Save the Date!  WAPA Winter Party

WHEN:  January 29, starting at 5 pm

WHERE: The lovely home of Adam Koons and Yukari Horibe in Silver Spring

(easy to get to; rides will be available from Glenmont Metro)

 Stay tuned for further information

What: Judith Freidenberg, professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland and director of The Anthropology of the Immigrant Life Course Research Program, will be reading selections from her latest book, Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George's County, Maryland published by Lexington Books.

When: October 25, 2016, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Where: Busboys and Poets
5331 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781

This event is a partnership between the AAA and Creative Edge Collaborative to support the AAA's public education project World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration, designed to offer people a chance to pause and rethink their ideas about migration, displacement, and belonging. To learn more about the initiative visit www.understandingmigration.org.

The American Anthropological Association would like to inform you of our forthcoming sponsored event sponsored that may be of interest to your community.

"Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe" A World on the Move Event will be held at Busboys and Poets (1025 5th Street Northwest) on August 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The event will feature a reading by cultural anthropologist Leyla Keough, whose latest ethnography follows Moldovan women who "commute" for six to twelve months to work as domestics in Istanbul, Turkey. The book explores the world of undocumented migrants from a post-socialist state, examines the gender expectations and moral economies that shape the perspectives of the migrants, and highlights the structural economic barriers that have pushed these women to be “seasonal migrants.” Guests may register for this free event here: http://bit.ly/WorkerMothers.

Leyla Keough is an adjunct assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Outside of academia, Dr. Keough has served as a development associate at a refugee resettlement agency in Boston, consultant to the International Organization for Migration, and writer and editor for Encyclopaedia Africana.

We think that this event may be of broad interest to members of your community, and invite you to share the attached flyer and link to the event registration page through your own communications channels. If you would like more information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Anne Kelsey via email at akelsey@americananthro.org , or give me a call at 703-528-1902 ext. 1183.

World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration,  the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) latest public education initiative, will be showcased as part of On the Move: Migration and Immigration Today, a series of workshops being presented at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival from June 29 through July 7 on the National Mall.

Conversations about migration and immigration often focus more on ideology and rhetoric than on actual experiences. Through World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration, the AAA is trying to change the conversation by helping people understand how we all create borders in our lives with attitudes and misconceptions of “the other.”

AAA staff and volunteers will use structured scenarios to help Folklife Festival visitors reflect on and embody the experience of migrants, asking visitors to consider what mechanisms, tools, and resources they would use to cope in a new community. The event is being held in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution and its partners, including the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Basque Library of the University of Nevada, Basque Museum and Cultural Center, National Museum of American History, Radio Bilingüe, and others.  

Workshops scheduled over the course of the festival will address different elements of the migration experience including:

• Objects on the Move: What would you take with you if you suddenly had to move?
  June 29 at 1:00 p.m. and July 7 at 2:00 p.m.
  
• Families on the Move: If you were to move, how would you cope with your new surroundings?
  July 1 at 3:00 p.m. and July 9 at 1:00 p.m.

View the full workshop schedule for On the Move here.

World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration is designed to offer people a chance to pause and rethink their ideas about migration, displacement, and belonging. To learn more about the initiative visit www.understandingmigration.org.

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Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association, with almost 10,000 members, is the world’s largest professional organization of anthropologists. The Association is dedicated to advancing human understanding and tackling the world’s most pressing problems

What: The American Anthropological Association (AAA) invites you to hear Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, research professor for the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University, read selections from her latest book, Trafficked Children and Adolescents in the United States: Reimagining Survivors published by Rutgers University Press.

When: June 7, 2016 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Where: Busboys and Poets
625 Monroe Street Northeast 
Washington, DC 20017

Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Basing her observations on research with 140 children from countries all over the globe, Gozdziak debunks many myths and uncovers the realities of the captivity, rescue, and rehabilitation of trafficked children.

For more information about the event, and to RSVP, visit http://bit.ly/WOTM_TraffickedChildren.

To schedule an interview with Dr. Gozdziak, contact the American Anthropological Association at 703-528-1902.

This event is presented in collaboration with AAA’s latest public education initiative World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration, designed to offer people a chance to pause and rethink their ideas about migration, displacement, and belonging. To learn more about the initiative visit www.understandingmigration.org.

Join the Sumner School this Saturday, 2/6/16, between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm, for an open house to celebrate its 30 year anniversary.  The Sumner School has provided the venue for WAPA's monthly meetings for many years, so please show your support.  Click here for a press release and check your WAPA email for a flyer with more information.

All-day symposium Thursday June 18 at AAAS HQ, 1200 New York Ave, NW, Washington, DC. Schedule and (free) registration information can be found at:

http://www.aaas.org/event/making-changes-learning-social-science-research-drive-behavior-change

The last of the conference presenters on Saturday will be closing SfAA 2015 on a great note. Stay around for some great presentations!

8:00 - 9:50 - Mark Edberg (Chair & Paper) - "Immigrants' Experiences Part 1 - A Community Intervention to Address the Co-Occurrence of Substance Abuse, Sex Risk and Violence in an Immigrant Latino Community" - Sternwheeler

8:00 - 9:50 - Jennifer Talken-Spaulding, Sue Taylor, Shirley Fiske, Joe Watkins, Jeremy Trombley, and Erve Chambers - "Applied Anthropology in National Parks: A Roundtable of Works-in-Progress in the National Capital Region" - Carnegie III

8:00 - 9:50 - Victoria Danner - "Health and Healing - Research to Reality: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice in Online Communities" - Churchill

12:00 - 1:20pm - Judith Freidenberg, Shirley Fiske, and Amy Carattini - "Meet the Editors of Human Organization, Practicing Anthropology, and SfAA News" - Phipps

12:00 - 1:20pm - Laurie Krieger - "Applying Social Science to Health, Part III: Practicing Medical Anthropology in Training" - Carnegie I

12:00 - 1:20pm - Soren Peterson - "Immigrants' Experience, Part III - Brokering the Disconnect between Government Policy and Undocumented Immigrants" - Sternwheeler

Rounding out the second to last day of the SfAA's. There's still a good number of WAPA presenters.

8:00 - 9:50am - Carol Ellick - "Get Hired: 12 Tips for Getting a Job in Anthropology" (Workshop Fee: $20) - Parkview W

8:00 - 9:50am - Beth Schill - "Anthropology as a Profession: Qualitative Data's Role in a Quantitative World" - Riverboat

10:00 - 11:50am - Ben Blount (Discussant) - "Marine Fisheries Management in a Sea of Change" - Conference A

12:00 - 1:20pm - Diane Gardsbane - "Disciplining Gender-Based Violence: Expert and Lay Voices in the World of Intervention, Part I" - Conference A

12:00 - 1:20pm - Joeva Rock, Jeanne Hanna, & Justin Uehlein - "Food as Continuity and Change" - Carnegie III

12:00 - 1:20pm - Soren Peterson - "My Experience in Grad School: A Roundtable Discussion on Learning Applied Anthropology" - Sternwheeler

1:30 - 3:20pm - Dolores Koenig - "Urban Displacement: Safeguarding the Human Rights and Livelihoods of Involuntary Resettlers" - Conference B

5:30 - 7:20pm - Bill Fisher - "Applying Ethnography and Ethics: South American Extractive Industries, Social Organizations, and Linking" - Parkview E

There's a full list for Thursday! You could actually take a WAPA "tour de SfAA" and attend a WAPA member's panel at every session. Plan strategically.

8:00 - 9:50am - Matt Abel - "Exploring the Community in Gardens" - Conference B

10:00 - 11:50am - LTG Associates (Cathleen Crain, Niel Tashima, & Reiko Ishiara Brito) - "Family Matters: Exploring Cultural Values and Practices for Raising Healthy Children" - Conference A

12:00 - 1:20pm - Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts - "Anthropology and Implementation Science Roundtable: The Present and Possible Futures of Knowledge Translation and Exchange" - Carnegie I

12:00 - 1:20pm - Bill Roberts - "PEACE 1996-2014, Continuity and Change" - Sternwheeler

1:30 - 3:20pm - Bryan Bruns - "Groundwater 'On the Ground': The Social Science of Groundwater Use and Management" - Shadyside

1:30 - 3:20pm - Alex Hickling - "Moving Organizations into the Foreground, Part 1: Theory and Practice in Anthropology" - Riverboat

3:30 - 5:20pm - Adam Koons - "Addressing a Critical Question: Are There Universals in Risk, Disaster, and Policy Issues, or Are All Aspects Local and Specific?" - Carnegie III

3:30 - 5:20pm - Dirk Parham - Poster: "A Cognitive Anthropological Study of Open Defecation in the India's Delhi Region" - William Penn Ballroom

5:30 - 7:20pm - Michael Cernea - Roundtable: "'Putting People First' at 30: 1985-2015. Development Anthropology is a Contact and Team Sport!" - Conference C