Webinars
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!
Tracing forgotten histories: identifying unprovenienced human skeletal remains and establishing best practices for their ethical treatment
Many teaching and museum collections house human remains with little or no provenience, creating major challenges for ethical stewardship. This webinar, inspired by last year’s AABA workshop, brings together experts who have successfully reconstructed documentation for unprovenienced remains. Panelists will share practical methods—archival research, handwriting analysis, osteology, taphonomy, and more—and discuss collaborative strategies for navigating these complex cases. Join us to connect, learn, and build community around this critical work.
Date/time: December 11, 2025, 12:00pm EST
Register here
Write It So They’ll Read It: Engaging the Public Through Op-Eds
Want your research to reach beyond biological anthropology? This virtual workshop offers practical strategies for turning complex scholarship into clear, compelling op-eds—less jargon, more juice. We’ll explore how to identify what makes your work timely, craft a strong argument, and write in a voice that connects with readers and editors.
Date/time: November 19, 2025, 1:00pm EST
Webinar Panelist:
Inga Kiderra, Director of Communications for Social Sciences, UC San Diego
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 kevin.g.hatala@gmail.com.