Although all rooms at student rates have been booked at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (meeting headquarters), student rates are still available at the Hampton Inn Philadelphia City Center.
Students can stay up to four people in a room for $145 a night.
Make sure you enter the conference code “AAM” when making your online reservation.
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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 academic [...]
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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 often [...]
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Former AAA president (1975-6) and American Anthropologist editor (1956-1959) Walter Goldschmidt has started a blog.
Goldschmidt has spent the last 75 years dedicated to the study of Anthropology, with specialties in cultural ecology, cultural evolution, culture theory and East Africa. Now a UCLA Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Psychiatry, and Sociology, Goldschmidt has said that his blog will feature, [...]
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently asked 12 artists to “draw humorous attention to the not-so-funny issue of political interference in federal government science”, and held a vote for the winning cartoon:
According to contest winner, Jesse Springer, ”The Endangered Species Act is something that hits close to home in Oregon. Salmon preservation, for example, is related [...]
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In the latest issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, SMA President Carolyn Sargent calls on the anthropological community to engage with the national health care crisis and “shape public discourses and policy in ways we have rarely done before.”
Sargent laments that, with a few exceptions, anthropologists have “not offered a coherent and emphatic voice in the [...]
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Hotel information for the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (December 2-6) is now available on the Meetings page of the AAA website: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/info/travel/hotel_travel.cfm
Book today to save a room in a hotel where we’ve negotiated special room rates. Staying at the meeting hotels is convenient and helps you stay connected with the informal activities and networking [...]
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Higher education institutions around the country are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn and librarians, already no strangers to tightened budgets, have expressed particular concern about the effects of cutbacks.
In an attempt to respond to the financial pressures felt by our institutional subscribers, our Executive Board voted to freeze 2010 subscription rates for all AAA [...]
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In the latest issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Bonnie Urciuoli considers the various ways culture is treated in discourses of diversity at a liberal arts college.
Looking at the entextualization of culture on three of the college’s webpages, Urciuoli finds that the term is used in at least three different ways: “in promotional discourse, culture is loosely associated with [...]
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This week’s New Yorker features a story about how professor of Anthropology David Kennedy helped the Cincinnati police department reduce gang violence.
After the city experienced a series of shootings in 2006 and the “zero-tolerance” crackdown which followed failed to reduce the murder rate, Kennedy came to Cincinnati to pitch his “Ceasefire” program, which had previously been successful in reducing drug-related violence [...]
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