<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues, </span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for our AAA panel, and to share this CFP widely with your networks and colleagues. </span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Many thanks,</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marlaina Martin and Hallie Wells</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for papers: AAA meetings in Washington, D.C., Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-organizers: Marlaina Martin (Rutgers University) and Hallie Wells (UC Berkeley)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Discussant: Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox (Fordham University)</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Behind the Scenes: Embodied Knowledge and Invisible Labor in Cultural Production </span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cultural production is not only about creating an object for later consumption. Anthropology has long been engaged in examining not only objects but </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">processes</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> of production, which can be quite intricate and fragile in their layered negotiation of a diversity of subjectivities, resources, and aims. Although many cultural producers do plan to exhibit their work to members of a larger public at certain points during and/or after production, the behind-the-scenes activities that enable and support this more public exposition are extremely complex, and their completion is not always guaranteed. This panel seeks to merge theories of process and production with recognition of everyday politics in order to better understand how embodied and politicized experiences and identities (gendered, racialized, classed, etc.) inform processes of cultural production. How does embodied knowledge operate as a critical, if not central, part of cultural production? From rehearsal to editing, investor relations to professional networking, what techniques, knowledge, and practices do people draw from to navigate the not-quite-public, not-always-visible labor of cultural production? We encourage proposals from a wide range of regional foci and media, to examine in varied but ultimately interrelated ways the notion of “production” as a technical process as well as one of subject formation, performance, and the constitution of embodied political realities.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send your title and abstract (250 words max.) to Marlaina Martin (<a href="mailto:marlaina.martin@gmail.com" target="_blank">marlaina.martin@gmail.com</a>) and Hallie Wells (<a href="mailto:halliewe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