For instructions on adding tours, workshops, or other events to your existing registration visit our FAQs page. Workshop descriptions can be found in the registration portal. Please Note: All times are Central Time
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
- Anthropology and Environment Next Wave Workshop
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- That Almost Finished Journal Article: A Writing Workshop Part A
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
- Expanding Your Professional Network into a New Area of Work
- Teaching Active Responses to Racism in Troubled Times
11:45 PM – 1:15 PM
- How to Use Anthropological Training to Do More Impactful Public Policy Work
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology: Cultivating Transparency and Reciprocity across Transnational Professional Contexts- Offsite
12:45 PM – 2:45 PM
- Beyond the hauntings of the drug overdose crisis
12:45 PM – 3:00 PM
- AnthropologyCon Games Workshop: Games as Political Resistance
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
- That Almost Finished Journal Article: A Writing Workshop Part B
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
- How to Keep Doing DEI Work in the Current Political Climate?
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
- Exercises in Sensory Anthropology: Crafting Care Kits for In and Beyond The Classroom
- The Labor Movement for Ethnographers: Putting Anthropology to Work
3:00 PM – 9:30 PM
- Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
- Welcome Reception
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
- A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Fundamentals of Storytelling for Anthropologists
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
- Applying Anthropological Understandings of Culture to Improve New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
- Writing Anthropology in the Moment
11:45 AM – 1:45 PM
- Beyond ‘Retirement’: Strategies for Successful Transitions to Works after Work.
12:45 PM – 2:45 PM
- Teaching Intro to Cultural Anthropology
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
- ‘Why Letters to the Editor Matter? : A Genre of Writing Our Democracy Needs Right Now’
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
- Writing Beyond the Academy: How to Break into Trade Publishing
2:30 PM – 5:30 PM
- NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Augmenting Anthropological Research with AI: Hands-On Strategies for Ethical, Impactful Practice
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- 2025 Opening Keynote by Jason DeLeon & Awards
11:00 AM – 4:00 AM
- National Association for the Practice of Anthropology/AAA Careers Expo
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
- Hunting the Sensibles: Performing Anthropology Across Media (Part A & B)
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
- Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
- A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: How to Facilitate Workshops that Drive Innovation
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
- Enacting NAGPRA’s Duty of Care: Challenges and Best Practices
- How to Search Like a Librarian: Systematic Search Skills for Professionals and Students
- NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Fundamentals of AI
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
- FLASH ETHNOGRAPHY Workshop
- Public Engagement for Anthropologists of Reproduction
4:15 PM – 5:45 PM
- From Submission to Publication: Advice for ECRs from AAA Editors
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
- Poster Session Happy Hour
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Donors Reception
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
- Morning Coffee Poster Sessions
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
- Poster Overflow Lunch Session
4:15 PM – 6:15 PM
- Presidential Address & Awards
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Illustrata: A Night of Recognition & Awards
