Theme: PEACE

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Calendar of Events: Activities and Panels of Interest to Scholars of Human Sex, Sexuality, and Gender

compiled by Christa Craven <christa.craven@verizon.net>

Wednesday, November 19th

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

OUT IN THE WORLD: THE ROLE OF EROS IN THE TOURISM OF SEXUAL MINORITIES

Session organized by: Ralph Bolton 

Chair: Michael Clatts  

Participants: Ralph Bolton • Sandra Faiman-Silva • 
Michael Clatts •  Ralph Bolton • Joseph Carrier 

4:00 pm – 7:45 pm

REPRODUCTION REVISITED: FEMINIST SOCIAL THEORY AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE NATURE / CULTURE DEBATE
(Papers included on Lesbian Mothers & “Queering Nature”)

Session organized by Ramona Lee Pérez
Chairs: Ramona Pérez and Christa Craven

Participants: Christa Craven •  Elly Teman •  Rebecca Etz •  Sallie Han •  Thomas Pearson •  Faye Ginsburg •  Jessaca Leinaweaver •  Susanna Rosenbaum •  Matthew Dudgeon •  Megan McCullough •  Carolyn Hough •  Rayna Rapp

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

RISK AND PRACTICE:
HIV/AIDS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

AAA Reviewed Session

Chair: Lee M. Kochems

Participants: Robert Lorway • Vincent J. Del Casino •  Jeanne Ellard •  Lee M. Kochems •  Sean Slavin •
Thomas Lyons

Thursday, November 20, 2002

8:00 am – 9:45 am

• Changing Visions of Mothering and Motherhood
• Human Rights Session: Beyond Identification: Anthropological Examinations of Truth-Telling, Justice and Moral Legitimacy of the State
• Imaginable Africa: Place, Theory, and Some Ideas about African Identities

10:00 am – 11:45 am

• Articulating Global Feminism(s): Issues of Women and Agency from an Anthropological Perspective

10:15 am – 12: 00 pm

• Back to Aesthetics: Critical Anthropological Perspectives on Beauty, Power and Truth
• Multiple Feminisms, Multiple Pedagogies: Negotiating New Terrain in the Twenty-First Century
• Rumor Mongering: Predicaments of Telling Ethnographic Truths

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

• COSWA Workshop on Publication (Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology)
• Attracting, Recruiting, Sustaining and Retaining Minority
  Students and Scholars in Anthropology (Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology)

1:45 pm – 3:30 pm

• Gendered Anthropology through Transnational Lenses: Voices of Women of Color (COSWA)

1:45 pm – 5:30 pm

• History, Technology, and Agency: Imagining the Future of the Reproductive Body
• How Should We Understand Human Subjectivities? A Dialogue (Society for Psychological Anthropology)
• Immigration as Divorce Strategy; Marriage as Immigration Strategy (Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology)
• Morality and Epistemology: Stance-Taking in the Discursive Constitution of Personhood

4:00 – 5:00 pm

• Readings in Humanistic Anthropology: From Ethnography to Poetics of Fiction

6:15 – 7:30

• Association for Feminist Anthropology: Business Meeting

7:00

• AAA Centennial Gala

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

• AFA, ABA, SPA, ALLA, SANA and SOLGA Cash Bar Reception

Friday, November 21, 2002

8:00 am – 9:45 am

• Teaching Anthropology with Passion and Outrage in a Time of Crisis (Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges)

8:00 am –11:45 am

• Anthropology and Women's Human Rights: Cross-Cutting Interests an Complimentary Agendas: Stimulating the Dialogue (AAA Executive Program Committee)

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

• AIDS and Anthropology Business Meeting (Society for Medical Anthropology)
• SOLGA Board Meeting (Elmwood, 4th Floor)

1:45 pm – 3:30 pm

• Children Socializing Children Through Language: New Perspectives on Agency, Play, and Identities
• Christianities, the Work of Imagination and Everyday Techniques of Self (Society for Anthropology of Religion)
• Firing the Health Fairy: Community Health, the Urban Environment, and Realities of Intervention
• Homophobias: Lust and Loathing, Past, Present and Future (SOLGA)

1:45 pm – 5:30 pm

• The Feminization of Poverty: Trends and Issues for Women in the South (AFA)
• The Past and the Future Impact of Feminist Theories Within Anthropology (AFA)
• What is at Stake? Oratory and Social Imagining

Saturday, November 22, 2002

8:00 am – 9:45 am

• Institutions, Technologies of the Body, Boundaries of Self

8:00 am – 11:45 am

• A Plagued Future? Emerging Diseases, Bioweapons, and Other Anticipated Microbial Horrors (AAA Executive Program Committee)
• Healer, Lover, Agent and Authority: Charisma Revisited
• Resisting Language
• The Rise of Priestly Societies: Past and Present

10:15 am – 12:00 pm

• Culture at Large: Race, Power, and Social Justice
• Imbibing Disreputable Pleasures: Gender, Sexuality, and Capital in Taiwanese Hostess Bars
• Practicing Anthropology: Ethnography Inside and Outside the Discipline

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

• Laughing at Ourselves: The Art of Anthropology (AAA Centennial Panel)

1:45 pm – 3:30 pm

• Unimaginable Disruptions: Sexuality Research Moves Out of the margins (SOLGA)

1:45 pm – 5:30 pm

• Intertextuality in Discourses and Culture: Problems and Prospects
• The Work and Life of Clifford Geertz

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

• Formative Moments in North American Departmental Histories
• Gendered Ideals, Negotiated Realities: Mothers, Daughters, and Wives Pushing Social Boundaries
• Hybrid Autonomies: Indigenous Self-Determination Now
• Queer Identities in the Public Sphere
• Sciences and Selves 1: Bodies, Positions, and Identities Emerging Through Medicine and Medical Technology
• Sciences and Selves 2: Emotion, Politics, and Identities Emerging Through Technoscience
• Technologies of Pleasure

6:15 pm – 7:30 pm

• SOLGA Business Meeting: Cash Bar following

Sunday, November 23, 2002

8:00 am – 9:45 am

• Culture and Personality: Renewal and Revision in Contemporary Research
• Gender and Ethnicity in the Western Balkans
• Intersections and Interactions: Negotiating the Boundaries of Belonging on Campus

8:00 am – 11:45 am

• Forms of Knowledge, Forms of Power: Authenticity, Identity and Narrative in Native Communities
• Identity and Personhood in Health and Illness

10:15 am – 12:00 pm

• Are they All Pleasantvilles? Ethnographies of U.S. Suburbs
• Engendering Identities: Learning to Perform Masculinity and Femininity
• Gender in Community: Imaginable Solutions to Problems of Social Complexity
• Using Multimedia and Technology Spaces to Investigate Diverse Identities
• Women and Men: Reproductive Health

12:15 pm – 2:00 pm

• (E)Raced Bodies: Transnational Incursions and Gendered Excursions
• Gender, Sex, and Sexual Culture
• Nature, Self, and the Human Experience
• What Really Matters? Gendered Transformations at the Crossroads of Ideology and Practice