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The following list serves to highlight content either relating to Armenian studies or presented by scholars of Armenian heritage at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, which will run from November 16-20, 2011, in Montreal.
This list is not necessarily comprehensive. For details and to verify times, please visit http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
12:00-13:45 - Writing Ethnography: Experimenting on Paper, Experimenting Online
Organizers: Sophia Balakian (Illinois) & Alma Gottlieb (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chair: Sophia Balakian (Illinois)
Discussant: Kirin Narayan (Wisconsin Madison)
12:15
Mapping a Lost Friend: Technology and Tracing a Transnational Life
Sophia Balakian (Illinois)
13:15
Discussant
Kirin Narayan (Wisconsin Madison)
Thursday, November 17, 2011
8:30 - Legacies of Witnesses and Accomplices
Maria M Six-Hohenbalken
10:15-12:00 - Understanding Narratives of Horror: Anthropological and Inter and Post-Disciplinary Perspectives
Organizers: Sima Aprahamian (Concordia) & Michiko Aramaki (Concordia)
Chair: Nellie Hogikyan (Québec à Montréal)
Discussants: Nellie Hogikyan (Québec à Montréal)
10:30
Bearing Witness to Disappearing Traces: Remembering the Genocide of the Armenians of 1915
Sima Aprahamian (Concordia)
11:15
"They Did All Sorts of Horrific Things": Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide
Arda J. Melkonian (UCLA)
11:45
Discussant
Nellie Hogikyan (Québec à Montréal)
Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-15:30
13:45-15:30 - Traces of the Image: A Roundtable Discussion on Visual Ethics
Roundtable Presenters:
Cordelia Eddy (The New School), Jeffrey David Ehrenreich (New Orleans), Adam A Solomonian (British Columbia) and Mabel Sabogal (South Florida)
19:45-21:00 - Whatever Happened to Micro-Ethnography and Ethnography in the Anthropology of Education? : Reflections on the Teaching and Research of Frederick Erickson
Organizers: Doris Kathy Melkonian (UCLA) and Arda J. Melkonian (UCLA)
Chairs: Arda J. Melkonian (UCLA) and Doris Kathy Melkonian (UCLA)
Presenters:
Hugh Mehan (UC San Diego), Thea R Abu El-Haj (Rutgers), Bryan M Brayboy (Arizona State), Katherine Schultz (Mills College), Jeffrey Shultz (Arcadia University) and (Michigan State)
Saturday, November 19, 2011
13:45-17:30 - Documentary Futures
13:45-17:30 - What is Left Behind: Subjectivity in the Shadow of Remnants
16:00-17:45 - The Situated Ethnographer and the Politics of Analytical Legibility: Anthropological Analyses of Dispossession, Activism and Conflict
Sunday, November 20, 2011
8:00-9:45 - Language and Identity: from Individual to Community
12:15-14:00 - Forms of Political Violence
Chair: Laura Eramian (Dalhousie)
13:00
Political Violence and the Production of Inequality: Secrecy and Concealment in a Small Rwandan Town
Laura Eramian (Dalhousie)
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