Section: Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR)
Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR)
Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR)
Announcing: the ASA Decennial conference
‘Anthropology and Enlightenment’
STAR consortium, 19-22 June 2014
at: The Surgeons Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
The 2014 Decennial conference of the ASA will be hosted by the STAR consortium. Founded in 2006, STAR (Scottish Training in Anthropological Research) brings together anthropologists from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews.
Click (here) for more information, important dates, and background to the event.
STAR - Overview:
The ESRC, through its Researcher Development Initiative, has agreed to fund a new Anthropology postgraduate training consortium, linking Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St Andrews and Glasgow.
Two annual five-day residential courses are planned. The first course targets students at the pre-fieldwork level and the second is aimed at those are at a fairly advanced stage of writing up.
The pre-fieldwork course will run over four days and will involve 6 half-day sessions, each combining a plenary workshop with smaller break-out groups. One distinguished UK anthropologist will be invited to attend the entire course, and will open the programme with a formal lecture, on a subject of his/her choice. Workshop topics include: writing fieldnotes; politics and ethics; working in a second language; visual methodologies; archival research; and material methodologies including issues of property and ownership.
The advanced (post-fieldwork) course will include plenary workshops, with break-out groups to address key topics in the building of research careers, both within and outside the academy and a series of parallel master-classes lead by distinguished international guests, allowing students to present their work and receive feedback from some of the most exciting innovators in world anthropology. Each day will close with a plenary lecture from one of the international visitors, drawing on their current research-in-progress.
The workshops will cover the following areas: anthropological publishing; grants and research careers; researching for policy and practice; and innovation ethnography.
For more information and participant reviews of the two training weeks, click here...
This page was published on 18 April 2013