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2008 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers and Registration Information
Southern Anthropological Society
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 JANUARY 2008
43rd Annual Meeting (2008) -- March 13-16, 2008
Staunton, Virginia
Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center
Local Arrangements Chair: Carrie Douglass, Mary Baldwin College
Program Chair: Margaret Holmes Williamson Huber, University of Mary Washington
We invite submissions for the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society in historic Staunton, Virginia, March 13-16, 2008.
The theme of the 2008 meeting is "Memory and Museums." Keynote speakers will be Richard Handler, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia; and Eric Gable, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mary Washington.
We welcome papers and sessions in the four fields of anthropology discussing personal memories, collective memories, and collections to help us remember and to characterise life in the South, especially now, when Jamestown is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its founding. As always, we also welcome papers and organised sessions on any subject in anthropology and allied fields. Individually-volunteered papers will be incorporated into thematic sessions for which the program organizer will provide an abstract.
The deadline for submitting abstracts for papers or sessions has been extended to January 15, 2008. Please send these to Margaret Williamson Huber, Program Chair, at or at Department of Sociology and Anthropology, U. Mary Washington, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22401.
The deadline for submissions to the Annual Student Paper competitions is January 15, 2008. For further information go to the Annual Student Paper Competition link.
We will meet in the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center, 24 S. Market Street, Staunton, with whom accommodations have also been arranged. The special conference rate for a queen or king room is $89, so long as you register by February 20th. Call 540.885.4848, or toll free 866.880.0024.
Arrangements have also been made with the American Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Theater next door to the hotel ( for tickets at a reduced rate for Friday night's performance, with a speaker from the theater after the performance. Details of the performance and speaker will be posted shortly.