The 2012 Program Chair and President-Elect, Billie Jean Isbell, and many members of SHA have mounted a full program for the AAA meetings in San Francisco. The highlights are listed below, and the full program will appear by clicking on the following link: http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2012/webprogrampreliminary/SHA.html
SHA Awards Ceremony is Friday evening 8-9:15 pm. Learn who won the Turner, Ethnographic Writing and Poetry prizes for 2012 (4-1185)
SHA Invited Sessions
Thursday
8-9:45 am “Literary Ethnography: Anthropology that Breaks Borders and Breaks Your Heart,” Elizabeth L. Krause, Melisa (Misha) S. Sahnmann-Taylor organizers (3-0010)
Friday
8-11:45 am “The Ethnographer’s Craft: Works Inspired by Ruth Behar I,” Vanessa J. Díaz Erica Lehrer, Ellen E. Moodie, Ruth Behar and Renato Rosaldo organizers (4-0165)
SHA Sponsored Sessions
Wednesday
2-5:45 pm “Sensing the Political: Materiality, Aesthetics, and Embodiment,” Frances E. Mascia-Lees, M. Nell Quest, Yael Navaro-Yashin, and Alex Hilton
organizers (2-0475)
4-5:45 pm “Ethnography of Imaginary Cultures: Storied Innovations,” Roger Ivar Lohmann, and Rena Lederman organizers (2-0580)
4-5:45 pm “Crossing Borders with Miles Richardson: Teacher, Scholar Poet, Provocateur,” Helen A. Regis, Matt Samson, and James Peacock organizers (2-0590)
Thursday
10:15-12:00 pm “Aesthetics and Advocacy” (3-0435)
10:15-12:00 pm “The Restless Anthropologist: Crossing Borders to New Fieldsites,” Virginia R. Dominguez, Alma Gottlieb, and Paul Stoler organizers (3-0300)
1:45-3:30 pm “Species of Non-Said: Linguistic and Other Tricks to Live, Feel and Know the Ineffable,” Bernard Bate, Marko Aivkovic, and James W. Fernandez organizers (3-0700)
SHA Special Events
Thursday
8-9:15 pm “A Conversation with Writer, Rebecca Solnit, and Anthropologists Brian Palmer, Yana Stainova and Andrew Buckser,” hosted by Billie Jean Isbell (3-1125)
Friday
6:15-7:30 pm “Secret Conspiracy of Hope: A Multimedia Show” with Brian Palmer, and Billie Jean Isbell (4-1025)
SHA Workshops
Thursday
9-11:OO am “Getting an Article Published in a Peer-Reviewed Journal” with Michael Harkin and Geroge Fitspatrick Mentore (3-0245) registration required
Friday
3-5:00 pm “SHA Poerty Workshop” with Renato I. Rosaldo (4-0845) registration required
Saturday
1-3:00 pm “Writing Ethnography” with Alma Gottlieb and Phillip Graham (5-0630) registration required
3-5:00 pm “Crafting Narrative Ethnography” with Julia Offen (5-0905) (registration required)
SHA Round Tables
Wednesday
12-1:45 pm “Music, Art, Narrative and Fiction” with Sadiah Nynke Boonstra (2-0215)
SHA Writer’s Group
Thursday
8-9:15 pm James M. Taggart and Renato I. Rosaldo (3-1120)
