American Anthropological Association

2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Contest Entry
2025-03-03 - 2025-06-15
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
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.

Anthropology News Call for Pitches: Signal/Noise
2025-02-07
Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of signal/noise. We are looking for stories about how communities, cultures, and individuals distinguish meaningful patterns from background noise, interpret disruptions, and find (dis)connection amid interference. What counts as signal versus noise, and who gets to decide? How are fuzzy boundaries clarified or precarious structures disrupted? What happens when communication is both necessary and fraught, or what makes messages shared or misconstrued?
Anthropology News encourages submissions in a variety of formats to present compelling stories that make anthropological insights accessible to a wide audience. Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling—or compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces. Read more about us here and consider how you might tell anthropological stories for a general audience as you consider the direction of your pitch.
Please submit a 300-word pitch outlining your piece’s central theme, along with a 50-word bio, through our submission form (button above). We will accept pitches through February 7, 2025. Authors of accepted pitches will be asked to develop their pieces in collaboration with AN’s editorial team, which will be published on a rolling basis on the AN website through June 2025. Feature articles should be around 2,000 words, photo essays should consist of six to eight high-resolution images with a 750-word introductory essay, and audiovisual work can be developed in consultation with AN editors. Contact us at an@americananthro.org if you have any questions.

The Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
2025-01-31
Authors and publishers* are invited to submit entries for the 2024 prize between September 24, 2024 and January 31, 2025.
The prize is intended for books in English by U.S. citizens or permanent residents in this country, published in the United States between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. Books must be single-authored volumes, not collections of articles or edited texts.
A copy of the book should be sent to each member of the prize committee:
Dr. David Hollingerr
440 Boynton Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94707
Dr. Robert B. Pippin
The Committee on social Thought
The University of Chicago
1130 E. 59 St
Chicago, Il 60637
Dr. Susan Steward
Department of English
22 McCosh Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
* There is a strict 3-book limit per publisher, whether books are submitted by the publisher or directly by an author. If more than 3 books are submitted by a publisher, all of them will be dropped from consideration.

2024 AAA Annual Meeting: Praxis
2024-11-20 - 2024-11-23 | Tampa Convention Center, 333 S. Franklin Street, Tampa, FL, 33602, United States
Join us for the 2024 AAA Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida November 20–23 where we’re bringing together anthropologists from all over the world to advance the field of anthropology, share our work, and network with our colleagues.
This year’s conference is centered around the theme Praxis. We’ll consider the present and future praxis of anthropology, the application of praxis in our communities, and praxis as collaborative work. This conference aims to reimagine, create, question, and debate an anthropological praxis in our research and work that supports the ethical and equitable treatment of communities we work and live in.

SEM 2024 Virtual Annual Meeting
2024-10-17 - 2024-10-26 | https://americananthro.org/event/sem-2024-virtual-annual-meeting/
The 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology will be held virtually on October 17-26, 2024. For registration and information on all aspects of the meeting, please visit the conference website. More information on program sessions and other virtual events will be posted in the upcoming weeks.

The Op-Ed Project is back!
2024-06-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
We are once again offering 20 members the opportunity to take part in “Write to Change the World” workshops organized and facilitated by The Op-Ed Project – a think tank and leadership organization that accelerates the ideas and impact of underrepresented voices. Participants emerge with concrete results (op-ed drafts and more), and access to a national network of journalist mentors for individual follow-up. Submit your application by June 28.

Tampa Town Hall – Meet the Mayor
2024-05-28 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The AAA is pleased to present “Meet the Mayor,” a town hall meeting featuring Tampa Mayor Jane Castor. Join us for an afternoon of dialogue and exchange as Mayor Castor addresses your questions and concerns, particularly focusing on safety, security, inclusion, and the resources available to help create real change within the community. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with Mayor Castor and contribute to the ongoing dialogue surrounding our Annual Meeting in Tampa this November 20 – 23.
As the first openly gay person to be elected Mayor of Tampa and, prior to that, the first woman and first openly gay person to serve as the city’s Chief of Police, Mayor Castor brings a wealth of experience and a commitment to diversity to her role. From her groundbreaking tenure in law enforcement to her historic mayoral election, she has consistently demonstrated her dedication to serving Tampa and fostering a city that is safe, prosperous, and welcoming for all.
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SACC Great Lakes Regional Conference
2024-04-27 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | The Field Museum, 1400 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60605, United States
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC)
Great Lakes Regional Conference at the Field Museum
Saturday, April 27, 2024
The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Organized by Evin Rodkey, Ph.D. of Muskegon Community College in Muskegon, Michigan and Isabel Scarborough, Ph.D. of Parkland College, a community college in Champaign, Illinois
Come Join Us to…
PRESENT AT OR PARTICIPATE IN ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS!
ENJOY AN INSIDER’S GUIDED TOUR OF THE FIELD MUSEUM!
EXPLORE THE MUSEUM ON YOUR OWN WITH FREE TIME!
The Society for Anthropology in the Community Colleges (SACC), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), is holding a Great Lakes Region conference at the Field Museum in Chicago. This is a one-day conference taking place on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Though a regional conference, no matter where you are located, you are welcome to attend!
This conference is intended to bring together anthropology instructors, students, and interested others, including from outside anthropology, to discuss issues relevant to teaching, learning, and otherwise engaging with material relevant to anthropology. Two major features of this conference are an approximately one-hour guided tour of select exhibits and their connections to contemporary museum practice, plus 2-3 hours of free time to explore the Museum all included in the (see below – very cheap) registration fee!
Check-in opens at 9:00 am at the west entrance and at 9:30 am we will begin with roundtable-style discussions, which can include visual presentations using a projector and poster presentations as well. These sessions will be arranged by the organizers according to the topic proposals received. There is no specific theme; we welcome a wide range of topics relevant to the material we deal with in anthropology.
A lunch break will follow the presentations and discussions. You are welcome to bring your own food, which will be safely stored, though note refrigerators, freezers, microwaves, etc. will not be available. You may also purchase food from either of the two Field Museum eateries: The Field Bistro on the main level (open 8:00 am – 4:30 pm), which, per the Museum website, features “locally sourced food and quick grab-and-go service” or The Explorer Café on the ground level (open 10:00 am – 4:00 pm), which, per the website, offers “family-friendly foods in a casual environment.”
Following lunch, we will be treated to a one-hour guided tour of select exhibits conducted by Mario Longoni, Lead Environmental Social Scientist at the Keller Science Action Center in the Museum, who has been with the Museum for over 25 years. Through the exhibits “Abbott Hall of Conservation: Restoring Earth,” “Maori Meeting House, Ruatepupuke II,” and “The Changing Face of Science,” Mario will illustrate shifts in the Museum’s methods and goals as a teaching, change making, and representing institution. He will also highlight “Chicago’s Legacy Hula” and “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” as key exhibits you can visit on your own.
Following the tour, you will then have 2-3 hours of free time in the Museum!
The conference then officially ends at 4:45 pm, ahead of the Museum closing at 5:00 pm. We will meet at a designated location in Stanely Field Hall (the main area at the center of the Museum) to close out. And we will make plans to meet in the evening for dinner for those who can and would like to!
TO SUBMIT A PRESENTATION PROPOSAL:
You may and participate in the discussions attend without presenting. But if you would like to officially present, please provide an abstract or simply a brief description of your proposed topic to BOTH Dr. Evin Rodkey and Dr. Isabel Scarborough (please, call them Evin and Isabel) at evin.rodkey@muskegoncc.edu AND IScarborough@parkland.edu. Your abstract or description must include a title, your name, affiliation information, and phone number. It must be no longer than 125 words and must be received no later than MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024. Please send a Word document or PDF only.
All submissions will receive an immediate confirmation-of-receipt email and then a notification of acceptance (or request for modifications or, though unlikely, rejection) of proposals will be emailed no later than Wednesday, April 3, 2024. If you have any questions or issues regarding any aspect of the conference, please contact BOTH Evin and Isabel at the email addresses above.
TO REGISTER:
Note that AAA or SACC membership is NOT required to attend this conference. However, registration must be completed through the AAA website, which means you must create an account there if you don’t already have one.

Early registration (non-students): $25: Must be received by Monday, April 8, 2024 through the AAA website as indicated above
Regular registration (non-students): $40: After April 8 and up to Thursday, April 25 at the AAA website
Student Registration: only $10!
On-Site Registration for Anyone: $50

For planning purposes, and to ensure we can accommodate you, we strongly prefer all attendees register prior to the conference, and as early as possible. Note if registering on site, only cash or check can be accepted. Debit and credit cards CANNOT be accepted on site! Checks should be made payable to the American Anthropological Association with a memo stating: “SACC Registration.”
Cancellation policy: Cancellation requests received (send to BOTH Evin Rodkey and Isabel) 14 days or more before the day of the conference will receive a full refund. No refunds will be issued after that.
INFO ON PLACES TO STAY, DINING, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, PARKING, ETC.:
A note from conference co-organizer Evin Rodkey on this:
I lived and worked in this area of Chicago for many years. I now live in Michigan and still visit frequently. If you are not familiar with the area, I am happy to help with guiding you toward hotels, a nearby hostel, using public transportation, food options, and so on. Please feel free to contact me directly at the email address above!
If you need to drive all the way to the Museum, parking is available at Solider Field (the football stadium of the Chicago Bears) next door. As far as I know prices range from $35-$45 for the day.
For a resource beyond me, the following website for hotels and dining may help:
https://www.choosechicago.com/plan-your-trip/find-hotels/
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Virtual Graduate School Fair
2024-04-22 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The Virtual Graduate School Fair is a half-day online event where prospective graduate students will learn more about the graduate school application process and the options they have for their next step. In addition to department tabling, where you can chat with representatives from anthropology MA and PhD programs, the fair also includes two panel discussions where you can hear insider perspectives on the application process.
Join us for the Virtual Grad School Fair on April 22, 2024!
Information
Here’s the preliminary schedule (all times US Eastern):

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Welcome; Panel 1
1:00 p.m.  – 2:00 p.m. – Panel 2
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. – Break
2:30 p.m.  – 4:00 p.m. – Department Tabling – Meet with representatives from anthropology MA and PhD programs!

Panel discussions will be recorded, and attendees are free to come and go as they wish. Panel topics and speakers are TBA. Department tabling is FREE for DSP partners.
Panel 1: “How to Get Into Grad School”
Panelists: Jennifer Patico (Georgia State), Jeff Maskovsky (CUNY), Rebecca Prentice (University of Sussex)
Moderator: Ashley Bruckner (AAA)
This panel features three professors who will offer an orientation to the grad school application process. Topics include: how to decide where (and whether!) to apply, how grad admissions is different from undergrad, and common mistakes to avoid. Bring your questions and come for candid advice.
Panel 2: “Using Grad School to Advance Your Career”
Panelists: Evan Hanover (Conifer Research), Alexandra Botti (Axios), Lyle Torp (Ottery Group)
Moderator: Daniel Ginsberg (AAA)
You may be at the beginning of your grad school journey right now, but what awaits you at the end? Our three panelists with master’s degrees in cultural anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology will reflect on grad school as a phase of their professional pathway and how it led to what came after. We’ll discuss dos and don’ts of graduate school, specifically thinking about how you might use that time not just to learn anthropology but also to prepare for your own next step.
Registration
Virtual Exhibit Hall and Panels (Full Program):

AAA members $5
Non-members $10

Virtual Exhibit Hall ONLY

FREE

Please note that registration closes at 10:30 AM ET on April 22, 2024
Questions?
Please complete our contact form, select “Anthropology education and careers” from the menu.

2024 SEA/SAW Spring Meeting
2024-04-18 08:00 - 2024-04-20 17:00 (America/New_York)
Work and the Data Economy
A joint meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
The production, distribution, and consumption of digital data has become an important domain of economic activity. Data is said to upend conventional economic thinking, as a resource that can be transported at negligible cost and used without being depleted. Yet the enactment of the data economy depends on more and less familiar forms of human labor, from the waged work of analysts, modelers, and technicians to the uncompensated and often nonconsensual generation of trace data in everyday life. Sensor networks gathering real-time data have permeated industries from agriculture to shipping, while the digitization of museum holdings and the massification of genetic sequencing have given rise to new value chains that cut across boundaries of public and private. The consequences of these developments are still coming into focus, promising greater efficiency and access but also compounding issues of equity and control. How, we might ask, does data capitalism stand to reinforce inequality along lines of race, gender, class, and disability?

Into Darkness, Into Light - Anthropology of Consciousness 41st Annual Conference
2024-04-06 09:00 - 2024-04-10 17:00 (America/New_York)
Call for Presentations
Link to the Call for Presentations Form: AAC 2024 Submission Site – Google Forms
Deadline: February 15, 2024
The Program Committee for the Association for the Anthropology of Consciousness invites members and their collaborators to investigate how we engage with themes of darkness and/or light. Our theme and meeting dates were chosen to coincide with the total solar eclipse, which will come to North America on April 8, 2024. According to space.com, “A total solar eclipse happens when the moon appears the same size in the sky as the sun, or slightly larger, so fully covers the disk of the sun, giving observers a view of the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona” (https://www.space.com/41552-total-solar-eclipse-2024-guide.html). This event provides opportunities for making connections between consciousness and experiences of lightness and darkness in an array of forms, from literal to metaphorical. It invites us to consider how light and dark may be conceived as binary and yet include nuances such as crepuscular shadows and normally invisible coronal elements. Contributors are invited to draw on a wide range of topics, including, for example, lived experiences of ritual and other collective awakenings, oppression or privilege, (in/ex)clusivity, and healing. We also consider this conference an opportunity to build networks for collective engagement, restorative practices, healing, and reconciliation.

SACC: Food, Glorious Food!: Food and Culture across the Five Fields and Further
2024-04-05 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
2024 SACC Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
on the campus of
Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA – April 5, 2024
Food, Glorious Food!: Food and Culture across the Five Fields and Further
How do food and culture overlap? This Society of Anthropology in Community Colleges [SACC] Conference will examine this topic from a broad lens, anthropologically and otherwise. Possible topics include but aren’t limited to: the archaeology of food production; the cultural meanings of food; pedagogical practices in teaching about food and culture; nutritional anthropology; feminist approaches to food production; food scarcity on campus and in communities, and so on. Now seeking papers and posters addressing any and all branches of anthropology, as well as other fields including sociology, psychology, biology, and more.

AES/APLA Spring Conference, REPAIR, April 4 – 6, 2024
2024-04-04 08:00 - 2024-04-06 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join AES and APLA at the University of Pittsburg for their Spring meeting under the theme REPAIR. The spring AES-APLA conference invites scholars, activists, and artists to grapple with the complexities and possibilities of repair in the contexts of the people and sites with and in which they work.
In the face of compounding harms—mass extinctions, settler-colonial dispossession, gentrification, displacement—what does it mean to repair the historic legacies of damage and harm? What does it demand of individuals, communities, or states? How might studies of possibility or hope be enhanced through an attention to actually existing practices of repair? How can the tools of anthropology be used to amplify the demands coming from historically disadvantaged communities? Such questions call for anthropology to link the radical imagination to present struggles. At the same time, as scholarship on abolition, revolution, and refusal highlight, it is also important to document unfixable situations, times in which repair does more harm than good, or instances in which people find it more ethical to abandon or refuse.
Onsite registration will begin at 2pm, April 4, 2024 for those who wish to register in-person. The deadline for paper/panel submission is February 5, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Read the full CFP here.
Registration Rates
Students

$50 AES/APLA section members
$75 Non-members

Faculty

$100 Part-time/adjunct
$125 AES/APLA section members
$150 Fulltime non-members

Follow this link to find out more about becoming a member of the AAA. Existing AAA members can join AES or APLA by following this link.

Anthro Camp: SACC San Diego Regional Meeting
2024-02-16 08:00 - 2024-02-17 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Miramar College
San Diego Regional Conference – Feb 16-17 at San Diego Miramar College, San Diego, CA ($75 Friday, +$25 per workshop Saturday). Call for proposals extended to Jan 5!

Please consider sharing an activity, game, anthropology-related skill that teachers can share with students. We are looking for ways to make our courses more engaging, hands-on, and support the students who learn by doing. If you have a question about whether your idea fits our theme, let me know!

Come join SACC in (sunny) San Diego in February over President’s Day weekend for two days of hands-on Anthro activities. We’re calling this an “Anti-Conference” since we’ll be focusing on interactive learning rather than traditional papers.

Venue: San Diego Miramar College

Mira Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, CA

We will not be reserving a hotel, and encourage you to look at VRBO and Air B&B for reasonably priced stays.

Hotels in the Mira Mesa area include Holiday Inn Express Mira Mesa, Comfort Inn Miramar, and others.

AnthroDay Kick-Off Event: AAA Executive Director’s Journey in Anthropology
2024-02-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Please join us for the AAA-hosted Anthropology Day Kick-Off event on February 8, from 6-7 PM EST! This is an exciting opportunity to hear from AAA’s Executive Director Ady Arguelles-Sabatier about her journey in anthropology.
After studying anthropology in college, Ady worked for many years in event planning, business strategy, and fundraising, until her career came full circle in mid-2023 when she became Executive Director of the American Anthropological Association. She will be discussing the reasons she chose to study anthropology in the first place and the ways that her anthropology education has shaped her career and influenced her perspective.
This event is a great chance for undergraduate students to expand their ideas on career paths, but all anthropologists and anthropology enthusiasts are welcome to attend. This is a great way to get geared up ahead of Anthropology Day on February 15! Registration is free for members and non-members.

2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting: Transitions
2023-11-15 08:00 - 2023-11-19 17:00 (America/New_York) | Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front St W, Toronto, ON, M5V 2W6, Canada
The 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting will again be a hybrid meeting. This means the meeting will take place in-person in Toronto, ON, CA, from November 15-19, 2023, as well as online over those same dates.
The place-based meeting in Toronto will look and feel very similar to annual meetings of the past. As we continue to navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic, safety protocols will be in place to ensure the health and safety of in-person attendees. Please check our webpage on Public Health and Safety often for updates to our protocols as the AAA and CASCA continue to monitor the evolving COVID-19 situation and applicable public health guidance.
The virtual component of the meeting will be hosted professionally on a virtual meeting platform. Virtual attendees will be able to engage with live virtually presented content during session rounds, select place-based sessions streamed live into the platform from Toronto, and pre-recorded asynchronous content uploaded to the platform’s library. Place-based attendees will have the option to attend meeting sessions in Toronto or on the online platform, as the platform will also serve as the place-based attendee mobile app.

Anthros on the Public Stage: Interactive Workshop for Public Speaking & Writing
2023-10-27 12:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-20 12:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-13 12:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-06 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Are you an anthropologist eager to share your research experiences and insights to make a difference in the world? Have you ever wondered how to tell a compelling story that can help people understand each other better and resolve their differences? Would you like to learn some strategies for communicating persuasively with print/digital media? Or might you be interested in coaching peers, students, or groups you work with to relate their experiences? If you answered yes to at least one of these questions, this course is for you!
This course has two overarching goals: 1) Take the guesswork out of speaking to and writing for general audiences, and 2) Equip you with the tools and strategies for successful public engagement. To accomplish these goals, we will build on four modules from the anthrocurious.com production of Anthropologists on the Public Stage (2022):

Develop an Idea Worth Sharing
Connect with the Media
Tell a Great Story
Promote Yourself and Anthropology

Four two-hour sessions represent the foundation for the course, with assignments in between, from Noon – 2:00 p.m. Eastern on October 6, 13, 20, and 27. At the start of each session, we introduce relevant video and solicit your reactions to it. Then we springboard to exploring an idea you would like to share publicly, using tips presented in the video. In at least two sessions, we will be uploading one or more documents (e.g., working papers, articles, reflections) to an AI platform and will suggest some ways to query it. Then, it will be your chance to become creative as you see your initial idea in relation to the AI-generated text. You will work to extend your idea in new directions with strategies for developing your plan for media and public engagement. Opportunities will be available to get guidance from communication experts during the course.
By participating in this course, you will come away with a media and public engagement plan, which includes storytelling techniques and tools to move from idea to audience-ready, media outreach tactics, and promotional strategy.

The REAL AI revolution: the benefits of Chatbot Augmented Instruction
2023-10-26 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join Michael Wesch and Elisa (EJ) Sobo for an exciting conversation on how to leverage generative AI for better teaching and learning! Together, they will delve into the challenges presented by large language models and generative AI technologies, offering not only concrete suggestions for classroom practice but also timely reflections on the purpose of higher education. “In meeting this new technology with creativity and purpose, we can reorient education’s compass needle back toward process as opposed to product – toward thinking about as opposed to merely recounting what others have said” – and as we do, we can bolster efforts to increase equity in higher education too: “The adaptations we create, not ChatGPT, could be the real revolution” (Sobo, 2023, 1). By guiding students to apply generative AI in innovative classroom activities and projects, we can empower our students to use this technology as a practical tool for inquiry and discovery while also interrogating its potential sociocultural impacts.
Sobo, E. (2023). Could ChatGPT Prompt a New Golden Age in Higher Education? Teaching and Learning Anthropology, 6(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/T36160114
Presenters
Michael Wesch is a winner of the CASE/Carnegie US Professor of the Year Award, Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University, and founder of anth101.com, an award-winning free textbook alternative for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
Elisa (EJ) Sobo, professor of anthropology, is Director for Undergraduate Research in the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University, and AI Faculty Fellow in the Instructional Technology division. A past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) and a past Convener for the AAA’s Section Assembly Executive Committee (SAEC), Dr. Sobo’s research concerns non-biomedical or ‘alternative’ approaches to health including, most recently, yogic sound bath therapy.
Fees: Free for members and non-members

Department Climate and Academic Workload in Anthropology Departments
2023-10-18 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Scholars of intersectional identities face unique challenges in their departments including disproportionate workloads, excessive service assignments, and additional mentorship obligations. Patricia A. Matthew, an English department faculty member at Montclair State University, describes these extra commitments as “invisible labor” – because institutions do not value this labor with the currency they typically use to reward faculty work: reappointment, tenure, and promotion. This webinar session, hosted by SSRC PROGRESS, is structured around a participant-led discussion of two case studies, with two discussion facilitators to support a meaningful dialogue on issues of department climate and academic workload/career advancement. The ultimate goal of this session is to have an open discussion of both challenges and successes in employing DEI interventions in anthropology departments.
PROGRESS is an NSF ADVANCE adaptation grant program that addresses organizational policies and procedures related to advisory board formation, peer review, and fellowship/awards conferment to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion measures are meaningful and effective. Housed within the Social Science Research Council, PROGRESS partners with five disciplinary associations – the American Anthropological Association, the American Economic Association, the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Association, and the American Sociological Association.
Presenters

Veronica Zepeda, Program Director, Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network – Social Science Research Council
Fred Palm, VP of Administration and Operations, P.I. of PROGRESS – Social Science Research Council

Fees: Free for members and non-members

The Job of the Future: Digital Anthropology Meets Data Science
2023-09-27 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Abstract
This panel will discuss how digital anthropologists can use data science to help us better understand people and communities in the “Phygital” world, and why this growing field is a critical “Job of the Future” across the public and private sector. This panel discussion–featuring experts from digital anthropology, data science, journalism, social media and tech –will delve deeply into how this field will play a role in AI, combat online extremism and violence and support a more equal and ethical digital future. Non-anthropologists and anthropologists alike are warmly welcome!
Presenters

Cristian Huepe, Co-director, Social Listening Lab (SoL-UC), Universidad Católica de Chile.
Himanshu Panday, Co-founder, Dignity in Difference
Matt Artz, Founder of Azimuth Labs
James Ingram, Founder of the Liiv Center & CEO of TelmarHelixa
Christine Burke, VP Cultural Insights, TelmarHelixa

Moderator

Katie Hillier, Chief Digital Anthropologist, Liiv Center

Fees: Free for members and non-members
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Anthropology Live: Discussing “Decolonizing Anthropology: Global Perspectives”
2023-09-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us for a thought-provoking webinar on what it means to decolonize anthropology in different contexts around the world. This event brings together Dr. Gretchen Stolte, Dr. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, and Dr. Carolyn Rouse, contributors of the American Ethnologist special forum, “Decolonizing Anthropology: Global Perspectives“, to explore the past, present, and future of anthropology. This discussion, moderated by Dr. Faye Ginsburg, will touch on everything from the decolonizing politics of citation, public anthropology, the historical relationship between anthropology and colonial power in different parts of the world, and the degree to which anthropology provided and provides the tools to resist.
Panelists
Dr. Gretchen Stolte, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia
Dr. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Departamento de Estudios Culturales, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), Departamento de Antropologia (emeritus), Universidade de Brasília
Dr. Carolyn Rouse, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Moderator
Dr. Faye Ginsburg, Department of Anthropology, New York University
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2023 Anthropology Photo Contest
2023-08-09 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
We’re now accepting submissions for the 2023 Anthropology Photo Contest! The deadline to submit your photos is August 9th, 2023.
Anthropologists work all around the world in a diverse range of careers, and we want to highlight them. Photographs can be anything you believe relates to your work, in the field, lab, or classroom. In addition to being featured on the AAA website as header images and on AAA’s social media accounts, select photo contest images will be featured in the 2024 AAA calendar which will be distributed at the 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting in Toronto.

2023 AAA Department Leaders Summer Institute
2023-06-21 12:00 - 2023-06-23 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Registration for the 2023 Department Leaders Summer Institute, Advocating for Your Department and Our Field, is now open.
Click here to register now!
The Department Leaders Summer Institute provides an opportunity for department leaders to have face-to-face conversations about the various challenges of administering a department and to share successful practices for dealing with these challenges.
AAA DSP Partners are eligible for complimentary registration. If you have questions about your DSP partnership, please contact AAA staff here.

Deadline: 2023 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Contest Entry
2023-06-15 08:00 - 23:45 (America/New_York)
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.
