Many CoLED-ers are packing suitcases and digging out mittens this week to head to snowy Denver, Colorado for the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. While CoLED is jubilantly interdisciplinary, as a group of ethnographers, many of us are anthropologists by training and by trade. If you’re looking for a chance to catch other CoLED members in action this AAA, this is the post for you: a list of panels and roundtables featuring CoLED members is below.
Some of the panels explicitly address ethnographic design; others are presentations of research and the innovation is in the approach. For extra bonus points, we have four panels on the line-up featuring multiple CoLED members (marked with an * below). Arranged in order of date and time.
Tech Tip: If you haven’t before, try the AAA meeting iPhone app that allows you to make a custom calendar, instead of trying to keep track of all your panels and events otherwise. It makes the whole conference program mobile and searchable. You can download the app by searching “AAA Annual Meeting” in the app store, and it syncs with your personal scheduler on the AAA website. You can then search for the below listed panels by name or keyword.
Don’t forget to stop by the Peaks Lounge at the Hyatt on Saturday afternoon from 3:00-4:30pm for a CoLED mixer. All are welcome!
Click through for the full schedule.
– WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 –
Colin McLaughlin-Alcock (UC Irvine)
Paper: Art and the Border: Artistic Remakings on the Jordan River
Panel: MARKING AND CROSSING MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL BOUNDARIES
Wednesday, November 18, 2015: 2:45pm (2:00-3:45pm)
707 (Colorado Convention Center)
Christo Sims (UC San Diego)
Paper: Progressive Educational Reform As Neoliberalism By Other Means
Panel: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLASSROOM DISCOURSE
Wednesday, November 18, 2015: 3:00 PM (2:00-3:45pm)
207 (Colorado Convention Center)
Michael Montoya (UC Irvine)
Paper: Politics of Relationship: Moral Experiments As/for/of Urban Health
Panel: MORAL (AND OTHER) LABORATORIES, PART II
Wednesday, November 18, 2015: 4:45 PM
404 (Colorado Convention Center)
– THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 –
Melissa Caldwell (UC Santa Cruz)
Paper: Enforcing Compassion: Regulating Rights in Moscow’s Human Rights Community
Panel: THE PRODUCTIVITY OF REGULATION: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF ALIGNMENT AND CITIZENSHIPS IN THE MAKING
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM
707 (Colorado Convention Center)
Keith M. Murphy (UC Irvine) Paper 11:00am
Paper: Fontroversy! or, How to Care about the Shape of Language
Joe Hankins (UC San Diego) Paper 11:30am
Paper: Tasting Crisis: Governing the Nourishment of Bodies (about food provision in Los Angeles; will likely be talking about what Peircean semiotics can give to studies of infrastructure)
Panel: Qualia and Ontology: Language, Semiotics and Materiality
Thursday, November 19, 2015: (10:15 AM-12:00 PM)
Mile High 4E (Colorado Convention Center)
*Double panel + Two CoLEDers = fun*2! *
Stephanie McCallum (UC Santa Cruz)
Paper: Othering Infrastructure: Difference and Deferral in Argentine Railways
Panel: B/Ordering Infrastructures (Part I: Contested Spaces)
Thursday, November 19, 2015 11:15 AM (10:15AM-12PM)
(This is the first part of a double panel; also chairing the second part, “B/Ordering Infrastructures: Mediated Mobilities”, on Friday)
401 (Colorado Convention Center)
Cassandra Hartblay (UC San Diego)
Paper: “Too Much Pushkin, and Not Enough of Us”: Enacting Disability and Therapeutic Citizenship in Russia”
Panel: Evaluating Disability: Stigma and the Anthropology of Values
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 2:30 PM (1:45 PM-3:30 PM)
401 (Colorado Convention Center)
Connie McGuire (UC Irvine)
Paper: The Politics of Community Healing: Restorative Justice As Process and Outcome
Panel: LEGAL POLITICS
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 5:15 PM (4:00 PM-5:45 PM)
Capital Ballroom 7 (Hyatt Regency)
– FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 –
Elana Zilberg (UC San Diego)
Roundtable: “The Anthropolitics of Expert Witnessing: Recent Reflections on Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers”
Friday, November 20, 2015: 8:00a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
406 (Colorado Convention Center)
Martha Lampland (UC San Diego) (with Maya Nadkarni, Swarthmore)
Paper: “The Death of Jokes? the Shifting Landscape of Humor in Postsocialist Hungary”
Panel: Anthropology of Humor, Humor in Ethnography
Friday, November 20, 2015: 2:15 PM
205 (Colorado Convention Center)
Kristina Lyons (UCSC)
Paper: Science, Story-Telling, and the Politics of Advocacy Against Aerial Fumigation
Panel: ESTRANGING NARRATIVES OF EMPOWERMENT IN THE SCIENTIFIC GOVERNANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK
Friday, November 20, 2015: 1:45 PM-3:30 PM
Mile High 1B (Colorado Convention Center)
Ellen Moore (UC Berkeley)
Paper: “Thank You For Your Service”: Gratitude, Silence and The Production of Militarized Common Sense on College Campuses
Panel: Veterans For/Veterans Against: Activism in the Aftermath of Military Service
Friday 5:00 PM (4:00-5:45 pm)
Room 113 (Colorado Convention Center)
Elana Zilberg (UC San Diego)
APLA Panel: “Navigating the Academic Job Market Beyond Anthropology”
7:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Room 102 (Colorado Convention Center)
– SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 –
Roshanak Kheshti (University of California, San Diego)
Roundtable Presenter
Roundtable: Queerying Palestine
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
Capital Ballroom 2 (Hyatt Regency)
Elizabeth Chin
Paper: “Unnatural Histories of the Jefferson-Hemings Kinship System”
George Marcus
Discussant
Panel: EXHIBIT DESIGNS (AS IF) NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS REPRESENTED CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
403 (Colorado Convention Center)
*Two CoLEDers, one panel!!*
CoLED Mixer – Coffee, Drinks, etc.
Everyone is welcome!
3pm until 4:30pm (or so)
Peaks Lounge on the 27th floor of the Hyatt Regency
Marisol de la Cadena (UC Davis)
Joseph Dumit (UC Davis)
Roundtable Presenters
Roundtable: STS AND ANTHROPOLOGY: REFLECTIONS ON 25 YEARS OF ENTANGLEMENT
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
401 (Colorado Convention Center)
*Two CoLEDers, one roundtable!!*
Nancy Postero (UC San Diego)
Roundtable Presenter
Roundtable: AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS – 2015 SANA BOOK AWARD WINNER, WE ARE THE FACE OF OAXACA: TESTIMONY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS BY LYNN STEPHEN
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
102 (Colorado Convention Center)
– SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 –
Martha Lampland (UC San Diego)
Discussant
Panel: On Binary Politics and Generative Re-Castings
Sunday, November 22, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
605 (Colorado Convention Center)
Keith Murphy (UC Irvine)
George Marcus (UC Irvine)
Discussants
Panel: PARA-ETHNOGRAPHIES OF BRANDING AND DESIGN 6-0020
Sunday, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
113 (Colorado Convention Center)
*Two CoLEDers, one panel!!*