It’s that time of year to think about submissions for the 2013 AAA meeting. As always, we encourage anyone submitting a paper, poster, or session dealing with Africa to do so through AfAA. The deadline for general submissions for the 2013 meetings is April 15. However, the deadline for invited sessions is March 15 to give us extra time to negotiate co-sponsorship with other sections. Co-sponsorship is important because it enables us to turn our allotted two invited slots into four co-sponsored ones listed in the program. As always, submissions that are clearly written, timely, relevant, and which speak to the theme of the meetings are given priority. The theme this year is “future publics, current engagements,” and is meant to encourage explorations of struggles for justice and equality into the 21st century. Please visit the AAA website for a full discussion of this year’s theme. If you have any questions, please contact AfAA Program Co-editors David Turkon and Mary Sundal at dturkon@ithaca.edu or mary.sundal@washburn.edu.
AfAA Night in San Francisco
AfAA President Mwenda Ntarangwi poses with the 2012 Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Paper Award winner George Paul Meiu (Department of Anthropology, U Chicago) at the AfAA reception during the AAA meeting in San Francisco. Meiu won for his paper “Beach-Boy Elders and Young Big Men: Queering the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies.” Photo courtesy Jennifer Coffman
AfAA evening events at the 2012 AAA Annual Meeting included a busy reception with AfAA members and friends, seasoned and new, exchanging tales from the field, among other topics. Gene Perry once again provided the soundtrack to the evening. Drawing heavily on his vast experience in southern Africa, Distinguished Lecturer Richard Werbner (U Manchester) regaled the audience with his discussion of ritual, narrative and anthropological ancestors.
Send Us Your Book!
The Skinner Book Award committee is seeking submissions for consideration. If you have published a book in 2010, 2011 or 2012, please ask your publisher to submit it to the award committee (chaired by Betty Harris, bharris@ou.edu). To all readers, we welcome your suggestions for books you regard as especially worthy of consideration.
To learn more about AfAA and to find more details about the annual awards, please visit our website.
Please send photos and column ideas to Jennifer Coffman, James Madison University, coffmaje@jmu.edu.
via Anthropology-News http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/02/01/submission-information-for-2013-annual-meeting/
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