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Here is the annual list of Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) Sessions at the 2019 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting (Vancouver, Canada). Selected non-EAS Sessions and events of interest from Wednesday through Saturday are also included. Events are listed by day, time, title, session number, section, and location. Use the session number to index more information available from the online PDF program or interactive program. Select mentoring events are marked by (**). EAS Sessions are in bold. We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
Section Abbreviations: BAS: Biological Anthropology Section; SAS: Society for Anthropological Sciences
Wednesday, November 20th
10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Community-Based Research—an ALLA Mentoring Session (3-0415**)
Convention Center (CC) East Meeting Level, Room 82:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Ask a Search Committee: Advice for Academic Job Hunters (3-0715**)
CC East Meeting Level, Room 86:15 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
AAA/CASCA Opening Ceremony: Creating Harmonious Environments with Douglas Cardinal (2-0655)
CC West Level 1, Ballroom A
Thursday, November 21st
8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Climates of Continuity, Conservation, and Physical Constitution (3-0045, BAS)
CC West, Room 1108:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
The “Ethno” in Ethnoprimatology: Evolving Methods in an Evolving Field (3-0205, BAS)
CC West, Room 2208:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Transforming the Curriculum: Toward a Contemporary Cognitive Anthropology (3-0250, SAS)
CC West, Room 22110:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Growing up in Times of Stress: Factors Influencing the Embodiment of Struggle in Childhood (3-0495, BAS)
CC West, Room 101 & 10210:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
In the Same Room: a Subfield Conversation on Best Practice Planning to Change Institutional Climates on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (3-0498, Late-Breaking Session)
CC West Level 1, Ballroom B4:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Geopolitical Contexts (and Conflicts) Related to Archaeological and Bioanthropological Knowledge Production: the Case of Ancient DNA Research from the North American Region (3-1080, BAS)
CC West, Room 2214:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Leadership, Status and Social Change in Biosocial Perspective (3-1125, EAS)
CC East, Room 11
Friday, November 22nd
10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Biological Normalcy: Investigating Relationships between Statistical Norms and Normative Views (4-0320, BAS)
CC West, Room 11210:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Publishing Strategies for Grad Students (That your Advisor Doesn’t Know) (4-0455**)
CC East Meeting Level, Room 812:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
BAS Business Meeting (4-0660, BAS)
CC West, Room 1194:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Two Decades In: Changing Climate of Evolutionary Anthropology Research in the New Millennium (4-1330, EAS)
CC West, Room 2144:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Ethnographic Field and Data Analysis Methods: One-on-One Mentoring (4-1165**, SAS)
CC East Meeting Level, Room 124:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Bio-Cultural Explorations of Stress, Caregiving, and Malnutrition in North and South America (4-1095, BAS)
CC West, Room 1126:15 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
AAA Business Meeting (4-1345)
CC West Level 1, Ballroom A8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
BAS Distinguished Lecture and Awards Ceremony (4-1375, BAS)
Distinguished Lecture: Agustin Fuentes; Howells Book Award: Richard Bribiescas
Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Pacific Rim 1
Saturday, November 23rd
8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Human Health and Reproduction in a Globalizing World: Biocultural Adaptation to Social and Ecological Change (5-0135, EAS)
CC East Meeting Level, Room 78:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Cultural Models, Cultural Knowledge, Consensus and Decisions (5-0070, SAS)
CC East Meeting Level, Room 118:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Cultural Models, Primary Food Producers, and Climate Change: Reaching out to Policy Makers (5-0075, SAS)
CC East Meeting level, Room 138:00 a.m.–9: 45 a.m.
Challenge: Examining, Interpreting, and Presenting Sociality (5-0040, BAS, SAS)
CC West, Room 30610:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Changing Climates in the Study of Sex and Gender: New Insights on Old Theories (5-0350 BAS, Central States Anthropological Society)
CC West, Room 30610:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
The Legacy and Future of Cultural Consonance: William Dressler’s impact on cultural anthropology, theory, and methods (5-0525, SAS)
CC West, Room 21412:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
EAS Business Meeting (5-0660, EAS)
CC West, Room 11912:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
SAS Business Meeting (5-0685, SAS)
CC West, Room 304 & 30512:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
Anthropology of Children & Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) Business Meeting (5-0630)
(*seeking more input and representation from biological anthropology and other subdisciplines at next ACYIG conference)
CC West, Room 2162:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Behavioral Ecology of Social Ties and Social Structure I: Reputations, Kinship and Other Multiplex Relations (5-0760, EAS)
CC West, Room 2082:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Navigating Public Engagement and Media on the Tenure Track (5-0880**, BAS)
CC East Meeting Level, Room 82:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Indigenous Self-Determination and Settler Colonial Conflicts (5-0858 Late-Breaking Session)
CC West, Room 2104:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Behavioral Ecology of Social Ties and Social Structure II: Exchange, Institutions and Risk Management (5-1055, EAS)
CC West, Room 2084:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Changing and Collaborative Climates of Well-being: Lesser Known Cultural Impacts on Health
(5-1070, BAS, Society for Medical Anthropology)
CC West, Room 1114:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Anthropologists at the Frontlines of the Opioid Epidemic: Changing the Climate of Care and Policy throughout Canada and the United States (5-1025, SAS)
CC West, Rooms 101 and 1026:15 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
AAA Presidential Address: Delivered by Alex Barker (5-1260)
CC West Level 1, Ballroom A
Melanie Martin is an assistant professor of biological anthropology at the University of Washington and is co-editor of the EAS section news column with Katie Starkweather.
Cite as: Martin, First. 2019. “Evolutionary Anthropology at the 2019 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting.” Anthropology News website, November 6, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1304