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Thursday, Nov 21
8:00 am

(3-0225) The Lifespan of Ethnographic Reports: The Importance of Revisits (Part 1)

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 112
James Tim M. Wallace, III – North Carolina State University; James Tim M. Wallace, III – North Carolina State University; Moshe Shokeid – Tel Aviv University; Stanley Brandes – UCB; Mark S. Mosko – Australian National University; Mary E. Hegland – Santa Clara University; Maria G. Cattell – Field Museum of Natural History; Myrdene Anderson – Purdue University
Thursday, Nov 21
10:15 am

(3-0565) The Lifespan of Ethnographic Reports: The Importance of Revisits (Part 2)

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 112
James Tim M. Wallace, III – North Carolina State University; James Tim M. Wallace, III – North Carolina State University; Frederick (Fred) H. Damon – University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology; R. Thomas Rosin – Sonoma State University; Erika Loeffler Friedl – Western Michigan University; John B. Page – University of Miami; Sharon B. Gmelch – University of San Francisco; H Russell Bernard – Arizona State University; James Tim M. Wallace, III – North Carolina State University
Thursday, Nov 21
4:15 pm

(3-1255) The Changing Identities of "America": Emerging Renditions of Selves and Others from Colonies to the Present

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 114
Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez – Arizona State University; Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez – Arizona State University; Falina Enriquez – University of Wisconsin-Madison; Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez – Arizona State University; Falina Enriquez – University of Wisconsin-Madison; Rosalyn Negrón – University of Massachusetts - Boston; Margaret E. Dorsey – University of Richmond; Miguel Díaz Barriga
Friday, Nov 22
8:00 am

(4-0035) Consuming Fashion, Fashioning Consumption: Aestheticizing Andean Culture and Experience

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 115
Julio Villa-Palomino – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Florence E. Babb – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Florence E. Babb – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Julio Villa-Palomino – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Florence E. Babb – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Patricia Alvarez Astacio – Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology; Luz de Los Ángeles Sanchez Perez – Universidad del pacifico; Annelou Ypeij – University of Amsterdam; Maria Cristina Alcalde – University of Kentucky; Amy Cox Hall – Amherst College; Maria Elena Garcia – University of Washington
Friday, Nov 22
8:00 am

(4-0105) Left, Right, and the Tumultuous Politics of Scale

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 202
Ida S. Susser – CUNY - Hunter College; Donald Nonini – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ida S. Susser – CUNY - Hunter College; Ida S. Susser – CUNY - Hunter College; Patrick Neveling – University of Bergen, Department of Social Anthropology; Donald Nonini – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ruchi Chaturvedi – University of Cape Town; Alicia Reigada – University of Seville, Spain; Don Kalb – University of Bergen, Department of Social Anthropology
Friday, Nov 22
10:15 am

(4-0370) Culture@Large featuring Christina Sharpe

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 122
Mayanthi L. Fernando – University of California, Santa Cruz; Mayanthi L. Fernando – University of California, Santa Cruz; Christina Sharpe – York University; Aimee M. Cox – Yale University; Audra Simpson – Columbia University; Adia Benton – Northwestern University; Mayanthi L. Fernando – University of California, Santa Cruz
Friday, Nov 22
10:15 am

(4-0380) Doctors and the State: Political Climates of Medicine in the Middle East and Beyond

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 115
Salih Can Aciksoz – University of California, Los Angeles; Guy Shalev – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Salih Can Aciksoz – University of California, Los Angeles; Salih Can Aciksoz – University of California, Los Angeles; Guy Shalev – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Basak Can – Koc University; Omar Al-Dewachi – Rutgers University; Erica Caple James – Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sa'ed A. Atshan – Swarthmore College
Friday, Nov 22
10:15 am

(4-0440) Learning Race, Contesting Racism: Afro-descendant Youth and Racial Politics in Latin America

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 118
Alysa Maria Handelsman – Wofford College, Sociology & Anthropology Department; Eryn S. Berger – Temple University; Alysa Maria Handelsman – Wofford College, Sociology & Anthropology Department; Eryn S. Berger – Temple University; Alysa Maria Handelsman – Wofford College, Sociology & Anthropology Department; Tarsha Herelle; Lauren Williams – College for Creative Studies; Carolina Meneses; Eryn S. Berger – Temple University; Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Friday, Nov 22
10:15 am

(4-0480) Seeking Truth Amongst the Powerful: Ethical and Legal Issues of “Studying Up”

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 120
Sarah Appelhans – SUNY Albany; Sarah Appelhans – SUNY Albany; Chad Morris; Kerry B. Fosher – Marine Corps University - CAOCL; Alejandro Ceron – University of Denver; Daniel S. Souleles – Copenhagen Business School; Tejaswini Ganti – New York University; Katherine Martineau – Binghamton University; James J. A Blair – Cal Poly Pomona; William Michael Cotter, II – University of Arizona
Friday, Nov 22
10:15 am

(4-0515) The Anthropology of Transformational Events

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 121
Eric J. Haanstad – University of Notre Dame; Graham St. John – University of Fribourg; Eric J. Haanstad – University of Notre Dame; Graham St. John – University of Fribourg; Christopher Ball – University of Notre Dame; Lee Gilmore – San José State University; Alice O'Grady – University of Leeds; Sarah Pike – California State University, Chico; Emily Jane deWet – University of Notre Dame; Ian Rowen – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Friday, Nov 22
2:00 pm

(4-0865) Faithful Geographies: Islam, Power, and Spaces of Social Change (Part 1)

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 116
Souad Eddouada; Alisa Perkins – Western Michigan University; Carol Silverman – University of Oregon; Souad Eddouada; Kholoud Al Ajarma – University of Groningen; Carol Silverman – University of Oregon; Tatiana Rabinovich – North Carolina State University; Alisa Perkins – Western Michigan University; Jeanette S. Jouili – University of Pittsburgh
Friday, Nov 22
2:00 pm

(4-0950) Poetic Economies and Language Revitalization: New Approaches Inspired by Alexandra (Misty) Jaffe

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 110
Sabina M. Perrino – SUNY - Binghamton University, Department of Anthropology; Jillian R. Cavanaugh – Brooklyn College, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology; Sabina M. Perrino – SUNY - Binghamton University, Department of Anthropology; Jillian R. Cavanaugh – Brooklyn College, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology; Jillian R. Cavanaugh – Brooklyn College, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology; Barbra A. Meek – University of Michigan Ann Arbor; Thea R. Strand – Loyola University Chicago; Barbara LeMaster – California State University Long Beach; Mariapaola Gritti – CUNY, Graduate Center; Kathryn A. Woolard – University of California, San Diego
Friday, Nov 22
2:00 pm

(4-0960) Reconceptualizing Urban Policy Mobilities: a dialogue with critical geography

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 111
John Clarke – The Open University, UK; Paul Stubbs – The Institute of Economics, Zagreb; Paul Stubbs – The Institute of Economics, Zagreb; John Clarke – The Open University, UK; Jamie Peck – UBC; Eugene McCann – Simon Fraser University; Cansu Civelek – University of Vienna; Noemi N. Lendvai – University of Bristol
Friday, Nov 22
2:00 pm

(4-0985) SHIFTING LANDSCAPES, CHANGE OF SCENERY: SPACE, PLACE, AND STRUGGLE IN NARRATIVES OF MOBILITY

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 114
Helena Wulff – Stockholm University; Deborah Reed-Danahay – University at Buffalo; Helena Wulff – Stockholm University; Noel B. Salazar – University of Leuven; Vered Amit – Concordia University, Department of Sociology & Anthropology; Ayse Caglar – University of Vienna; Helena Wulff – Stockholm University; Deborah Reed-Danahay – University at Buffalo; Simon M. Coleman – University of Toronto
Friday, Nov 22
4:15 pm

(4-1105) Bringing Performance Ethnography back to Anthropology

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 120
Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston – York University; Cassandra Hartblay – University of Toronto Scarborough; Cristiana Giordano – University of California. Davis; Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston – York University; Cassandra Hartblay – University of Toronto Scarborough; Mark Auslander – Michigan State University, Department of Anthropology; Ellen Schattschneider – Brandeis University; Virginie Magnat – University of British Columbia; AJ Jones – Emory University; Rajat Nayyar – York University
Friday, Nov 22
4:15 pm

(4-1140) Contemporary Urban Practices in the Arab World

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 117
Najib B. Hourani – Michigan State University; Tessa R. Farmer – University of Virginia; Gokce Gunel – Rice University, Department of Anthropology; Najib B. Hourani – Michigan State University; Tessa R. Farmer – University of Virginia; Andrew M. Gardner – University of Puget Sound, Department of Sociology & Anthropology; Aseel Sawalha – Fordham University; Joanne R. Nucho – Pomona College; Mara A. Leichtman – Michigan State University, Department of Anthropology; Sophia C. Stamatopoulou-Robbins – Bard College; Fida J. Adely – Georgetown University
Friday, Nov 22
4:15 pm

(4-1160) Engaging Students: Teaching Strategies for Faculty

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 111
Karen Muir – Columbus State Community College; Karen Muir – Columbus State Community College; Lara Lloyd – Mesa Community College; Tori M. Saneda – Cascadia College; Heather T. Battles – University of Auckland; David J. Davies – Hamline University; Jennifer Schlegel – Kutztown University; Elizabeth Hoag – Cleveland Institute of Art
Friday, Nov 22
4:15 pm

(4-1180) Faithful Geographies: Religion, Power, and Social Change (Part 2)

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 116
Meredith McLaughlin – Yale University; Meredith McLaughlin – Yale University; Meredith McLaughlin – Yale University; Alisa Perkins – Western Michigan University; Rachel Heiman – The New School; George Wu Bayuga – Yale University; Alia O'Brien – University of Toronto; Saliha Chattoo
Saturday, Nov 23
8:00 am

(5-0055) Class Acts: Migration and Social Mobility in Africa and its Diasporas

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 114
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg – Carleton College; Cati Coe – Rutgers University, Camden; Julia Pauli – University of Hamburg, Germany; Cati Coe – Rutgers University, Camden; Yolanda D. Covington-Ward – University of Pittsburgh; Chelsie Yount-Andre – University of Montpellier, France; Abdoulaye Kane – University of Florida; Lena Luise Kroeker – Bayreuth University; Julia Pauli – University of Hamburg, Germany
Saturday, Nov 23
8:00 am

(5-0165) Intergenerational Ethnography: Un/Making Kin in Climates of Change

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 203
Janelle Lamoreaux – University of Arizona; Sahra E. Gibbon – University College London, Department of Anthropology; Janelle Lamoreaux – University of Arizona; Sahra E. Gibbon – University College London, Department of Anthropology; Michelle Pentecost – Kings College London; Martine Lappe – California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Stephanie Lloyd – Laval University; Janelle Lamoreaux – University of Arizona; Amber Benezra – Stevens Institute of Technology; Sahra E. Gibbon – University College London, Department of Anthropology
Saturday, Nov 23
10:15 am

(5-0320) Anthropological Approaches to Policy: taking stock and looking forward

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 120
Carol A. MacLennan – Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences; Paul Stubbs – The Institute of Economics, Zagreb; Carol A. MacLennan – Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences; Cris Shore – Goldsmiths, University of London; Janine R. Wedel – George Mason University; Theodore Powers – University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology; Cansu Civelek – University of Vienna; Jamie Peck – UBC; Susan A. Wright – Aarhus University
Saturday, Nov 23
10:15 am

(5-0415) Food Systems in Flux: Societal responses and climate change in the past

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 115
Guy Duke; Sarah Walshaw – Simon Fraser University; Guy Duke; Sarah Walshaw – Simon Fraser University; Dana Lepofsky – Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology; Andrea M. Cuellar – University of Lethbridge; Abigail Bythell – University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sarah Walshaw – Simon Fraser University; Dana Nicole Bardolph – Northern Illinois University, Department of Anthropology; Marcie L. Venter – Murray State University; Justin M. Reamer – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology; Amanda Logan – Northwestern University
Saturday, Nov 23
10:15 am

(5-0420) Forecasting Futures: Education as Speculative Practice

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 119
Amelia Simone Herbert – Columbia University, Teachers College; Amelia Simone Herbert – Columbia University, Teachers College; Thea R. Abu El-Haj – Barnard College; Matthew Chrisler – City University of New York, Graduate Center; Karishma Desai – Rutgers University; Darlene Dubuisson – Teachers College, Columbia University; Amelia Simone Herbert – Columbia University, Teachers College; Krystal Strong – University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, Nov 23
10:15 am

(5-0520) The Different and Changing Climate of Ethnography with the Right-Wing

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 109
William H. Westermeyer – University of South Carolina, Aiken; Jack R. Friedman – University of Oklahoma; William H. Westermeyer – University of South Carolina, Aiken; William H. Westermeyer – University of South Carolina, Aiken; Jack R. Friedman – University of Oklahoma; Sinan Celiksu – Humboldt State university; Michelle Morgenstern – University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology; Sophie Bjork-James – Vanderbilt University; Jennifer L. Erickson – Ball State University; Andrea L. Smith – Lafayette College, Department of Anthropology & Sociology
Saturday, Nov 23
10:15 am

(5-0525) The Legacy and Future of Cultural Consonance: William Dressler’s impact on cultural anthropology, theory, and methods

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 214
H.J. Francois Dengah, II – Utah State University; Toni J. Copeland – The University of Alabama; H.J. Francois Dengah, II – Utah State University; Toni J. Copeland – The University of Alabama; Jeffrey G. Snodgrass – Colorado State University; Clarence C. Gravlee – University of Florida; Nicole L. Henderson – The University of Alabama; Susan C. Weller – University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
Saturday, Nov 23
10:15 am

(5-0555) Toward a Critical Queer and Trans Economic Anthropology

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 118
Jen K. Hughes – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Karen Z. Ho – University of Minnesota; Noelle M. Stout – New York University; Margot Weiss – Wesleyan University; Jen K. Hughes – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Scott L. Morgensen – Queen's University; Kimberly Chong – University College London
Saturday, Nov 23
10:15 am

(5-0565) Transformations for a Better Future? Ethnography of Changes Being Put Into Practice

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 202
Sabrina Doyon – Universite Laval; Natacha GAGNÉ – Université Laval; Sabrina Doyon – Universite Laval; Natacha GAGNÉ – Université Laval; Sabrina Doyon – Universite Laval; Sharon Roseman – Memorial University; John R. Wagner – UBC Okanagan; Alicia Sliwinski – Wilfrid Laurier University; Stéphanie Guyon; Natacha GAGNÉ – Université Laval
Saturday, Nov 23
2:00 pm

(5-0760) Behavioral ecology of social ties and social structure I: Reputations, kinship and other multiplex relations

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 208
Elspeth Ready – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Eleanor A. Power – The London School of Economics and Political Science; Elspeth Ready – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Eleanor A. Power – The London School of Economics and Political Science; Christopher R. von Rueden – University of Richmond; Sean Prall – University of Missouri; Curtis J. Atkisson – University of California, Davis; Alexandra Alvergne – University of Oxford; Lea Gleason – Arizona State University
Saturday, Nov 23
2:00 pm

(5-0775) Changing climates of cashlessness: Ethnographic forays into digital finance and economic transitions (Part 1)

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 119
Thomas Blom Hansen – Stanford University; Marie Kolling – Danish Institute for International Studies; Morten Axel Pedersen – University of Copenhagen; Atreyee Sen – University of Copenhagen; Atreyee Sen – University of Copenhagen; Jens Martin Zickgraf – Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich; Pernille Hohnen – Aalborg University, Department of Culture and Global Studies; Anit Mukherjee; Michael Ulfstjerne – Copenhagen University
Saturday, Nov 23
2:00 pm

(5-0780) Coming of Age Between the US, Mexico, and Central America’s Northern Triangle: Youth, Im/migration, and Education- Session 1

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 218
Michelle Bellino – University of Michigan, SOE; Edmund T. Hamann – University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Department of Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Educ.; Maxie Gluckman – University of California, San Diego; Edmund T. Hamann – University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Department of Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Educ.; Gabrielle Oliveira – Boston College; Susan C. Bibler Coutin – University of California, Irvine; Andrea E. Dyrness – University of Colorado, Boulder; Ariel Borns – University of Wisconsin - Madison
Saturday, Nov 23
4:15 pm

(5-1040) Assessing Collaborative Archaeology in a Changing Research Climate: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Results

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 207
Michelle Lelièvre – William and Mary; George Nicholas – Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology; Michelle Lelièvre – William and Mary; Nicholas C. Laluk – White Mountain Apache Tribe Heritage Program; Julia A. King – St. Mary's College of Maryland; Craig N. Cipolla – Royal Ontario Museum/University of Toronto; Kathryn E. Sampeck – Illinois State University; Liam Michael Brady – Monash University; Spencer Greening – Gitga'at First Nation / Simon Fraser University; Peter R. Schmidt – University of Florida; Dana Lepofsky – Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology
Saturday, Nov 23
4:15 pm

(5-1055) Behavioral ecology of social ties and social structure II: Exchange, institutions and risk management

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 208
Eleanor A. Power – The London School of Economics and Political Science; Elspeth Ready – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; James Holland Jones – Stanford University; Anne Pisor – Washington State University; Mark Moritz – The Ohio State University; Matthew M. Gervais – Simon Fraser University; Cole Tobin – University of Missouri, Department of Anthropology
Saturday, Nov 23
4:15 pm

(5-1075) Changing climates of cashlessness: Ethnographic forays into digital finance and economic transitions (Part 2)

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 119
Atreyee Sen – University of Copenhagen; Marie Kolling – Danish Institute for International Studies; Gustav Peebles – The New School; Marie Kolling – Danish Institute for International Studies; Thomas Blom Hansen – Stanford University; Aditi Saraf – Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München; Ivan Small – Central Connecticut State University; Ryan Davey – University of Bristol
Saturday, Nov 23
4:15 pm

(5-1130) Five Fields Update: Getting the Message Across

Location: Vancouver CC WEST, Room 112
Evin R. Rodkey – Muskegon Community College; Evin R. Rodkey – Muskegon Community College; Nikki Gorrell – College of Western Idaho; Evin R. Rodkey – Muskegon Community College; Nikki Gorrell – College of Western Idaho; Gina S. Gibau – IUPUI; Bonnie Urciuoli – Hamilton College; Christopher Shaffer – Grand Valley State University; Mark Golitko – University of Notre Dame