2025 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association (NEAA)
April 4-5, 2025
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 04/Apr/2025 | |||
| 2:00pm - 7:30pm |
Registration Location: DMF Atrium Conference registration will be open all day in the DMF Atrium—stop by to check in, pay your registration fee, and get all the materials you need! |
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| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Formation of the Association of Archaeological Collections and Repositories (AACR): Goals, Priorities, and Key Issues Location: DMF 240 Chair: Sara Rivers Cofield Please note that this session is a Zoom meeting, streamed from DMF 240 where attendees will be able to actively participate due to the smart room technology. It is the only virtual workshop at the 2025 NEAA Annual Meeting. We prefer to keep the Annual Meeting in person when possible.
Formation of the Association of Archaeological Collections and Repositories (AACR): Goals, Priorities, and Key Issues |
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| 2:30pm - 7:00pm |
Anthropology Game Table Location: DMF 2nd Floor Lounge Come play anthropology-themed board games: Cards against Anthropology, Daybreak, Stone Age, Archaeology the Card Game and More! Co Sponsored by the Bridgewater State University Sustainability Program
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| 4:15pm - 5:45pm |
Film Screening: Bay Creek Tennis Camp & Beyond the Binary Location: DMF 120 (Auditorium) Chair: Diana Fox Film Screening: Bay Creek Tennis Camp & Beyond the Binary |
Play as Disposition: Gender and Nation in Sport and Game Location: DMF 340 Chair: James M Hundley Play as Disposition: Gender and Nation in Sport and Game From Purity to Play: The Decline of Religious Expectations and Women’s Participation in Dungeons and Dragons Sport and Transnational Identity Formation: Canoe Racing and the Canada/US Border LGBTD&D: How TTRP gamers manifest identities through play Role-Playing Gender: The Performance of Gender in Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) Communities |
Myths, Legends, and Icons: Exploring North American Folklore and Cultural Imagery Location: DMF 260 Chair: Edward Vincent Curtin Haunted Highways and Hometown Horrors: The Dreadful Drive Down Clinton Road Skunny Wundy, Jiggon Sassy, and the Cat Tales Behind an Arthur Parker Children’s Story The Cowboy Figure in American History and Popular Imagery |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
Film Screening: Las Amazonas des Yaxunah Location: DMF 120 (Auditorium) Chair: Michael Zimmerman Film Screening: Las Amazonas De Yaxunah |
Imagination and Abolition: Hope and Resistance in Unlikely Places Location: DMF 260 Chair: Kathryn Boswell “Until we meet again”: Considering the Layered Symbolism in Montserrat’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations Imagination and Abolition: Hope and Resistance in Unlikely Places Understanding Black Community: Exploring Personal Definitions of Blackness as a Framework for Understanding Identity, Solidarity, and Community among Black students at Bates College Playing Dead in the Cell: Social Death and Theologies of Imagination in Prisons and Monasteries |
Multiplayer games in the classroom as a tool for the discussion of complex concepts Location: DMF 240 Chair: Lisa Boragine Multiplayer games in the classroom as a tool for the discussion of complex concepts |
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