AABA's webinar programming serves a range functions, as a way to communicate about Association business and planning, to promote discourse on important issues that shape our community's best-practices, to provide a source of professional support, and to provide over-views of exciting topics within the science of biological anthropology.

Most recently, we have hosted two series, highlight below. Be sure to check out our other webinar content on the Past Webinars page.

Or, better yet, go peruse the offerings that extend beyond these webinars on our YouTube channel!

AABA Task Force for Ethical Study of Human Remains and AABA Committee on Community Partnership

The AABA Task Force for Ethical Study of Human Remains is focused on developing a roadmap for determining what constitutes ethical study and disposition of human remains and biological samples with consent when research is warranted. This roadmap is to be based on the desires and attitudes of descendant communities and feedback from members of the AABA. The Task Force will also release a white paper with an overview of survey results from a survey focusing on how members of the AABA work with human remains. Survey data were collected in March during our conference. The white paper will be made available in advance of the webinar.

The webinar will expand on results from the survey. In addition, members of the Task Force will be available for dialog, questions, and discussion. The webinar will provide opportunities to discuss next steps and activities for future project phases. We encourage AABA members to respond to the ideas, perspectives, and insights presented during the webinar.

Discussion with the AABA Task Force for the Ethical Study of Human Remains Webinar Recording

Task Force Co-Chairs: Drs. Fatimah Jackson (Howard University), Ben Auerbach (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Additional Panelists:

• Drs. Jennifer Caldwell, assistant professor, Louisiana State University, Pennington Biomedical Research Center,
• Carter Clinton, postdoctoral scholar, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Anthropology,
• Joseph Jones, lecturer, William and Mary, Department of Anthropology,
• Carmen Mosley, NAGPRA Repatriation Manager, Museum of Us.

Understanding Genetic Ancestry and Its Implications

What can genetic ancestry tell us about our ancestors and disease risk? How might it influence the ways people identify themselves and communities? What are the promises and pitfalls of commercializing genetic ancestry technologies? This month, the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) is partnering with the American Association of Anthropological Genetics (AAAG) to bring a panel of three experts working in industry and academia who will discuss the broader implications of genetic ancestry for researchers, society, individual health, and identity. Join us to discuss this fascinating topic and examine the meaning and nuances of the concept of genetic ancestry.

Organizer: C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim (California State University Northridge)

Panelists:

• Graham Coop (University of California, Davis)
• Gen Wojcik (Johns Hopkins University)
• Janina Jeff (Population Geneticist & Host/Creator of In Those Genes Podcast)

Co-Sponsored by AABA and AAAG

Understanding Genetic Ancestry and Its Implications Webinar Recording

Supplemental information: Please view this work by Graham Coop, which covers the webinar topics and includes some additional details.

For a list of past webinars and links to the videos, visit our past webinars through this link.

You can find our Covid-19 pandemic professional support webinars from the summer of 2020 through this link.

If you have questions, comments, or a suggestion for a future webinar topic, please get in touch with AABA Program Committee Associate Chair Kevin Hatala at [email protected].