The final Program for the AES/SANA conference Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina is now available.

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The preliminary Program for the AES/SANA conference Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina is now available.

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The Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort is the official conference hotel. Conference room rates are: standard double room $169.00 and oceanfront double room $189.00. To get these rates, please mention that you are attending the AES/SANA spring meeting when making your reservations.

The Holiday Inn is located in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, twelve miles from the Wilmington International Airport (ILM). Delta and US Air service the Wilmington International Airport. There is a complementary shuttle from the airport to the hotel. One-way taxi fares are $15.00. A taxi takes approximately 20 minutes to reach the hotel.

If you are driving, from I-40, US 17, or US76, take 74E to Wrightsville Beach. Turn Left at the final light to Lumina Avenue.

Please note that the deadline for paper proposals to the AES/SANA 2008 Meeting "Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent" has been extended to February 8th. For information on the conference and to read instructions on how to submit paper proposals, please click here.

Please use the secure form, hosted at aaanet.org, to register for the April 2008 AES/SANA meeting.  read more »

The Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) and the American Ethnological Society (AES) announce a joint meeting for 2008:

SANA/AES Spring 2008 Meeting
Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent
April 3-5, 2008
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Submission deadline for panel and paper proposals: January 15, 2008 FEBRUARY 8, 2008
instructions for submitting paper and session proposals
keynote speakers & plenary panel sessions

The 2008 SANA/AES conference seeks panels and papers that creatively engage the discrepancies between the idea and the practice of democracy and that explore the forms of disorder and discontent engendered by these contradictions. What is democracy? Democracy is often understood as an expansion of individual freedoms, the spreading out of economic equality through participation in the market, and an alternative to excessive government regulation. Yet despite these optimistic claims, there remains an inherent tension between economic inequality and democratic politics. Emergent social and political orders in many parts of the world are characterized by growing inequality, and they are neither democratic nor secure. Furthermore, established rights, entitlements, and democratic principles in the United States itself have eroded, and wealth is increasingly redistributed upwards.  read more »

AES Keynote: Ida Susser, AES President (2005-2007)
SANA Keynote: Hilary Cunningham (University of Toronto)

Plenaries: "Race and Justice" and "War and Accountability"

Registration information online soon.