Recently I have been asked about the availability of Visual/Cultural Anthropology graduate programs by my students. I think the best resource is the searchable directory provided by the Society for Visual Anthropology.  It allows you to search by school, program, and more.

• Visual Anthropology Searchable Directory of Programs

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I also found two local program options, one in oral history and one visual anthropology:

• The Citadel Oral History Program
• University of South Carolina Graduate Certificate in Visual Anthropology

I’ve added a section for links to the Research Methods in Expressive Culture Course blog.  I will keep adding resources here as I find them.

A great video from The Center for Internet and Society/Stanford Law.

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

Anyone who creates “Transformative Art” from pieces of popular culture, (i.e. remixing YouTube footage with personal interviews, artwork, etc.) should consider whether their work falls within the definition of “Fair Use” and freedom of expression.

Enjoy.

The Question of the Day belongs to Jack, who asked:

When writing out the process/methodology and inserting parts of our fieldnotes, do they need to be set aside or cited in any way? or can it just kind of flow between telling a story as an example and then explaining the significance without having to having to break it up/quote it or set it aside some way?

I went to the American Anthropological Association and found the very useful AAA style guide, available for download at: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm.  I highly recommend reviewing the 12 pages for reference.

The Answer:
Personal Communication (including e-mail, listserve, and newsgroup messages and unpublished interviews) should be cited in text citations, with specific date, but not in the reference cited:

Here’s an example: Horace Smith claims (letter to author, July 12, 1993)

Presented by:
The Citadel Oral History Program, South Carolina Historical Society and the Lowcountry Oral History Alliance

Oral History Workshop
The Citadel Oral History Program, the South Carolina Historical Society and the Low Country Oral History Alliance invite the public to participate in an oral history workshop on Saturday, December 5th from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm at The Citadel in Bond Hall room 165.

Teachers, community activists, genealogists, and high school and college students are encouraged to attend. Space is limited and pre-registration is highly encouraged. Your $5 donation will defray the cost of lunch.

This interactive workshop, led by staff from the SC Historical Society and The Citadel Oral History Program, will cover each aspect of the oral history process, including project planning, interview strategies, recording technology, and archiving. The program will be of value to those involved in family or community projects that are well underway and those in the planning stages.

The Citadel is located at 171 Moultrie Street in Charleston (near Joseph P. Riley Park).

Call Kerry Taylor at (843) 953-5357 for more information and to register.

I ran across this and thought some of you might be interested.  Have a great break!
Joey

by: Sharon Seltzer

If you are looking for an alternative way to celebrate Thanksgiving that doesn’t include plating a turkey on your table, you might be interested in the Adopt-a-Turkey Project.

Farm Sanctuary is a non-profit organization that works to stop the cruelty of commercially-raised farm animals and promotes a vegan lifestyle. Their two sanctuaries in New York and California are home to: pigs, sheep, cows, rabbits, geese, chickens and turkeys that have been victims of cruelty.

They began the Adopt-a-Turkey Project in 1986 as a way of offering a “compassionate alternative for Thanksgiving.”

Since then, Farm Sanctuary has rescued more than 1,000 turkeys from “a thankless fate at the dinner table and given thousands of people an opportunity to adopt a turkey for the holidays.”

Read the full post at: http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/start-a-new-thanksgiving-tradition-adopt-a-turkey/

Powerpoint  is SO late 20th century! Looking for an alternative?   Of course you are.  WOW your students and your colleagues and your conference audience (who will be delighted inasmuch as they are expecting the “Powerpoint bullets of death” syndrome).

You are savvy.  You are creative.  You will have attended this LITE workshop and learned ways to present a topic with flair, interactivity, and excitement!
Learn about creating interactive presentations with VoiceThread, using the slideshow feature in Flickr, or creating a video.  Check out 2-D images in a 3-D world using Microsoft’s Photosynth or Cooliris. Learn where to find images for your presentations using Creative Commons.  Having video player issues?  Try VLC, free software that plays nearly anything!

Its not too late to learn how to be exciting and interesting (or at least present so that you sound like you are).

WHEN: Thursday, November 19, 2009 @ 3 and 6PM
WHERE: Addlestone 122

Feel free to download and share our session flyer (pdf). For more information about the LITE sessions visit http://blogs.cofc.edu/LITE

A table of Exam Planning Resources–including Calendars, Final Exam Schedules, Class Assessment worksheets, the Exam Study Plan, Test Preparation and other study handouts–is set up in the Center for Student Learning. Please drop by and pick up the resources you need for exams and download the Four Week Study Plan Fall 2009!

Also, Cougar Countdown is coming November 30! Cougar Countdown is a 2 week series of events and activities designed to support and assist students during Exam Week.  Offices from Academic Affairs and Student Affairs have joined forces to provide a full calendar of events—check it out in next week’s GSO!  Activities will be hosted in the Addlestone Library and the Stern Student Center.

You can also join COUGARcountdown on Facebook.

It’s an Addlestone LITE session about collecting and organizing and managing your research!   Who knew digital technology could make this easy?  (Okay, so it is supposed to do that.  Boy, does it ever!)  Come learn about some web applications that do just that:

• Zotero to collect, manage, and cite your resources
• Delicious to organize and share your web research
• Citulike to discover, manage, store, and share scholarly references
• Flickr to share photos and create slideshows
  • Flickr Album Maker
  • picsviewer
• Wordle to create word clouds
• Mind Mapping to problem solve and promote creativity

Thursday, November 12, 2009 @ 3 AND 6PM
Collecting and Organizing your Work
Addlestone Library Room 122

What other reason do you need to live in the early 21^st Century?  Come to learn yourself or print out the FLYER (pdf) to let your students know how to improve their research capabilities.   Please hand out the flyer in your classes.  Their research will improve.  Their papers will improve.  Your free time will increase (okay, two out of three is not bad).

FEEL FREE TO DROP IN OR REGISTER AT http://tinyurl.com/Addlestone

Session Description:
Need help managing all your sources for your paper? Use Zotero to collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Access your bookmarks anywhere, share them with study partners and organize your web research using Delicious. Use Citulike to discover, manage, store and share scholarly references. Share photos and create slideshows with Flickr. Use Wordle to generate word clouds. Need help getting a handle on your research project? Mind Mapping promotes creativity, helps you solve problems, and helps your brain remember information.

For more information about the LITE sessions visit http://blogs.cofc.edu/LITE

- sent via Bri to Expressive Culture

“I saw this today and thought you might appreciate it…It’s really clever and fun!”

I AGREE!

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to open the doors of its new gallery space, located in The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts with the exhibition, Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. — Collage and Assemblage 1991- 2009. The exhibition begins with a reception on Friday, October 23, 6 – 9 p.m. and will run through Saturday, January 9, 2010. During the reception, at 7 p.m., the artist Aldwyth and curator Mark Sloan, will lead interested guests on an exhibition walk-through. The first public viewing of the Halsey Institute’s new space will continue with a Hallelujah Chorus performed by members of the Taylor Festival Choir, the College’s professional choir in residence, as well as a dance performance by local Charleston dance group, Buen Aché. The exhibition opening is the first of many celebratory events for the School of the Arts’ 20th anniversary. The new building is located at the corner of Calhoun and St. Philip Streets (161 Calhoun St.).

This is the first major retrospective of the collage and assemblage artist Aldwyth. Now in her 70s, Aldwyth lives and works in an octagonal house on the edge of a salt marsh on one of South Carolina’s sea islands. Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. features fifty-two collage and assemblage works created within the past two decades. A film by John Reynolds with commissioned soundtrack by Bill Carson accompanies the exhibition, documenting the artist’s interaction with many three dimensional works. The Halsey Institute has also published a full color, 112-page exhibition catalogue including essays by curator Sloan and Boston artist/writer Rosamond Purcell. Aldwyth’s complex, often epic-scaled collages resemble “medieval manuscript pages writ large” says Sloan. Each piece can take years to make. Ackland Art Museum Director Emily Kass says about Aldwyth,”Her remarkable work demands to be seen. It is hard to think of an audience who will not be mesmerized by these extraordinary pieces of art.”

Take a tour with gallery director Mark Sloan:  http://www.youtube.com/collegeofcharleston#p/u/3/mgAtt8HK5_c

For an in-depth, online preview of the exhibition, please visit:  http://halsey.cofc.edu/exhibitions/2009/04_aldwyth_main.php