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SAE at AAA 2025 in New Orleans

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Join us at the following SAE-sponsored events at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans! Please check back soon for further details.

EVENTS

SAE Mentoring Event
Thursday, Nov. 20 8:00-9:45 a.m.
Sheraton, Oak Alley (4th fl)
Intended especially for students and early career scholars

SAE Douglass Book Prize Award
Friday, Nov. 21 7:00 p.m.
Marriott Studio 9

Douglass Distinguished Lecture, featuring  Lea Ypi (LSE)
Friday, Nov. 21 7:30 p.m.
Marriott Studio 9

SAE Reception
Friday, Nov. 21 9:00-10:00 p.m.
Marriott Studio 9

SAE Business Meeting
Saturday, Nov. 22 12:45-1:45 p.m.
Sheraton Crescent (4th fl)

SPONSORED PANELS

Anthropology under Authoritarianism – SAE and CUAA
Thursday, Nov. 20, 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Marriott Studio 1

Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe
Friday, Nov. 21, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
Sheraton Napoleon BR D3 (3rd fl)

Ghost Routes: The Haunting Realities of Mediterranean Border Deaths
Saturday, November 22, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Marriott Galerie 4

Society for the Anthropology of Europe Flash Session #1
Friday, Nov. 21, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
Marriott Balcony N

ADDITIONAL SAE PANELS

Rising Specters of the Right
Thursday, Nov. 20 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. 
Sheraton, Napoleon BR C2 (3rd fl)

Commoning within and outside the state: building communities to respond to multiple crises
Thursday, Nov. 20 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Sheraton Napoleon BR B1 (3rd fl)

Roundtable /Town Hall The Futures of Anthropology
Thursday, Nov. 20 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Napoleon BR B3 (3rd fl)

The Legacy of Ernesto de Martino (Part I):  Being with Others – Other Humans and the More-than-Human
Friday, Nov. 21 10:15-11:45
Marriott Balcony M

The Legacy of Ernesto de Martino (Part II):  Rituals and Temporalities
Friday, Nov. 21, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Marriott Balcony

Exceptions to Exceptionalism: Toward a New Anthropology of France
Saturday, November 22, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Marriott Studio 10

Ghosts of the Past, Spirit of Place, and the Politics of Memory
Saturday, November 22, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Sheraton Napoleon BR B1 (3rd fl)

Haunting environments in and beyond the Mediterranean: Restoring human and more-than-human relationalities
Saturday, November 22, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
Marriott Studio 10

Law, Power, and Justice: Engaging the Book, ‘Moral Autopsy: Truths, Secrets, and the Judicial Afterlives of Communist Secret Service Archives’
Saturday, November 22, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
Sheraton Orpheus (8th fl) (access via elevator only)

Making Media of Value in Transnational Turkey, Greece, and Germany 
Saturday, November 22, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
Sheraton Oak Alley (4th fl)

Spirits, Stories, and the Affective Power of Place in Tourism
Saturday, November 22, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
Sheraton Napoleon BR B1 (3rd fl)

Haunting Narratives and Practices in Institutional Spaces
Saturday, November 22, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Marriott Studio 10