What Ancient Landscapes Foretell About Climate Change
The remnants of a house lost to a devastating fire in California are a tangible reminder of our choices. Robert…
Monthly Archives
January 2019
Business and design anthropology sessions at the March 2019 Society for Applied…
The preliminary program for the March 2019 Society for Applied Anthropology meetings is now available online.…
Macro and micro networking, and the value of one-on-one conversations
Networking in all its forms has been one of the most important tools for developing my career. Professional events,…
EPIC Announces New Executive Director
We are proud and excited to announce that we’ve hired EPIC’s first Executive Director. Rita Denny is known to many…
New online certificate in Organizational Anthropology from U Penn
From the U Penn website: Today’s workplaces are characterized by high levels of diversity. Organizational leaders…
Misinterpreting People
Anthropology has long ago dispensed with the notion that there is any ‘one’ truth. But I think most ethnographers…
Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus
In the spring 2019 semester, I am teaching my fourth introduction to STS class at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.…
Using Video to Think Ethnographically: Core Approaches to Research, Production,…
An EPIC Talk with CHARLEY SCULL & NICK AGAFONOFF
April 17, 1–2:30 pm Pacific Time
Free online event,…
Collaboration by Design: Engaging Deeply for Better Business Outcomes
An EPIC Talk with NATALIE HANSON, Principal/Partner, ZS
2 May 2019, 1:00 pm Pacific Time
Free online event,…
Someday we will all play for the Patriots
Tom Brady says new plays were inserted into the Patriot’s playbook on Sunday.
“At the team hotel, the Westin…
Exploring Ethnofutures
An EPIC Talk with MIRIAM LUECK AVERY (Mozilla), JAN ENGLISH-LUECK (San Jose State University), TESSA FINLEV…
Ep. #29 TFS at AAS: Multimodal ethnography, monolithic China, online bans &…
We, at The Familiar Strange, would like to acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional…
Post–Human-Centered Design: Evolving to a Societal Scale
Instructor: JOHN PAYNE
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Tutorial: Doing Ethnography of Data Science & Algorithmic Systems
Instructor: IAN LOWRIE
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Creating a Strategic Role for Research in Your Organization
An EPIC Talk with MEENA KOTHANDARAMAN & ZARLA LUDIN, twig+fish
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EPIC2018 Proceedings Are Here!
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The phenomenal content from EPIC2018 is ready for you to access on demand—including…
Play it Back: Research as Intervention
NATALIE NAPIERInWithForward
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PechaKucha Presentation…
Mattresses & Moneyboxes: Cultural Affordances for Microfinance in Jordan
ZACH HYMAN
EPAM Continuum
Case Study—This case study will present how a multicultural and multidisciplinary…
Working with Intuition
ANISH NANGIA
User Experience Researcher, eBay Inc.
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Screenplay, Novel, and Poem: The Value of Borrowing From Three Literary Genres to…
MARIA CURY
ReD Associates
MICHELE CHANG-MCGRATH
ReD Associates
Applied ethnography still struggles with the…
Getting from Vision to Reality: How Ethnography and Prototyping Can Solve…
BRADY SIH
Kaiser Permanente
HILLARY CAREY
Winnow Research
MICHAEL C. LIN
Kaiser Permanente
Cast Study—In 2014,…
Contextual Breathing: The Importance of Opening in an Increasingly Closed World
APRIL JEFFRIES
Ipsos Understanding Unlimited
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5 Tips to Smash out Your PhD in Anthropology
I suspect thesis writing progression is a bit like sustainable weight loss. Calorie or step counting isn’t nearly…
Your failure of imagination is not my problem
In November 2016, I flew to Zurich to deliver a talk on my work on Métis legal-ethical paradigms, prairie fish, and…
Penn is now offering Certificate in Organizational Anthropology
Check out University of Pennsylvania's exciting new Certificate program in Organizational AnthropologyToday’s…
The Craft of Curation
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration from the Smithsonian…
Behold the hot computer technology of 1985
What was it like to use a computer for chat, graphic design, banking or online shopping in the mid-1980s? What…