Tuesday, November 18

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

  • Anthropology and Environment Next Wave Workshop (offsite)

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

  • That Almost Finished Journal Article: A Writing Workshop Part A (Marriott Balcony M)

10:15 AM – 12:15 PM

  • Expanding Your Professional Network into a New Area of Work (Marriott Balcony K)
  • Teaching Active Responses to Racism in Troubled Times (Marriott Balcony I)

11:45 PM – 1:15 PM

  • How to Use Anthropological Training to Do More Impactful Public Policy Work (Sheraton Rhythms II 2nd floor)

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 (Sheraton Southdown 4th floor)

12:45 PM – 3:00 PM

  • AnthropologyCon Games Workshop: Games as Political Resistance (Marriott Regent)

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

  • That Almost Finished Journal Article: A Writing Workshop Part B (Marriott Balcony M)

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

  • How to Keep Doing DEI Work in the Current Political Climate? (Sheraton Rhythms II 2nd floor)

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

  • Exercises in Sensory Anthropology: Crafting Care Kits for In and Beyond The Classroom (Marriott Balcony J)
  • The Labor Movement for Ethnographers: Putting Anthropology to Work (Marriott Balcony I)

3:00 PM – 9:30 PM

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

  • Welcome Reception (Marriott Preservation Hall Foyer & Reg)

8:30 AM – 11:30 AM

  • A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Fundamentals of Storytelling for Anthropologists (Sheraton Waterbury 2nd floor)

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

  • Applying Anthropological Understandings of Culture to Improve New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives (Sheraton Grand Couteau 5th floor)

10:15 AM – 12:15 PM

  • Writing Anthropology in the Moment (Sheraton Grand Chenier 5th floor)

11:45 AM – 1:45 PM

  • Beyond ‘Retirement’: Strategies for Successful Transitions to Works after Work (Sheraton Poydras 5th floor)

12:45 PM – 2:45 PM

  • Teaching Intro to Cultural Anthropology (Sheraton Waterbury 2nd floor)

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

  • ‘Why Letters to the Editor Matter? : A Genre of Writing Our Democracy Needs Right Now’ (Marriott Napoleon 41st Floor)

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

  • Writing Beyond the Academy: How to Break into Trade Publishing (Sheraton Orpheus 8th floor)

2:30 PM – 5:30 PM

  • NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Augmenting Anthropological Research with AI: Hands-On Strategies for Ethical, Impactful Practice (Sheraton Grand Chenier 5th floor)

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

  • 2025 Opening Keynote by Jason DeLeon & Awards (Sheraton Grand Ballroom A-C 5th floor)

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

  • Spirited New Orleans: Making a Way in Congo Square

11:00 AM – 4:00 AM

  • National Association for the Practice of Anthropology/AAA Careers Expo (Marriott MGB Salon F/G)

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM

  • Hunting the Sensibles: Performing Anthropology Across Media, Parts A & B (Sheraton Grand Couteau 5th floor)

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

  • Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation (Sheraton Grand Chenier 5th floor)

10:15 AM – 12:15 PM

  • A NAPA Professional Development Workshop: How to Facilitate Workshops that Drive Innovation (Sheraton Waterbury 2nd floor)

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

  • Enacting NAGPRA’s Duty of Care: Challenges and Best Practices (Sheraton Grand Couteau 5th floor)
  • How to Search Like a Librarian: Systematic Search Skills for Professionals and Students (Sheraton Southdown 4th floor)
  • NAPA Professional Development Workshop: Fundamentals of AI (Marriott Riverview 1, 41st Floor)

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

  • FLASH ETHNOGRAPHY Workshop (Marriott Galvez)
  • Public Engagement for Anthropologists of Reproduction (Sheraton Grand Chenier 5th floor)

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM

  • From Submission to Publication: Advice for ECRs from AAA Editors (Sheraton Grand Couteau 5th floor)

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

  • Poster Session Happy Hour (Marriott Grand Ballroom)

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

  • Donors Reception (Sheraton Waterbury 2nd floor)

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

  • Morning Coffee Poster Sessions (Marriott Grand Ballroom)

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM

  • Poster Overflow Lunch Session (Marriott Grand Ballroom)

4:15 PM – 6:15 PM

  • Presidential Address & Awards (Sheraton Grand Ballroom A-C 5th floor)

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

  • Illustrata: A Night of Recognition & Awards (offsite)

Wednesday, November 18:

  • Absent Presence (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • The Bed Resignified; Sleeping Otherwise (Marriott 2nd floor)

Thursday, November 19:

  • Storytime for Anthropologists! (Sheraton Lobby Bar, 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CT)
  • A Cascade of Echoes (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • Anthropological Ancestry Crochet Tapestry (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Appearances: Ritualized spaces and Identity constructions (Sheraton 4th floor)
  • Breathing with Danger: The Body of a Fireworks Factory (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Ghosts of Environmental Futures: Environmental Changes and Community Voices on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Haunted Restitutions: Restless Ancestors and the Ghosts of Colonialism in Repatriation Policy (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Material Witness: DunDun, Displacement, and the Anthropology of Everyday Objects (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Missing Observer Studies Reading Room: the utopic imaginaries and voluntary associations of artist-run art book publishing (Sheraton 2nd floor)
  • Possession: The Exorcism of Modern Household Objects (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • Postal Incantations & other spells to ward off catastrophe (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Sites Despite Everything: affective geographies of trauma, remembering and forgetting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Marriott 3rd floor)
  • Spectral Remix Exhibition (offsite)
  • The Afterwords: Death and Rituals of Rest Worldwide (offsite)
  • The Last Supper Project Archive Installation (Sheraton 2nd floor)
  • What Remains: Braiding and Honoring Migration Dreams and Stories (Sheraton 3rd floor)

Friday, November 20:

  • Appearances: Ritualized spaces and Identity constructions (Sheraton 4th floor)
  • Ghosts of Environmental Futures: Environmental Changes and Community Voices on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Haunted Restitutions: Restless Ancestors and the Ghosts of Colonialism in Repatriation Policy (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Material Witness: DunDun, Displacement, and the Anthropology of Everyday Objects (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Missing Observer Studies Reading Room: the utopic imaginaries and voluntary associations of artist-run art book publishing (Sheraton 2nd floor)
  • Nobody Tells the Forest to Do Their Work: Climate Resiliance and Scientist-Animal Care in Urban and Amazonian Ecuador (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Possession: The Exorcism of Modern Household Objects (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • Postal Incantations & other spells to ward off catastrophe (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Sites Despite Everything: affective geographies of trauma, remembering and forgetting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Marriott 3rd floor)
  • Sonic Anthropology Radio – Ghosts in the Ether: A Hauntology (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • Spectral Remix Exhibition (offsite)
  • The Afterwords: Death and Rituals of Rest Worldwide (offsite)
  • Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Poetics of Culture (Sheraton 4th floor)
  • What Remains: Braiding and Honoring Migration Dreams and Stories (Sheraton 3rd floor)

Saturday, November 21:

  • A Tkaronto Rhapsody: A Multi-Medium Experience of Neurodivergent Students in a Neoliberal Age (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • Field Recordings: African American Burial Grounds in the River Parishes (offsite)
  • HAMPI: An ‘Arthropological’ Project by an Andean Artist-Scholar (Marriott 3rd floor)
  • Haunted by the Gaze: Fluid Identities and Spectral Encounters in Medellín’s Parque Lleras (Sheraton 4th floor)
  • Possession: The Exorcism of Modern Household Objects (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • Postal Incantations & other spells to ward off catastrophe (Sheraton 5th floor)
  • Sonic Anthropology Radio – Ghosts in the Ether: A Hauntology (Marriott 2nd floor)
  • Sound Portraits of Workers in the Hypermodern Era (Sheraton 2nd floor)
  • Spectral Remix Exhibition (offsite)
  • The Afterwords: Death and Rituals of Rest Worldwide (offsite)
  • Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Poetics of Culture (Sheraton 4th floor)
  • What Remains: Braiding and Honoring Migration Dreams and Stories (Sheraton 3rd floor)
  • Dreams as Media (Marriott)
  • The Spectral Landscape of the Womb: A Multimedia Art Installation (Marriott)
  • Spectral Encounters in the Dark: Multimodal Interventions in Anthropology (Marriott)

Sunday, November 22:

  • HAMPI: An ‘Arthropological’ Project by an Andean Artist-Scholar (Marriott 3rd floor)
  • Spectral Remix Exhibition (offsite)
  • The Afterwords: Death and Rituals of Rest Worldwide (offsite)
  • Diagramming Worlds: A digital projection installation (Marriott)
  • Ghosts in the Frame: Tracing a Great-Grandfather Through Family Archives (Marriott)
  • Living Ghosts of Junkyard Play: A Reconfigurable Installation of Projection, Scrap, and Marked-Up Memory (Marriott)