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.

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