1997 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Preliminary Program [Compiled by Jay Ruby]
Tuesday, November 18 Morning Sessions 9:00 am-6:00 pm Visual Research Conference (Society for Visual Anthropology) Chair: Thomas D Blakely. Panelists: Joanna Cohan Scherer, Allison Jablonko, Simon Kagan, Deborah Barnt, Thomas D Blakely, Barbara Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, November 19 9:00 am-2:00 pm Visual Research Conference (Society for Visual Anthropology) Chair: Thomas D Blakely. Panelists: Joanna Cohan Scherer, Allison Jablonko, Simon Kagan, Deborah Barnt, Thomas D Blakely, Barbara Michael. 12:00 pm-1:45 pm Cultural Politics and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life. Chair: Frances E Mascia-Lees. Papers: Frances E Mascia-Lees and Patricia Sharpe, Eric Kline Silverman, Scott A Lukas, Garth L Green, Pamela G Smart, C Scott Littleton. 12:00 pm-3:45 pm Theme Parks and Cultural Centers: Logics, Economies and Identities. Organizer: Tamar Gordon. Chair: Tamar Gordon. Papers: Dru C Gladney, Karen Kelsky, Stuart A Kirsch, Geoffrey White, Tamar Gordon, Aviad Raz, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Bruce R Caron, Joy Hendry, Arlene Davila, Nick Stanley. Discussants: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblet, Jane Desmond, Ivan Karp. 2:15 pm-4:00 pm Sharing the Dance: Essays on Performance in Memory of Cynthia J Novak. Organizer: Zoila Mendoza, Gregory J Downey. Chair: Susan Seizer. Papers: Francesca Castaldi, Gregory J Downey, Zoila Mendoza, Sally Ness, Susan Seizer. Discussant: Jill D Sweet, Susan Foster. 2:15 pm-6:45 pm Film Screenings (Society for Visual Anthropology). Karen Kramer, Days of Awe, Amy Catlin and Nazir Jairazbhoy, Hmong Musicians in America: Interactions with Three Generations of Hmong-Americans, 1978-96, Shelagh Lubbock, Ndebele Women: The Rituals of Rebellion, Marsha Berman, Singsing Tumbuan (Mask Dance) excerpt. 4:15 pm-6:00 pm Invited Session: Current Visual Research: Using Images for Investigative Purposes (Society for Visual Anthropology) Organizer: Emilie De Brigard. Chair: Emilie De Brigard. Papers: Joanna C Scherer, Amanda Grunden, Ronald P Toby, Richard Chalfen, David W Plath. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday Evening Sessions 6:30 pm-8:15 pm Mimesis, Bodies, and Modernity: The Perception and Performance of Simulacra at the Turn of the Century. Organizers: Uli Linke, Allen Feldman. Chair: Uli Linke. Papers: Paul Stoller, Christoph Wulf, L F Hogle, Uli Linke, Jonas Frykman. Discussant: Allen Feldman. 6:30 pm-10:15 pm Divine Intervention: Missionaries and Indigenous Art. Organizers: Molly Lee, Enid S Schildkrout. Chairs: Molly Lee, Enid S Schildkrout. Papers: David Binkley, Patricia Darish, Alisa La Gamma, Christina Kreps, L T Black, Nelson H Graburn, Deanna M Kingston, Molly Lee. Discussants: Enid S Schildkrout, Nelson H Graburn, Raymond D Fogelson. 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. Presentation of Awards with brief clips of award-winning productions. Chair: Emilie de Brigard. 8:45 pm-10:30 pm Objects at Loose. Organizers: Lindsay Cole French, Kenneth M George. Chair: Kenneth M George. Papers: Christopher B Steiner, Lorraine V Aragon, Lindsay Cole French, Daphne J Berdahl, Kenneth M George. Discussant: Bruce McCoy Owens, Nicholas Thomas. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, November 20 Morning Sessions 8:00 am-9:45am Imaging Performance: "Authenticity" and the Place of Ethnography in Globalization Progress. Organizers: Michelle Bigenho, Halbert E Barton. Chairs: Michelle Bigenho, Halbert E Barton. Papers: Kazuko E Yamazaki, Halbert E Barton, Daniel Ferguson, Michelle Bigenho, Michelle Kisliuk. Discussant: Marina Roseman. Commodities, Consumption and Tourism. Chair: Rebecca J Tolen. Papers: Rebecca J Tolen, Teresa J Wilkins, Kristin M Smith, Thomas Solomon, Eric A McGuckin. 8:00 am-11:45am Toward an Anthropology of Los Angeles: Global Village or Ethnic Enclaves? Organizers: Gabriele Kohpahl, Kye-Young Park. Chair: Gabriele Kohpahl. Papers: Gabriele Kohpahl, Bangele D Alsaybar, Julianne Baldwin, Annegret D Staiger, Greg Tanaka and Cindy Cruz, Janette M Bramlett, Rosemarie Ashamalla, Kye-Young Park, Bangele D Alsaybar, Janette M Bramlett. Discussants: Karen Brodkin, Roger Sanjek. 9:00 am-11:00 am Invited Session: Urban Planning and Design: Anthropological Perspectives. (Society for Urban Anthropology) Organizer: Matthew Cooper. Chair: Matthew Cooper. Posters: Susan R Dauria, Rae Anderson, Deborah Pellow, Vered Amit-Talai, Margaret Rodman. Invited Session: People and Their Surroundings: An Exploration of Place, Environment, and Culture. (Society for Visual Anthropology) Organizer: Malcolm Collier. Posters: Malcolm Collier, Suzanne C Levine. 10:15am-12:00 pm Transcultural Body Politics: Race, Sexuality, Place. Organizer: Lisa B Rofel. Chair: Lisa Yoneyama. Papers: Dorinne Kondo, Lisa Yoneyama, Lisa B Rofel, Lawrence Cohen, Jacqueline Brown. Discussant: George Lipsitz, Elizabeth A Povinelli. Sexualities, Bodies and Tranformations. Chair: Dawn M J Atkins. Papers: Susan Bullington, Cathy Lafferty, Maureen A Asten, Dawn M J Atkins, Adrianne S Dana, Amanda L Swarr, Eileen M Hayes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday Afternoon Sessions 12:15 pm-4:00 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. Film Screenings. Ron Kanter, Ian Fureman and David Metzger, We All Have Our Reasons, Sylvia Rhue, All God's Children, Raju Gurung and Anne Kaufman, Mystic Vision, Sacred Art, Rose Bond, A Celtic Trilogy (excerpt), Glenn Micallef and Lawrence Johnson, Mas Fever: Inside Trinidad Carnival, Juan Francisco Urrusti, A Long Journey to Guadalupe (El Pueblo Mexicano Que Camina) (excerpt). 1:45 pm-3:30 pm Invited Session: The New Computer Technologies: Is There a Third Genre for Anthropology? (Society for Visual Anthropology) Organizer: Carolyn H Brown. Chair: Carolyn H Brown. Papers: Melvin Ember and Carol R Ember and Peter Peregrine, Brian Schwimmer, Carolyn H Brown, Brenda Farnell, Peter Biella. 4:00 pm-9:00 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. 1997 Winners of an Award for Excellence. Doug MacDougall, Tempus de Baristas, Richard Gordon and Carma Hinston, The Gate of Heavenly Peace --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday Evening Sessions 6:15 pm-7:30 pm Visual Images of Schooling Around the World (CAE Committee #5: Transnational Issues in Education) Hosted reception follows the panel. Organizer: Colin Green. Chair: Colin Green. Society for Visual Anthropology. Board of Directors. 7:00 pm-8:00 pm Film and Video Open Screening. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, November 21 Morning Sessions 10:00 am-12:00 pm Workshop--Communicating Anthropology on the Web (National Association for the Practice of Anthropology) Attendance is by advance subscription. To register, please fill out the Workshop Registration Form. Leader: Merry Bruns. 10:15 am-12:00 pm Invited Session: The Anthropology of the Body in Europe: Current Trends and New Perspectives for the 21st Century (Society for the Anthropology of Europe) Organizer: Barbara Collins. Chair: Barbara Collins. Papers: Susanne Lundin, Carole M Counihan, Chaia L Heller, Christian Promitzer, Dorothy Noyes, George Saunders. Discussant: Mariella Pandolfi. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday Afternoon Sessions 12:15 pm-1:45 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. Student Awards. Denise Richards, Calaveras Student--Student Commendation, Christina Duculan, Sarah Diep, Aram Collier and Rudy Choy, Tenderloin Stories--Student Honorable Mention. 1:45 pm-6:00 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. 1997 Winners of an Award for Honorable Mention. Spencer Nakasako and Sokly Ny, AKA Don Bonus, Jeffrey Himpele and Quetzil Castaneda, Incidents of Travel at Chichen Itza, John Bishop and Naomi H Bishop, Himalayan Herders. 3:00 pm-6:00 pm Workshop--Digital Visual Anthropology (Society for Visual Anthropology) Attendance is by advance subscription. To register, please fill out the Workshop Registration Form. Leaders: Carol Hermer, Peter Biella. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday Evening Sessions 6:00 pm-7:30 pm Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt (Middle East Section) A panel of scholars, including a cultural anthropologist, an ethnomusicologist, and a visual anthropologist, will discuss the woman, her cultural impact as a symbol, and the film as a film. Organizer: Barbara J Michael. Chair: Soheir Morsy. 6:15 pm-7:30 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. Open Forum Members Meeting. Chair: Emile de Brigard. 7:30 pm-8:10 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. Film Screening. Maha Khatib, Then and Now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, November 22 Morning Sessions 8:00 am-9:45 am Exotic Dance: Fiction, Fantasy and Fact. Organizer: Judith Lynne Hanna. Chair: Judith Lynne Hanna. Papers: Robert C Allen, Lacey Sloan, Shelly Jane Manaster, Judith Lynne Hanna. Discussant: Ralph Bolton. Cultural Production and Identity: Images, Texts and Processes in Japanese Popular Media. Organizers: Joel Stocker, Elizabeth MacLachlan. Chair: Joel Stocker. Papers: Joel Stocker, Millie R Creighton, Hiroshi Aoyagi, Elizabeth MacLachlan, John L McCreery, Sayo Tsutsui. Discussant: Brett de Bary. 8:00 am-11:00 am Workshop--Uses of Photography, Video and Other Images in Everyday Research: A Visual Anthropology Clinic (Society for Visual Anthropology) Attendance is by advance subscription. To register, please fill out the Workshop Registration Form. Leaders: Malcolm Collier, Suzanne Levine. 8:00 am-11:45 am Invited Session: Museums for the 21st Century: Experimenting with Anthropology in the Public Sphere (Council for Museum Anthropology) Organizer: Alaka Wali. Chair: Naveeda Khan. Papers: Jonathan Haas, Ivan Karp, Alaka Wali, Jonathan M Marks, John J Bodinger de Uriarte, R Brian Ferguson, Mark P. Leone, Julia M Cruikshank and Tanya Argounova, C Nadia Seremetakis. Discussants: Pauline Turner Strong, Jean J Schensul, Angela M Gilliam, Michael L Blakey, Virginia Dominguez. The Cultural Production of Exclusion: Dramas of Contestation and the Public Sphere in the American South. Organizer: Donald M Nonini. Papers: Lesley D Bartlett, George D Baca, Enrique Murillo, Marla Frederick, Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Dorothy C Holland, Donald M Nonini, Catherine Lutz. 10:15 am-12:00 pm Invited Session: Indigenous Movements: Sources and Strategies of Self-Representation (Society for Latin American Anthropology) Organizers: Kay B Warren, Jean Jackson. Papers: Jean Jackson, David Gow and Joanne Rappaport, Victor D Montejo, Kay B Warren, James Howe, Laura Graham. Discussant: Alcida Rita Ramos. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday Afternoon Sessions 12:15 pm-2:15 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. 1997 Winners of an Award of Commendation. Susan Levitas, The Music District, K Daniel Friedman and Sharon Grimberg, Miss India Georgia. 1:45 pm-3:30 pm Re-Imagining Instructional Contexts: An Anthropological and Cross-Cultural Vision. Organizers: Elsa L Statzner, Gisela Ernst-Slavit. Chair: Elsa L Statzner. Papers: Xae Alicia Reyes, Pat Hulsebosch, Karen Froude-Jones, Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Cynthia Dillard. Discussant: Yali Zou. 1:45 pm-5:30 pm Entre la Pared y la Espalda: Visual and Alphabetic Literacy in the Formation of Colonial Culture. Organizers: Joanne Rappaport, Tom Cummins. Chair: Tom Cummins. Papers: Tom Cummins and Joanne Rappaport, Matthew Restall, Marta Zambrano, Regina Harrison, Carolyn Dean, Dana Leibsohn, Sabine MacCormack, Frank Salomone. Discussant: Michael Gerli, Bruce Mannheim. 2:15 pm-8:30 pm Society for Visual Anthropology. Film Screenings. Laurence A Goldin, This Land Is Ours, Nicholas Nicastro, Science or Sacrilege: Native Americans, Archaelogy and the Law, Les McLaren and Annie Stiven, Taking Pictures, Nicholas Kurzon, Sight Unseen, Asen Balikci, Old Mon Ibrahim, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans, Beate Engelbrecht and Manfred Krueger, Patamban: A Village of Potters--Daily Life of a Family (Michoacan, Mexico) (excerpt). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday Evening Sessions 6:15 pm-7:30 pm Anthropology of Space and Place. Chair: Setha Low. 7:00 pm-8:00 pm Film/Video Open Screening. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, November 23 Morning Sessions 8:00 am-9:45 am Gender, Performance and the Body. Organizer: Donna Goldstein. Chair: Donna Goldstein. Papers: Donna Goldstein, Maria L Massolo, Linda-Anne Rebhun, Eileen Rose Walsh, Patricia C Marquez, Sydney D White. Moving Experiences: Dance as Embodied Knowledge. Organizers: Mary M Doi, Anya Peterson Royce. Chair: Anya Peterson Royce. Papers: Anya Peterson Royce, Mary M Doi, Susan Foster, Nicholas L Baham, William Washabaugh. Discussant: Sally Ness. 8:00 am-11:45 am Policy Making and the Body: New Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Body Modifications. Organizers: Adrienne DeArmas, Beth E Kaminow. Chairs: Adrienne DeArmas, Beth E Kaminow. Papers: Adrienne DeArmas, D Angus Vail, Kenneth M Colson, Beth E Kaminow, Duane Voskuil, Isabelle R Gunning, Regina E Oboler, Helle Hinge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday Afternoon Sessions 12:15 pm-2:00 pm Museums and Representation: Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century. Chair: Jonathan Haas. Papers: Cory Carole Silverstein, Yvonne Teh, Hyup Choi, Eric P Kjellgren, Carol Ghiorsi Hart, Lee Davis, Rebecca Dobkins.