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Ezriella Tang ¡¯27 (pictured) presented her poster, ¡°Immigration Diaspora: Identity, Statehood, and Perpetual Foreignness.¡± The AAA¡¯s Archaeology Division gave Tang the Student Membership Award for her work. Tang is pursuing a double major in anthropology and cognitive science, with a minor in French and francophone studies. 

Xinyi Wu (ÎâÐÄâù) ¡¯25, an environmental analysis major, presented her research about how bone ash apartments are an under-the-radar alternative to cemeteries in urban China. She published her research in ¡°Platypus,¡± the blog of the AAA¡¯s Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. 

Professor Claudia Strauss was co-organizer of a panel on ¡°Political Subjectivities in a Time of Ontological Threats, Trauma and Social Turmoil.¡± She presented a paper titled ¡°Personal/Political Storylines in Turbulent Times.¡± 

Professor Timothy Hartshorn represented ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ at two roundtable sessions that engaged anthropological practice in the academy and in real life. 

Professors Jo Ann Wang and Eduard Fanthome organized a panel that examined the politics of ¡°presence¡± and ¡°presencing¡± as described by James Ferguson (2021). They also presented their research into diaspora-turned-minority Chinese Malaysians.