Conference skills seminar: Storytelling your research
Monday september 11
5pm awdt
7pm aest
Zoom
Soon, you will know whether your abstract for the AAS Conference has been accepted (check out the website for the latest information on the programme and details) and you can start making travel plans to come to Sydney in November! Soon after, you’ll actually have to start writing that paper.
The planning or ‘storyboarding’ stage may be the most important part of your thesis, paper, or article writing. You’ve collected all this data, but how do you go about piecing it all together into a cohesive narrative? Or, even worse, how do you write it in such a way that people actually would want to READ it?!
Dr Sophie Chao is a DECRA fellow and lecturer at the University of Sydney. She also acts as secretary on the AAS Executive committee, and is a fantastic storyteller. Her recently published award-winning book ‘In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West Papua’ has received glowing reviews from celebrity (environmental) anthropologists like Anna Tsing and Marilyn Strathern. Dr Chao also is an incredibly gifted photographer, a true multimedia storyteller.
As we like to run these workshops interactively, Sophie will first tell about her research and speak to some storytelling best practices at the start of the workshop, but we’ll also take time to workshop your ideas and ruminations in the second half of the event.
We look forward to seeing you there!
