March 14-16, 2019
St. Louis, MO
The AES 2019 spring conference will be co-sponsored by Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) and Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA). It will be held at Washington University in St Louis (MO) from Thursday, March 14th to Saturday, March 16th.
Proposal submission portal is now closed. Contact conference organizers for more details: aes.alla.aba.2019@gmail.com.
We are not in normal times. At least according to some. For others, the perverse assaults against bodies, land, science, and justice have merely become more visible and contestable. At a minimum, people around the world and in the United States are experiencing uncertainty, violations, and anxieties. How are anthropologists strategically positioned to reflect on and theorize this uncertainty and ab-normalcy while bringing to the foreground local articulations of hope, emancipatory politics, and meaning-making? For our Spring 2019 meeting, we invite anthropologists and other scholars and activists to join the American Ethnological Society (AES), the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA), and the Association for Black Anthropologists (ABA) in St. Louis to consider possible unfoldings of the future in specific locales, worlds, and lifeways. Five years after protests in Ferguson around racialized police brutality, Ethnographic Futures will convene in nearby St. Louis to explore how people with whom we study and collaborate imagine, create, participate, and refuse. This includes possibilities for mobilizing and challenging dominant structures but also the quotidian practices of caring, laboring, and celebrating. As some blur lines between the academy and activism, while others push back on disruptions of traditional geographic and disciplinary boundaries, we invite reflections on the future and the ethnographic. Both a method of knowing and a practice of representation (texts, photography, documentaries, teaching), ethnography is itself part of and a challenge to certain futures.
Questions? Contact aes.alla.aba.2019@gmail.com
Sign up to receive conference updates via email: https://goo.gl/forms/bPG6pr7Df0o4kJSm1
Registration remains open until the final day of the conference. Register HERE.
Graduate (and undergraduate) students! We have a deal for you. AES membership is free if you sign up between now and March 17, 2019. This would normally be $12, but it’s free for a whole year. It also will get you a $5 discount on the AES/ALLA/ABA spring meeting registration because you can register for at student “member" rate ($40) rather than the student "non-member" rate ($45). To access this deal, do the following:
The final deadline for all submissions will be Monday, January 28, 2019 (3 pm ET).
Decisions will be announced by Friday, February 8, 2019.
Rates | Advance | Onsite | ||
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Non-Student, Member Price | $140 | $145 | ||
Non-Student, Nonmember Price | $155 | $160 | ||
Student, Member Price (use code "AES19" to get a free membership to AES) | $40 | $45 | ||
Student, Nonmember Price | $45 | $50 | ||
The Charles F. Knight Conference Center
Throop Drive & Snow Way Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
https://www.acc-knightconferencecenter.com/
Reserve your room by calling 314-933-9400 or 866-933-9400 and ask for the “American Ethnological Conference” rate. The deadline for making room reservations at the special AAA rate of $119 S/D/T is Wednesday, February 20, 2019. After that date, any reservations received will be subject to availability and may not be at the discounted group rate.
The Moonrise Hotel
6177 Delmar in The Loop
St. Louis, MO 63112
Tel: (314) 721-1111
Additional rooms are available at the Moonrise at the special AAA rate of $154 S/D/T. These rooms will be held until Thursday, February 21, 2019. After that date, any reservations received will be subject to availability and may not be at the discounted group rate.
Make your reservations with the following options:
Friday March 15, 2019
Join a gathering for graduate students and undergraduates! Enjoy this low-key conference break! Network. Meet like-minded people. This is primarily a social gathering, but we can make space for sharing strategies and debriefing too. Lunch will be provided. Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/6XBEnWuzAZ7PnYfg2
Saturday March 16, 2019
Time & Location TBD
Decolonizing American Anthropology: Ethnographic Futures & Possibilities
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Troubling Ferguson & Beyond: Emergent Futures in the Afterlife of Death & Defiance in Divided Times
Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 2019
Ana Aparicio, Northwestern University
Gina Athena Ulysse, Wesleyan University
Riché Barnes, Yale University
Peter Benson, Washington University in St. Louis
Jong Bum Kwon, Webster University
Marc Edelman, CUNY, Hunter College and Graduate Center
Sherine Hamdy, University of California, Irvine
Odis Johnson, Washington University in St. Louis
Christopher Loperena, CUNY, Graduate Center
Laurence Ralph, Princeton University
Gilberto Rosas, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Krystal Smalls, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Alisse Waterston, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Bianca Williams, CUNY, Graduate Center
Rhaisa Williams, Washington University in St. Louis
Workshops require preregistration, which will be refunded upon your confirmed attendance. Follow the steps below to add a special event to your existing AES/ALLA/ABA meeting registration:
Thursday, March 14 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | $20 (refundable with proof of attendance)
In this workshop participants will meet with representatives from Public Radio/NPR, the newspaper, and university publicity office to learn tips on how to effectively translate academic research and arguments to a wider audience.
Thursday, March 14 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m | $20 (refundable with proof of attendance)
American Ethnologist editor Niko Besnier illustrates the article manuscript publication process.
Thursday, March 14 | 12:30 – 5:00 p.m. | $40 (non-refundable)
Explore St. Louis’ history of division through a tour of the urban landscape, and then create alternative futures in a hands-on studio activity.
Thursday, March 14 | 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | $20 (refundable with proof of attendance)
This workshop is intended to demystify the tenure and promotion process and discuss the university system and how to navigate university politics.
Thursday, March 14 | 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | $20 (refundable with proof of attendance)
This workshop will explore the tools anthropology has to offer them as they navigate college and their futures. Facilitator: Ken Guest, Professor, CUNY, and author of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age.
The AES Student Diversity Travel Grants are intended to increase participation in AES's annual spring conference in St. Louis (March 14-16, 2019). Students are required to present a paper.
Graduate students from historically underrepresented groups and those with disabilities are encouraged to apply for these travel grants to help defray costs associated with attending the AES conference.
Grants of up to $500 each will be awarded (in the form of reimbursement for travel, lodging, and/or meals, upon submission of receipts).
Travel Grant Applications are due by January 28, 2019.
Send to AESGrantsCompetition@gmail.com. Please include your last name followed by "AES diversity" in the title of the attachment.
Please include the following with your application:
For questions, contact AESGrantsCompetition@gmail.com.