From November 19th to November 23, HASTS anthropologists traveled to New Orleans, LA for the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) annual meeting. The theme of this year’s conference— Ghosts— encouraged the assembled scholars “to examine the ways that the past haunts the present, and that the material becomes tangible to inflect the everyday.”
PhD candidates Raha Peyravi and Zachary La Rock presented papers at the conference’s flash sessions and moderated panels. Peyravi presented a paper entitled “Real-Time Work: Temporal Care and Control in Public Transit in the City of Chicago” in a flash session on November 21st. Later that day, La Rock presented a paper entitled “Crises of Cure: Ernesto De Martino and the Environmental History of South Italy” on a panel that commemorated and revisited the scholarship of 20th century Italian anthropologist Ernesto De Martino.
Students in attendance appreciated the opportunity to connect with faculty in the MIT Anthropology and STS Programs and the many HASTS alumni who also presented in New Orleans.
