American Anthropological Association

Anthropology Day
2026-02-19 | NY
Anthropology Day
February 19, 2026
Celebrate. Engage. Inspire.
Help us celebrate what anthropology is and what it can achieve by hosting an event in your community, on your campus, or in your workplace or by supporting the American Anthropological Association with a charitable gift today!

2026 UnEssay Competition
2026-02-19 | NY
Anthro Day Unessay Competition
Submissions for the 2026 Anthro Day Unessay Competition are now OPEN through Anthro Day, February 19, 2026.
This contest encourages students to think critically about an anthropological question, but unlike a traditional essay contest, students can be creative and respond to the prompt in a way that is meaningful to them.
Notification and Prize
Entries must be submitted before midnight on Anthropology Day, February 19th.
Due to the high volume of applications, the winners of the unessay contest will now be notified via email by February 27, 2026 to ensure that every submission is properly reviewed. The winning unessay(s) will have their content published by the American Anthropological Association in Anthropology News and will receive a $50.00 gift card.
Submit Your Entry
Submissions for the 2026 Unessay Competition should be sent to Marketing@AmericanAnthro.org with the subject line, “2026 UnEssay Submission”.

AAA Prizes and Awards Nominations Open
2026-02-02 08:00 - 2026-03-01 23:59 (America/New_York) | NY
Prizes and Awards
AAA offers a number of prizes and awards that you can apply for yourself or nominate someone else.
Nominate or Apply Today

AAA OpEd Project Applications Open
2026-01-31 00:00 - 2026-02-27 23:59 | NY
Thanks to a generous grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Anthropological Association is once again offering members the opportunity to take part in “Write to Change the World” workshops organized and facilitated by The OpEd Project – a think tank and leadership organization that accelerates the ideas and impact of underrepresented voices. They are a community of journalists and thought leaders who actively share knowledge, resources, and connections with stunning results. The workshops are 100% virtual with participants joining across an enormous range of identities, voices, and ideas.
The AAA will cover the full registration cost for selected participants. In addition, AAA will coordinate post-workshop support by pairing participants with experienced coaches and mentors who can provide feedback on topics, drafts, and publication strategies.
To be considered (AAA membership required), please submit the following by February 27, 2026:

Your background and contact information
A short writing sample (750 words or fewer) written for a general audience (publication not required)
A brief paragraph explaining why this workshop matters to you and how it will help you amplify your work

Please send all information to Jeff Martin.

Call for Work and Family Researchers Network Predoctoral Preconference Applications
2026-01-15 | Concordia University, 1450 Guy Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 0A1, Canada
On June 17, 2026, the Work and Family Researchers Network will hold a Pre-Doctoral Preconference at Concordia University in Montreal Canada during its 8th Biennial Conference. The Predoctoral Preconference will provide workshops intended to help graduate students form meaningful connections with diverse scholars, learn about publication strategies, as well as how to engage with stakeholders such as organizational leaders or policy advocates. Questions can be directed to organizers Wen Fan (wen.fan@bc.edu) and Jaeseung Kim (jkim1203@o365.skku.edu). Space is limited. Applications close January 15, 2026. Those selected to attend the preconference will be notified in February 2026. Information about the 2026 WFRN conference and the preconference application can be found at this link: https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/.

AES 2026 Spring Conference Registration
2026-01-15 | NY
Register for the 2026 American Ethnological Spring Conference to take place May 1 – 3 at the University of Victoria, British Columbia Canada.
Submissions due January 15, 2025.
Forty years ago, George Marcus and Michael Fischer declared the 1980s an “experimental moment in the human sciences,” urging anthropologists and other human scientists to rethink ethnography as a site not only of representation but of intervention, invention, and critique. Today, in the context of ecological crisis, political rupture, technological transformation, and epistemic reordering, we ask: what does experiment mean today?
This conference invites scholars to reflect on experiment as both object and mode of anthropological inquiry. How do anthropologists collaborate, compose, and critique in experimental ways? What does it mean to “experiment” with form, with method, with theory, or with the infrastructures of scholarly work? And how might experiment be situated—ethically, politically, historically—in relation to those whose lives and knowledge we engage?
We welcome proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following themes:

Experimental ethnography: form, aesthetics, genre
Collaborative and co-creative fieldwork practices
Indigenous experimentation
Speculative anthropology and future-oriented inquiry
Archives, objects, and materiality as sites of experiment
Multispecies and more-than-human experimentation
Interdisciplinary knowledge creation and experiments across disciplinary boundaries
Experimental publics: art, activism, and engaged scholarship
Technologies and infrastructures of knowledge production
Risks, failures, and ethical entanglements of ethnographic practice
Experiments in pedagogy and teaching anthropology

We encourage contributions in diverse formats, including academic papers, roundtables, and workshops.
Join us as we ask: What does it mean to experiment in and with anthropology today?
More information
Registration & Submission Guidelines
To register and submit proposals for the conference, the following steps need to be taken prior to the submission deadline: January 15, 2025

Register for the AES Spring 2026 Conference. You need to register for the conference before submitting your abstract.
Once you register, you will receive a link to the submission form in your confirmation email. The submission form should only be completed by:

an individual proposing a paper presentation
the organizer of a panel, roundtable, author-meets-critic, or other organized panel structure. Panel participants do not need to fill out the submission form.

Initial acceptance decisions will be communicated by February 1, 2026, and the program will be released closer to the conference date.

For inquiries, contact AES.

2025 AAA Annual Meeting
2025-11-19 - 2025-11-23 | NY
Join us for the 2025 AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, as we delve into the theme of “ghosts.” We welcome our colleagues to embrace the creative potential of the spectral to examine the ways that the past haunts the present, and that the immaterial becomes tangible to inflect the everyday.
Join anthropologists from all over the world in a program with general sessions, flash presentations, poster sessions, workshops, and a film festival, as well as receptions, tours, and other special events.

Promoting Your Scholarship: Strategies for Wider Impact
2025-10-29 15:30 - 16:45 | NY
Join acclaimed anthropologists Anand Pandian, Barbara King, and Tracie Canada for an inspiring conversation on bringing scholarship to the public. Drawing from their own successes—featured in outlets like The New Yorker, NPR, USA TODAY, The Guardian, and more—they’ll share strategies for connecting with audiences beyond academia, from museum exhibitions to national media. Discover how to amplify your voice, reach new readers, and make your work matter in the wider world.
Panelists

Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University), author of SOMETHING BETWEEN US: The Everyday Walls and How to Take Them Down
Barbara King (professor Emerita, College of William & Mary), author of Animals’ Best Friends and How Animals Grieve
Tracie Canada (Duke University), author of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (UC Press)

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Publishing Impact: Elevating the Work of Practicing Anthropologists
2025-10-17 14:00 - 15:15 | NY
This webinar is designed for practicing anthropologists who want to learn more about publishing and engaging in broader conversations in the field. Whether working in government, nonprofits, private industry, or community-based organizations, practicing anthropologists offer valuable contributions to anthropological knowledge and praxis. But in many cases, the publishing needs of practicing anthropologists do not align with the academic publishing system. This webinar will offer strategies to elevate practice-based knowledge and make your work visible and impactful both in and beyond peer-reviewed journals.
Our panelists will discuss

Identifying the right publication venues for practice-based work
Writing for both academic and nonacademic audiences
Coauthoring with collaborators, clients, and community partners
Navigating issues of confidentiality, ownership, and ethics

Panelists

Jennifer Collier Jennings (EPIC)
Matt Artz (AAA Executive Board Member)
Suanna Selby Crowley (NAPA)

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Call for Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship Applications
2025-10-01 | NY
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for its 2026-2027 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community. Fellows receive a 2026 membership in the WFRN, conference registration, and $250 to attend an Early Career Fellowship Preconference (June 17, 2026) and the 2026 WFRN Main Conference (June 18-20, 2026) in Montreal, Canada. To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2023 or later and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior-level positions. The deadline for applications is October 1, 2025. Questions about the program can be addressed to the program co-directors, Nicole Denier (ngdenier@gmail.com) and Yang Hu (prof.yanghu@gmail.com). Application submission information and further details on the Early Career Fellowship program can be found on this link: https://wfrn.org/early-career-fellowship/.

Call for Papers and Sessions for the 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
2025-10-01 | Concordia University, 1450 Guy Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 0A1, Canada
Submissions are now open for the Work and Family Researchers Network 8th Biennial Conference, June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University Montreal Canada. More than 400 scholars are anticipated to attend. The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. Submission deadline is October 1, 2025. Upon request, submissions received by September 1, 2025 will be expedited to facilitate Canadian visa approval. To submit your paper, poster, or session proposal, follow this link: https://wfrn26.mymeetingsavvy.net/. For more information on the 2026 conference and travel to Canada, visit the conference webpage: https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/.

Engaging Publics: Science Communication for Anthropologists
2025-09-18 12:00 - 13:15 | NY
How can anthropologists effectively communicate their research to broader audiences without sacrificing complexity or context? Join us for a webinar on science communication tailored specifically for anthropologists. This session will explore tools, strategies, and real-world examples for translating anthropological insights into accessible, compelling narratives for public audiences, policymakers, journalists, and interdisciplinary collaborators.
Our panelists will discuss

Best practices for writing and speaking about scholarly research for nonacademic audiences
How to identify the “so what?” of your research and craft a clear message
Tips for working with media, engaging on social platforms, and contributing to public scholarship
Common pitfalls in science communication and how to avoid them

Panelists

Agustin Fuentes
Natalie Konopinski
Chip Colwell

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Publishing an Article: Tips and Strategies from AAA Journal Editors
2025-08-20 15:00 - 16:15 | https://americananthro.org/event/publishing-an-article-tips-and-strategies-from-aaa-journal-editors/
Publishing an academic article can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be! This webinar will help early-career researchers navigate the process. Our panel of editors will help demystify journal publishing and offer practical tips for writing and revising your article.
Panelists

Elizabeth Chin, editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist
Dána-Ain Davis, former editor-in-chief of Feminist Anthropology
Sameena Mulla, former editor-in-chief of Feminist Anthropology

Our panelists will discuss

Choosing the right journal for your work
Structuring your manuscript and honing your argument
Understanding the peer review and revision process
Common reasons articles are rejected, and how to avoid them

This webinar is the first of four publishing-related webinars hosted by the AAA. Stay tuned for the next three webinars later this fall!

Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Conference
2025-06-21 - 2025-06-23 | University of California, Santa Barbara
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Conference will be held June 21-23, 2025 at U.C. Santa Barbara. SAR welcomes paper and panel proposals on ALL TOPICS in the Anthropology of Religion. At the same time, we do have a main Conference theme for 2025: Religiosities, Ecologies, and Environmentalisms in the Age of the Anthropocene.
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Anthropology Department at SUNY Buffalo; she will speak on indigenous religious environmentalism in Peru.
For the first time, our SAR Biennial Conference will collaborate with the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) https://www.issrnc.org/. The last day of our SAR Conference (June 23, 2025) will overlap with the first day of their Conference, also to be held at UC Santa Barbara. SAR members are free to stay on and attend ISSRNC panel sessions with no extra charge.
Anthropology needs to expand beyond the study of mere humans, for the effects of climate change and the pollution of our life-sustaining biosphere are impacting all living species, which are interdependent. This conference brings into play interpretive, scientific, and religious perspectives on forms of life in their cultural and natural environments. It promotes new ways of inquiring into the entangled relations between humans and deities, ancestors, ghosts, animals, insects, plants, and sacred natural formations such as rocks, rivers, and mountains. Across the globe, how do different religious communities, doctrines, and institutions play a role in the age of the Anthropocene?

2025 Society for Economic Anthropology 45th Annual Meeting: Sustaining Life between Popular and Illicit Economies
2025-06-05 09:00 - 2025-06-07 17:00 | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
The 2025 SEA meeting proposes to explore constellations of practices and strategies for sustaining life through activities that are not necessarily part of formal or even legal work and commerce. Our call seeks to explore the expansion, heterogenization and transformation of these practices and economies, questioning concepts of periphery, marginality and exclusion in order to analyze processes of capital valorization in local and transnational spaces of dispute and conflict over legitimate orders. The conference will be held in Puebla, Mexico. A colonial city located near Mexico City, the location allows for consideration of past and present economies while drawing on pioneering Latin American debates in popular, feminist and spatialized economies.
This meeting seeks to promote discussions around the collaborative aspects at stake for majority populations, whose lives in many parts of the world are increasingly precarious and ever more traversed by illicit trade and traffic, territorial and spatialized control and regulation, and multiple and diverse violences. Popular economy perspectives allow us to examine such strategies in their most plural sense, as a set of diverse and even contradictory experiences and practices, that constantly exceed our conceptual categories, and as such, have continually reorganized modes of organization and cooperation, as well as political subjectivities. Feminist economic analyses point to the importance attending to marginalized populations’ provisioning practices in contexts of capitalist expansion. This means understanding the increasingly complex work of taking care, in negotiation with not only state and private, but also illicit organizations and actors. Finally, a spatial approach to translocal and transnational economies allows us to read popular sectors’ multiple and variegated strategies of stabilization and dispute in the context of economic and political crises inscribed into multiple and unequal territories marked by incessant mobilities and inmobilities.
Framed by these perspectives, we seek to put anthropological and archeological studies into discussion to help us understand the ways that neoliberal destructuring of salaried work and public services have made it increasingly difficult for marginalized populations to function completely separately from illegalized circuits: families members migrate through trans-border trajectories, contraband provides possibilities for both work and affordable goods, young people find diversified labor opportunities in expanding criminalized networks. Explorations of actually existing popular economies from feminist perspectives will help us better understand the intensification and transformation of strategies to guarantee reproduction over multiple territories.
The 2025 SEA meeting “Sustaining Life between Popular and Illicit Economies” will be bilingual, with translations and exchanges in English and in Spanish. We hope that our exchanges in this SEA meeting will help us explore the recreation of common modes of existence that allow popular sectors to establish lives worth living in increasingly difficult conditions for their reproduction, particularly with the multiplication of interconnections between popular and illicit economies. Please see ttps://econanthro.org/meet/2025-sea-45th-annual-meeting/ for a full description of the call including papers topics of particular interest.
Abstracts will be received through the SEA Submission Site through February 3rd, 2025. For more information, please contact Cristina Cielo at mccielo@flacso.edu.ec

The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference
2025-05-29 09:00 - 2025-05-31 17:00 | University of Chicago, University of Chicago: Hyde Park, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
What does it mean to imagine today?
The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference invites participants to explore the many ways that imagination critically shapes, reproduces, and transforms social worlds across times, spaces, and scales through discursive and non-discursive processes and practices.
Starting with the idea of imagination as movement toward a thing, state of affairs, and/or set of ideas that does not (yet) exist, we prompt participants to ask: Who imagines? What gets imagined? Toward what ends and with what effects? How do particular imaginaries resist or engage practices and technologies of mediation? What happens when imagination is not just linked to, but is also untethered from temporal terms and logics? What is the relationship between imagination and forms of individual and collective action, including narrative, claims-making, and other rhetorical modes? How can we understand the myriad instantiations of imagination, creation, and critique—from innovation, construction, or invention to destruction, violence, or the reinforcement of the status quo?

2025 SCA Biennial Restorative Relations: An Unconference
2025-05-08 09:00 - 2025-05-11 17:00 | Stony Point Retreat Center, 17 Cricketown Rd, Stony Point, NY, 10980, United States
A central ethos of the 2025 SCA Biennial, Restorative Relations is renewing our relationships with ourselves, our academic lives, and one another. The biennial will take place from May 8th to 11th at the Stony Point retreat center in upstate New York, where meals will be included for all participants, and accommodations will be provided for those who choose to stay in residential accommodations on-site. Space is limited at the conference venue and priority will be given to those who make arrangements for double-occupancy accommodation. Please reach out to colleagues and friends and make a plan to attend the conference together.
As part of the registration process, SCA has made it possible to secure for your room for the meeting at the same time you register for the conference. Attendees are encouraged to select the Double Room during the registration process. For those who need help finding roommates, this Wufoo form has been set up to help. Once you have matched with someone, please email SCA via board@culanth.org and let them know who you are rooming with, so the list of prospective roommates can be updated accordingly. If you already have a specific roommate in mind, you can indicate this on the Wufoo form.

Defending Anthropology: Strategies for Sustaining Our Departments
2025-05-06 15:00 - 17:00 | NY
Anthropology departments across the country are facing unprecedented challenges—from budget-driven closures and mergers to increasing threats to academic freedom. Now more than ever, faculty, students, and advocates must come together to protect the future of our discipline.
RSVP today for our critical Town Hall focused on equipping our community with the tools and strategies needed to push back against these pressures.
This interactive session will feature:

Expert insights on navigating institutional challenges
Advocacy and strategies to protect anthropology programs
Action planning to mobilize faculty, students, and professional organizations

Panelists will include:

Joy Connolly, President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Antonio Ingram, Senior Counsel at the NAACP
Stephen Kidd, Executive Director of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA)
Robert Quinn, Executive Director of Scholars at Risk (SAR)
Chad Morris, Professor and Chair in Anthropology, East Carolina University
Missy Maceyko, Lecturer in Anthropology, California State University

We will also introduce the newly developed Anthropology Department Crisis Toolkit—a comprehensive resource offering guidance on legal advocacy, policy engagement, and faculty organizing.
Your voice and participation are essential. Let’s build a collective strategy to defend anthropology together.
We hope you’ll join us online, May 6, from 3-5PM ET, for our Defending Anthropology: Strategies for Sustaining Our Departments Town Hall, where faculty, students, and advocates will come together to discuss strategies for protecting our discipline.
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Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Spring Meeting
2025-05-01 - 2025-05-03 | Palazzo, 3325 S Las Vegas Blvd,, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, United States
Don’t we all love a little magic and mystery? Ancient mystery schools taught ways of navigating the universe, connecting with the divine, and gaining wisdom. Magic was a method of interacting with the supernatural and to influence desired outcomes. Yet, even as science has changed our understanding of the world and our place in it, people still seek out the mystical. Many seek out spiritual experiences, delight in being fooled by illusionists, attend role-playing mysteries, and hope their Hogwarts letter will arrive. For the upcoming conference we invite members to explore how and why mystery and magic are so enchanting to us. While there have been many anthropological studies of magic in the past, there are still many meaningful ways in which we can look at how magic and mystery impact humanity. We are looking for topics from personal experiences of magic, magic as control, connection, self-actualization, even to the mystery of consciousness itself.

2025 Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) Biennial Meeting
2025-04-03 09:00 - 2025-04-06 17:00 | Hyatt Tamaya Resort, 1300 Tuyuna Trail, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, 87004
The SPA Biennial brings together scholars from all levels – students, postdocs, junior & senior faculty—who are exploring diverse issues in psychological anthropology. The conference is an opportunity to immerse yourself in current debates, controversies, and state-of-the-art thinking across a range of approaches within the field. This is also an opportunity to meet new colleagues and old friends alike. We are planning many informal events and spaces in which we can think out loud, together. For those new to the SPA, we warmly welcome you as part of this community!
We recognize that a post-pandemic and Zoom world can induce people to stay at home and on-line. That sort of habitus misses out on the lived experience and collective energy of shared space. We are confident that the ambiance of the Santa Ana Pueblo’s Tamaya conference center makes this meeting worth showing up for. The program offers innovative forums for interaction, including plenaries, pre-conference methods/writing workshops, mentoring for students/junior scholars, and more.

Johns Hopkins University Anthro@50
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-05 | NY
Johns Hopkins University invites you to join us in commemorating five decades of academic excellence, research innovation, and community building. The celebration will feature a series of engaging events, including keynote addresses, graduate and undergraduate alumni panel discussions, and social gatherings, all to honor our department’s rich history.

Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) 2025 Spring Meeting
2025-03-25 - 2025-03-29 | Hilton Portland Downtown, 921 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97204, United States
SANA’s 2025 annual meeting will be held in collaboration with the Society for Applied Anthropology and will feature more than a dozen SANA sessions, including several special SANA events:
• Opening Reception: Project Space Junk at Ground Score
• A Dying Biomedicine: Vital Conversations to Transform the Anthropology of North America | A Keynote Dialogue with Emily Yates-Doerr and Chelsey Carter
• SANA at 30: Looking Back to Move Forward | A Retrospective Roundtable featuring Ida Susser, Maria Vesperi, Lee Baker, Jeff Maskovsky, Sue Hyatt, and Lindsay Bell
• Making Our Research and Writing More Accessible | An Interactive Workshop on Public-Facing Writing with Sarah B. Horton and Megan Raschig
• SANA Futures: A Relationship-Building and Visioning Session
• Presentation of the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America to Dr. Susan Hyatt
March 25-29, 2025
Portland, Oregon

Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) 85th Annual Meeting
2025-03-25 - 2025-03-29 | Hilton Portland Downtown, 921 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97204, United States
The SfAA Annual Meeting provides an invaluable opportunity for scholars, practicing social scientists, and students from a variety of disciplines and organizations to discuss their work and brainstorm for the future. It is more than just a conference: it’s a rich place to trade ideas, methods, and practical solutions, as well as enter the lifeworld of other professionals. SfAA members come from a variety of disciplines — anthropology, sociology, economics, business, planning, medicine, nursing, law, and other related social/behavioral sciences. Make 2025 the year you’ll spend a few days presenting, learning, and networking in Portland, OR, with the SfAA.
Cosponsors include the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA), National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), the Culture & Agriculture (C&A) Section, and the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS).

COSSA's 2025 Social Science Advocacy Day
2025-03-24 - 2025-03-25 | NY
COSSA’s annual Social Science Advocacy Day will be taking place on March 24-25, 2025, in Washington, DC. Advocacy Day brings together social and behavioral scientists and science advocates from across the country to engage with policymakers in Congress about issues important to our community, such as federal funding. Participants will be teamed up with advocates and participate in a day of in-person meetings with House and Senate offices on Capitol Hill. Through these meetings, you will share reasons why federal government support for social and behavioral science research is so critical and discuss how you and your institution can be helpful to your elected officials. Advocates will be given all the resources they need to have successful meetings, including a preparatory seminar, and all your meetings will be scheduled for you. The only thing you need to do is come to Washington prepared to talk about why you love social and behavioral science!
The stakes for research funding have never been higher as we enter a particularly challenging political and budgetary environment. Social Science Advocacy Day is a must for all stakeholders who care about the fate of federal funding for social and behavioral science research and who believe this research should be used to inform sound public policy.

WEBINAR: DEI in the Balance
2025-03-20 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
Title: DEI in the Balance
When: March 20 1:00 to 2:00 PM EST
Learning Objectives:
On January 20, 2025, President Trump began signing a series of executive orders that attempted to position diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, initiatives, and activities as illegal on the grounds that DEI is “discriminatory.” In this webinar, we discuss the language of these executive orders and their scope of impact, including on work and activities related to DEI in different sectors, such as higher-education and for-profit organizations in the United States. The webinar will also focus on what we can continue to do to advance the principles behind DEI, both at work and in our personal lives, in this precarious regulatory environment.
Presenter Bios:
Dr. Luzilda C. Arciniega and Dr. Melissa Maceyko are anthropologists and co-founders of Willing Observers, a consulting firm that centers cultural approaches and methods to deepen diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in organizations. Dr. Arciniega’s background is in business and organizational cultures, DEIB best practices and benchmarking, and critical race and feminist studies. Dr. Maceyko’s background is in language and social justice, legal and political anthropology, allyship, and gender and sexuality studies. At Willing Observers they conduct cultural assessments, develop and facilitate training, and help organizations with DEIB strategic planning and metrics. Their Inclusive Culture Strategy programs train DEIB advocates on key foundations and knowledge in DEIB and culture-change.
Pricing – Free
AAA Membership is not required to attend.
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American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting
2025-03-20 - 2025-03-22 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
The American Ethnological Society spring conference, to be held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from March 20–22, 2025, invites scholars to consider whether archipelagos and “archipelagic thinking” can aid us to analyze pressing global challenges across cultures, geographies, climates, disciplines, and methodologies.
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SACCFest 2025: Identity and Representation in the US Southwest
2025-03-19 09:00 - 2025-03-22 17:00 | Central New Mexico Community College, 900 University Blvd SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87106, United States
The Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges is excited to present SACCFest 2025: Identity and Representation in the US Southwest.
Location: Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Theme: Identity and Representation in the US Southwest
Dates: March 19-22, 2025
Schedule
Wednesday, March 19th – Welcome Reception in Old Town
Thursday, March 20th – Morning Meetings at CNM and afternoon visit the UNM Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Happy Hour in Nob Hill/Route 66
Friday, March 21st – Morning Meetings at CNM and afternoon tour of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Saturday, March 22nd – Full Day tour of Acoma Pueblo Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum
Saturday Evening Banquet and Keynote Address
Registration Now Open!
In-Person Registration Fee: $150
Remote Registration Fee: $40
Dinner and Keynote Address: $75

Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) Biennial Spring Conference
2025-03-12 09:00 - 2025-03-15 17:00 | Museo del Canal, Plaza de la Independencia, C. 5a Este, Panamá, Provincia de Panamá, Panama
The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) is pleased to invite
submissions for our biennial conference, “(Im)mobility and Memory in Latin America and the
Caribbean.” This conference will explore the dynamic interrelations between memory and
mobility in the region, focusing on how both movement and stasis shape, and are shaped by,
cultural, social and historical processes. We seek to examine how memory—individual and
collective—becomes a contested terrain in relation to both mobility and immobility.
Conceptualizing Memory:
In this conference, we are imagining Memory as encompassing not only personal and collective
recollections but also broader questions of heritage, patrimony, and history. How are tangible
and intangible forms of patrimony – such as monuments, artifacts, oral traditions, and historical
narratives – remembered, preserved, or transformed in contexts of movement, migration, or
displacement? How do communities in Latin America and the Caribbean negotiate their cultural
and historical legacies in the face of (im)mobility? We invite participants to consider these and
other questions as they relate to the politics of memory, heritage, and identity.

2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Contest Entry
2025-03-03 - 2025-06-15 | NY
2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces the annual juried competition for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. The late Victor Turner devoted his career to seeking an accessible language that would reopen anthropology to the human subject, and the competition recognizes the innovative books that further this project. We seek graceful, accessible ethnographic writing which deeply explores its subject and contributes in innovative and engaging ways to the genre(s) of ethnography and the field of humanistic (and/or post-humanistic) anthropology.
Award
A $1,000 first-place, a $500 second place and a $250 third-place prize will be awarded in autumn of 2025 (either via online SHA awards ceremony, or in person at the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans, November 19-23, 2025).
2025 Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing
Authors for whom their submission to the Victor Turner Prize is also their first book publication will also be eligible for consideration for the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, a newly created award which recognizes Edie Turner’s support and mentorship of junior scholars. Up to two winners of the Edie Turner Prize may be selected at the discretion of the prize committee.
Award
A $1,000 first-place prize, potentially split between co-winners, will be awarded in autumn 2025 (either via online SHA awards ceremony, or in person at the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans, November 19-23, 2025). This award will not affect any book’s consideration for the Victor Turner Prize, and a book may win both awards. There is no separate entry form for the Edie Turner Prize.
Eligibility

Eligible ethnographic genres for both prizes include single or co-authored book-length monographs, narratives, historical accounts, biographies, memoirs, dramas, and creative ethnography (including nonfiction, fiction, and poetic works); as well as single-authored collections of essays, short prose, or poems (sorry, no edited collections with multiple contributors).
Only books copywrited in 2024 will be eligible. If the work is in translation to English, we allow 2 extra years from the original publication date; therefore a book published in its original language no earlier than 2022 would be eligible.
Books must have been peer-reviewed independently of its author(s).
Books may be entered into the competition by authors, publishers, book editors, or colleagues. No formal letter of nomination is needed.
Publishers are encouraged to limit their submissions to ten books per publisher.

Submission Guidelines
By June 1, 2025, Please:

Complete your information in this ENTRY FORM
Pay the entry fee (details to be provided)
Submit an electronic copy of your book by the June 1 deadline to SHAVictorTurner@gmail.com.
Short listed book authors will be asked to submit paper copies of their books to each of the judges (addresses will be provided to these authors and/or publishers).

Biographical information submitted will be used for presenting the winners and publicizing the results of the competition and will not be used for judging the quality of the entries.
Submission Fee
For authors who are already or become SHA members, the entry fee is $25/book. For authors who are not SHA members, the entry fee is $75/book. (Publishers: for all books you submit, please check with authors first to discover whether they are current SHA members and please encourage authors to join SHA). The fee may be paid online by June 1 at 11:59pm.

Anthropology Day
2025-02-20 | NY
Anthropology Day is a day for anthropologists to celebrate our discipline while sharing it with the world around us.
Help us celebrate what anthropology is and what it can achieve by hosting an event in your community, on your campus, or in your workplace. Anthropology Day is always held on the third Thursday in February.
Anthro Day this year is on February 20, 2025. Use the hashtag #AnthroDay to get involved on social media.
