Noteworthy Sessions
While all of the sessions at this year’s Annual Meeting will offer valuable insights and innovative perspectives that are crucial for staying ahead in the field, we’re excited to highlight a selection of sessions that promise to be of particular interest. We encourage you to mark these sessions on your agenda and make the most of the opportunity to engage with these leading experts and the topics discussed.
3928 Water in Praxis: Varied Perspectives on the Hydrosocial Cycle
11/20/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC 117
Late-Breaking Oral Presentation Session – In Person
3975 “I’m Existing:” Teachers of Color Affinity Group Support during the Gaza Genocide
11/20/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC 120
Late-Breaking Oral Presentation Session – In Person
3926 Unraveling the Strands: Exploring the roots of Race, Identity and Hair in Brazil’s Eurocentric Knot
11/20/2024 12:45:00 PM – 2:15:00 PM
Marriott WS Florida Salon V
Late-Breaking Interview – In Person
3976 The 2024 Presidential Election and the Uses of Haiti
11/20/2024 12:45:00 PM – 2:15:00 PM
TCC 120
Late-Breaking Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3923 Artful Intelligence, Transdisciplinary Curiosity, and the Beautiful Future: A Conversation with Artist Rita Leduc and Ecologist Rich Blundell
11/20/2024 4:15:00 PM – 5:45:00 PM
Virtual VR 1
Late-Breaking Interview – Virtual Live
3960 DEI Discontinued: Anthropological Praxis in Changing Academic and Legal Landscapes
11/21/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC 121
Late-Breaking Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3931 The Truth about Florida’s Black History: A Conversation with Marvin Dunn
11/21/2024 2:30:00 PM – 4:00:00 PM
TCC 121
Late-Breaking Conversation/Debate – In-Person
3929 177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as Sex Researcher
11/21/2024 6:00:00 PM – 7:30:00 PM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
3959 504-907: Visualizing Cultural Identity and Environmental Change Through Diptychs in Southern Louisiana and Interior Alaska
11/21/2024 6:00:00 PM – 7:30:00 PM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
3941 Festivals and Family Networks: Puerto Rican Culture in California’s Communities
11/21/2024 6:00:00 PM – 7:30:00 PM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
4062 Sacral Symbolism and Normalization in Select Evangelical Discourse After Trump Assassination Attempts
11/21/2024 6:00:00 PM – 7:30:00 PM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
3919 Venezuelan migration to Lima, Peru: Challenges of employment integration for immigrants in the capital
11/21/2024 6:00:00 PM – 7:30:00 PM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
4032 Mental Health Matters: Empowering Bangladeshi University Students for Academic Excellence
11/22/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
Virtual VR 2
Late-Breaking Conversation/Debate – Virtual Live
3954 Parenting in the neoliberal age an ethnographic exploration of Palestinian families
11/22/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
Virtual VR 1
Late-Breaking Conversation/Debate – Virtual Live
4052 Are we providers of ethnographic data?: Some thoughts on the migration stories of the Mardinitie Assyrians
11/22/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
3936 Navigating the Informal Economy: State Regulation and the Resilience of Taxi Transport Workers in Urban Cameroon.
11/22/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
3905 Portfolio Review AHRQ Funded Grants from 2013-2023
11/22/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
3899 Un viaje interminable: Entrelazando raíces de las trayectorias de mujeres y niñas migrantes nahuas, purépechas y totonacas en el Edo. de México, Méx.
11/22/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC West Hall
Late-Breaking Poster – In Person
4001 Shaping Anthropological Praxis: AI, Pedagogy, and Insights from Scholars, Practitioners, and New Voices
11/22/2024 10:15:00 AM – 11:45:00 AM
TCC 117
Late-Breaking Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
4050 Numeric Attachments: On being counted, numbers of importance, and not counting at all
11/22/2024 2:30:00 PM – 4:00:00 PM
TCC 118
Late-Breaking Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
4019 Exploring Health and Truth: Project 2025, Disinformation, and the Struggle for Epistemic Justice
11/22/2024 4:15:00 PM – 5:45:00 PM
TCC 117
Late-Breaking Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3896 The ‘Migration Crisis’ in Bhutan: Who is in Crisis and Why?
11/23/2024 8:30:00 AM – 10:00:00 AM
TCC 117
Late-Breaking Conversation/Debate – In-Person
4059 ‘Black Robes, White Justice’: How Necropolitics, Systemic Racism, and the Denial of Black Humanity killed Marcellus Williams
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4053 ‘I am the informal support system’: Facilitating abortion care in post-Dobbs Wisconsin
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4072 An Examination of the Forbidden Fruit: Religion, Social Norms, and Power
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3907 Anthropological Body Redux: Ozempic and Cultural Prescribing in the 21st Century
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4024 Beyond DEI: Intentionality and the Power of Belonging
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3971 Conservative Religion and Project 2025: An American Agenda for Christofascism
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3942 Festivals and Family Networks: Celebrating Puerto Rican Culture in California’s Communities
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3930 In What World Can a Glacier be President?
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4070 La Matriz: Postpartum Mexican Traditional Medicine
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4069 Making of More and More Refugees: What it means for the refugees and a developing host country
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3943 Micro-unification in the shadow of nuclear war: North Korean escapee youth and South Korean resettlement schooling
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4071 Notes from My Job: A Funding and Praxis Dialectic
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4002 Palestinian caregivers navigating cross-border healthcare in Israel and the West Bank.
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4047 Political Ineptitude and Climate Change Driven Multispecies Conflict in Iceland
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3922 Resistance Feels Futile: When Service Workers Get AI Assistants
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4073 Revolutionary Love and the Work of Spiritual Home-Making: A Glimpse of a Brooklyn Summer
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3911 Rhythmic music as admonitory of group conflict in male dominant societies and as a reflection of drought, famine, displacement, and bovine dependence
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
4018 The problem of race-shifting in the Australian context
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3944 Those Who See Clearly in the Fog of War: What Happened in the West Bank Settlements Since the Start of the October 7 War
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3932 U.S. Neo-colonial Culture Wars in Kenya: furthering intersectional oppression for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3946 Worlding the Living Forest: Interculturality as Indigenous Praxis for Ecological Futurity
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
3955 ´The Warmest Days on Record
On Demand Library
Late-Breaking Talk – Virtual Pre-recorded
2594 Friendship as Praxis in Anthropology and Beyond
11/20/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
TCC 115
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
1543 Multimodality and Making Space for Play
11/20/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
TCC 103
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3078 Praxis, Pedagogy, and Popular Culture: The Case for Making Anthropology “Fun”
11/20/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
TCC 107-108
Oral Presentation Session
1077 Osteology without Bones – Radical Shifts in Ethos, Training and Research in Bioarchaeology
11/21/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM and 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC Ballroom C
Executive Oral Presentation Session – In-Person
2826 20 Years of Modern Blackness: Paradigms, praxis and potentialities
11/21/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC Ballroom D
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
1693 The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook: Making Ethnographic Art and Artful Ethnography as Praxis
11/22/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC 109
Oral Presentation Session
1063 The Future of Praxis Anthropology: Learning from the Legacy of Kathryn A. Kozaitis
11/20/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC Ballroom B
Executive Oral Presentation Session – In-Person
2042 Ethics and Risk in Anthropological Praxis: Navigating Socio-Political Landscapes
11/20/2024 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC 117
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3599 IAnthropologist: The Future of Praxis and AI in Anthropology
11/22/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC 114
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
2947 Ethnography and its Afterlives
11/22/2024 12:45 PM-2:15 PM
TCC 120
Conversation/Debate – In-Person
2914 The Praxis of Mutual Aid
11/23/2024 02:30 PM-04:00 PM
Marriott WS Room 1
Oral Presentation Session
Flash Presentation Session
11/20/2024 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
Marriott WS Grand Salon A-B
Flash Presentation – In-person Live
- Material and Sensuous Nostalgia: An Ethnographic Photo-Essay for Gainesville, FL
- Miami Carnival and Gendered Respectability
- Migrant Youth in Florida: Imagined Futures and Affective Experiences
- Performing Motherhood: Conscious Parenting as a Latina mother in Florida
- Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Pedagogy and Praxis in Florida
1072 Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming her Space in Anthropology
11/20/2024 04:15 PM-05:45 PM
TCC Ballroom B
Executive Oral Presentation Session – In-Person
1635 Zora Neale Hurston’s Praxis in the University of Florida Classroom
11/21/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
Marriott WS Room 2
Oral Presentation Session
2062 Reproductive Politics and Praxis in the Sunshine State
11/21/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
TCC 107-108
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
1194 Creating Knowledge and Embracing Praxis: Florida Anthropologists on Moving Forward in the Sunshine State
11/21/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM and 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC Ballroom B
Executive Roundtable/Townhall – In-Person
2144 “Florida, can I use you up?”: Lessons from Historical Ecology for the Future of a Precarious Peninsula
11/21/2024 02:30 PM-04:00 PM
Marriott WS Florida Salon I-III
Oral Presentation Session
1325 Regional Praxis: Notes from Florida Activists and Advocates
11/22/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC Ballroom B
Executive Roundtable/Townhall – In-Person
1716 Transforming Archaeology in Florida
11/22/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Marriott WS Florida Salon V
Oral Presentation Session
1993 University of South Florida Tradition of Praxis: Recognizing Black Alumni Contributions from the First Applied Anthropology Grad Program in the USA
11/22/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC 103
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
2509 Anthropology and Education in Florida: A Student Research Panel
11/22/2024 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC 109
Oral Presentation Session
2075 Anthropology and Telling True Stories: a roundtable discussion celebrating the work of Maria Vesperi
11/22/2024 02:30 PM-04:00 PM
TCC Ballroom D
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
2539 When, where, & how to publish: The frontiers & limits of publishing as a graduate student (& beyond)
11/21/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
TCC 120
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3119 Developing the Field: Building Anthropology through Editorship
11/20/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
Virtual VR 2
Roundtable/Town Hall – Virtual Live
1363 Cultivating Anthropological Lenses in the University
11/21/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Marriott WS Room 5
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3435 The Authoritarian University
11/21/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM and 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC 119
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
1177 Building a Praxis of Care in Anthropology: What’s Being Done, What Needs to Be Done for Caregivers in the Academy
11/22/2024 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC Ballroom B
Executive Roundtable/Townhall – In-Person
1306 Anthropology, DEI Administration and the Public University after 2020
11/23/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC Ballroom B
Executive Roundtable/Townhall – In-Person
2584 Surviving the Corporate University: A Project of the AAA’s Anthropology Advocacy Council
11/23/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC 111
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
3159 Rethinking Decolonization in Anthropology: A Project of the AAA’s Anthropology Advocacy Council
11/20/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM and 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
Marriott WS Florida Salon I-III
Oral Presentation Session
2508 Practicing Anthropology in an Anti-Woke Climate: A Conversation with Teacher-Scholar-Activists
11/20/2024 02:30 PM-04:00 PM
TCC 105-106
Conversation/Debate – In-Person
1943 Repatriation as Decolonial Praxis for Social Justice: A Report from Japan (note: this is TCETHR)
11/20/2024 02:30 PM-04:00 PM
TCC 118
Oral Presentation Session
1862 The Girl in Me! Searching the Reality of my Gender Positionality, Identity and Performance
11/21/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM
Marriott WS Room 4
Flash Presentation – In-person Live
1895 Research, Praxis, and Solidarity with 2SLGBTQ+ Young People in Turbulent Times
11/21/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Virtual VR 3
Roundtable/Town Hall – Virtual Live
1192 New Ethics for Anthropology: A Four-Field Conversation
11/22/2024 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
TCC Ballroom C
Executive Roundtable/Townhall – In-Person
1595 Confronting the Legacy: A Roundtable Confrontation of Race Science in Contemporary Biological Anthropology
11/22/2024 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC Ballroom C
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
1507 Critical Perspectives on Gaza from the Journal for the Anthropology of North America
11/22/2024 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC Ballroom D
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
1117 Disrupting the Laboratory: Black Feminist Lab Making and Praxis
11/22/2024 02:30 PM-04:00 PM
TCC Ballroom B
Executive Roundtable/Townhall – In-Person
3340 Queer Sexual Health in Theory and in Practice
11/23/2024 12:45 PM-02:15 PM
TCC 101-102
Oral Presentation Session
