I have just returned from AAA in Toronto, the annual and massive anthropology conference, and I am feeling very happy to be an anthropologist. I met up with old friends, made new ones, ate well with all the food scholars, and presented a paper to six very brave and not-even-too-bleary-eyed attendees at an 8am Saturday…
Category: Conferences
A Template for a Conference Abstract
Let’s say you want to apply to present at a conference. Amazing! Step One: Submit an Abstract. How on earth do you do that? Here is one way to go about it. (not the only way! not even the best way! but a way). I developed this template for a collaborative project with a research…
AAA Annual Meeting: Tips for a huge anthropological gathering
By Ariana Gunderson and Gaya Morris We returned from the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle with our notebooks full of reflections and ideas for next time. Here are our notes to self for this year’s annual meeting, which might be of interest to you for your first AAA! Gaya’s sketched…
Stealing Recipes? Symposium Recording
The symposium I organized at IU last Friday on recipe theft was a joy and a success. The recipe workshop was both enlightening and delicious (more on that to come soon!) and the online response to our panel presentations was tremendous. I’m so grateful to all of the friends and family who have supported me…
Stealing Recipes? A Symposium
STEALING RECIPES?OWNERSHIP CLAIMS AND THE CULINARY COMMONS April 21, 2023 | 2pm – 4pm EDT | GISB 1118 & Zoom The recipe — as an artifact, a set of claims and a coalescence of labors — exists in a tension between private property and informally governed knowledge commons. In the ever-expanding field of contemporary food media,…
Ariana Gunderson 