2015 Annual Meeting

The 114th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association was held from November 18-22, 2015 in Denver. Below are the panels and events sponsored by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA). Please click through for detailed scheduling information, paper titles, and abstracts.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2015

2:00 PM-3:45 PM (Mineral Hall E, Hyatt Regency)
2-0370 CULTURES OF DIFFERENCE: THE EVERYDAY MAKINGS OF HETERONORMATIVITY
Veronique Gilbert, Willemijn Krebbekx Carol Chan, Matthew McGuire, Josh L Carney, Sertac Sehlikoglu, John Cho

4:00 PM-5:45 PM (Capital Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency)
2-0525 ETHNOGRAPHIC INTIMACIES: TOWARDS A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF POSTCOLONIAL SEXUALITIES
Paul Boyce, Aniruddha Dutta, Rohit Kumar Dasgupta, Katherine Lemons, Ila Nagar, Debanuj DasGupta

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015

8:00 AM-9:45 AM (Room 404, Colorado Convention Center)
3-0070 QUEERING REGIMES OF DOMINANCE
Jeffrey Roy, Kyohei Itakura, Michael Connors Jackman, Mary Hope Emanuelson, Andrea Stevenson Allen, Ryan Plis

1:00 PM-2:30 PM (Room 204, Colorado Convention Center) 3-0750 AQA BOARD MEETING

1:45 PM-3:30 PM (Room 704, Colorado Convention Center)
3-0890 TABOO REVISITED: RECONSIDERING THE EROTICS OF FIELDWORK IN THE 21ST CENTURY (Invited)
Joseph Jay Sosa, Sarah L Luna, Dredge Byung’chu Kang, Keith McNeal, Katherine Frank

4:00 PM-5:45 PM (Room 704, Colorado Convention Center)
3-1225 DECOLONIZING QUEERNESS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (Invited)
Erin L Durban, Annie K Wilkinson, Ana Maurine Lara, Marcia Ochoa

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015

8:00 AM-9:45 AM (Mineral Hall D, Hyatt Regency)
4-0295 FRONTIER SEXUALITIES, FRONTIER SELVES
Rhett Epler, Tiantian Zheng, Austin M. Morgan, Susan C Dewey, Timothy McCajor Hall

10:15 AM-12:00 PM (Room 406, Colorado Convention Center)
4-0405 IN THE NAME-OF-THE-FATHER: QUEER RELATION TO AUTHORITY
Asli Zengin, Rustem Ertug Altinay, Zach Levine, William Billy Hebert, Tamar R Shirinian, John Borneman

10:15 AM-12:00 PM (Mineral Hall E, Hyatt Regency) 4-0625 QUEER PLEASURE, QUEER WORK
Heidi Hoefinger, Srorn Srun, Pisey Ly, Ray Siebenkittel, Victor Trofimov, Hoching Jiang, Gregory C Mitchell

12:15 PM-1:30 PM (Room 401, Colorado Convention Center) AQA BUSINESS MEETING

7:45 PM-9:00 PM (Capital Ballroom 3, Hyatt Regency) AQA RECEPTION

8:00 PM-11:00 PM (Capital Ballroom 4, Hyatt Regency) ABA-AFA-ALLA-AQA-SANA-SAW-SLACA-SUNTA JOINT RECEPTION

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2015

8:00 AM-9:45 AM (Capital Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency)
5-0235 QUEERYING PALESTINE
Kamala Visweswaran, Sofian Merabet, Erica L Williams, Shaka P McGlotten, Roshanak Kheshti,, Haneen Maikey, Dana Olwan

10:15 AM-12:00 PM (Capital Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency)
5-0585 QUEERING ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: ANALYTICS, DEVICES AND INVESTMENTS AFTER MARILYN STRATHERN
Silvia Posocco, Thomas Hendriks, Hadley Z Renkin, Ej Gonzalez-Polledo, Paul Boyce

1:45 PM-3:30 PM (Mile High 4D, Colorado Convention Center)
5-0950 BEYOND THE CLOSET: GLOBAL QUEER RITES OF PASSAGE
Denis M Provencher, Teresa E. P. Delfin, Jonathan Jimenez, Joseph C Russo, Crystal L Biruk, Ryan Richard Thoreson

4:00 PM-5:45 PM (Centennial E, Hyatt Regency)
5-1280 BELIEF SYSTEMS, SEXUALITIES, QUEER SUBJECTIVITIES
Julie Regan, Robert F Phillips, Brian Adams-Thies, Michael J Lecker, Jonathan Burrow-Branine, Richard J Martin