We’re pleased to share this blog post from special AN reporter Émilie Sarrazin. She reports here on a Saturday afternoon session “Revolution in the Middle-East and North Africa: Anthropological Perspectives.” Saturday afternoon, a four-hour session of the AAA Annual Meeting was devoted to the major uprisings that have taken place in 2010 and 2011 in many regions [...]
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Check out the photos from the AAA Annual Meeting on Anthropology News Flickr Page.
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Join AAA President Virginia R. Dominguez for her AAA Presidential Address. The Address, titled “Comfort Zones and Their Dangers: Who Are We? Qui Sommes-Nous?”, will be given in the Palais de Congrès Room 516CD at 18:15.
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We’re pleased to share this blog post from special AN reporter Marianne Butler. She reports here on sessions about reproductive technology. Vignettes of foetuses being asked to serve as “expert witnesses” in determining when life begins, through the reproduction of the “socially dead” and the tracing of reproductional debris, to an elision of counting embryos and counting [...]
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The Society for Psychological Anthropology will be having their business meeting today. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt – Fourth Floor – Soprano B from 18:15 – 20:15.
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We’re pleased to share the this blog post from special AN reporter D Archie Frink (Middle Tennessee University). He shares his observations from the second day of the 2011 AAA meeting. In the morning of the second day of the AAA conference — and the first for many — the activity is buzzing: novice students display poster [...]
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We’re pleased to share the this blog post from special AN reporter Alice Walker (McGill University). She shares her observations and some photos from of the beginning of her first AAA meeting. The weeks leading up to the meeting, I was unsure what to expect. Several of my professors and other students were attending, but [...]
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Join President Virginia Dominguez in honoring this year’s award winners. The ceremony will be held in Room 516CD at the Palais des Congrès today from 19:45-21:00. The 2011 AAA Award Winners include: Bonnie Pitblado – AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology Helen E. Fisher – Anthropologist in Media Award (AIME) Mark Nichter - [...]
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Today kicks off the 110th AAA Annual Meeting. Check out the session Montréalology today at 16:00-17:45 given by our Canadian hosts 16:00 – Introduction 16:15 – The Montréal School: 30 Years of Research On Urban Social Mix – Annick Germain (Institut national de la recherche scientifique - Urbanisation Culture Société) 16:30 – Montréal On the Move: Language Practices In a City [...]
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Anthropologists From All Over The World Get Together In Montreal
We’re pleased to share the this blog post from special AN reporter Guiseppe de Cesare (Concordia University). He shares some observations about the international nature of this year’s meeting. As an international student from Italy studying anthropology in Montréal, I found the AAA meeting an exciting opportunity to learn about the research that is being done by [...]
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