Service Learning

Participated in SHINE/Engaged Department workshop. Sponsored by Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. [March 18-21, 2004] Service learning/community research on immigrant elderly integrated into Anth 142, Culture in Mind. [Fall 2004]

“Busy Bodies: How People Manage their Everyday Lives,” with C. Darrah and J.M. Freeman. The Harrington Lecture. The Villages. San Jose, CA [May 4, 2004]

Speaker

“The Changing Cultures of Silicon Valley.” Workshop presented to Ministry of Industry, Thailand. San Jose State University, San Jose, CA [June 15, 2004]

Keynote Speaker

“Applying Anthropology in Silicon Valley.” Santa Clara University Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference. Santa Clara, CA. [April 24, 2004]

Panelist, Organizer and Moderator

“75 Years of SWAA: A Presidential Retrospective.” Southwestern Anthropological Association Meetings. San Jose, CA [April 17, 2004]

Presenter

“Reinventing Therapeutic Expectations in Silicon Valley.” Southwestern Anthropological Association. San Jose. [April 16, 2004]

Keynote Speaker

“Making Connections.” San Jose State University Honors Convocation, A Celebration of Excellence. [April 16, 2004]

Keynote Speaker

“The Future of Silicon Valley” 4th Annual Licensing Executives Society Silicon Valley Chapter Event, The Silicon Valley, Celebrating the Past, Present and the Future. Co-sponsored by History San Jose and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley. [March 31, 2004]

Keynote Speaker

“Decades of Change.” Guest lecture, Santa Clara Water District. [February 19, 2004]

Guest Lectures

“Cultural Systems,” “Change and Continuity among the Chumash,” “Exchange Systems” for Dr. Sandra Cate, Emerging Global cultures. [February 4-February 18, 2004]

Reviewer

School of American Research

Reviewer

Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 2003.

Guest Lecture

“Being and Well-being in Silicon Valley,” San Jose State University. Medical Anthropology. [December 1, 2003]

Poster Presenter

“Number Eight Fencing Wire: New Zealand, Cultural Innovation and the Global Silicon Network,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago. [November 20, 2003]

Panelist

“Cultivating an Applied Perspective” [for undergraduate education in applied anthropology] American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago. [November 20, 2003]

Presenter and Panelist

“Personal Health Ecologies and Strategies for Health Management.” with Rod Falcon, Mary Cain and Leah Spaulding. Health Horizons Workshop. Institute for the Future. Menlo Park, CA. [September 10, 2003]

Panelist

“Globalization and Silicon Valley Cultures,” Heritage Council of Santa Clara Valley. Cupertino, CA. [September 8, 2003]

Guest Lectures

“Policy and Applied Anthropology,”Applied Anthropology. [Feb. 10, 2003] “Preparing for graduate school,” “Emerging Global Anthropology in Silicon Valley,” San Jose State University. Frontiers in Anthropology. [February 25, 2003 and April 8, 2003] “Cultures@SiliconValley,” Gavilan College. Gilroy, CA. [May 19, 2003]

Symposium Lecture

“Rites of Production: Technopoles and the Theater of Work.” 2003 IT and Globalization Symposium. Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology. [April 15, 2003.]

Keynote Speaker

“Why Silicon Valley? Practicing Anthropology in the 21st Century.” Southwestern Anthropological Association. 74th Annual conference. Bakersfield, Ca. [April 4, 2003.]

Panel Co-organizer, panelist

“Common agendas, linking faculty research. The Silicon Valley-Silicon Plains (New Zealand) connection” In “Community Research, Community Linkages: Applied Anthropology in the Silicon Valley.” Margaret-Graham co-organizer. Southwestern Anthropological Association. 74th Annual conference. Bakersfield, Ca. [April 4, 2003.]

University Service

Task Force, Review of the Center for Faculty Development and Support. [Spring 2003]

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"Cultures@SiliconValley."  California History Center.  Cupertino, CA. [January 23, 2003]
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"Conquering the Frontiers of Technology Across the Globe."
Panel co-sponsered by the American Anthropological Association and the
National Communications Association Task Force on the Digital Divide. National Communications Association annual meetings, New Orleans, LA. [November 21, 2002]
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"Entering the Public Arena: The Anthropology of Working Families." American Anthropological Association annual meetings, New Orleans.  [November 20, 2002]
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"Modern Ireland and High Technology." American Conference for Irish Studies. Santa Clara, CA. [October 12, 2002]
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"Silicon Valley Families and Communities."  Presented to class, "California: Contested Dreams and Realities," Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz.  [September 30, 2002]
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"Professional Business Women of California 2003 Conference Program Focus Session."  Hosted by Guidant Corporation, Santa Clara, CA.  [September 19, 2002]
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"Cultures @ Silicon Valley."  Trade New Zealand's Canterbury High-Technology Group Breakfast Talks, Christchurch, New Zealand.  [July 16, 2002]
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"Cultures @ Silicon Valley and the Anthropology of Work."  Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.  [July 11, 2002]
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Emerging Households Workshop.  Institute for the Future.  Menlo Park, CA. [March 16, 2001]
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"The Silicon Valley Cultures Project," with C. Darrah and J.M. Freeman.  Parc Forum, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.  Palo Alto, CA.  [March 15, 2001]
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"Silicon Valley's Difference Engine."  National Conference for Community and Justice Board Retreat.  San Jose, CA.  [December 1, 2000]
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"Setting the Research Priorities for Device Related Mobility Technology," with C. Darrah.  EC2 Incubator.  Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  [June 21, 2000]
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Workshop on the ethics, social norms, personal values, and the use of interactive technologies by young people (advising a Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, & Technology program at the National Science Foundation Funding Initiative). Eugene, Oregon. September 16-19, 1999. 
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Silicon Connections.  Renamed "Silicon Work: Tales of Trust from Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Taipei and Dublin." (C. Darrah co- author) Presented at the Society for Philosophy and Technology 11th Biennial International Conference, July 16, 1999. 
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Global Interconnection and Identity: The Context of Future Work.  In the conference, "Global Interconnection: Identity, Infrastructure, and New Technologies Outlook Exchange," sponsored by the Institute for the Future.  San Francisco.  March 30-April 1, 1999. 
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Dynamic at a distance, One Way Video.  In  "Exploring Instructional Television and other Distance Learning Technologies," for the Alquist Center for Innovative Learning, SJSU, April 22, 1998.
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Faculty in Residence for Diversity. Institute for Teaching and Learning. San Jose State University--presented workshops, drafted administrative plan for faculty development on diversity, advised on distribution of faculty diversity grants, [1997--1998]. 
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Motherboards and Daughters-in-Law: Asian Life in Silicon Valley.  Paper presented in the session "Silicon Valley Connections: Asian Immigrants and Sojourners.   J. Engish-Lueck, organizer. ASPAC, [June 18, 1997]. 
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Fulbright Liaison for San Jose State University, [1995--present]. 
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Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association, Chair of Committee 11, the Committee for the Study of Cultural and Educational Futures.   Committee co-chair with Reed Riner, [1993--1995]..

UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (UHK), Department of Sociology, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.  Fulbright research and teaching grant, [1993--1994]. 
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"Methodological changes in socialization studies."  "'Classic' national character studies," "The "revival" of national character studies in psychology, management and communications." Five Fulbright guest lectures for Dr. Grant Evans, Selected Topics in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2/3 Year Sociology). University of Hong Kong, [March 17, 23, 24, 30, 31, 1994]. 
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"Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis in Comparative Frontier Studies: Isolating the Active Ingredients." Seminar in History University of Hong Kong, [December 2, 1993].
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Silicon Valley, Studies in Transition.  Session coordinated for Southwestern Anthropological Association Meetings, San Diego, [April 25, 1993]. 
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Prepared and presented 12 anthropologically based lessons for elementary schools and intermediate schools  (Parkview School, Oak Grove District) and Child Development Centers,  [1991--1998]. 
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Program chair for Anthropology and Education Futures symposia, [1985--1987, 1990--1992]. .