We at the CASTAC Blog are very excited about many panels and events at this week’s Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 18-22 in Denver, CO. We’ve collected talks and panels of particular interest to CASTAC Blog readers attending the meetings. Hope to see you there, and don’t forget to attend our business meeting! There will be food!
Jordan Kraemer, Editor
Jenny Carlson and Nick Seaver, CASTAC Co-chairs
Wednesday, Nov. 18
Wednesday, 12:00 PM-1:45 PM
2-0175 TESTING AS WORLD-MAKING
Richard W Rottenburg, Uli Beisel, Sandra Calkins and Stacey A Langwick
Wednesday, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
2-0290 , 2-0460 ANTICIPATING FAMILIAR/STRANGE ENVIRONMENTS: THE SOCIAL LIVES OF SCIENTIFIC PREDICTIONS – PART I | PART II
Sophie Laura Haines, Sophie Laura Haines, Renzo Taddei and Susan Crate
Wednesday, November 18, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
Nick Seaver, Elizabeth A Rodwell, Orit Halpern (discussant), Shreeharsh Kelkar, Anna Jabloner, Alison Cool
Thursday, Nov. 19
Thursday, 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
3-1190 EXTREME HORIZONS: ANTHROPOLOGY OF PLANETARY AND POST-PLANETARY FRONTIERS
Jessica L O’Reilly, Juan Francisco Salazar, Jessica L O’Reilly, Juan Francisco Salazar and Valerie A Olson
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
3-1320 ETHNOGRAPHIC ENGAGEMENTS WITH DIGITAL ALTERITY I
Antonia Caitlin Walford, Rosemary Grennan, Amir Pouyan Shiva, Christopher Gad and Rachel Douglas-Jones, Hannah C Knox, Tom Boellstorff (discussant)
Friday, Nov. 20
Friday, 12:15-1:30 PM
4-0790 GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY DIVISION DISTINGUISHED LECTURE AND AWARDS CEREMONY – JONATHAN M. MARKS, DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Friday, 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
4-1285 BIG GRIDS: FLOWS AND FUTURES OF ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURES
Hannah Appel, Canay Ozden-Schilling and Stephanie Joy Friede
Friday, November 20, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
4-1380 ETHNOGRAPHIC ENGAGEMENTS WITH DIGITAL ALTERITY II
Antonia Caitlin Walford, Emma Garnett, Jonah Rimer, Jordan Kraemer, Rebekah Cupitt, Lindsay Poirier, Patricia G. Lange
Friday, 7:45-10:30 PM
4-1575 GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY DIVISION (GAD) RECEPTION
Saturday, Nov. 21
Saturday, 12:15-1:30 PM
5-0665 CASTAC BUSINESS MEETING
Jennifer D Carlson and Nick Seaver, Co-Chairs
Saturday, 4:00-5:45 PM
5-1090 STS AND ANTHROPOLOGY: REFLECTIONS ON 25 YEARS OF ENTANGLEMENT
Retrospective roundtable featuring Marisol de la Cadena, Joseph Dumit, Emily Martin, Lucy Suchman and Sharon Traweek
Saturday, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
5-0255 LAB, CLASSROOM, UNIVERSITY: SCIENCE STUDIES MEETS THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Eli Thorkelson, Ian P Lowrie, Eli Thorkelson and Donald Brenneis
Sunday, Nov. 22
Sunday, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
6-0005 ABUNDANT ENERGIES
Christine M Labuski, Jennifer D Carlson, Susie Hatmaker, Catherine Fennell, Stuart J McLean and Susan Lepselter
