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A San Francisco Treat

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Throughout the month of October, we’ll be giving readers gear for the Annual Meeting. Each day will be a different trivia question, so check back in daily for your chance to win. To answer the trivia question, you will need to leave your answer as a comment here on this blog. All the comments will be held for moderation until the end of the day. A commenter to answer the question correctly will be chosen at random to win an item of Annual Meeting gear. There will be one prize-winner each day. Once you win, you will be ineligible to win again during this blog series.

Today’s trivia question:

On Friday at 6:15pm, a session entitled Engendering the Field: An Anthropological Story of Contingency will be given by the AAA Distinguished Lecturer. Name the lecturer.

The AAA Annual Meeting will be held this year in San Francisco from November 14-18. If you have not done so already, be sure to register for the meeting and workshops, and book your hotel.

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A San Francisco Treat

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Photo courtesy of El Frito

Throughout the month of October, we’ll be giving readers gear for the Annual Meeting. Each day will be a different trivia question, so check back in daily for your chance to win. To answer the trivia question, you will need to leave your answer as a comment here on this blog. All the comments will be held for moderation until the end of the day. The first person to answer the question correctly will win an item of Annual Meeting gear. There will be one prize-winner each day. Once you win, you will be ineligible to win again during this blog series.

Today’s trivia question:

How many sections are within AAA?

The AAA Annual Meeting will be held this year in San Francisco from November 14-18. If you have not done so already, be sure to register for the meeting and workshops, and book your hotel.

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A San Francisco Treat

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Joslyn O.

A San Francisco Treat continues into its second day.

Throughout the month of October, we’ll be giving readers gear for the Annual Meeting. Each day will be a different trivia question, so check back in daily for your chance to win. To answer the trivia question, you will need to leave your answer as a comment here on this blog. The first person to answer the question correctly will win an item of Annual Meeting gear. There will be one prize-winner each day. Once you win, you will be ineligible to win again during this blog series.

The AAA Annual Meeting will be held this year in San Francisco from November 14-18. If you have not done so already, be sure to register for the meeting and workshops, and book your hotel.

Today’s trivia question:

Anthropology News launched its first online edition this past summer with the theme of the Olympics. What is the URL where readers could catch up on this and the latest news in anthropology?

Did you miss yesterday’s question? Click here to view it.

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A San Francisco Treat

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Today marks the first in a series entitled A San Francisco Treat. Throughout the month of October, we’ll be giving readers gear for the Annual Meeting. Each day will be a different trivia question, so check back in daily for your chance to win. To answer the trivia question, you will need to leave your answer as a comment here on this blog. The first person to answer the question correctly will win an item of Annual Meeting gear. There will be one prize-winner each day. Once you win, you will be ineligible to win again during this blog series.

The AAA Annual Meeting will be held this year in San Francisco from November 14-18. If you have not done so already, be sure to register for the meeting and workshops, and book your hotel.

Today’s trivia question:

AAA hosts an Annual Meeting each year. This year, the Annual Meeting in San Francisco will be which number?

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A San Francisco Treat for You!

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Joslyn O.

  The 111th AAA Annual Meeting is quickly upon us. It will be held in San Francisco this year from November 14-18. To get our online community ready for the meeting we’ll be giving away Annual Meeting gear throughout the month of October.

If you haven’t done so already, register now for the meeting and the workshops you’d like to attend. Also be sure the book your hotel today – rooms are selling out quickly.

Check back in on the AAA blog on Monday for your change to win Annual Meeting gear! Until then, enjoy the weekend.

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Which #AAA2012 Workshops Will You Be Attending?

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Joslyn O.

  Are you registered to attend the 111th Annual Meeting yet? Booked your hotel? What about submitting your registration for workshops? There are several workshops offered each day during the Annual Meeting. Attendee space is limited, so be sure to register early!

Go to the Workshop page for abstracts,complete details and to register.  Here is a preview:

Thursday, November 15, 2012

  • Text Analysis: Systematic Methods for Analyzing Qualitative Data
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction to GIS As Method and Application In Anthropological Research
  • Getting An Article Published In a Peer-Reviewed Journal
  • NAPA Workshop On Project Management
  • NAPA Workshop On Ethnographic FIELD Schools: HOW They Work and Why They ARE A MUST for Anthropologists and Students
  • NAPA Workshop On issues In International Consulting
  • NAPA-NASA Student Workshop: Funding, Fellowships, Transferring, and Admissions
  • NAPA Workshop On Rapid Research In Public SettingsSponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
  • NAPA Workshop On Pattern Recognition In Evolution and In Ethnographic Analytics
  • SAE Mentoring Workshop: Practicing Anthropology

Friday, November 16, 2012

  • NAPA Workshop On Heritage Tourism: Theory and Praxis
  • How to Write A Grant Proposal: An Introduction to Grants and Programs At the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation Session
  • NAPA Workshop On “First Impressions for a Lasting Impact: Using Elevator Speeches and Strategic Network Ties to Strengthen Your Networking Success”
  • Using Social Media As A Tool for Ethnographic Researchers
  • Rethinking Context and Theory In Ethnographic Research Design
  • NAPA Workshop On Marketing Oneself As An Anthropologist In a Variety of Interdisciplinary Settings
  • Workshop On Teaching Gender and Sexuality: Pedagogy At the Intersections
  • How to Find an Academic Job
  • SHA Poetry Workshop

Saturday, November 17, 2012

  • Photography for the Field – Part 1: Camera and Photography Basics
  • Introduction to Social Network Analysis
  • NAPA Workshop On Developing An Anthropological Career for a Lifetime
  • Anthropology Graduates: From Student to Career
  • Photography for the Field – Part 2: I’ve Taken the picture…now What?
  • Dissolving Boundaries of Power Through Community-Based Research: Photovoice Methodology As a Tool for Social Action
  • SAE ROUNDTABLES:
  1.     Roundtable Discussion On Writing and Luncheon
  2.     Roundtable Discussion On Multiculturalism and Luncheon
  3.     Roundtable Discussion On Language and Superdiversity and Luncheon
  4.     Roundtable Discussion On the European Economic Crisis and Luncheon
  5.     Roundtable Discussion On Race, Religion, Secularism and Luncheon
  6.     Roundtable Discussion On Borders, Materiality and Signification and Luncheon
  •  Writing Ethnography
  • Benign Guile: An Introduction to Final Cut Pro Ethnographic Film Editing (Macintosh laptops only)
  • Crafting Narrative Ethnography
  • Student Publishing Workshop

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SUNTA Undergraduate Paper Prize, Submissions Due September 15th, 2012

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology is pleased to announce its undergraduate paper prize competition. We are seeking nominations — by faculty — of student papers that address SUNTA’s interests, including refugees and immigrants, space and place, and poverty and homelessness. The prize includes a $150 award. The winner will be announced at the 2012 AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.

Papers should be submitted by email to Alaka Wali at  awali@fieldmuseum.org by September 15th, 2012.

Alternative submission arrangements can be made through contacting Alaka Wali at the email above. Authors who are undergraduates or who have graduated within the 2012 calendar year are eligible for the competition, as long as the submission was composed while s/he was an undergraduate. Although submissions will be accepted from faculty only (students may not submit papers on their own), faculty need not write in support: a nomination is sufficient — letters of recommendation/justification are welcome but not required. International entries are encouraged. SUNTA membership is not required.

Papers should be no more than 30 double-spaced pages, 12-point font, including bibliography, notes and images/figures.  Papers should be single-author,  not co-authored.  The paper’s formatting (e.g., citations, bibliographies etc.) should be consistent throughout. Send queries to Alaka Wali, awali@fieldmuseum.org.

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Executive Session Proposal Deadline Extended.

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Executive Session proposals will be accepted through 5pm EDT on Friday, February 3, 2012.

This year the AAA created a new online portal for executive session proposals.  For the first time, with few exceptions organizers and panelists must register for the meetings in order for the session to be considered.  We also are strongly encouraging, but not requiring, individual paper abstracts to be submitted and not just the names of panelists.  We have received emails from organizers who have expressed concerns about both of these changes.

With respect to early registration, if a panelist needs to delay his or her registration, the organizer may contact the executive program chair (2012aaaprogramchair@gmail.com).  Also, please be aware that the AAA has always had a policy of reimbursing registration fees if a panelist cannot attend because his or her panel was not chosen.

With respect to paper abstracts, more information about the session simply helps the executive program committee make a more informed decision.  Given that these changes were a surprise for a few session organizers, we are extending the deadline for panel abstracts until February 3, 2012.

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President Dominguez To Give AAA Presidential Address Tonight

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Joslyn O.

 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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Discussing New Reproductive Technologies at Annual Meeting

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Amy

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 sheep as both serve to lessen anxiety, the first two days of the AAA conference have offered a plethora of insights into the domain of “New Reproductive Technologies” (NRTs) or “Assisted Reproductive Technologies” (ARTs).

The papers I have thus far had the privilege of listening to cover widely divergent branches of the emergent field of technological assistance in the domain of human reproduction, as my summaries above show. However, in this blog post I would like to highlight some themes I have found to be particularly poignant.

Connections between morality and legality thread their way through discussions of NRTs.  When questions of surrogacy are addressed, the moral dichotomies portrayed in popular media coverage “good” (altruistic) and “bad” (commercial) are reflected in legal determinations of what kinds of surrogacy are legal and illegal. The depiction of NRTs as purely medical interventions solving medical problems by medical practitioners is brought into question when the social, religious and legal considerations of the technologies are evaluated.  Individual desires shape the use of NRTs, often contrary to the intentions of the policy makers regulating their usage.  Additionally, reflections on the notions of what the purpose of recording information is for in assisted reproduction, whether that be in decisions over anonymity, or the number of embryos currently being used for stem cell research, have been analytically stimulating. 

Reproductive technology, is very far from being a utilitarian tool. Rather it is shaped by the social, moral, ethical, religious and legal mores and norms of the people using it, those reflecting on its usage and those determining how others can use it.

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