Making #AmAnth18 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30

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  • dateNovember 8, 2018
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Top 30The 2018 AAA meetings are upon us and we’re looking forward to getting out from this rainy, cold Toronto weather and into some California sun! In keeping with tradition, we have curated a list of recommended sessions to attend. We hope that those of you who are strapped for time, and others who share our interests in teaching, ethnographic methods, multimodal, and public anthropology will find it useful.

Given that there are hundreds of sessions to choose from, and many in competing time slots, this list is always an exercise in failure. And yet still, we try. We aimed for our top 25 sessions, but ended up with 30 – and it was hard to stop there!

Beyond attending sessions and socializing in the bar, there is so much more going on.  The Society for Visual Anthropology hosts both the The Thirty-Fourth Annual Visual Research Conference November 12-14th and their annual Film and Media Festival which offers viewings throughout the conference. And then there are the workshops that cover everything from design anthropology and doing anthropology outside the academy, to gaming, ethnographic poetry, and ethnografiction!  Finally, there are installations, tours, gallery sessions (aka posters), and more to transform a passive sit-in-your-seat conference into a more interactive, material experience!

There’s also free beer! Join us for a glass of 21st Amendment Seasonal Ale at the University of Toronto Press booth (#308) from 4-5pm on Friday as we celebrate our Anthropology publishing program including two new publications hot off the Presses: Michael Lambek’s ambitious Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte and the new edition of our popular introductory four-field text Through the Lens of Anthropology by Bob Muckle and Laura Gonazalez.

See you soon,

Anne Brackenbury
Executive Editor, University of Toronto Press

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH

12:00 1:45 pm

(2-0038) ANTHROPOLOGY OUTSIDE ACADEMIA, PART I: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS FROM ANTHROPOLOGISTS WORKING IN USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH AND DESIGN (National Association for the Practice of Anthropology)
MR 212 D | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

2:15 4:00 pm

(2-0475) TOUCH I: TANGIBLE DIFFERENCE, WORLDING TECHNIQUES (Society for Cultural Anthropology/Society for Humanistic Anthropology)
MR 211 D | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

4:30 6:15 pm

(2-0555) COWARDICE (AAA Executive Program Committee)
Grand Ballroom B | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

(2-0710) TOUCH II: CONTACT, ETHICS, FORCE  (Society for Cultural Anthropology/ Society for Humanistic Anthropology)
MR 211 D | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

6:15 7:30 pm

(2-0735) OPENING CEREMONY AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MUWEKMA OHLONE TRIBE AND DOLORES HUERTA
Grand Ballroom A | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH

8:00 9:45 am

(3-0020) ACADEMIC PRECARITY IN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY Flash Presentation (AAA Executive Program Committee)
Executive Ballroom 210 B | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

(3-0200) SENSORY METHODS: VISUAL, ARCHIVAL AND NARRATIVE STRATEGIES (Society for Visual Anthropology)
Grand Ballroom A | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

10:15 am 12:00 pm

(3-0500) RECLAIMING OUR TRUTHS: COLONIAL LEGACIES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN TRANSFORMING ANTHROPOLOGY Roundtable (Association of Black Anthropologists / American Ethnological Society)
Grand Ballroom A | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

2:00 3:45 pm

(3-0765) ANTHROPOLOGY AND WONDER Oral Presentation (Anthropology and Environment Society)
San Jose Ballroom 5 | Marriott | Level 2

(3-0795) CONTINUOUS & DISCONTINUOUS SELVES: CRUMPLED PERFORMATIVITIES & TEMPORALITIES (Society for Visual Anthropology)
MR 230 B | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

4:15 6:00 pm

(3-1130) FIVE FIELDS UPDATE: GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS (Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges)
San Jose Ballroom 1 | Marriott | Level 2

(3-1145) GENDER POLITICS: ENGAGING THE LEGACY OF SHERRY ORTNER Retrospective (Society for Cultural Anthropology)
Executive Ballroom 210 F | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

(3-1240) REINVENTING ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE UNIVERSITY: PUBLIC AND ENGAGED ANTHROPOLOGY Roundtable — Executive Session Status Awarded Sponsored by: AAA Executive Program Committee
MR 211 A | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH

8:00 – 9:45 am

(4-0135) JOURNALISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY: AN ENCOUNTER Roundtable (General Anthropology Division)
LL 21 C | San Jose CC | Lower Level

10:15 am – 12:00 pm

(4-0480) RESISTANCE TO PUBLIC WRITING Roundtable (AAA Executive Program Committee)
LL 21 B | San Jose CC | Lower Level

(4-0455) POWER AND THE RESEARCH PROCESS IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY (Society for Linguistic Anthropology)
LL 20 B | San Jose CC | Lower Level

12:15 1:00 pm

AAA AWARDS:  Congratulations to Laura Tubelle de Gonzalez on winning the 2018 AAA/OUP Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology!

2:00 – 3:45 pm

(4-0765) ANTI-CAPITALIST THOUGHT AND ACTION: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID HARVEY Roundtable (Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology)
San Jose Ballroom 3 | Marriott | Level 2

(4-0809) Late Breaking Session: THE WAR ON SCIENCE: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CRISIS OF EXPERTISE

4:00 – 5:00 pm

JOIN US FOR A GLASS OF 21ST AMENDMENT ALE TO CELEBRATE OUR ANTHROPOLOGY PUBLISHING PROGRAM PAST AND PRESENT.
University of Toronto Press Booth BOOTH #308

4:15 – 6:00 pm

(4-1009) RESEARCHING IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN RAPIDLY-CHANGING CONTEXTS Late Breaking Session

(4-1090) IMAGINING EDUCATION THROUGH A DECOLONIAL LENS: POSSIBILITIES FOR RESISTANCE AND CHANGE ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION (Council on Anthropology and Education / Association of Indigenous Anthropologists)
San Jose Ballroom 1 | Marriott | Level 2 4-1090

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH

8:00 – 9:45 am

(4-0135) JOURNALISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY: AN ENCOUNTER (General Anthropology Division)
LL 21 C | San Jose CC | Lower Level

10:15 am – 12:00 pm

(5-0485) SENSORY DIVERSITY AND MEDIA PRACTICES: EXPLORING PRODUCTIVE TENSIONS Roundtable (Society for Visual Anthropology)
LL 21 F | San Jose CC | Lower Level

(5-0550) ART, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ARTISTRY: NEW TREATMENTS IN STORIES OF LABOR ACTIVISM, MIGRATION, COMMUNITY, AND KINSHIP (American Ethnological Society / Society for the Anthropology of Work)
MR 211 D | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

2:00 3:45 pm

(5-0750) CHANGING ARCHAEOLOGY: BUILDING A MORE JUST AND INCLUSIVE DISCIPLINE Flash Presentation (Archaeology Division)
MR 212 B | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

(5-0785) EXPERIMENTS: FORM. ART, ETHNOGRAPHY, CHANGE (Society for Cultural Anthropology)
San Jose Ballroom 3 | Marriott | Level 2

(5-0845) MULTIMODAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A PROVOCATION Roundtable (AAA Executive Program Committee)
Executive Ballroom 210 B | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

4:15 6:00 pm

(5-0980) CHANGE IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL VOCATION: RESISTING AND ADAPTING ETHNOGRAPHY IN SILICON VALLEY Roundtable (AAA Executive Program Committee)
Executive Ballroom 210 B | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

6:15 7:30 pm

(5-1200) AAA DISTINGUISHED LECTURE WITH EMILY MARTIN: “PLAYING WITH FIRE: IMAGINING ANTHROPOLOGY AND SCIENCE” Hosted by: American Anthropological Association
Grand Ballroom A | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH

8:00 – 9:45 am

(6-0175) TEACHING AND LEARNING ANTHROPOLOGY ONLINE (General Anthropology Division)
Executive Ballroom 210 B | San Jose CC | Concourse Level

10:15 am  12:00 pm

(6-0420) THE LIMITS OF ETHNOGRAPHY. (Society for Cultural Anthropology)
San Jose Ballroom 5 | Marriott | Level 2

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