Fourteen of our faculty, graduate students, and research affiliates will be participating in the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology and the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society. These concurrent meetings wil be held March 28 through April 2, 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. This includes 8 oral presentations and 5 poster presentations. Click here for more information including names, time and location, titles, and abstracts.
Conference
UCONN Professors Organize AAA Panel on Health and Human Rights
UCONN anthropology professors Sarah Willen and Cesar Abadio-Barrero organized three panels at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis on the intersection of anthropology, health, and human rights. For more information on these panels, including the panel abstracts please click here.
UCONN Anthropology at 114th AAA Annual Meeting
Faculty and graduates from UConn Anthropology presenting at 114th AAA Annual Meeting November 18-22, 2015
Chaired sessions
Samuel Martinez
“NOWHERE”: LABOR AND RESIDENCE IN THE PLACELESS SPACES OF MODERNITY
Friday, 01:45 PM – 03:30 PM
Richard Wilson
5-0380 REGIMES OF PROOF: CRIME SCENES AND THE FORENSICS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM
Round table discussions
Cesar Abadia-Barrero
3-1335 THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN PRACTICE: LESSONS AND CHALLENGES FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC ENGAGEMENT
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
Richard Colon
PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY ON FAMILIAR GROUND: ANTHROPOLOGISTS ADDRESSING CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
Time: Friday November 20, 2015. 8:00 am – 9:45 am
Sarah Willen
CONSIDERING ANTHROPOLOGY’S ROLE IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL MEDICINE: PROGRAMS, IDEAS, METHODS AND PRACTICE (PART 1)
Saturday, 08:00 AM – 09:45 AM
Richard Wilson
4-1210 THE FAMILIAR/STRANGE TROPES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF ITS KINSHIP, POLITICS AND LAW
Friday, November 20, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
Talks:
Sara Ailshire:
50922 Standard(s) of Care: Dignity and the Anthropology of Short Term Medical Missions
Friday, November 20, 2015: 4:45 PM
Panel: 21st CENTURY SHORT-TERM MEDICAL MISSIONS: STRANGE RETELLINGS OF FAMILIAR STORIES
Catherine Buerger
46489 The Politics of Inclusion: Human Rights Participation and Political Subjectivity in Ghana
Friday, November 20, 2015: 4:15 PM
Panel: ADMINISTRATION, GOVERNANCE AND CITIZENSHIP
Melissa Chiovenda
54265 The Reproduction and Transmission of Cultural Trauma: The Case of Afghanistan’s Hazaras
Friday, November 20, 2015: 5:15 PM
Panel: STRANGERS TO SOCIETY
Anne Kohler
52064 Erring on the Side of Humanity: Accessing Experience and Relationality in the Context of Growth Attenuation
Friday, November 20, 2015: 8:15 AM
Panel: ACCESS, CAPACITY, AND THE HUMAN
Shir Lerman
52434 Stigmatized Bodies and Stigmatized Identities: Obesity and Depression Stigma in Puerto Rico
Sunday, November 22, 2015: 11:15 AM
Panel: THE BIOSOCIOCULTURAL TRAJECTORY OF STIGMA
Joy Ciofi (Messerschmidt)
51270 The Color of Money Is Red: Selling Potentiality through Visual Landscapes at Mega-Casinos
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 10:45 AM
Panel: VISUALITIES: INTERVENTIONS, METHODS AND ANALYSIS
Rebecca Lee Nelson:
45062 Tensions Between Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Management in a Guatemalan Volunteer Tourism Program
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 10:45 AM
Panel: RETHINKING COSMOPOLITANISM: TOURISM AND TOURISTS IN A POST-HEGELIAN AGE
Sarah Willen
Shattering Culture and Revamping Medical Education in the United States
Saturday, 04:00 PM – 05:45 PM
Panel: UN-FAMILIAR SUBJECTS: A PANEL IN HONOR OF BYRON J. GOOD AND MARY-JO DELVECCHIO GOOD.
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