The University of Arizona Press
When: November 19-23, 2025
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
The University of Arizona Press is attending the 2025 American Anthropological Association conference in New Orleans! This year’s theme is “Ghosts.”
On the theme, AAA writes, “For the 2025 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, we take inspiration from the popular reputation of New Orleans as ‘the most haunted city in America’ to examine the ways that the past haunts the present, and that the immaterial becomes tangible to inflect the everyday…We welcome our colleagues to embrace the creative potential of the ghostly and the spectral. Our ghosts take many forms. They appear in social theory, useful metaphors for the mysterious power of commodities, or for the occult economies that lurk in the shadows of daily life. They can be found in the impacts of conquest and exploitation, reminders of the never-completed tasks of decolonizing, whether it be of lands or epistemologies. They manifest in the flood of images through which warfare and genocide are mediated, masks of all-too-real suffering. They resonate in the sense of the uncanny that permeates the quotidian: the unsettling look of an AI-generated photo, realistic but somehow distorted, or the resurgence of long-discredited conspiracies that fuel political extremism.”
We look forward to meeting you at the conference. Be sure to stop by our booth to browse our wonderful collection of new and recent anthropology titles, and talk to Senior Editor Allyson Carter! If you would like to set up a meeting with Allyson, email her at acarter@uapress.arizona.edu.
