UChicago at the 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting

Find our faculty and students at the November 15-19, 2023, annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society | Société Canadienne d’anthropologie.

E. Summerson Carr will present “Paradox and the Politics of (In)difference” in a session entitled Anthropologies of Adiaphora: Ethnographic Experiments Beyond Condemnation and Celebration, 8:00 - 9:45 a.m., Thursday, November 16. Location: TMCC, 203 D.

And will be a discussant in a session entitled Explorations in the Ethnography of Listening Part 2), 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on Friday, November 17. Location: TMCC, 206 D.

Hanna Pickwell will present “The Flavor of Human Feeling: Affectivities of Outmoded Everyday Things in Beijing” in a session entitled Migration and Survival Strategies in Everyday Life in East Asia.

8:00 - 9:45 a.m., Thursday, November 16. Location: TMCC, 203 D

Susan Gal will be a discussant in a session entitled Gender Chronotopes at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 16.

And a roundtable discussant on Voices of Modernity, Richard Bauman and Charles L. Briggs, at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 18.

Hussein Ali Agrama will present “UFOs, Uncanny Science, and Esoteric Technology: On the Grounds of Anthropological Inquiry” in a session entitled “We Are Not Alone”: UFOs and the Future of Anthropology. 8:00 - 9:45 a.m., Thursday, November 16. Location: TMCC, 705.

And will present “Materiality and the Secularity of Science: A Rethinking” in a session entitled Matter Beyond Agency on Thursday, November 16, 4:15 - 6:00 p.m. Location: TMCC, 205 D.

Julie Y. Chu will be a discussant in a roundtable entitled The Political Event in Anthropology.

8:00 - 9:45 a.m., Thursday, November 16.

Kamala Russell will present “Proprioception and the (un)observed body” in a session entitled Proprioceptive Subjects: Rethinking Autonomy and Embodiment.

8:00 - 9:45 a.m., Friday, November 17. Location: TMCC, Hall G - MI

Molly Cunningham will present “‘Skin in the Game’: A Proprioceptive Critique of Detroit’s Bankruptcy” in a session entitled Politics on Shaken Grounds: Uncertainty, Collectivity, Transformation.

10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, November 17. Location: TMCC, Hall G - MI

Erin Atwell will present “Fearing God: Embodied Temporalities of Anxiety and Divine Orientation at Egypt’s al-Azhar” in a session entitled New Directions in the Anthropology of Islam.

2:00 - 3:45 p.m., Friday, November 17. Location: TMCC, 203 D

Join Constantine V. Nakassis at a University of Toronto Press reception, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 17. Location: TMCC, UTP Booth (317).

And he will be a participant in a session entitled The Translation Machine: Exploring the Linguistic Infrastructures of Valorization Under Semiocapitalism. 2:00 - 3:45 p.m., Saturday, November 18.

Join Ryan Jobson at a reception hosted by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Association of Black Anthropologists.

8:00 - 9:30 p.m., Friday, November 17. Location: Delta Hotel, Kensington Ballroom B. By invitation only.

Rachel Howard will present in a session entitled Storytelling on a Burning Planet, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m., Saturday, November 18. Location: TMCC, 718 B.

And in a Sunday, November 19, session entitled Infrastructuring Ethnography: A Collaborative Exchange, 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Location: TMCC, 713 A.

Celebrate four UChicago alumnae authors on Saturday, November 18, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Hugs & Sarcasm on Queen Streetin Toronto.

A Region among States: Law and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean, Lee Cabatingan.

Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex & Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border, Sarah Luna.

The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris, Elayne Oliphant.

Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil, LaShandra Sullivan.

Eléonore Rimbault will be a discussant in a roundtable entitled Affecting encounters: transcending the affect-semiotics divide.

12:15 - 1:45 p.m., Sunday, November 19.