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2024: The Anthropology of Food
Featuring:
Dr. Christine Hastorf
Dr. Margaret Bryer
Dr. Hanna Garth
2023: The Anthropology of Trash and Waste
Featuring:
Dr. Margaret Beck
Dr. Sarah Newman
Dr. Gilliane Monnier
2022: Queering Anthropology
Featuring:
Dr. Stephanie Meredith
Dr. Margot Weiss
Dr. Erin Durban
2021: Anthropology of Social Justice
Featuring:
Dr. Kat Hayes
Dr. Jigna Desai
2020: Anthropology of Heroes
Featuring:
Dr. Nita Krevans
Dr. Mariam Konaté
Dr. Winona Landis
2019: Anthropology of Science Fiction
Featuring:
Mr. Ben W. McGee
Dr. Grace Dillon
Dr. David Valentine
2018: Anthropology of Taboo
Featuring:
Dr. Dwight W. Read
Dr. Timothy Gitzen
Trevor M. Addie, Esq.
2017: Anthropology of Humor
2016: Anthropology of the Supernatural
Keynote Speakers
Nathan Lewis
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Adjunct Professor
Contemporary Paranormal Investigation
Dr. David Hufford
Penn State
Center for Humanistic Medicine
Spiritual Visits Related to Sleep Paralysis
Dr. Sabina Magliocco
California State University Northridge
Department of Anthropology and Folklore
Reconnecting to Everything: Fairies in Contemporary Paganism
2015: Anthropology of the Apocalypse
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Oliver Nicholson
University of Minnesota
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
What Early Christians Looked Forward To: The Development of a Total Theory of World History
Dr. Robert Howard
University of Wisconsin Madison
Department of Communications and Folklore
Digital Apocalypse:
End Times in the 21st Century
David Cook
Rice University
Department of Religious Studies
Apocalypse How?:
From Khomeini to ISIS
2014: Anthropology in Life
Keynote Speakers
Kathryn Sutton & Danielle Bender
Fusion Hill
Research Strategists
In the Field: Corporate Anthropology
Sean Carlson-Greer
Mercyhurst University
Forensic Scene Recovery Team
Forensic Anthropology: An Intersection
of Theory and Application
2013: Monsters and Mythology
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Stephen Smith
University of Minnesota
Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies
Dr. John Beckmann
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities Artist, Entomology Student
Dr. Scott Mellor
University of Wisconsin Madison
Folklore, Scandinavian Studies,
and Medieval Studies
2012: The Anthropology of Performance
Keynote Speakers
Dr. William Beeman
University of Minnesota,
Department of Anthropology
The Performance Hypothesis:
Enactment, Emotion, and Evolution
Dr. Jason Baird Jackson
Indiana University Bloomington,
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
The Arts of Community Making
Among the Yuchi and their Neighbors
Dr. Vladas Griskevicius
University of Minnesota,
Marketing Department
Sex Ratio Influences Financial Decisions,
Career Choices, and Family Planning
2011: The Anthropology of Excess & Extravegance
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Anne Meneley
Trent University, Ontario
Department of Anthropology
Luxurious Lipids:
Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Foie Gras
Dr. Martin Rundkvist
University of Chester, UK
Department of Anthropology
Scandinavia's Golden Age and the Merovingian Hangover
Dr. Laura Betzig
Freelance Academic
University of Michigan, University of California, Northwestern University, Psychology Today
Herstory: Before and After the
Extravagance, Excess, and
Indulgence of Men
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