Watch this space as we compile a list of child- and youth-related sessions and events scheduled for the Minneapolis, MN AAA Annual Meeting.
For a full list of AAA events, visit the Full Program online.
| NOTE: Saturday, 11/19, 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM | ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH INTEREST GROUP (ACYIG) BUSINESS MEETING | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101B |
| NOTE: Thursday, 11/17, 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM | ACYIG sponsored panel: Language socialization in classrooms: Culture, interaction, and language development. Session Organizer: Matthew Burdelski. | Minneapolis Convention Center Room 101B. |
| Date | Title | Location |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Contextualizing Malnutrition: Health Discourses of Childhood Malnutrition and Food Insecurity in Vanuatu | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101I |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | In Flux and in Between: Youth Body Politics and Nahua and Teenek Youth Migration in Mexico | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200J |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | Neglected Adolescence: Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs of Adolescent Girls in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 210AB |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | Youth Music, Public Feeling, and Authoritarian Governance in Post-Mubarak Egypt | Hilton Room: Marquette VI |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Unequal and Contradictory Discourses of Trauma in U.S. Foster Care | Minneapolis Convention Center Room:200D |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Ordinary As Evidence of Teaching & Learning Among Mexican Deaf Youth | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101H |
| Wednesday, November 16, 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Tunisian Youth and Socialization into Political Awareness | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208B |
| Wednesday, November 16, 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Queer Interactions: Examining Youth and Politics in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200I |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Maintaining and Retaining the Best and the Brightest: Designated School Officials’ Role in the Migration Industry | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208C |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Who Are You Calling Indigenous? Maya Students Debate Notions of Indigeneity and Folklore | Hilton Room: Marquette IV |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Mortality in Taiwanese Child Brides | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102AB |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Reflections on a Community Pedagogical Model for Promoting Awareness of Child Sex Trafficking in Schools | Hilton Room: Salon D |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Latina Immigrant Mothers and Daughters Negotiating Pathways to Higher Education | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101I |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM | The Challenges of Visibility: Kathmandu’s Invisible Class and Sexy Girls | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208C |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Child Trafficking Awareness Education in a Rural K-8 Public School Context: An Insider’s Perspective | Hilton Room: Salon D |
| Wednesday, November 16, 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Evaluating the Effects of Maternal Social Status on Child Health in Amazonian Bolivia | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102AB |
| Wednesday, November 16, 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Civic Imagination and Possibilities of Public Spheres in Post-Conflict Cambodia: Youth, Digital Media, and Civic Participation | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101G |
| Wednesday, November 16, 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM | And the Children Shall Lead … Working in Tandem with South African Organizations | Hilton Room: Conrad C |
| Thursday, November 17, 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | “Yebowaine Is a Lie, Your Kitom Must be a Lie”: Youth Rebellion after Revival in Papua New Guinea | Hilton Room: Marquette VIII |
| Thursday, November 17, 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | Biologies Beyond the Nature/Nurture Divide: Materializing Absent Kinships in Japanese Child Welfare | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | School Choices for American-Born Children and Their Cousins in Senegal: Negotiating Redistribution and Responsibilities in Transnational Families | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101I |
| Thursday, November 17, 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM | Gifts, Trips, and Facebook Families: The Language of Kinship and Morality of Exchange Among Transnational Senegalese | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101I |
| Thursday, November 17, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM | CHILDHOOD(S) IN NEOLIBERAL INDIA: MEDIATING GENDERED ASPIRATIONS IN EDUCATIVE SPACES | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | “Rescued” from the Loom to “Escaping” from School: Re-Working Boyhood in the Context of Anti-Child Labor Projects in Kanchipuram, India | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Avatars Unbound: Digital Policing, Algorithmic Detectives, and the New Surveillance of Child Sexual Abuse | Hilton Room: Duluth |
| Thursday, November 17, 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Merging the English-Hindi Divide: Speaking Advantage at All-Girls’ ‘Public Schools’ and Coaching Centers in Northern India | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Traditional Values and New Futures of Youth: Personal Catholic Experience and “Team Spirit” Among Privileged Rugby Players in Buenos Aires | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 210AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Down in the Trenches: The Spatialization Revolutionary Youth Politics in Kurdistan | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | Possibilities and Marginal Futures: On the Condition of Brazil’s Incarcerated Women and Their Children | Hilton Room: Marquette VII |
| Thursday, November 17, 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Between Promise and Disappointment: Revolutionary Youth Movements and the Recalcitrance of the Sectarian Question in Egypt | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Socialization to Literacy Practices and Language Ideologies Among Mexican Immigrant Peers in a Bilingual Spanish-English US Preschool | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200G |
| Thursday, November 17, 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Return Migration, Adolescent Cultural Competence, and Psychosocial Well-Being: The View from Samoa | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103D |
| Thursday, November 17, 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | The Silence of the Innocent: Water Crisis, Silence, and Child Displacement in Italy | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 210AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Starting Young: Gendering Mathematical Identity Development | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200G |
| Thursday, November 17, 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Bones of Evidence: Skeletal Age Diagnosis and the Performative Construction of Age in Turkey | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 209AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Children’s Sense of the Changing Climate: Comparing Perceptions in the UK and Mongolia | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200H |
| Thursday, November 17, 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Dignity for All: How Teachers Negotiate Safe Schools for Transgender and Gender Variant Children | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200G |
| Thursday, November 17, 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | School Uniforms and Dinner with Abuela: Grading the Citizen Life Course in Ecuadorian High Schools | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 209AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Aging out: Emancipation from the U.S. Foster Care System | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 209AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Out-Sourcing Child Protection in Senegal: Neoliberalism, Aid and Child Suffering | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208D |
| Thursday, November 17, 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM | Employable or Aged: Chronometric Age Regimes in US Refugee Resettlement | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 209AB |
| Thursday, November 17, 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM | Reproduction and Resistance: Examining the Racialized Identities of Mexican Youth in a Small Midwestern Community | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103AB |
| Friday, November 18, 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM | How a Community Teaches Justice: Public Pedagogies and Youth–Adult Civic Learning in Everyday Social Movement | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101G |
| Friday, November 18, 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM | Contestations of Care: The Migration and Deportation of Guatemalan Youth | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101I |
| Friday, November 18, 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | “We Find Each Other Down Here”: Deportation, Marginalization, and Relatedness | Hilton Room: Duluth |
| Friday, November 18, 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | “a House without Children Is Useless”: Understanding Reproduction and Fertility in Southern Malawi | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 210AB |
| Friday, November 18, 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | “before Anything Else, I Am a Person”: Immigrant Youth Counter-Narratives and Re-Imagining the Human | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208D |
| Friday, November 18, 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Partial Resettlement: The Experiences of Unaccompanied Minors Released to the Cincinnati Area | Hilton Room: Salon F |
| Friday, November 18, 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM | “Nobody That Waits Comes Away without a Baby”: Negotiating Un/Certain Futures in American Adoption | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 211CD |
| Friday, November 18, 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM | A Day in the Life of Immigrant Youth: Multilingual Repertoires of Practice Across Activity Settings | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208D |
| Friday, November 18, 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | How Children Piece Together Culture through Relationships | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101B |
| Friday, November 18, 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM | Validating Intentionality: What Counts As Evidence When Diagnosing Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Preschool-Aged Children? | Hilton Room: Conrad A |
| Friday, November 18, 11:30 AM – 11:45 AM | Serendipity, Surprise and Discovery: The Unexpected Study of Kisisi, an Invented Child Language for Two | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208D |
| Friday, November 18, 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Deep Play: Notes on Parenting, Youth Baseball, and Anthropological Discovery | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200I |
| Friday, November 18, 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | To Protect and Deport: Undocumented Youth, Non-Governmental Workers, and Collaboration with the Security State |
Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103C |
| Friday, November 18, 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | ‘I’m Happier Than I Have Ever Been’: Chronic Illness, Childhood Adversity, and Wellbeing Across the Life Course | Hilton Room: Salon G |
| Friday, November 18, 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | Food for Thought: Familiarity with Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Among Mississippi Schoolchildren | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: Poster Row Yellow |
| Friday, November 18, 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | Latin@ Im/Migrant Families Creative Use of Technology with School-Mandated Homework Tasks Outside of School: A Pilot Study | Hilton Room: Salon A |
| Friday, November 18, 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | The Schooling Experiences of Southeast Asian American Youth | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208A |
| Friday, November 18, 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM | “Ellos Estaban Aquí Primero/They Were Here First”: Latino Parents’ and Children’s Responses to Social Studies Curriculum in the New South | Hilton Room: Salon A |
| Friday, November 18, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | “How Come They Get to Sit Together?”: First Generation European Multilingual Youth Learning to be White in a Suburban U.S. School | Hilton Room: Salon A |
| Friday, November 18, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | In Lieu of a Rape Kit: Sex, Medical Infrastructure, and Childhood “Vulnerability” in Southeastern Botswana | Hilton Room: Conrad C |
| Friday, November 18, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | The Politics of Childbirth in New Zealand | Hilton Room: Conrad B |
| Friday, November 18, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Towards a Biocultural Evaluation of Humanitarian Action: Stress and Resilience in Syrian Refugee Youth | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200E |
| Friday, November 18, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Transmission of Messages about Hmongness: A Study of a Community-Based Hmong Language and Culture Summer Program | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208A |
| Friday, November 18, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Youth Mobilization and Political Change in Senegal, West Africa | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200H |
| Friday, November 18, 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM | “Those Schools Didn’t Want Me”: Alternative Schools As a Site of Latinx Youth Disposability in Houston, Texas | Hilton Room: Salon A |
| Friday, November 18, 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Un-, Under-, and Over-Documented: The Contradictions of Visibility for DACAmented Youth and Deportees in the U.S | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103EF |
| Friday, November 18, 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | A Novel Application of Noninferiority Testing to Evaluate Infant Feeding Strategies | Hilton Room: Conrad C |
| Friday, November 18, 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Stories from the Periphery: Urban-to-Rural Youth Migration in South Korea | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102AB |
| Friday, November 18, 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Is Drinking Tea a Dietary Adaptation? Tea, Iron, and Infection Among Children in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania | Hilton Room: Conrad C |
| Friday, November 18, 5:15 PM | Temporal Refusal: Kanak Youth and the Colonial Present in New Caledonia | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 209AB |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | Refugees As Responsible Citizens: Ecuador’s Revolución Ciudadana in Schools | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208B |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM | (Un)Making of the Ideal Citizen: Deservingness Frames and Undocumented Korean American Youth | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 206AB |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM | “We Need to Build a Relationship with Him”: Precariousness and Care Among Youths and Their Fathers in Transnational Families | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200E |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM | Nicaraguan Children in Costa Rican Schools and the Disruption of Transnational Social Fields | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208B |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM | Language Differences and the Construction of School Failure for Immigrant Children in Central Illinois | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103EF |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM | The Violence of Hospitality: The Politics of Inclusion and Belonging in Two Midwestern Schools | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208B |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | But Mom! I Don’t Want to be a Spanish Boy: Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Two-Way Immersion Bilingual Program | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200G |
| Saturday, November 19, 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Politics and Community Building on Facebook: Â Undocumented Youth Mobilizing Online | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103EF |
| Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM | From Scattered Spectators to Networked Militants: Paths of Mexico City’s Young Activists Under State Repression | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103EF |
| Saturday, November 19, 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM | Tradition As Innovation: Dialect Revitalization in Rural Norwegian Youth Culture | Hilton Room: Marquette IX |
| Saturday, November 19, 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Representing the Commons at the Sulukule Children’s Art Atelier in Istanbul, Turkey | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200H |
| Saturday, November 19, 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | This American Creak: Metaphors of Virus, Infection, and Contagion in Girls’ Social Networks | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101I |
| Saturday, November 19, 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM | “I’m Really Trying Hard”: stress Factors and Coping Mechanisms for Immigrant High School Students | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101G |
| Saturday, November 19, 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM | Youth Creativity and Locality in the Construction of Korean “Taste” | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 103EF |
| Saturday, November 19, 12:15 PM – 12:30 PM | Where Is Home: A Study of Transnational ELL and Non-ELL Youth | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: Poster Row All |
| Saturday, November 19, 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM | ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH INTEREST GROUP (ACYIG) BUSINESS MEETING | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101B |
| Saturday, November 19, 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM | Immigrant Parents: Somali Parents’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education in the Twin Cities | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: Poster Row All |
| Saturday, November 19, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | NEW FUTURES EVERYDAY: A YOUTH SUMMIT FOR CULTURAL & INTELLECTUAL LEADERS | |
| Saturday, November 19, 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM | “Poof! You Are a Girl!” Young Children’s Discoveries of Gender Fluid and Transgender Identities in Stories and Pictures | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101H |
| Saturday, November 19, 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Institutionalizing the Message of the Marginalized: An Israeli Ngo’s “Youth Group” of Non-Citizen Latinos | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102AB |
| Saturday, November 19, 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Dance As Composition: Understanding Youth’s Mediascapes and Collaborative Making Processes | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101H |
| Saturday, November 19, 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Exceptional Deaths in Syncretic Traditions: A General Analysis of Personhood and Commemoration of Children in the Cemetery of Espita, Yucatan, Mexico | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: Poster Row All |
| Saturday, November 19, 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Self-Direction in Digital Literacy: Evidence and Ambiguity in Intercontext Learning of Non-Dominant Youth Programmers | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 101H |
| Saturday, November 19, 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Daughters of Jewish Fathers, Mothers of Jewish Children: Kinship Formation and State-Run Jewish Conversion in Israel | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 207AB |
| Saturday, November 19, 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Youth and Performative Peacebuilding in Bogota, Colombia | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208D |
| Saturday, November 19, 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | “Are You a Good Coach or a Bad Coach?”: The Role of Coaching As a Core Implementation Support for an Evidence-Based Child Welfare Intervention | Hilton Room: Conrad B |
| Saturday, November 19, 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM | “…but I Have What They Give Me in the Packet”: Evaluation of a School Backpack Program at a Local Non-Profit Organization in the Tampa Bay Area | Hilton Room: Marquette VII |
| Saturday, November 19, 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM | “We Died for a Better Ukraine”: Youth, Civil Society, and Moral Citizenship in Ukraine | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208D |
| Saturday, November 19, 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Intersection of Engaged Anthropology and Implementation Science in Intervention Research to Reduce Suicide Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth | Hilton Room: Conrad B |
| Sunday, November 20, 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | Planning Spaces and Learning Places: Neighborhood Planning As a Framework for Community and School Transformation | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102EF |
| Sunday, November 20, 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | Representations of Youth Social Movements in Japanese Mass Media | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208D |
| Sunday, November 20, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM | “SPEAKING OUT OUR MINDS;” DESIGNING DIALOGUES WITH YOUTH FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102EF |
| Sunday, November 20,8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Caregiving As Labor: Reciprocity and Trust at Children’s Welfare Residential Institutions in Japan | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 200D |
| Sunday, November 20, 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Engaging Undergraduates in Respectful & Inclusive Community-Based Research Projects | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 102EF |
| Sunday, November 20, 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM | Rural Haitian Youth Narrate a Dialectic: Life As It Is and Visions of the Good Life | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 206AB |
| Sunday, November 20, 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | “I Want to Do Things Together with My Friends”: Making the Communal and Collective Peer World in the Globalized Korea | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 208C |
| Sunday, November 20, 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM | Competing Cultural Models of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the United States | Minneapolis Convention Center Room: 205B |
If you have an event you would like us to add, please email Dori Beeler at: dbeeler1@jhmi.edu.