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
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
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