Executive Sessions are selected and sponsored directly by the AAA Executive Program Committee (EPC). These sessions speak directly to 2017's Annual Meeting theme, Anthropology Matters!, and will be showcased throughout the Annual Meeting this November in Washington, DC. (Register to attend here.)
The EPC identified three key themes and seven topical clusters for the 2017 Executive Sessions:
Dissent in the Post-Truth Era: Latinx Communities Organize and Resist
Patricia Zavella
Andrea Bolivar
Alex Chavez
Leo Chavez
Gina Perez
Miguel Diaz-Barriga
Arlene Davila
Ana Aparicio
Anthropology in a world of changing border materialities
Olga Demetriou
Chiara De Cesari
Rozita Dimova
Sarah Green
Azra Hromadzic
Jacqueline Stevens
Peo Hansen
Detained on Trumped-Up Charges: Migrants and the Ascendant U.S. Security-State
Deborah Boehm
Sarah Horton
Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
Josiah Heyman
Jonathan Xavier
Angela Stuesse
Daniel Goldstein
Susan Coutin
Engaged Anthropology with Undocumented and Immigrant Students in the Trump Era
Lynn Stephen
Kristin Yarris
Mariela Nunez-Janes
Lauren Heidbrink
Whitney Duncan
Margarita Salas Crespo
Wendy Vogt
J.C. Salyer
Heide Castaneda
The Political Landscape
Reimagining Political Horizons
Eben Kirksey
Janine Wedel
Gloria Everson
Bianca Williams
Anne Spice
Hugh Gusterson
Attiya Ahmad
Cecilia VanHollen
Emily Martin
Jerome Whitington
Hannah Appel
Kathleen Stewart
Gender Matters: The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Rebecca Galemba
Carol Mukhopadhyay
Susan Seymour
Christine Kray
Gabriela Torres
Micaela di Leonardo
Matthew Gutmann
Edward Liebow
Jacqueline Fewkes
Jane Henrici
The Politics of Affect: Anthropological Perspectives on the Rise of the Far Right and Rightwing Populism in Europe and the USA - What’s culture got to do with it?
Heiko Henkel
Andre Gingrich
Damani Partridge
Margit Feishchmidt
Douglas Holmes
Mayanthi Fernando
Paul Mepschen
Sindre Bangstad
Anthropology in the Anthropocene
Anthropocene Landscapes, Infrastructures and Futures
Marianne Lien
David Bond
Laura Ogden
Heather Swanson
Geoffrey Bowker
Andres Mathews
Shiho Satsuka
How Anthropology Matters in the Anthropocene: Understanding the Cultures and Politics of Climate Change Denial
Janelle Lamoreaux
Liz Koslov
Sophie Bjork-James
Christine Folch
Adriana Petryna
Nicholas Shapiro
Biologies and BioPolitics
Beyond the African Burial Ground: Anthropological and trans-disciplinary innovations in theory, methods, and technologies
Matthew Reeves
Joseph Jones
Arion Mayes
Jihad Muhammad
Hannes Schroeder
Rachel Watkins
Michael Blakey
Crossing the Divide: Biocultural and Biosocial Approaches to Anthropology
Noah Tamarkin
Sheela Athreya
Deborah Bolnick
Robin Reineke
Lauren Springs
Alan Goodman
Rayna Rapp
Biological Anthropology and the Public
Caroline VanSickle
Susan Sheridan
Kathryn Clancy
Julie Lesnik
Becca Peixotto
Natalia Reagan
Briana Pobiner
Agustin Fuentes
Anthropological Knowledge Creation/Dissemination
Media and Representation
Drawing Culture, or Ethnography as a Graphic Art: The making of Lissa
Anne Brackenbury
Coleman Nye
Sherine Hamdy
Francesco Dragone
Julie Livingston
Faye Ginsburg
Biological Anthropology and the Public
Caroline VanSickle
Susan Sheridan
Kathryn Clancy
Julie Lesnik
Becca Peixotto
Natalia Reagan
Briana Pobiner
Agustin Fuentes
Looking Ahead: University Anthropology Museums Matter
Jason Jackson
Laura Van Broekhoven
Benjamin Porter
Robert Preucel
Jennifer Kirker Priest
Anthony Shelton
Alex Barker
Why does Anthropology matter when engaging publics in the recognition of Indigenous rights?
Francoise Dussart
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
Robert Hitchcock
Sylvie Poirier
Jean Dennison
Richard Wilson
Maria Sapignoli
Nicolas Peterson
Teaching
Why Anthropology Matters: Making Anthropology Relevant and Engaging a Larger Public Audience through Pedagogy
Michael Wesch
Willa Zhen
Audrey Ricke
Angela Jenks
Shannon Telenko
Sherylyn Briller
Health
Short-Term Global Health Travel: Good Intentions, Murky Ethics, and How Anthropology Matters
Nicole Berry
Noelle Sullivan
Raphael Frankfurter
David Citrin
Kathryn Fleuriet
Rosa Maria Compean-Molina
Saskia Bunge-Montes
Examining Anthropology
How Business Anthropology Makes Anthropology Matter More
William Beeman
Grant McCracken
Greg Urban
Christina Garsten
Helena Wulff
Dominique Desjeux
Robert Morais
Timonthy Malefyt
Melissa Cefkin
Do Black and Brown Lives Matter to Anthropology?: Race, Bodies, and Context
John Jackson Jr.
Norma Mendoza-Denton
Aimee Cox
Jonathan Rosa
Vanessa Diaz
Why does Anthropology matter when engaging publics in the recognition of Indigenous rights?
