Events: Webinars, Trainings, and Workshops

Event Title: Pan-African Symposium on Digital Learning in Global Africa Event Description: “The Howard University Department of African Studies will host an international virtual symposium on Digital Learning in Global Africa During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, on October 21 and 22, 2021. The Department plans the symposium in collaboration Read more…

Event Title: Doing Socio-Legal Research in a Pandemic: How, Why, When, Where? Event Description: “The ways we do, talk, and think about socio-legal research have altered. State and university responses to Covid-19 have disrupted sites of power and privilege, of inclusion and exclusion, of access to resources and ability to Read more…

Event Title: Rich Remote Data: How to Run Your Social Science Research from Afar Event Description: “In the past year, researchers across the globe have shifted from primarily face-to-face to a variety of remote data collection modes. This has resulted in a new research paradigm that embraces modern digital solutions. Read more…

Event Title: Pandemic! Pivoting to Digital/Virtual Research Event Description: “While many of our research designs and plans have been altered and possibly outright cancelled, we are fortunate to live in a time where digital information access and transfer is more efficient and useful than ever. The purpose of this panel Read more…

Event Title: Doing Ethnography Remotely Event Description: “What is remote ethnography? In this video series, the Center’s Co-directors Sharika Thiranagama (Anthropology) and Sylvia Yanagisako (Anthropology) interview six ethnographers who have conducted research remotely. The conversations explore a wide range of digital and analog tools, techniques, and methods for use across Read more…

Event Title: How to Conduct an Ethnography During Social Isolation Event Description: “Some suggestions for anthropology PhD students who face having to conduct their ethnography entirely online because they are unable to visit their fieldsite.” Event Date and Time: May 3, 2020 Link to Event:

Event Title: Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World Event Description: “This webinar is part of the Fall Qualitative Research & Innovation Webinar Series presented by NVivo and SAGE Publications. In this webinar, Dr. Trena Paulus and Dr. Jessica Lester, co-authors of the forthcoming Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital Read more…

Event Title: When the “Field” is Online: Qualitative Data Collection Event Description: “Isolation measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 mean that social researchers who conduct face-to-face fieldwork (interviews, focus groups, participant observation, ethnographies etc) confront the challenge of either delaying or re-inventing their methods so that they can continue Read more…

Event Title: Ethnographic Fieldwork Across Online Spaces Event Description: “How to move forwards as a qualitative researcher in times of social distancing? We urgently need social research to explore the lived experience of these challenging times and to gather the insights to support wellbeing, to understand emerging and exacerbated social Read more…

Event Title: COVID-19 and Doing Virtual Fieldwork Event Description: “Isolation measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 means that social researchers who conduct face-to-face fieldwork (interviews, focus groups, participant observation, ethnographies etc) are now faced with the challenge of either delaying or re-inventing their methods so that they can continue Read more…