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 | |
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Location: DMF 260 ROOM 260 24 Park Avenue Bridgewater, MA 02325 United States |
| Date: Friday, 04/Apr/2025 | |
| 4:15pm - 5:45pm |
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 |
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 |
| Date: Saturday, 05/Apr/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Technologies, Vibrations, and Voices: Anthropological Perspectives on Modern Communication and Cultural Preservation Location: DMF 260 Chair: Joyce Bennett Using AI to Support Transnational, Decolonial Collaboration: Translations in Anthropology Punjabi: Language Decline and Preservation in Modern India Sonic Materiality—Towards a Relational Ontology of Vibration The Phone and the Self: How Mobile Phones Influence Identity and Social Interactions The Debate Over Cochlear Implants in the Deaf Community |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Threads of Time: Women, Personhood, and Sacred Journeys in Anthropological Perspective Location: DMF 260 Chair: Paula Kay Lazrus Conflict, Faith, and Representation: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Throughout History Not So Different From Us: The Lives of Ancient Assyrian Women Interrogating Ethics of Disinterment using Historic Burials from Cypress Grove Cemetery #1 in New Orleans Tattoos and Their Meaning Within Society |