Location: via Zoom
Registration: Registration will be enabled approximately 10 days prior to the event
Speakers: Christina Wasson, Ed Liebow, Karine Narahara, Hsain Ilahiane, and Alaka Wali will lead a discussion.
Description: Our recently published Routledge Handbook of Applied Anthropology presents a section in which several national traditions are profiled, demonstrating many different faces and styles across the world, resulting, in turn, in multiple versions of what applied anthropology looks like globally. We have much to learn from one another and want to strengthen opportunities for global exchange. Handbook co-editors Christina Wasson, Ed Liebow, Karine Narahara, Hsain Ilahiane, and Alaka Wali will be on hand to lead a discussion.
About the Speakers:
Christina Wasson (Professor of Anthropology, University of North Texas, USA) was trained as a linguistic anthropologist; her PhD research at Yale examined a large high‑technology corporation. She worked for E‑Lab, an innovative design firm, and helped found the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference and Global Business Anthropology Summit. Her research areas include the relationship between theory and practice; design anthropology; and analysis of meetings.
Hsain Ilahiane is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona’s School of Global Studies and W.A. Franke Honors College, USA. He has conducted ethnographic research in Morocco, the USA, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa. His current research analyzes financial diaries in shantytowns in Morocco and explores technology‑based interventions to address persistent poverty.
Ed Liebow served as Executive Director of the American Anthropological Association from 2012 to 2023. Before AAA, Ed enjoyed a long career with the nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute, where he conducted policy research on environmental, public health, and social issues. He maintains affiliations with the University of Washington and the Smithsonian.
Karine L. Narahara is Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, USA with extensive experience in environmental public policy in Latin America. Her book, Em Territ.rio Mapuche (2022), investigates the consequences of petroleum extractivism on Mapuche communities in Patagonia. She is currently working on a multispecies project about okra.
Alaka Wali (Curator Emerita, North American Anthropology, Field Museum, USA) has published on changing museum practices, community well‑being and environmental conservation, and the impact of art making in urban contexts. She has conducted participatory action research in Chicago and the Amazon. She led the curation of the exhibition Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories in collaboration with Native American scholars, artists, and community leaders
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