2025 Preliminary Program for the Society for Anthropological Sciences/Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings

[Anthropological Sciences]

The full preliminary program for the meetings is hosted by the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Below are the Society for Anthropological Science sessions:

Thursday, March 27

Community, Work, and Environmental Challenges in Northern Belize: Reporting on the 2024 Ethnographic Field School in Belize (SAS) — Broadway III, 9:00-10:45 am

• CHAIR: HUME, Douglas (NKU)
• ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: HUME, Douglas, BAKER, Lea, CAMPBELL, Corinne R., CROXTON, Claire, STONE, Maria, and WINTERS, Ripley

Innovative Methods across Diverse Topics and Settings (SAS) — Broadway III, 1:30-3:15 pm

• CHAIR: LYON, Stephen (Aga Khan U)
• FISCHER, Michael (HRAF Yale & U Kent) and RAVULA, Sridhar (HRAF Yale U) Ethnographic Models: Parametrizing Simulations From Ethnographic Data Using Generative AI
• AILYON, Stephen, WAHEED, Muhammad Saad Abbasi, ANWARALI, Aqsa, MURTAZA ALI, Zainab, and AHMED, Faiz (Aga Khan U) Navigating Urban Poverty in Karachi: Survival Strategies in a Global South Mega City
• THIANTHAI, Chulanee (Chulalongkorn U) En-visioning Technological Impacts by Utilizing Traditional Anthropological Research Methods With 6-3-5 Brainwriting, and Risk Map

Ethnographic Field and Data Analysis Methods: One-on-One Mentoring Event (SAS) — Broadway III, 3:45-5:30 pm

• CHAIR: HUME, Douglas (NKU)
• MENTORS: COPELAND, Toni (UA), LYON, Stephen (Aga Khan U), CHRISOMALIS, Stephen (Wayne State U), SKOGGARD, Ian (Yale U HRAF), DRESSLER, William and OTHS, Kathryn (UA), GATEWOOD, John (Lehigh U), LOWE, John (Cultural Analysis), SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR), DENGAH, Francois (FSU), THOMAS, Michael (Space Doctors)

Friday, March 28

Methodological Pluralism, Part I (SAS) — Broadway III, 9:00-10:45 am

• CHAIR:CHRISOMALIS, Stephen (Wayne State U)
• CHRISOMALIS, Stephen (Wayne State U) Building Methodological Pluralism Into Graduate Pedagogy
• THOMAS, Michael (Space Doctors) Vibes and Feels: Complementarity of Semiotic and Data Analysis for Materializing Cultural Model Hypotheses
• PERKINS, Carrie (Soka U) Immersive Methods: VR, Photogrammetry, and Multimodal Ethnography in Practice
• NAYLOR, Ryan (PSU) Sustainable Livelihoods and Sovereignty: Methodological Insights From Community-Engaged Research in Southeast Alaska

Methodological Pluralism, Part II (SAS) — Broadway III, 11:15 am-1:00 pm

• CHAIR: LEAF, Murray (UT Dallas)
• LEAF, Murray (UT Dallas) Experiments in Applied Anthropology
• YANG, Danlu (OR State U) Linguistic Plurality in a Global Structure of Inequality: From a Multinational Translation Project to World Anthropologies
• SHEVCHENKO, Anastasia V. (LAPCOS) Exploring the Idiographic-Nomothetic Dilemma to Develop Acculturation Theory: The Case for Monaco
• FRAYSER, Suzanne (Cultural Insights) The CCCCC: More Than Just an Old Project
• BURGER, Annetta (Oak Ridge Nat’l Lab) The Evolving Roles for Anthropologists in the Computational Social Sciences

SAS Business Meeting — Broadway III, 6:00-7:00 pm

• All are welcome!

SAS Reception — Broadway III, 7:00-8:30 pm

• All are welcome!

Saturday, March 28

Advancing Cultural Model Theory and Folding Affordance Theory, Part I (SAS) — Broadway III, 9:00-10:45 am

• CHAIR: BENNARDO, Giovanni (NIU)
• BENNARDO, Giovanni (NIU) Cultural Model Theory: A Polynesian Ontology
• DRESSLER, William (UA) A Common Understanding
• DENGAH, Francois (FSU) Culture, Motivation, and the Individual: A Cognitive Anthropological Approach to Behavior
• HERTZOG, Werner (U Zurich) Tzotzil-Maya Humoral Medicine: Cultural Consensus and Sensory Bases of Hot and Cold Food Categories

Advancing Cultural Model Theory and Folding Affordance Theory, Part II (SAS) — Broadway III, 11:15 am-1:00 pm

• CHAIR: DE MUNCK, Victor (Vilnius U)
• DE MUNCK, Victor (Vilnius U) Affordances That Complement Cultural Models of Normative Courtship Sequences
• GATEWOOD, John (Lehigh U) Thinking Is a Complex Activity
• SNOEK, Conor (U Lethbridge) Cognitive Artifacts and Cultural Models in Language Learning

[John Gatewood]

SAS Folks,

The email with a list of "SAS" events at the spring meetings in Portland has one omission. 

So, I am 'replying all' with the missing information, which concerns a SAS-sponsored workshop.

Regards,

John Gatewood

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Friday, March 28

Cultural Consensus Analysis  (SAS Workshop, Fee $50) --- Broadway II, 1:00-6:00 pm

• GATEWOOD, John (Lehigh U) and LOWE, John (Cultural Analysis)
• This workshop is an introduction to cultural consensus analysis and how to use it to study the social organization of knowledge. Topics include: the original problem that consensus analysis addresses; the "formal" versus "informal" methods and the kinds of data appropriate for each; the need to counter-balance items when using the informal method; using consensus analysis to study sub-cultural variation; how different distributional patterns of knowledge affect the key indicators of consensus; and the number of questions needed for reliable assessments of respondent-by-respondent similarity. Discussion of recent theoretical developments with CAA as time permits.

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