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When: April 24-27, 2024

Where: San Francisco, California

Join us in San Francisco for the 2024 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies conference. This year’s theme is “Chicana and Chicano Studies in the 21st Century: The Continuities and Ruptures within the Field.” Learn more about the conference at the NACCS website.

About NACCS:

“The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies is the academic organization that serves academic programs, departments and research centers that focus on issues pertaining to Mexican Americans, Chicana/os, and Latina/os. The Association was formed in 1972, during the height of the Chicana/o movement, calling for the development of a space where scholarship and Chicana/o students could develop their talents in higher education. For more than 30 years, students, faculty, staff, and community members have attended the NACCS annual conference to present their scholarly papers–many of which have spun into important intellectual pillars.”

When: April 17-20, 2024

Where: Tempe, Arizona

Join us in Tempe for the 2024 Latino/a Studies Association Conference. This year’s theme is “Placing Justice and Joy in Latinx Studies.” Learn more about the conference at the LSA website.

From the meeting, “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: April 17-21, 2024

Where: New Orleans, Louisiana

Join us in New Orleans for the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Learn more about the conference at the SAA website.

From the meeting, “The program is composed of general sessions, symposia, forums, debates, 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.”

About SAA:

“The SAA is an international organization that, since its founding in 1934, has been dedicated to research about and interpretation and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas. With nearly 7,000 members, SAA represents professional and avocational archaeologists, archaeology students in colleges and universities, and archaeologists working at Tribal agencies, museums, government agencies, and the private sector. SAA has members throughout the U.S., as well as in many nations around the world.​”

When: March 26-30, 2024

Where: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Join us in Santa Fe for the annual 2024 Society for Applied Anthropology meeting. This year’s theme is “Enchantment and Transformation.” Learn more about the conference at the SfAA website.

From the meeting, “Social scientists have long been drawn to captivating landscapes and the study of cultural difference. In the 21st century, we must reckon with the inchoate process of facing and transforming the exclusionary relations and discourses that permeate our institutions, fields of work, partnerships, and habits of practice and thought. We invite social scientists to engage in, share, and reflect upon the work of transformation required of anthropology and to do so in the spirit of enchantment, of playful unruliness and wonderment at both the taken-for-granted and the new possibilities in our work.”

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 2024 the year you’ll spend a few days presenting, learning, and networking in Santa Fe, NM, with the SfAA.”

When: October 25-28, 2023

Where: Tucson, Arizona; Tucson Convention Center (TCC)

We are thrilled to be participating in the 2023 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference in our lovely hometown this year! This year’s theme is “History in the Balance.”

As an added bonus, the 2023 keynote speaker is Lydia Otero, author of La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City. Otero will be presenting the conference welcome and keynote session on Thursday, October 26th at the Leo Rich Theater, 8:00-9:30 a.m.

From the Arizona Preservation Foundation: This year’s conference theme was selected to reflect the delicate dance we do as historic preservationists to manage what at times can feel like competing objectives. All preservation occurs within a context, whether it is urban planning and development, recreation, heritage education, wildfire fuels reduction, or infrastructure development. Choices need to be made and compromise is often the name of the game.

Often the scales seem to be weighted heavily against preservation. Our rapidly changing world demands innovation and advancement—drawing our attention invariably toward the future. However, the communities in which we live, work, and recreate embody our spirit, values, and—of course—our history. The framers of the National Historic Preservation Act knew this when they wrote the following line into its preamble: “the historical and cultural foundations of the Nation should be preserved as a living part of our community life and development in order to give a sense of orientation to the American people.” 

We look forward to meeting you at the conference! Be sure to stop by our table to purchase books and browse our wonderful collection of new and recent titles.

When: July 13-15, 2023
Where: University of California, Riverside

We look forward to attending the 40th Anniversary MALCS Summer Institute at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s theme is “40 years of MALCS, Centuries of Activism: La Lucha Sigue for Racial, Reproductive and Decolonial Justice.”

From the conference website:
As we work to thrive as violence, economic inequities and health crises continues to ravage disproportionately our communities, and we continue to create and exist as scholars and activists within violent systems of misogyny, racial capitalism, and white supremacy, we suggest we take this moment to reflect on the four decades of transformative work done by MALCistas as activists, scholars, and community members. We also invite our community to reflect on the legacies, enseñanzas, and strategies for movement building around racial, reproductive and decolonial justice. How do we celebrate, bring forward, and learn from the ancestral activism and scholarship from MALCistas? How do we draw upon the legacies to continue our fights against white supremacy, reproductive oppression, and colonialism? Our Davis MALCS community invites us together to highlight the importance of collective activism and scholarship, movement building, lucha, community building, bringing forward ancestral knowledge, as we move through our work toward justice. We want to draw upon the legacies of challenging oppressions and injustices and explore, understand, and expand what present and future intersectional justice movements might look like.

We invite our community to engage in conversations and scholarship about how we draw on new understandings about ourselves, our activism, our movement building and pursuit of justice. The 2023 MALCS Summer Institute encourages our community to bring forward the words and practices of our luchadoras to help us create new realities rooted in justicia.

When: November 15-19, 2023

Where: Toronto, Canada

Join us in Toronto when the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society come together for their 2023 annual meeting. This year’s theme is Transitions.

Find us at booth #211 to browse our latest anthropology titles and meet with our Senior Editor, Allyson Carter.

From the meeting, “Transitions may be the most constant feature of everyday life. With endless uncertainties that are exacerbated by political turmoil, pandemic unpredictability, and climate crisis, our quotidian experiences are steeped in mutability. Transitions present us with both challenges and opportunities, not only in our everyday lives but also in our work as anthropologists. By dwelling in the process of transition, understanding it as a project of connection and mobility, our Toronto meeting will bring us together to linger in the contingencies of transition, and to understand transition as a professional, scholarly, and everyday condition which we must embrace.”