Ithaca College

Assistant professor of anthropology David Turkon was an invited participant in a roundtable discussion on the challenges, difficulties, and potentials of international collaborative research at the 67th annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Tampa, Florida. He also presented a paper at the meetings.

The roundtable was titled, "Collaborative Solutions to Global Insecurities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Potential" and included scholars from Ecuador, Honduras, Canada, the U.S., and Lesotho (southern Africa). David is a co-principal investigator on a collaborative research and intervention project on HIV/AIDS along with scholars from the National University of Lesotho, the University of South Florida, and the University of Toronto.



David also presented a paper entitled, "Challenges Facing Sudanese 'Lost Boys' Refugees in Engaging Civil Society: Lessons from Syracuse, New York," as part of a panel on immigration, language, and learning in the classroom and beyond. In his presentation David discussed problems he has helped to overcome in building a foundation for community among the approximately 200 Sudanese "Lost Boys" refugees in the Syracuse area. The goal is that they may take better advantage of opportunities and resources available to their organization, the Central New York Lost Boys Foundation.