Committee on Public Policy

2009 AAA Annual Meeting Public Policy Events

Business Meetings
Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy (IGAPP)
Saturday, 12:15-1:30pm
Room 502, 5th floor
Organizer: Janine Wedel


Workshops
Public Policy as Anthropological Process: Strategy Development Using an Empowerment Model (requires preregistration)
Thursday, 10:30-12:30pm
Room 306, 3rd floor
Organizer: Kevin Preister

Legislative Advocacy Workshop (requires preregistration)
Friday, 8:00-10:00am
Room 304, 3rd floor
Organizer: Damon Dozier
*Currently sold out


Forums
Open Forum: Council on Anthropology and Education Policy Engagement Working Group
Thursday, 12:15-1:30pm
Room 406, 4th floor
Organizers: Kris Gutierrez; Teresa McCarty
Chair: Kris Gutierrez

Hope is not Enough: A Policy Forum Examining President Obama’s LGBT Civil Rights Policy Agenda (sponsored by CoPP)
Saturday, 1:45-3:30pm
Room 306, 3rd floor
Organizers: Gracia Clark; Michelle Marzullo
Chair: Michelle Marzullo

Professional Ethics and the Security Sector: A Dialogue with the Larger Anthropological Community (sponsored by CoPP)
Sunday, 8:00-9:45am
Grand Ballroom Salon A, 5th floor
Organizer: Monica Schoch-Spana
Chair: Robert Albro


Sessions
How Categories Affect Care: Expanding Opportunities or Limiting Care in Health Policy and Clinical Services
Wednesday, 8:00-9:45pm
Room 407, 4th floor
Organizers: Brandon Kohrt; Daniel Hruschka
Chair: Brandon Kohrt

The End(s) of Language: Language and Educational Policy
Thursday, 8:00-9:45am
Liberty Ballroom A, 3rd floor
Organizer: Annual meeting program committee
Chair: Silvia Nogueron

Food Security: Policy, People and Technology
Thursday, 1:45-3:30pm
Room 414, 4th floor
Organizer: Joan Mencher; Anita Spring
Chair: Joan Mencher

Ethnography and Language Policy – New Means, New Ends, New Times
Friday, 8:00-11:45am
Location: Grand Ballroom Salon II, 1st floor
Organizer: Teresa McCarty
Chairs: Teresa McCarty; Joseph Errington

Transnational Labor Migration: The Policy Nexus (organized by IGAPP)
Friday, 8:00-11:45am
Grand Ballroom Salon I, 5th floor
Organizer & Chair: Marietta Baba

Employee Free Choice Act (sponsored by CoPP)
Friday, 12:15-1:30pm
Grand Ballroom Salon II, 1st floor
Organizer & Chair: Paul Durrenberger

What if Policy Makers Listened to Anthropologists about Welfare Reform and Poverty?
Friday, 1:45-3:30pm
Room 413, 4th floor
Organizer & Chair: Sandra Morgen

Bureaucracy and Befuddlement: Policy and Imperfect Translation (organized by IGAPP)
Friday, 4:00-5:45pm
Grand Ballroom Salon K, 5th floor
Organizers: Heath Cabot; Jessica O’Reilly
Chair: Heather Hindman

Ethnographies of US Foreign Policy: War- and Democracy-Making under the Anthropological Lens
Saturday, 8:00-9:45am
Room 413, 4th floor
Organizer & Chair: Winifred Tate

Feminism and Social Policy: Diverse Perspectives
Saturday, 8:00-9:45am
Grand Ballroom Salon G, 5th floor
Organizer: Annual meeting program committee
Chair: Ellen Kintz

From Deep Description to Social Policy: Translating Anthropological Research into Advocacy for Latino Populations
Saturday, 8:00-9:45am
Grand Ballroom Salon IV, 1st floor
Organizer: Patricia Foxen
Chair: Debra Rodman

Making Cognitive Approaches in Environmental Anthropology Count: Bridging Findings to Policy
Saturday, 1:45-5:30pm
Room 502, 5th floor
Organizers: Susan Crate; Shirley Fiske; Michael Paolisso
Chairs: Susan Crate; Shirley Fiske

Beyond Policy Transfer: Transnational Translations and the Reconfiguring of Technocracy and Politics (organized by IGAPP)
Sunday, 8:00-9:45am
Room 305, 3rd floor
Organizer & Chair: Tara Schwegler

The Devil is in the Consequences: (Mis)Translating Social Policy into Practice
Sunday, 10:15-12:00pm
Room 414, 4th floor
Organizer: Nancy Gibson
Chair: Jamie Saris