Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology 

Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association

Washington , D.C. ; November 28 – December 2, 2007


 Preliminary Program (please check final schedule)

Wednesday, November 28

0-030   Subjects Incorporated:  Theorizing Corporations and Agency in Global Capitalism

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

0-043   Anthropologists Addressing Youth Violence in a Global Context

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

0-048   Cartographies of Difference: Mapping Urban Space

            2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

0-100   The Localized Utopias of Transnational Cultures

            4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

0-121   Making Anthropology Relevant: Anthropological Approaches to Equality in Today’s World

            6:00 PM - 7:45 PM

 Thursday, November 29

 1-006   Difference, (In)equality and Justice:  Locating Personhood and Place in the Commodity Landscape

            8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

1-028   Public Anthropology in a Borderless World

            8:00 AM - 11:45 AM

1-121   Global Downtowns

            1:45 PM - 5:30 PM

1-142   Fortress America : Migration from the Global South

            4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

1-159   Board Meeting

            6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

1-173   Poverty Work Group Meeting

            6:15 PM - 7:30 PM

Friday, November 30

2-042   Constructions of Cultural and Personal Identity within and across Borders: Tourism, Labor, and Migration

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

2-064   The Politics of Street Vending and New Economic Regimes of the Urban   South

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

2-079   Business Meeting

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

2-136   Workshop: DESIGNING AND TEACHING SUNTA-BASED INTRODUCTORY COURSES

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

2-157   NOT UNTOUCHABLE: RECENTERING THE MARGINS IN URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (PAPERS IN HONOR OF OWEN LYNCH)

            4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

2-166   Presidents' Reception (with AES and SCA)

7:15 PM - 9:00 PM

 Saturday, December 1

 3-008   Globalization and Resistance: The Perils of Neoliberal Development

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

3-031   What's Fair? Environmental and Social Justice Through Markets

8:00 AM - 11:45 AM

3-057   Notable Exceptions: Configurations of Belonging and Exclusion in Contemporary Urban Spaces

            10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

3-098   ETHNOGRAPHY AND POVERTY: EPISTEMOLOGY, THEORY, AND POLICY

1:45 PM - 3:30 PM

3-128   Enclaves and Exclusions: The Politics of Segregation

            4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

3-134   Race and Urban Space

            4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

3-137   The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Immigrant Experience

4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

3-138   The Place of Spectacle and the Spectacle of Place in Anthropology

4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

3-145   Anthropology of Space and Place

            6:15 PM - 7:30 PM

3-149   Committee on Refugees and Immigrants (CORI) Business Meeting

6:15 PM - 7:30 PM

 Sunday, December 2

 4-024   Urban Acrobats: Flexibility in the New Global Economy

            8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

4-026   Illicit and Informal Entrepreneurs: Fighting for a Place in the Neoliberal Economic Order

            8:00 AM - 11:45 AM

4-032   Anthropology from the Axis of Evil and Beyond

            10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

4-035   Blending In: Transnationalism and the Politics of Integration

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

4-041   Mapping a Space among Criticism, Consumption and Complicity: Ethnographic Experiences of American Power vis-a-vis the "War on Terror"

            10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

4-042   Neoliberalism and its Subjects: Risk, Fiscality and the Public                 

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

4-046   Transforming Inequalities: Neoliberal Development, Immigrants and Native Minorities in South Florida

            10:15 AM - 12:00 PM