American Anthropological Association

The Committee on Public Policy has compiled a list of policy-related events taking place at the annual meeting.  To view the detailed list, please click here.

Workshops

• Public Policy as Anthropological Process: Strategy Development Using an Empowerment Model (requires preregistration)
• Legislative Advocacy Workshop (requires preregistration)
  

Forums

• Open Forum: Council on Anthropology and Education Policy Engagement Working Group
• Hope is not Enough: A Policy Forum Examining President Obama’s LGBT Civil Rights Policy Agenda (sponsored by CoPP)
• Professional Ethics and the Security Sector: A Dialogue with the Larger Anthropological Community (sponsored by CoPP)

Sessions

Wednesday

• How Categories Affect Care: Expanding Opportunities or Limiting Care in Health Policy and Clinical Services

Thursday

• The End(s) of Language: Language and Educational Policy
• Food Security: Policy, People and Technology

Friday

• Ethnography and Language Policy – New Means, New Ends, New Times
• Transnational Labor Migration: The Policy Nexus (organized by IGAPP)
• Employee Free Choice Act (sponsored by CoPP)
• What if Policy Makers Listened to Anthropologists about Welfare Reform and Poverty?
• Bureaucracy and Befuddlement: Policy and Imperfect Translation (organized by IGAPP)

Saturday

• Ethnographies of US Foreign Policy: War- and Democracy-Making under the Anthropological Lens
• Feminism and Social Policy: Diverse Perspectives
• From Deep Description to Social Policy: Translating Anthropological Research into Advocacy for Latino Populations
• Making Cognitive Approaches in Environmental Anthropology Count: Bridging Findings to Policy

Sunday

• Beyond Policy Transfer: Transnational Translations and the Reconfiguring of Technocracy and Politics (organized by IGAPP)
• The Devil is in the Consequences: (Mis)Translating Social Policy into Practice