For any departments having a career fair or a student recruitment campaign this year, please keep in mind that AAA offers FREE professionally designed 11×17 posters, 8.5×11 newsletters (not Anthropology News) and a limited number of membership brochures. Also, if you are aware of student groups or other anthropology organizations that might be sponsoring an event, [...]
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American University will host “Advancing Social Justice in Times of Crisis: The 6th Annual Public Anthropology Conference” from October 9-10, 2009. According to the organizers: “This conference seeks participants interested in advancing social justice and working toward progressive social change during times of economic, social, environmental and political crisis. We invite community activists, practicing and [...]
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Over at Culture Matters, Lisa Wynn was kind enough to post content from an academic publishing workshop she organized for Macquarie University’s Anthropology Department. Her post offers a comprehensive overview of the publishing process, including information on picking a journal or press, handling rejection, sending out book proposals, negotiating a contract, etc. The AAA also [...]
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AAA member Dr. Mark Turin recently gave a brief interview to the Telegraph about the aspirations and goals of The World Oral Literature Project, which he heads. The project is a global initiative to archive and make available oral literatures in danger of disappearing. Turin says: When a language becomes endangered so too does a cultural world view. We [...]
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If you’re considering entering the 2009 AAA Photo Contest, there are number of things to keep in mind when selecting photos. The first tip I want to share is to remember that each photo is evaluated individually. Entrants can submit up to five photos, but if you submit a series of photos, be sure that each [...]
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AAA”s new “Student Saturday” is a great opportunity for anthropology students, both graduate and undergraduate, to participate in the annual meeting on a tight budget. Participating students will have the opportunity to attend the Graduate School Fair and will have access to over 100 sessions and events of interest, including the presidential address and awards [...]
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The School For Advanced Research has released its fall 2009 Sparks Talks calendar. Free lectures in the “Off-Beat New Mexico” series include: Sept 8: The Santa Fe Ring: Gilded Age Politics in Old New Mexico (David L. Caffey) Oct 13: Buried Treasures: Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico History (Richard Melzer) Nov 10: Ghost [...]
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We are pleased to announce that AAA has added new features and functionality to our 2009 Annual Meeting online materials: Online searchable program including sessions, roundtables, workshops, film screenings and special events, with advanced search capabilities for day, title, author, section, sponsor, event type and keyword searches Full abstracts, viewable (and searchable!) for pre-registrants (register [...]
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In the August issue of American Ethnologist, Sara Dorow and Amy Swiffen develop what they see as an “underexplored conversation between the critiques of heteronormativity found in some of the new kinship studies and the scholarship of transnational-transracial adoption.” From their interviews with US parents of children adopted from China, the authors found that parents [...]
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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is now accepting applications for their International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF). This fellowship offers 9-12 months of support to graduate students (regardless of citizenship) in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States, and conducting dissertation research outside the United States. The [...]
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