Dr Ann Wand, DPhil (Oxon)

Anthropologist, Author, Consultant, Media Presenter

Presentations

Invited guest speaker

• 2018, April 4 – Applied anthropology and coping with stress in academia: students, faculty and practitioners. Paper presented at the 78th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA.
• 2017, November 17 – Nationalism, language identity, and education in South Tyrol, Italy. Paper presented at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
• 2016, September 22 – Half spaghetti—half Knoedel: cultural division through the lens of language learning. Paper presented at the South Tyrolean Anthropological Association (EV-AA), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
• 2014, February 7 – Controversies in second language acquisition: the case of South Tyrol. Paper presented at the Language Studies Department, Umeå University, Sweden.

Conference presenter

• 2017, September 22 – Community reactions to language policy in South Tyrol, Italy. Paper presented at conference sponsored by SOAS, University of London: Symposium on the politics of language policy at the local level, London, UK.
• 2017, July 6–7 – Should we speak (good) German, dialect or Italian? German language preservation in a multilingual province. Paper presented at conference sponsored by the University of Nottingham: European experiences of ‘good’ language, ‘bad language’, and (the) standard language ideology in multilingual communities, past and present, Nottingham, UK.
• 2016, October 26 – History and Heimat: navigating German-speakers’ (language) identity in Italy’s South Tyrol province. Paper presented at conference sponsored by the Department of European Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen: Puzzling Europe: Literary, political and linguistic perspectives on a fragmented continent. Groningen, Netherlands.
• 2014, February 18 – Difficulties in second language acquisition: the case study of South Tyrol. Paper presented at Linacre Seminar Series, Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK.
• 2013, October 13 – Difficulties in second language acquisition: the case study of South Tyrol. Paper presented at conference sponsored by European University of Cyprus: Breaking classroom silences: addressing sensitive issues in education. Cyprus, Greece.
• 2011, November 19 – Language from the mouths of babes: the consequences of acting as both teacher and student. Paper presented at conference sponsored by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) and Department of Education, University of Oxford: Teaching in the field: Investigating the ethics of education in ethnographic research. Oxford, UK.

Conference/workshop chair, host and organizer

• 2017, March 25 – Winter festivals and traditions. Conference presented at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford, UK.
• 2014, May 5 – Teaching techniques workshop for master’s and doctoral students. Workshop presented at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford, UK.
• 2011, November 19 – Teaching in the field: Investigating the ethics of ethnographic research. Conference sponsored by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) and Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.
• 2008, May 19 – New direction in the Anthropology of Education. Conference presented at the Anthropology Department, University of Sussex, UK.