A special note concerning the 2010 AAA meetings:

    “This is a reminder to submit your abstracts for     talks, posters, or organized sessions for the AAA in New Orleans in 2010.  We are extending the deadline until midnight on March 8, 2010.”

-- Frank W. Marlowe (President-Elect and Program Committee Chair)”

It's time to gear up for participating in the 2010 AAA meetings.  The meetings will be held in New Orleans, November 17-21.  The official meeting theme this year is “Circulation": what triggers, facilitates, constrains, disrupts or stops flows; what is at stake in these processes, and for whom; and what their consequences might be for humans and for the environment. Do different things circulate in different ways? Do they change or remain constant? What new phenomena, arrangements and inequalities does circulation produce? How are resources and ways of understanding them identified, made sense of, produced and distributed in the process? How and why do rates and types of circulation vary across time and space?

 

Note that there is a two-stage review:  submissions to EAS are due on MARCH 8th and will be considered for our allotment of invited sessions. In addition, to be included in the program, participants have to register and submit information online to AAA by April 1st (whether or not you are included in an invited session).

 

Sponsored sessions: the EAS will host at least 3 sponsored sessions. These will consist of 2 regular sessions (up to 7 talks each) and 1 poster session (up to 7 posters). The deadline for submitting proposals for sponsored sessions for review by the EAS Program Committee is March 8, 2010.  This deadline is designed to allow time for review and feedback to submitters well in advance of the AAA general submission deadline (April 1st), as explained below. We suggest sessions and individual talks that deal with topics related to the theme, such as reciprocity, trade, migration, residential mobility, or reputation and the circulation of information.

 

Poster sessions: the EAS will sponsor at least one poster session. In past meetings, poster sessions have featured high quality papers by students and faculty. This is a great way for authors to meet their audience one-on-one, and is a good venue for papers that are not included in organized sessions.  Posters are equally eligible for EAS awards for Best Student and Best New Investigator Papers.

 

Individual papers: individual papers can be submitted to the EAS, and if they are of high quality and if the EAS has decided to sponsor a session of individually-submitted papers, they may be accepted. The decision of whether to sponsor such a session will be made based on the quality of submitted sessions as well as individual papers. Because the EAS can sponsor so few sessions, papers that are part of an organized session tend to have a better chance of acceptance than individually submitted papers.

 

Jointly-sponsored sessions:  AAA allows two (or more) sections to jointly sponsor sessions.  These count fractionally against the total sessions allotted to the co-sponsoring sections, so there is no numerical gain in EAS "slots," but it does provide a way to get our section (and our views) spread more widely across the AAA program.  If you know of any sessions being organized that might be appropriate for EAS co-sponsorship, please alert Frank Marlowe (frank.marlowe@gmail.com).

 

EAS reviewed sessions and papers: session organizers can submit proposals and individuals can submit papers to the general AAA pool and request that the EAS serves as a reviewer. Sessions that are not accepted by the EAS as sponsored sessions can successfully be a part of the AAA meetings via this route (also individual papers can be organized into sessions by the EAS reviewers and passed back to AAA), but you must be sure to indicate you want an EAS review in your submission.  Important:  if your paper or session is not accepted in an EAS-sponsored session, you must submit it directly to the main AAA submission site (www.aaanet.org/meetings/presenters/) in order to have it considered by AAA.

 

In summary here are the steps that must be taken:

       * Read the AAA general guidelines for submission (at www.aaanet.org/meetings/presenters/).

       * Write an abstract for your paper (250 words max., plus short title) and email it as a Word or plain-text attachment to EAS 2010 Program Chair Frank Marlowe (frank.marlowe@gmail.com) no later than March 8th.

       * Include in your email: your name, institution, position (ABD, Assistant Prof., etc.), and whether you are currently an AAA member (not mandatory at this stage, but when you submit your abstract to AAA you must either be a member or apply for a membership waiver, plus pay the meeting registration fee).

       * If you have an organized session that you believe fits in the EAS domain, submit the session title and abstract (500 words max.) along with a list of the participants and paper titles (abstracts if available), and the other information listed above.

       * You will be notified if your paper or session is accepted by EAS by March 22nd. If accepted, you must then submit it online at the AAA site, and pay the meeting registration (and AAA membership, if not currently a member), using instructions provided by the EAS program committee. If it is not accepted, you can still submit it to AAA in the regular manner by the April 1st deadline.

 

EAS 2010 Program Committee:

Frank Marlowe (frank.marlowe@gmail.com)

Rebecca Bird (rbird@stanford.edu)

Mark Flinn (flinnm@missouri.edu)

Interested in Contributing to an Executive Session at the 2010 AAA Meetings?

The EAS, the Society for Anthropological Sciences, and the Archaeological Division are collaborating to propose an Executive Session at the 2010 AAA meetings (New Orleans, November 17-21st, 2010, here is the meeting info). Our three sections deal with a diverse range of research topics, but we all approach anthropology as a science. This is a critical link that we hope will bring our sections together and serve to strengthen the intellectual foundation of the AAA organization.

The theme for the 2010 AAA meetings is “circulation”. The session topics that are being discussed are:

1) Risk and Uncertainty: Circulation and Redistribution of Resources, People, and Power.

2) Sharing and Exchange: Circulation of Goods and Other Resources.

These session ideas are general enough to include papers dealing with many aspects of human biological and cultural evolution -- circulation could mean migration, dispersal, residence patterns, central place foraging; the circulation of goods could allude to long distance trade, reciprocity, and lots more. Get creative!

We ask any interested researchers -- students, new investigators, or senior faculty -- who are interested in participating in this session to please contact Carol Ember carol.ember@yale.edu and tell her: 1) what topic you are interested in; 2) briefly what your paper would be about;  and 3) whether you belong to the EAS, the SAS, or the AD.

The proposal will have to be submitted to the AAA committee on January 22nd, 2010, so please don’t wait to join us!

Travel Subsidies for Students

Student members of EAS are eligible for a $100 travel subsidy from EAS when they present at the 2009 or 2010 AAA meetings. The session does not have to be EAS sponsored.  Please email EAS Treasurer, Donna Leonetti, at leonetti@u.washington.edu with your name, address, and your SS# (required by AAA for disbursements but will be destroyed after processing), plus the program where you are enrolled and the title of your presentation and session. Do this after you have given your presentation and before December 15, 2009. Your name must appear on our membership list for you to receive the funds.  Expect checks from AAA (with some delay as these will be submitted in a batch to AAA treasurer by January 1, 2010).

Job Announcements

The Department of Anthropology at Washington State University in Pullman invites applications for a full-time permanent tenure track position as Assistant Professor beginning August 16, 2010. The position includes teaching, research, and service. Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. in Anthropology or closely related field completed by July 1, 2010; a specialty in any area of biological anthropology or human evolution; active research grounded in evolutionary theory; evidence of research excellence appropriate to career stage; and an ability to teach an undergraduate lab-based Introduction to Physical Anthropology and a graduate course in the Evolutionary Anthropology Stream. We prefer candidates who complement and enhance existing faculty strengths, and who articulate with our NSF IGERT training program in biological and cultural evolution.  See the full Notice of Vacancy (available at http://libarts.wsu.edu/anthro/).

Candidates must supply, as email attachments, a letter of application summarizing qualifications, curriculum vitae, and contact information (including e-mail and phone numbers) for at least three references to: Dr. Robert Quinlan, rquinlan@wsu.edu Chair, Bioanthropology Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99146-4910, USA. To ensure consideration, complete applications must be received by December 1,  2009. Washington State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action educator and employer. Members of ethnic minorities, women, Vietnam or disabled veterans, persons with disabilities, and people over the age of 40 are encouraged to apply. Washington State University hires only U.S. residents or lawfully qualified non-U.S. residents.