Join us in Vancouver!

See below for a full schedule of the AFA’s Invited and Volunteered Sessions for the 2019 AAAs (November 20-24th)

Schedule:

AFA Board Meeting

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2 PM – 5 PM, Offsite

Feminist Anthropology Editorial Board Meeting

Friday, Nov. 22, 2:30 PM – 4 PM, Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Malaspina

Joint Reception – ABA/AFA/AfAA/ALLA/AQA/NASA/SANA/SUNTA

Friday, Nov. 22, 8 PM – 11 PM, Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Cypress Suite

AFA Awards Ceremony and Business Meeting

Saturday, Nov. 23, 10:15 AM – 12 PM, West, Room 217

We collaborated with five other sections to co-sponsor five panels and two roundtables:

Feminists Revisit the Anthropology of State & Citizenship

[Panel co-sponsored with APLA]

Thursday, Nov. 21, 10:15 AM – 12 PM, West, Room 116

Opting Out, Part I: Women Evading Marriage around the World
[Panel co-sponsored with AES]

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2 PM – 3:45 PM, West, Room 203

Opting Out, Part II: Women Evading Marriage around the World
[Panel co-sponsored with AES]

Thursday, Nov. 21, 4:15 PM – 6 PM, West, Room 203

Black Queer Feminisms: A State of the Field Review
[Roundtable co-organized and co-sponsored with ABA & AQA]

[Follow-up to our 2017 Live Annual Review event in DC]

Friday, Nov. 22, 10:15 AM – 12 PM, West, Ballroom B

Thirty Years after Contested Lives: Abortion Politics on the World Stage

[Roundtable co-sponsored with SMA]

Friday, Nov. 22, 10:15 AM – 12 PM, West, Room 208

Constance Sutton’s Caribbeanist Anthropology, Part I: Plantations, Peasantries, and Transnationalism
[Panel co-sponsored with ABA]

Friday, Nov. 22, 2 PM – 3:45 PM, West, Room 203

Constance Sutton’s Caribbeanist Anthropology, Part II: Plantations, Peasantries, and Transnationalism
[Panel co-sponsored with ABA]

Friday, Nov. 22, 4:15 PM – 6 PM, West, Room 203

We are not hosting our traditional mentoring events this year, however we are supporting four practice-oriented sessions, a roundtable and three workshops:

(Roundtable) Changing Chilly Climates: Canadian and US Perspectives on Anthropological Collaborations Around Sexual Violence Prevention

Saturday, Nov. 23, 8 AM – 9:45 AM, West, Room 101 & 102

(Workshop) Stand Up and Speak Out to Eliminate Violence and Harassment in Anthropology

Thursday, Nov. 21, 8 AM – 10 AM, East, Room 14

(Workshop) Creating Safer Learning Environments: Best Practices for Implementation

Friday, Nov. 22, 8 AM – 10 AM, East, Room 19

(Workshop) #DecolonizeDocs: A Feminist Filmmaking Works-in-progress Workshop

[In collaboration with SVA]

Friday, Nov. 22, 1 PM – 5 PM, East, Room 18

AFA programming includes ten additional sessions (four built from individually volunteered papers):

The New Ethnographer: Designing New Approaches to Impediments in Fieldwork

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM, West, Room 221

Teaching in Justice: Changing Climates in/through the Anthropology Classroom

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2:15 PM – 4 PM, West, Room 218

Affect, Ethics, and the Politics of Suffering

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2:15 PM – 4 PM, West, Room 219

Hierarchies of Care: Relatedness, Agency, and Vulnerability

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 4:30 PM – 6:15 PM, West, Room 218

With a Riata in Her Hand: Honoring the Scholarship of Beverly Stoeltje

Thursday, Nov. 21, 8 AM – 9:45 AM, West, Room 118

Romancing the Lie: Deceit and Love under Late Capitalism

Saturday, Nov. 23, 10:15 AM – 12 PM, West, Room 103 & 104

Enabling Solidarity Practices: Commitments to Transnational Feminist, Cuir, & Queer Activism

Saturday, Nov. 23, 2 PM – 3:45 PM, West, Room 101 & 102

Beyond Rights and Freedoms: Envisioning Radical Horizons of Sexual and Reproductive Justice

Saturday, Nov. 23, 4:15 PM – 6 PM, West, Room 110

Neoliberal Embodiments and (Dis)identifications

Sunday, Nov. 24, 8 AM – 9:45 AM, West, Room 114

Women’s Movements in the National Order of Things

Sunday, Nov. 24, 10:15 AM – 12 PM, West, Room 114