Screenshot from Duolingo - it asks When is your presentation?

Maybe Duolingo was following me at #AAA2025NOLA #AAA2025

Great article (you can tell #AAA2025NOLA #AAA2026 is over as I’m back online :-)

AfAA President Wale Adebanwi shaking hands with Casey Golomski after announcing that God's Waiting Room won the 2024 Skinner Prize.

Congrats to @chuckgski.bsky.social! Last night, his book God's Waiting Room was awarded AfAA's Skinner Prize for "the book that best furthers the global community of Africanist scholars & the broader interests of the African continent, as exemplified in the work of Elliott P. Skinner." #AAA2025NOLA

American Anthropological Association 2025 Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Thank you to the @americananthro.bsky.social and #AAA2025NOLA attendees for a wonderful conference. As mentioned out AAA website will remain open for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest Anthro books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

See you next year in St. Louis!

How should babies be born? The question contains worlds. What do doula-supported births reveal about American cultural values?

"Birth is like some kind of open secret, a fact of life, a miracle, a trauma, both too precious and too abject to confront frankly."

NEAR BIRTH author Andrea Ford on the role of doulas in childbirth: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...

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Already our last day in The Big Easy at #AAA2025NOLA! Drop by before 2PM to check out our latest Anthro books.

Our AAA website will remain open for a few weeks for you to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

When US Corporations Play Government: Notes from Africa Author Amy Elizabeth Stambach on Amazon's recent expansion in South Africa and imagining futures that don’t rely on corporate alibis.

"When a corporation donates bottled water, who drained the river in the first place?"

Amy Elizabeth Stambach, author of THE CORPORATE ALIBI, asks you to consider this question and more in her #AAA2025NOLA post:

College Football, Masculinity, and Race: Q&A with Tracie Canada With the 2025 NCAA Football National Championship game near, "Tacking the Everyday" author Tracie Canada talks about her new book and her unique perspective on college football.

"The whole system depends on predominantly Black football players’ athletic labor and commitment to the game, but they are not compensated in a way that acknowledges that contribution."

Read our Q&A with TACKLING THE EVERYDAY author Tracie Canada: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

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Q&A with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, author of "Unforgivable" Author Kevin Lewis O'Neill discusses his new book "Unforgivable," the first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.

"I was unprepared for the scale of the abuse that I ended up documenting."

Our powerful Q&A with UNFORGIVABLE author Kevin O'Neill and the lengths the Catholic Church will go to cover up abusers.*: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

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*Trigger warning for conversations around sexual abuse

American Anthropological Association 2025 Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

We're here early today, #AAA2025NOLA attendees! So drop in and wake us up by taking a look at our latest Anthro books!

Our AAA website is here for you to save 40% off those books!

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I'm teaching the novel James (UW-Madison's Big Read this year) in my Language and Religion course, and I had my students do an online discussion while I'm at #AAA2025NOLA. These students (all first years!) are brilliant.

Presentation presented - now I can relax #AAA2025NOLA #AAA2025

Q&A with Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United…

Her book EXIT WOUNDS is now in paperback and she's also a 2025 MacAuthor Fellow. Check out our interview with acclaimed author Ieva Jusionyte: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/6...

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The Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Our esteemed UC Press author and National Book Award winner @jasondeleon.bsky.social will give tonight's Opening Keynote at #AAA2025NOLA.

Revisit his acclaimed book THE LAND OF OPEN GRAVES and save 40% with code UCPAAA:

So great to be back in The Big Easy for @americananthro.bsky.social's annual meeting! Drop by our booth and check out our latest books in Anthro!

Also be sure to check out our AAA website and find out how to save 40% on our displayed titles: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

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Canal Street in New Orleans. Palm trees line the busy street traffic. A streetcar is visible in a middle lane between the traffic.

Obligatory hotel room photo #AAA2025NOLA #AAA2025

Sign at the airport says New Orleans welcomes American Anthropological Association. Next to the letters is a pastry.

I guess we are official #AAA2025NoLa #AAA2025

Hello #AAA2025NOLA attendees! A heads up that at 8:30AM tomorrow our very own editor Kate Marshall will be on the following panel:

Event: 1886 - Anthropologists Writing Trade Books
Type: Roundtable/Town Hall
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Sheraton, Napoleon BR B3 (3rd fl)

Hey Anthros! Looking for a panel at #AAA2025Nola? Interested in spectral ecologies beyond the metaphorical? Submit your abstracts to jmadison@oberlin.edu and zsuhaimi@ucsc.edu. Discussant Deirdre de la Cruz.

Panel abstract in replies:

I know that we do a fair bit of work getting folks to realize we aren’t paleontologists… but could we try to have one of these at #AAA2025NOLA? Pretty please @americananthro.bsky.social!?!

#AGU2024 #anthrosky #conferencegoals

And don’t even START trying to water this down: hauntings ❌ specters ❌ traces ❌ apparitions ❌
wraiths 👍 poltergeists 👍 haints 👍 revenants 👍
Please save your questions for the end of the panel. #aaa2024tampa #aaa2025NOLA

So long #AAA2024Tampa #AAA2024 ! I came for the anthropology, but stayed for the friends💕

See y’all in #AAA2025NOLA 👻

There are ~2,600 anthropologists registered at #AAA2024Tampa. Which is actually down from 4,100 the year before. Florida has had a chilling effect.

But, the theme for #AAA2025Nola is "ghosts"