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Below you will find a list of presentations connected to Sri Lanka that are to be given next week at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco.  More information about the meetings can be found here:http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/program/index.cfm2-0280 RECONFIGURING SOCIAL BORDERS IN THE AFTERMATH OF DISASTER&#160;Wednesday, November 14, 2012: 2:00 PM-3:45 PMDoing Good for the Nation: Erasing Borders and Re-Imagining the Nation In Post-War Sri LankaNalika R Gajaweera (University of California, Irvine)***Discussion 2-0750 APOCALYPTIC VISIONS: REFLECTIONS ON CROSSING THE ULTIMATE BOUNDARYWednesday, November 14, 2012: 8:00 PM-9:45 PM8:15 PMAn Emergent Theravada Buddhist MillennialismNeena Mahadev (Johns Hopkins University)8:30 PM***2-0715 COMING OF AGE IN THE 21st CENTURY: FEMALE PUBERTY RITES REVISITEDWednesday, November 14, 2012: 8:00 PM-9:45 PM8:00 PMFrom Sacred Baths to Stretch Limos: Tamil Puberty Celebrations In Sri Lanka and CanadaDennis B McGilvray (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Cheran Rudhramoorthy (University of Windsor)***5-0235 LOVE AND WAR: PAPERS IN HONOR OF MARGARET TRAWICK'S ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICESaturday, November 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:45 AMOrganizers:  Ann G Gold (Syracuse University)Chairs:  Ann G Gold (Syracuse University)Discussants:  Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University), Kirin Narayan (Universtiy of Wisconsin Madison) and Margaret Jane Trawick (Massey University)8:00 AMWhy Love Matters In Anthropology and Notes On a Bengali FamilySarah E Lamb (Brandeis)8:15 AMNotes On Love In a Varanasi GardenLawrence Cohen (University of California Berkeley)8:30 AMThe Brother Takes Less: Marriage with Elder Sister’s Daughter In Tamil Nadu  Isabelle Clark-Deces (Princeton University)8:45 AMThe Ecology of Friendship: Early Tamil Landscapes of Irony and VoiceMartha Ann Selby (The University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas at Austin)9:00 AMThe Transformative Capacities of EmotionKalpana Ram (Macquarie University)9:15 AMDiscussantAnand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University)9:30 AMDiscussion9:45 AMBreak10:00 AMWandering Lost Through the Landscape of Valaiyar Migration StoriesDiane P Mines (Appalachian State University)10:15 AMLikhiya: Mithila Women 'write' Their Stories Through ArtSusan S Wadley PhD (Syracuse Univ)10:30 AMCivil War and Ethnography: Behind the Lines with Margaret TrawickMark P Whitaker PhD (University of South Carolina)10:45 AM"Just Right"E Valentine Daniel (Columbia University)11:00 AMDiscussantKirin Narayan (Universtiy of Wisconsin Madison)11:15 AMDiscussantMargaret Jane Trawick (Massey University)11:30 AMDiscussion***5-0425 STEPPING OUT OF BOUNDS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD: SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN RE-WORKING NORMATIVE FEMININITIESSaturday, November 17, 2012: 10:15 AM-12:00 PMOrganizers:  Sandya Hewamanne (Wake Forest University)Chairs:  Jeanne Marecek (Swarthmore College)Discussants:  Donna M Goldstein (University of Colorado)10:15 AMDesires, Roles, Conflicts, and Envy: A Mother and Daughter In Rural Sri LankaBambi L Chapin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)10:30 AMInside/Outside: Sri Lankan Women’s Migration to the Middle East and the Moral MigrantElizabeth Frantz (London School of Economics)10:45 AMThe Strange, Crazy, and Stubborn: Former Global Factory  Workers Contesting Feminine Behavioral Norms In Rural Sri LankaSandya Hewamanne (Wake Forest University)11:00 AM“Suicide attempts” and Sexual Agency: Girls Challenging the Gender Order In Rural Sri LankaJeanne Marecek (Swarthmore College)11:15 AMMediating Feminine Aspirations In North India:  Manipulations and Meanings of the Ill BodyJocelyn Marrow (Stanford University)11:30 AMDutiful Wife and Mother?  Sri Lankan Migrant Workers In LebanonMonica Ann Smith (USAID)11:45 AMDiscussion***5-0940 CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE EVOLUTION OF STATE TERRORSaturday, November 17, 2012: 4:00 PM-5:45 PMOrganizers:  Jeffrey A Sluka (Massey University)Chairs:  Jeffrey A Sluka (Massey University)Discussants:  Allen Feldman (New York University), Cynthia K Mahmood (Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame) and Peter Schalk (Uppsala University)4:00 PMDiscussantPeter Schalk (Uppsala University)***6-0325 STIGMA, GRIEVANCE, AND EMPOWERMENT: THE LABOR MOVEMENT AT THE BOUNDARIESSunday, November 18, 2012: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM&#160;Chair:  Alena Alamgir (Rutgers University and Rutgers University)10:45 AMThe Stigma of Plantation Labor: Marking Undesirability Among Development Workers In Sri LankaMythri Jegathesan (Columbia University)***6-0535 POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA (WITHIN AND ACROSS BORDERS)Sunday, November 18, 2012: 12:15 PM-2:00 PM&#160;Chair:  Thushara N Hewage (Columbia University)1:30 PMThe Discontents of Postcolonial Democracy: The Politics of Sri Lanka’s Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People’s Liberation Front)Thushara N Hewage (Columbia University)source: American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies