The American Ethnological Society is sponsoring several sessions at the upcoming American Anthropological Association's annual meeting. Please note that locations will be added as they become available.

AES Business Meeting
Thursday, November 29
6:15-8:30 pm
Wilson C
Sharon Stephens Book Award
Senior Book Award
Discussion of Section Assembly Representation and Other Business

Panel on AES Resolution on Anthropology and the Military/Iraq War, Concerned Anthropology Network Pledge
Discussants: Marshall Sahlins, Catharine Lutz, David Price
Location and Time TBA
Please Come and Discuss with Us!!

AES Reception with SUNTA/SCA
Friday, November 30
7:15 pm
Virginia Suite A
All Welcome ! Please Come!

AES INVITED SESSIONS

Anthropological Research for Social Movements: Building a Collaborative Research Agenda Towards Social Equity, Part 1
Chair: Karen Brodkin
Participants: Harriet
Rosenberg, Ruth W Gilmore, Karen L Ishizuka, Hilary Cunningham, Lynn M Stephen, Wende E Marshall, Svetlana A. Peshkova, Sam Beck, Fabian Frenzel
Thursday, November 29
8:00am – 12:00
AAA Presidential Co-sponsor

Expeditions: Anthropology
and Popular Culture, Reinventing First Contact
Organizers: Joshua Bell and Alison Brown
Chair: John P. Homiaka
Participants: Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Amy Staples, Alison Griffiths, Joshua Bell, Alison Brown, Daniel Bradburd, Lamont Lindstrom, James Fitzsimmons, Peter Geller, Robert Gordon, Lauren van Vuuren
Discussants: Peter S. Allen, Henrika Kuklick
Thursday, November 29
8:00– 11:45 am
Co-sponsored with the Society for Visual Anthropology

The Insecure American
Organizers/Chairs:
Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Bestemen
Participatns: Catherine Lutz, Janine Wedel, Susan Hirsch, David Graeber, Christine Walley, Lee Baker, Setha Low, Brett Williams, Joseph Dumit, Tanya Luhrmann, Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Discussants: Robert Borofsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eugene Robinson, Derrick Jackson
Thursday, November 29
1:45 – 5:30 pm
Co-sponsored with the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA)

Racial Passing and Performance in the 21 st Century
Organizer/Chair: Melissa Schrift
Participants: Kimberly E Simmons, Circe Sturm, Melissa Schrift, Nitasha T Sharma, Andrea Louie, Susan Hangen, Paul Silverstein
Discussants: C Richard King, Ghassan J Hage
Saturday, December 1
8:00 – 11:45 am
Co-sponsored with Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA)

The Nice thing about Relations is that Everyone Has Them
Panel in Honor of Marilyn Strathern
Organizers: Debbora Battaglia, Melissa Demian, Ilana Gershon
Participants: Donna Haraway, Sarah Franklin, Anna Tsing, Rena Lederman, Sally Engle Merry, Kirin Narayan, Katherine Verdery, Carol Greenhouse
Discussants: Donald Brenneis, Annelise Riles, Debbora Battaglia
Saturday, December 1
1:45 – 5:30 pm
AAA Presidential Co-sponsor

For a full schedule of all sessions, please see the AAA2007 Program website.