start at the Tampa Convention Center and make stops at several of Tampa’s historic cemeteries with an emphasis on Black history and issues and challenges of Black Cemetery erasure. Such erasures, part of a broader national story, reflect just one aspect of systemic injustice. Historically segregated, African American burial grounds from Tampa Bay to Manhattan to Tulsa were cemented over in the name of urban development.
Our USF Living Heritage Institute sponsored bus tour, led by community residents and guides, invites you to help shine a light on Tampa Bay African American communities and the critical work underway to recover histories that were literally paved over in acts of structural racism. Zion Cemetery, a planned stop on the tour, is one the first African American burial grounds in Tampa. It now sits underneath the Robles Park Village housing complex.
The cemetery bus tour will conclude at Oaklawn Cemetery directly across from Greater Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, which is the location of the Black Cemetery Network community program to be held NOV 23 (11:30-1p). Bus tour participants will have the option to stay and attend the program or ride the bus back to the USF CAMLS pick-up point.
Black Graves, Hallowed Ground & A Word from the Folks that Know Them—a Black Cemetery Network Call to Action public program
11:30am -1:30pm
Over the past few years some have called Tampa Bay Florida ground zero in the fight for Black Cemetery preservation and efforts to stop Black cemetery erasure nationally. This community event will center the work being done by people, families, communities, and organizations working to preserve historic Black Cemeteries in the Tampa Bay area at the intersection of art, research, and practice.
[Location: the historic Greater Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, downtown Tampa- 1207 N. Jefferson St.; 11:30a-1]*There is no charge for this event. Doors open at 11a. Lunch will be provided. A small donation for lunch is encouraged from those in attendance.
Urban Ethnographic Research Knowledge Exchange
9:30am – 11:30am
CUAA and A&E
This special event is designed to connect anthropologists and local community organizations addressing urban change and the challenges facing urban residents today. Held at the Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association, AAA members will exchange knowledge with staff from local organizations as part of a workshop focused on skills-building for community groups. The focus will be on using ethnographic research methods to document urban change and the community-based place-keeping efforts that emerge in response. We welcome conference attendees with community-based research experience and those excited to learn about this approach. Reach out to CUAA and A&E for registration details.
