| As a reminder, abstracts for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology are due October 15. If you have not registered and submitted your abstracts, please visit the SfAA 2012 web site at:http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.htmlBays, Boundaries, and Borders are broad themes that interconnect with Baltimores past, present, and future history and environment. Society for Applied Anthropology members, and others who have heard about the meetings, are responding by developing plans for hosting invited lectures, or giving presentations, workshops, or receptions. And, of course, there will be music and dance. Some are bringing friends of the Society who will be featuring their craftwork and culture for all of us to enjoy. I encourage you to plan to come early to take part in the Community Day on Tuesday, March 27, then stay through until the end of the meeting on Saturday, March 31.
But remember — you need to move forward with your plans about how to participate – abstracts and registration are due October 15. You may register securely online and submit abstracts at:
http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.htmlEarly spring in Charm City is usually a great time of year. Many of you who stopped by the Baltimore table in Seattle wrote suggestions encouraging the development of a community day similar to the outstanding Traditional Food Summit organized in Seattle. In that spirit, we are planning to work with communities and organizations in and around Baltimore to create a community day. This day will focus on the communitys efforts to regenerate neighborhoods, sustain cultural traditions, and tell the stories of past or contemporary struggles that have preserved the proud heritage of the city.
Practicing anthropologists abound in the mid-Atlantic region, and I invite each one of you who reads this note to tell other colleagues and then come to Baltimore and share your stories about practical lessons youve learned. Practitioners have much to offer to aspiring students seeking to create their niche in the professional world as well as the faculty who are training them and the discipline we embody. Practitioners often work at the boundaries of professional activity, where innovative insights are perhaps more common than within the walls of lecture halls, and we want to lay the welcome mat wide open for them in Baltimore.
The Society for Medical Anthropology – http://www.medanthro.net/ – is already a cosponsor for the Baltimore meetings. The Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists –http://www.wapa.cloverpad.org/ – the oldest Local Practitioner Organization in the region, is another potential cosponsor of the meeting. The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology –http://practicinganthropology.org/ – is also supporting the meeting and will be well represented. This Baltimore venue promises to be a rich and intellectually stimulating social environment conducive to professional networking and fun.
The SfAA Student Committee is working diligently on an Alternative Political Ecology track that will offer diverse panels, roundtables and tours in Baltimore. Overall, we plan to offer a diverse group of tours of the region, and also develop directions for self-guided tours of the Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington, DC triangle area. We also hope to increase film or video submissions about applied research, activism, or social justice issues.
This will be a meeting you dont want to miss. But remember, register your abstract for a presentation, session, poster, or documentary video by October 15 at:
http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.html
See you in Baltimore!Bill Roberts
Chair, 2012 SfAA Annual Meeting
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