Savage Minds at AAA 2006

With the AAA starting in just two weeks, it is time to make a few AAA related announcements:

At least three Savage Minds will be attending this year’s AAA in San Jose, more than enough for our second annual Savage Minds party! The party will start on Friday the 17th and run till the wee hours of the morning. Just track down one of us at the conference to get the final coordinates.

In order of appearance:

Rex will be presenting the paper “Towards an ethnography of Worlds of Warcraft in China,” on the panel “Video Games and Anthropology.” Wednesday the 15th 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM.

Strong will be presenting the paper “Modernity’s Mood? Sorrow and Social Life in Melanesia and Beyond” on the panel “Putting a Construction on Reality: Place, Performance, Reciprocity, and Emotions in the Work of Edward L. Schieffelin.” Thursday the 16th 8:00 AM – 11:45 AM.

I’ll be presenting the paper: “Cosmopolitan Avenues and Folkloric Boulevards: Spelling Hegemony on the Streets of Taipei” on the panel I co-organized with my colleague Hsuta Lin, “Jetset or Native? Cosmpolitanism and Folklore in the Taiwanese Cultural Sphere.” Friday the 17th 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM.

I’m also happy to say that the short documentary I made with Shashwati Talukdar, “Acting Like a Thief” was selected as part of the Society of Visual Anthropology 2006 Film and Video Festival. It will be shown on Saturday November 18th at at 3:00pm. More than my paper, I really hope people can spare a few minutes to come and see the film!

Maia will be around for another conference and might make it to the party if she can sneak away for a few hours.

In another post I will discuss plans (or the lack thereof) to promote Open Access at this year’s AAA.

Finally, we’d love to hear from our readers! If any of you have panels, posters, films, or other activities planned for the AAA, please let us know in the comments. Its great to just show up at the party, but even better if we have a chance to see each other at work!

3 thoughts on “Savage Minds at AAA 2006

  1. These sound like great sessions. I’m co-organizing a session on Friday morning at 8am called Beyond E-Text: Exploring the challenges and possibilities of Digital Ethnography. Many of the presentations will feature some interesting experiments in hypermedia. My own presentation will explore the possibilities and challenges that various “Web 2.0” technologies might offer for ethnography. I’ll be sure to mention Savage Minds!

  2. Dr. Jason James (University of Mary Washington) and I have organized and submitted a panel for the American Anthropological Association Meeting in November:
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    Ethnographies of Preservation: The Contemporary Politics of Architectural Heritage

    4:00 PM to 5:45 PM

    Willow Glen III-2nd Flr-Marriott San Jose

    This is a panel on the politics of historic preservation as an aspect of urban renewal. Although heritage conservation has become a prominent subject of ethnographic study, the preservation of historic buildings, neighborhoods, and urban morphologies has not received as much careful attention. At the same time, preservation now plays an important role in many renewal and redevelopment schemes.

    Papers are focused on the politics of preservation in the narrower sense, but also address issues of authenticity, bureaucracy, identity, class conflict, and cultural property. Robert Rotenberg is on board as a discussant. A full abstract is available at http://www.susanmazur.com.

  3. Given this summers reading group on Friction here at SM, some of you might be interested in the roundtable discussion on the book I am chairing “Discussing Friction: Engaging with Anna Tsing’s book, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection.” Panel members include: SM’s own Chris Kelty, Charles Hale, Charles Piot, Faye Ginsburg, Celia Lowe and Anna Tsing. It is scheduled for Thursday Nov. 16 4-5:45.

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