Visit From Anthropologist Claudia Strauss

This is an invitation for all anthropologists, ethnographers, and researchers of culture!

The Department Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration & Policy as invited anthropologist Claudia Strauss to campus next week. Strauss is a cognitive anthropologist from Pitzer College who looks at personal meanings of cultural complexity primarily through research regarding work and class in the U.S.  While she is here, she will be giving a lecture as part of the Social Science Forum and will also be offering a methods workshop:

1) Social Science Forum: Wednesday, March 14, from 7-8pm on the 7th Floor of the Library. Dr. Strauss will speak about "Achieving the American Dream or Not: Immigrants’ Narratives Following the Great Recession" (See flyer attached)

2) Methods Workshop: The Anthropology Program will be hosting an informal Method Workshop during "free hour" the day of the Forum: Wednesday, March 14, from 12-1 in PUP 204 (lunch provided) for faculty and students who are especially interesting in analyzing interview material or other transcripts. Dr. Strauss has agree to speak about methods she has developed to extract and analyze culture in interviews and other statements. These include ways to get at conventional discourses, links between personal experience and cultural models, and conflicting ideas within individuals and within social groups. These methods that examine the said as well as the unsaid allow her to examine the effects of layered cultural learning, use of culture by individuals, and different forms of power.

3) Dinner? A few of us may be taking Claudia out for a quick dinner before the Forum. Let Dr. Bambi Chapin know if you are interested in joining!