The University of Arizona Press

When: March 17-21, 2026

Where: Albuquerque, NM

Join us in Albuquerque for the 2026 Society for Applied Anthropology meeting. This year’s theme is “The Everyday Practice of Applied Anthropology.” Learn more about the conference at the SfAA website.

From the meeting organizers: “Time and again, anthropologists have raised their voices when the everyday practice of anthropology seems to be at a crossroads. Perceived internal contradictions led some scholars to call for the reinventing, recapturing, decolonizing, or even burning of anthropology. External forces and events—war, independence movements, global unrest, financial turmoil—have in turn generated a spate of works about the supposed crises facing anthropology. In this so-called post-truth moment, when opinions eclipse facts, and when fake news becomes policy, what role can and should anthropology play in bending the moral arc in a different direction? If anthropology now generates socially relevant research, what are those dynamics of the discipline that promote such action?”

About the SfAA Conference:

“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 2026 the year you’ll spend a few days presenting, learning, and networking in Albuquerque, NM, with the SfAA.”

When: April 29–May 3, 2026

Where: San Francisco, California

Join us in San Francisco for the 2026 Society for American Archaeology meeting. Learn more about the conference at the SAA website.

About the SAA Conference:

“The program is composed of general sessions, symposia, forums, lightning rounds, posters, and workshops. The SAA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of archaeologists of the Americas, and it offers unparalleled networking opportunities in its exhibit hall, excursions, and receptions and career-development opportunities. The meeting has a wide audience that ranges from anyone who has interest in archaeology to experts in the field. Attendees come from all over the United States and from over 45 countries! With a wide variety of presentations and events, attendees are able to learn something new, meet new contacts, and reconnect with old friends.”

When: March 26-29, 2026

Where: Austin, Texas

Join us in Austin for the 2026 Latina/o/x Studies Association (LSA) Conference. This year’s conference is themeless, “to make space for all the issues and opportunities facing our field in the current moment.” Learn more about the conference at the LSA website.

From the conference organizers: “As LSA celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2024, the conference site committee invites you to consider the productive relationship between justice and joy in the context of Latinx placemaking. In mainstream media, battles over social justice and Latinx joy are often bracketed off from one another. Social justice as a concept has come under fire, alongside other lightning rod issues such as DEI, critical race theory, and ethnic studies. In stark contrast, one can easily conjure up exceptional images of Latinx joy such as Selena or Celia Cruz dancing, and Latinx athletes pumping their fists as they celebrate a win. Where along this spectrum does Latinx placemaking fit? What interventions do Latinx communities make as they both counter harmful rhetoric and celebrate their own resilience in the face of anti-immigrant and anti-Latinx laws, border crises, and other forms of violence? How do Latinx communities create a sense of place amidst so much displacement, from transnational migration to gentrification? As scholars, we seek to consider how justice and joy are bound up with one another, co-creating a shared sense of place.”

About LSA:

“The Latina/o Studies Association (LSA) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and cultivating Latino/a/x Studies. The organization arose as a response to a momentum in Latino Studies for creating an autonomous professional space in which to engage current scholarship, exchange pedagogical models, improve mentoring structures, and increase opportunities for professional development. LSA offers those whose research and activism focuses on issues relevant to global Latina/o/x populations opportunities to present their research, exchange ideas in live and virtual interchanges, and build coalitions that further cultivate the field. The organization brings together Latino/a/x Studies scholars from across the country through a variety of means, primarily through a biennial conference and a series of topical webinars.”

When: June 26-28, 2025

Where: Oklahoma City, OK, Omni Oklahoma City Hotel

We hope to see you at the 2025 meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association! The NAISA exhibit hall is located in the Omni Oklahoma City Hotel. This year’s theme is “Roots and Origins.”

From the conference organizers: “As we gather in the region where NAISA was conceived, our 2025 conference will explore the theme of ‘Roots and Origins.’ This theme invites participants to reflect on the foundational aspects of Native American and Indigenous Studies, to consider the origins of our field, and to engage with the deep-rooted histories and traditions that shape Indigenous Peoples locally and globally today.”

When: November 19-23, 2025

Where: New Orleans, Louisiana

The University of Arizona Press is attending the 2025 American Anthropological Association conference in New Orleans! This year’s theme is “Ghosts.”

On the theme, AAA writes, “For the 2025 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, we take inspiration from the popular reputation of New Orleans as ‘the most haunted city in America’ to examine the ways that the past haunts the present, and that the immaterial becomes tangible to inflect the everyday…We welcome our colleagues to embrace the creative potential of the ghostly and the spectral. Our ghosts take many forms. They appear in social theory, useful metaphors for the mysterious power of commodities, or for the occult economies that lurk in the shadows of daily life. They can be found in the impacts of conquest and exploitation, reminders of the never-completed tasks of decolonizing, whether it be of lands or epistemologies. They manifest in the flood of images through which warfare and genocide are mediated, masks of all-too-real suffering. They resonate in the sense of the uncanny that permeates the quotidian: the unsettling look of an AI-generated photo, realistic but somehow distorted, or the resurgence of long-discredited conspiracies that fuel political extremism.”

We look forward to meeting you at the conference. Be sure to stop by our booth to browse our wonderful collection of new and recent anthropology titles, and talk to Senior Editor Allyson Carter! If you would like to set up a meeting with Allyson, email her at acarter@uapress.arizona.edu.

When: October 15-18, 2025

Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico

The University of Arizona Press is attending the 65th annual Western History Association conference in Albuquerque! This year’s theme is “Roots/Routes: Relationality in Times of Disenchantment.”

On the theme, the Program Committee writes, “New Mexico is affectionately nicknamed the ‘Land of Enchantment.’ Since time immemorial, it has been home to Pueblo, Diné, and Ndee peoples. Settlers have been coming to its striking landscape–and remaining–since the sixteenth century. Many jokingly refer to it as the ‘Land of Entrapment;’ once you go there, you don’t want to leave. Such characterizations belie deep legacies of layered colonialisms that challenge relationships between kin, communities, and the land and reinscribe alternate logics of being and belonging.”

We look forward to seeing you at the conference! Be sure to stop by our booth to browse our wonderful collection of new and recent history titles, and talk to our Editor-in-Chief Kristen Buckles! If you would like to set up a meeting with Kristen, email her at kbuckles@uapress.arizona.edu.

When: May 23-25, 2025

Where: San Francisco, CA, Marriott Marquis

Join us at the Latin American Studies Association’s (LASA) annual congress in San Francisco! The LASA book fair is located in Salon 9 on the B3 level of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. This year’s theme is “Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América.”

From the conference organizers: “This iteration of the LASA Congress sets out to put the body on the line. To place the body center-stage in order to reveal its weight, relevance, and meaning. To recover its memory and materiality in our debates and agendas; to explore its dimensions at once individual and communal, biological and digital, contingent and situated. Because awakening our skin, opening our eyes and ears, setting our tongues in motion means reading ourselves, understanding ourselves as other(s), and rejecting the petrification of a single way of feeling and thinking.

We want to emphasize the power of fiction, art, and those aesthetic operations that frame and refocus what is failing, what remains of the world. But also those that let us experience pleasure, explore the unsayable, and materialize the unimaginable. Rita Segato has proposed that the Humanities are the most powerful disciplines since they have the task of naming the world and thus activating other possible realities. Therefore, in this edition of LASA, we issue an invitation to locate aesthetic technologies at the heart of the array of disciplines represented by our association and to defy the destructive algorithm of a difficult present.”