The following are Non-SAE sponsored Panels, Papers, and Posters at the AAA Meetings in Philadelphia this year that may be of interest to our members.
[Listing was compiled by Deborah Altamirano on 8/28/09. Submissions were volunteered in response to a query sent out via H-NET]
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WEDNESDAY
Paper:
"The Most Advanced Nation: Debating Prostitution in Sweden."
At session, "Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship,"
Soc. for Feminist Anth., Dec. 2, 12 noon.
Brian Palmer
Session
Session Title: Discourse Crossing: Language in the Making of Transnational Migration
Session Date & Time: 12/02/2009, 12:00:00PM - 03:45:00PM
Room: Grand Ballroom Salon K
PARTICIPANTS:
Name:Valentina Pagliai
Affiliation: New York University
Email Address: <mailto:orisha4@yahoo.com>orisha4@yahoo.com
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Contesting Discourses about Immigrants in Disagreement Sequences among Italians
Name:Alejandro Paz
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Email Address: mailto:alejandro.paz@utoronto.ca>alejandro.paz@utoronto.ca
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Migrating Registers: Educación in a Latino Diaspora of Discourse in Israel
Name:Michele Koven
Affiliation: University of Illinois-UC
Email Address: <mailto:mkoven@uiuc.edu>mkoven@uiuc.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: To be Youthful/Young or Old-fashioned/Old in France and Portugal: Chronotopic Framing of Identities among Daughters of Portuguese Migrants Born in France.
Name:Hilary Dick
Affiliation: Univ of Chicago
Email Address: <mailto:hdick@temple.edu>hdick@temple.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: OTHER ROOMS, OTHER VOICES: SPEAKING GENDER, MAKING MEXICO-US MIGRATION
Name:Anna De Fina
Email Address: <mailto:definaa@georgetown.edu>definaa@georgetown.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Language and conflict in immigrant women’s narratives
Name:Jung-Eun Janie Lee
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
Email Address: <mailto:jlee@umail.ucsb.edu>jlee@umail.ucsb.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: The End(s) of America: Indexical Meanings of American in a U.S. Naturalization Class
Name:Sonia Das
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Email Address: mailto:sndas@interchange.ubc.ca>sndas@interchange.ubc.ca
Role: Paper
Paper Title: “Scaling the City”: Discourses of
Mapping and Orienting in the Montreal Tamil Diasporas
Name:Marco Jacquemet
Affiliation: U. of San Francisco
Email Address: <mailto:mjacquemet@usfca.edu>mjacquemet@usfca.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Transidiomatic Confusion: Communicative Breakdowns in Asylum-seekers’ Hearings [Italy]
Name:Sabina Perrino
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Email Address: <mailto:sperrino@umich.edu>sperrino@umich.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: “Extracomunitari” in Northern Italian Hospitals: Dialect, Voice, and Chronotope
Name:Amy Shuman
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Email Address: <mailto:shuman.1@osu.edu>shuman.1@osu.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Narrating Atrocity in Political Asylum Hearings
Name:Stef Slembrouck
Affiliation: Ghent University
Email Address: mailto:stef.slembrouck@ugent.be>stef.slembrouck@ugent.be
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Classifying Migrants in the Field
of Health: Sociolinguistic Scale and the Neoliberal State.
Session
Session Title: The End/s of Transnationalisms after Socialism: Practices and Re-imaginations of Relatedness
Session Date & Time: 12/02/2009, 08:00:00PM - 09:45:00PM
Room: Room 404
Session ID #: 4952
Review Section: Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
Organizers/Chairs:
Organizer 1: Jennifer Patico
Affiliation: Georgia State U. Co-Organizer 1: Leyla Keough
Affiliation: Sabancı University Istanbul Turkey
Chair 1: Leyla Keough
Affiliation: Sabancı University Istanbul Turkey
PARTICIPANTS:
Name:Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga
Affiliation: London School of Economics
Email Address: r.chamberlain-creanga@lse.ac.uk
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Between Homemaker and Business Woman: Reimagining Kinship and Nationhood in post-Soviet Moldova
Name:Jennifer Patico
Affiliation: Georgia State U.
Email Address: jpatico@gsu.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Critiquing local gendered economies on a global stage: post-Cold War transnational kinship
Name:Noor Borbieva
Affiliation: Indiana University-Purdue Fort Wayne
Email Address: noorborbieva@yahoo.com
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Troubled Families: Alliance and Exchange in the Post-Socialist Development Encounter
Name:Leyla Keough
Affiliation: Sabancı University Istanbul Turkey
Email Address: ljkeough@gmail.com
Role: Paper
Paper Title: "Turkish blood, but Russian souls:" Transnationalisms in Post-Soviet Gagauzia
Name:Ayse Parla
Affiliation: Sabanci University
Email Address: ayseparla@sabanciuniv.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Post-1989 labor migrants from Bulgaria and the reconfigurations of “ethnic kinship” in Turkey
Name:Maria Stoilkova
Affiliation: Univ of Florida
Email Address: stoilkov@anthro.ufl.edu
Role: Discussant
FRIDAY
Session:
Session Title: Politicking the Farm: Transitions and transformations in European Union agriculture
Session Date & Time: 12/04/2009, 10:15:00AM - 12:00:00PM
Room: Room 414
Session ID #: 4947
Sponsoring Section: Culture and Agriculture
Invited Session? YES
Organizer 1: Meredith Welch Devine
Chair 1: D Seth Murray
Affiliation: North Carolina State University
PARTICIPANTS:
Name:Yuson Jung
Affiliation: Harvard University
Email Address: yusonjung@post.harvard.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Parting the “Wine Lake”: the revival of the Bulgarian wine industry in the age of CAP reform
Name:Kathryn De Master
Email Address: kpdemast@wisc.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Designing Dreams or Constructing Contradictions? European Union Multifunctional Policies and the Polish Organic Farm Sector
Name:Dong Ju Kim
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Email Address: djkz@umich.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: The Crooked Ladder of Development: Fathoming Europe and the World through Sugar Market Regulations and Cross-Compliance in Poland
Name:David Guillet
Affiliation: Catholic University
Email Address: guillet@cua.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: The EU’s Water Framework Directive and Southern European Farmers: Challenge and Response
Name:James Verinis
Affiliation: Binghamton University (SUNY)
Email Address: jverinis@gmail.com
Role: Paper
Paper Title: New Immigrants and Neo-Rural Values: the new socio-technical regimes of agricultural production in global Greek countrysides
Name:Meredith Welch Devine
Email Address: mwdevine@uga.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: “We’re European farmers now”: Transitions and transformations in Basque agricultural and pastoral practice
Name:Tracey Heatherington
Affiliation: U Wisconsin Milwaukee
Email Address: pistoccu@uwm.edu
Role: Discussant
Poster:
Poster Title: THE "END(S)" OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE DEATH OF A RESEARCH COMMUNITY [Greece}
Presenter: Deborah Altamirano
Session Title: PRACTICE MATTERS
Session Date & Time: 12/04/2009, 01:45:00PM - 03:30:00PM
Room: Grand Ballroom Salon G
Abstract:
For the past 25 year, I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the women of the Greek Resistance. They welcomed an inquisitive foreigner, gave me my anthropological “wings” and incorporated me into their kin group as an adopted daughter. They provided me an education on what it meant to be a woman, a refugee, a worker, a mother, a wife, a warrior, and a Greek in the 20th Century. In doing so, they provided the foundation for my rite of passage from graduate student to professor. Now, there will be no more interviews—no more discussions among us. One by one, members of this community have succumbed to old age and illness. We, anthropologists, discuss at length how to establish research relationships, and how nurture and maintain them. We give much less attention to what happens when these research relationships, which have become so much more, end. This poster depicts my journey through long-term field research with women of the Greek Resistance and explores the multilayered personal and professional linkages created during the lifecycle of such research. The death of one’s informants marks an “end” in which these complex linkages, born of and nurtured through years of contact, mutual interest, respect, and affection, suddenly cease to exist. These “end(s)” not only involve a deep sense of loss and mourning on a personal level, but require a readjustment of the anthropologist’s relationships with informants’ families, research and academic communities, and personal and professional identities.
SATURDAY
Session:
Session Title: Audience, Publics, and the Boundaries of Belonging
Session Date & Time: 12/05/2009, 08:00:00AM - 09:45:00AM
Room: Room 310
Session ID #: 5221
Review Section: Society for Cultural Anthropology
Organizers/Chairs:
Organizer 1: Jonathan Glasser
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Co-Organizer 1: Susanne Unger
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Chair 1: Susanne Unger
Affiliation: University of Michigan
PARTICIPANTS:
Name:Jonathan Glasser
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Email Address: jglasser@wm.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Kissing cousins and poor relations: musical publics and
genre ambiguity in urban Algeria
Name:Emine Fisek
Affiliation: UC Berkeley
Email Address: emine@berkeley.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration, Performance and
Publics in Contemporary France
Name:Andrew Conroe
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Email Address: aconroe@yahoo.com
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Assuming Audience: Publics, The Distant State and the
Performance of Silenced Histories in Post-New Order Java
Name:Susanne Unger
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Email Address: sbu@umich.edu
Role: Paper
Paper Title: Cinephiles, Cineasts, and Audiences: Film Culture in
Contemporary Germany
Name:Debra Spitulnik
Affiliation: Emory University
Email Address: dspitul@emory.edu
Role: Discussant
Paper:
I will be presenting a paper on my dissertation fieldwork on urban renewal processes in Marseille, France,
The title of the paper is: "“13 Ways of Looking at a Construction Site: Aesthetics, Urban Renewal, and ‘Sensing Belonging’ ” and it will be part of the second half of the double session,
"The End/s of Beauty: Aesthetics, Ontology, and Embodiment in Ethnographic Inquiry."
On: Saturday, December 6.
The panel runs from 01:45:00PM - 05:30:00 PM in Grand Ballroom Salon K.
Nell Quest
Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology
Rutgers University nellbf@gmail.com
SUNDAY
Paper:
LEYNSE, Wendy. LEARNING COOKING: NOTES ON THE CULTURAL PARAMETERS OF CHILD SOCIALIZATION AND COOKING IN FRANCE.
Session Title: Looking at Cooking: Investigations of a Universal Practice
Session Date & Time: (Sunday) 12/06/2009, 10:15:00AM - 12:00:00PM
Room: Grand Ballroom Salon I
Session ID #: 4895
Review Section: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
Organizer 1: Amy Trubek
Chair 1: Carole Counihan