Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:43:03 -0500 To: dnemeth@uoft02.utoledo.edu, dornds@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu, anthroclub@ucsd.edu, levin@soc.msstate.edu, peter.n.peregrine@lawrence.edu, donk@povn.com, ssalo@capaccess.org, soc-msu@msu.edu, devel-l@american.edu, artifact@umdd.umd.edu, res-l@bgu.edu, sswbasw@u.washington.edu, cet-mg@esusda.gov, revs@csf.colorado.edu, nativeweb@thecity.sfsu.edu, env-demog@csf.colorado.edu, psn@csf.colorado.edu, folklore@tamvm1.tamu.edu, anthro-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, nglover@ix.netcom.com, webmaster@cal.org, jburrows@halcyon.com, sha@azstarnet.com, wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu, mclr-l@msu.edu, labor-l@yorku.ca, afroam-l@harvarda.harvard.edu, ivsa@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, ruralusa@ers.bitnet, jwa@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, cjmovies@cnsibm.albany.edu, cjust-l@cunyvm.cuny.edu, socmajrs@tscvm.trenton.edu, sstlab-l@listserv.uic.edu, nnswm-l@list.ab.umd.edu, abslst-l@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu, sciofslw@branch.vcu.edu, mult-cul@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, isorg-l@cnsibm.albany.edu, appaldev@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, crtnet@psuvm.psu.edu, afam-l@mizzou1.missouri.edu, h-labor@msu.edu From: PMA Subject: 1997 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting METHOD - POWER - CHANGE APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGISTS TO MEET IN SEATTLE, MARCH 1997 The Society for Applied Anthropology is planning now for its 1997 Annual Meeting, to be held in Seattle, Washington, next March 4-8 at the Madison Renaissance Hotel. This meeting will be co-sponsored by the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Council on Nursing and Anthropology, and the Political Ecology Society. The American Ethnological Society will be meeting at the same time just a few blocks down the street at the Seattle Hilton. "The meeting's sponsorship reflects the wide range of subjects where anthropologists' insights and observations today are put to good use," according to Dr. Edward Liebow, the year's Program Chair and a senior scientist at the Battelle Seattle Research Center. "Health and medicine, community development, environmental resource protection, educational reform," Liebow said, "in every policy domain and every realm of application, from agenda setting to policy making and program evaluation, anthropologists provide methods that give life to the numbers, examine critically the distribution of power, illuminate the arc of change." ABSTRACTS ARE DUE OCTOBER 15, 1996 The Program Committee especially welcomes contributions on international, regional, and local perspectives from professionals within and outside the academy, and from indigenous communities. Please contact the Committee at the earliest possible date to share your ideas and plans (Ed Liebow: 206.528.3311; liebow@battelle.org). SPECIAL EVENTS Plans are underway to program a full slate of research presentations, including a major symposium jointly sponsored by the Societies for Medical Anthropology and Applied Anthropology. Also, the 1997 meeting will feature film and video screenings, book and software publishers' exhibits, and a chance to learn more about the applied anthropology graduate programs available at a growing number of universities. Cash prizes will be awarded to recognize excellence in student poster presentations. Workshops will be offered on a subscription-only basis for people interested in hands-on guidance in proposal writing, developing a consulting practice, working with the World Wide Web, and special methodological applications (focus groups, social network analysis). Tours are being planned to introduce visitors to the area's ethnic and cultural heritage, its corporate citizens, and key places in the regional health and medicine scene. ABOUT SEATTLE The Seattle area offers a combination of scenic beauty, cultural diversity, urban charm, and abundant recreational opportunities. The Spring weather is mild, and the city's attractions are many: A thriving International District, museums, theaters, galleries, bookshops, and espresso stands on every corner. Nearby are snow-capped mountains and the inland waters of Puget Sound. Watch a brand new jumbo jet roll off the Boeing assembly line; visit with Starbucks officials and learn about their corporate citizenship in countries supplying their coffee; watch the information age unfold before your very eyes at Microsoft headquarters; tour the Fred Hutchinson Research Center; or visit with anthropologists and public health staff involved with the Needle Exchange and Ethnomedicine projects at Harborview Medical Center. Vancouver, British Columbia is just a short trip away by car or train, another city of parks, beaches, arts poised on the brink of the Century of the Pacific. ABOUT THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY The Society for Applied Anthropology was incorporated as a scientific society in 1941. Its charter includes "scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another...and the wide application of those principles to practical problems." The Society publishes Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology, along with a directory of applied anthropologists, and occasional monographs, like the recent Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Sourcebook. Detailed instructions about registering for the Meeting can be obtained from the World Wide Web (http://www.telepath.com/sfaa), from the May 1996 issue of the Society's Newsletter, or by contacting the Society's Business Office: P.O. Box 24083 Oklahoma City, OK 73124 405/843-5113 - phone 405/843-8553 - FAX sfaa@telepath.com - e-mail