Thomas Arcaro

PRESENTATIONS

• “Long-lasting effects of Adventism on ex-Adventists’ lives”, paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburg, PA, October 2024.
• "God's church is not an organization": Ex-Adventists—Who they are and why they left." Drumm, R. Arcaro, T., McClearn, D., Wright, J., Adventist Human Subjects Researchers Association Conference. Andrews University. Berrien Springs, MI., May 2024.
• Three day workshop entitled "Social Justice in Action: Unmasking Power Dynamics in Humanitarian Response" organized by the Brac University Centre for Peace and Justice, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 2023.
• "Humanity needs more female voices now!" talk presented at the Women's Peace Cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh August, 2023.
• "Using the Hydra Model & DEIJ: Confronting Toxic Othering" Hawkes Learning Innovative Educators Virtual Summit, March 17, 2023.
• "Volunteer online teaching of refugees and nationals in Bangladesh in partnership with a local NGO" presented at the first annual International Workshop on Volunteerism in the Post Covid-19 Era sponsored by the Turkish Red Crescent Academy, December 2021.
• "Privileging Forces in the Humanitarian System: Power and Marginalization", International Humaitarian Studies Associartion meeting, Paris, November 2021.(online presentation)
• Invited presentation "Confronting Toxic Othering" for Life@Elon, November 2021
• Invited presentation "Views on the Humanitarian Imprerative" for Life@Elon, April 2021
• Invited presentation "Violence via social media" with student Megan Casner ('22) on a Zoom conference organized by the Kurdish Regional Government and the Ministry of Culture and Youth, Department of Gender Equity November 2020.
• Invited presentation "Switching to online teaching and how it affected the curriculum in the United States" (with Dr. Ahmed Al Fadaam). Virtual international scientific conference co-sponsored by WHO and the University of Qadisiya about the impact of COVID19 on individuals and societies. April 2020.
• Served on a panel discussion about the situation in Myanmar on 17 July 2020. The segment aired live on Indus News (Pakistan) for a program called "Scope with Waqar Rizvi". View here.
• "Publishing Books with Classes: Engaged Learning with Concrete Deliverables" presented at the annual Teaching and Learning Conference, Elon University, August 13, 2015 with Michael Vaughn and Samantha Burch.
• "Commitment to Dialogue:  Two Effective Practices in Establishing the University's Role in Civic Dialogue" annual meeting of North Carolina Campus Compact, February 18, 2015 (with Jason Husser, Constance Ledoux Book, Catherione Parsons and Madison Taylor).

• "Lost in Translation?  From National Aspirations to Campus Practices" annual national meeting of the American Association for Colleges and Universities held in Washington, DC, January 24, 2015 (with Cass Freedland of Goucher College and Amy Koritz of Drew University). 

• "Community Engagement in Study Abroad Programs" Drew University, Wednesday, Sept. 24th, 2014.

• "Understanding the Global Experience: Shaping Responsible World Citizens in Global Studies Classrooms" annual meeting of the Global Studies Association conference held at Palos Verdes, Calif., June 7-9, 2013 (with Rosemary Haskell).

• “Assessing the global citizenship of Periclean Scholars at Elon University” presented at the first annual meeting of the Intercultural Strategies for Civic Engagement conference in New York City, October 4, 2012
• “Exemplary Global Citizens” presented at the winter convocation at the University of Monterrey, Monterey, Mexico January 25, 2012
• “Global Citizenship in a multiracial world” presented at North Carolina Central University April 10, 2012
•  “Becoming and Being a Global Citizen:  Some Definitions and Data to Move the Discussion of Global Citizenship Forward” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology held November 3, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
• "Exemplary Global Citizens: Training for Trusteeship Address 2011" video presentation, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 
• “Leadership and participation in the New Atheism:  Where are all the women?” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology held November 3, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
• “Higher Responsibility: The Role of Higher Education in Nurturing Effective Global Citizens” invited presentation at Thames Valley University 28 January 2011
• “The Periclean Scholars at Elon University and their Partnership with Sri Lanka” comments at the opening ceremony of the LEAF summit 24 January 2011 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• “Exemplary Global Citizens” invited address to the delegates at the Training for Trusteeship event organized by the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, Galle, Sri Lanka 6 September 2011.
• “Coming Out as an Atheist:  a survey” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology in 6 November 2010.
• “The Stigma of Being an Atheist” presented at religion roundtable session at the American Sociological Association meetings in Atlanta, GA, 22 August 2010.
• “Global Citizenship in the 21st Century” presented at humanist sociology special paper session at the American Sociological Association meetings in Atlanta, GA 23 August 2010. 
• “Planting Seeds in Fertile Soil: Elon University’s campus culture and the case of the Periclean Scholars program” presented at the annual meeting of the AAUP in Denver, Colorado October 19, 2007.
• “HIV/AIDS in Namibia” Presentation and training session for United States Peace Corps, Namibia, Africa, August 8, 2005.
• ”Humanistic Sociology and Darwin:  An Argument for a Sociobiological Approach” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology held October 11, 2002 in Madison, Wisconsin.
• “A case for Humanistic Universal Darwinism: The Humanistic Implications of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology and Memetics and the Co-evolution of Memes and Genes” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology in Austin, Texas, October 12-15, 2000.
• “Of Memes, Universal Darwinism, and Humanism:  Some Further Thoughts” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology November 5-7, 1999 in Memphis, TN.
• "Some Further Thoughts on Being Human: Epistemological Considerations Underlying a Fourth Main Theoretical Perspective in Sociology or How I Came to be a Neo-Darwinian Sociobiologist Who Still Really Likes Marx but Feels the Need for Moving on to Other Paradigms" paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology held in Austin, Texas, November 6-9, 1998.
• "The Self Identity of a Triathlete: A Participant-Observer Reports" paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology held in Austin, Texas, November 6-9, 1998.                
• "Mind, Consciousness and Being Human: Thoughts on the Deep Ecology of Brain, body and Gaia," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology held in Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-9, 1997.
• "Passing on the New Survey technique to Village Health Workers in India," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology held in Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-9, 1997.
• "General Studies Core Courses: The Pilot," paper presented at the first annual conference on Undergraduate Teaching held September 25-27, 1997 at Elon College, Elon College, NC.
• "Vico Meets Gaia: Humanism for a More Just Planet," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association meetings in San Francisco, California on November 20, 1996.
• "Evaluation of Studies Abroad," paper presented at the annual conference of the North Carolina Association of International Educators, Elon College, March 29, 1996
• "Women and Grassroots Movements in Rural India," paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Columbus, Ohio, October 1996
• "Presidential Address: What are Humanistic Social Sciences?" paper presented at the Presidential Plenary session of the annual meetings of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Columbus, Ohio, October 1996
• "Community Coalitions: A Dilemma Revisited," paper presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August 19, 1995
• "The Likert Scale Goes Marathi: A `New' Technique for Survey Research in the Developing World," paper presented at the XXXII Congress of the International Institute of Sociology "Dialogue between cultures and changes in Europe and the World," Trieste, Italy, July 3-7, 1995
• "Self Esteem of Village Health Workers in Jamkhed, India," paper presented at the Elon College Women's Studies international conference on "Violence and Violation in Women's Lives: Myth, Metaphor, and Reality," February 24, 1995
• "Community Coalitions and the War on Drugs or What's a Humanist Sociologist Doing in a Place Like ACADA?" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1993
• "Social Change in India: The Case of CRHP" presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Sociological Association, Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 1993
• "Visual Sociology: Theory and Practice" presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Sociological Association, Boone, North Carolina, March 1991
• "Teaching Strategies for Introductory Classes" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 1988
• "Coming Home to Weirdness: A Quasi-Marxian Approach to Understanding the Vietnam Veteran" presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Association, Memphis, Tennessee, April 1987
• "Human Motivation as Viewed by Miquel de Unamuno and Ernest Becker" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Philadelphia, PA, October 1986
• "Praxis in the Classroom: The Issue of Hunger" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1985
• "Reaching the Student: A Humanist Approach," Roundtable session organized at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1985
• "They're Here to Follow Orders, Not to Think: Some Notes on Academic Freedom in Prison," presented to the North Central Sociological Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1985
• "On the Poverty of Graduate Education in the United States" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Hartford, Connecticut, October 1983
• "Self Identity of Female Prisoners: The Moral Career of the Inmate," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Washington, District of Columbia, October 1982
• "The Malaise in Academia: Structural Sources and Human Consequences," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Louisville, Kentucky, October 1981

FILMS PRODUCED                          

• "The Comprehensive Rural Health Project: An Introduction"  (1991)
• "Introduction to India: Goat Sacrifice" (1991)
• “Throwaway People:  the Global Economy’s Dirty Secret” (2003)
• “Understanding War:  The People of Alamance County Ask Questions About Iraq” (2004)
• “A Measure of Our Humanity:  HIV/AIDS in Namibia” (2004)
• “You Wake Me Up:  Women and AIDS in Africa” (2005)
• “The Shining Lights of Opuwo” (2004)
• “Young Struggles, Eternal Faith” (2006)
• “Testing Positive” (2006)
• “On Our Own” (2007)
• “Painting Without Permission” (2008)
• “A River’s Reach” (2008)
• “My Name is Anita” (2010)
• “The Elephant in the Room” (2011)
• “Health for All” (2012)
• "The Omega Project"