Call for Papers

SfAA invites anyone in the Applied Social Sciences to submit abstracts (sessions, papers, posters, videos, and workshops) for the Program of the 84th Annual Meeting for the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM, March 26-30, 2024. The theme of the program is "Enchantment and Transformation".

Registration is now open for the Society for Applied Anthropology 84th Annual Meeting, to be held at the Eldorado Hotel & Spa and Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza. We invite you to join us for the 2024 annual meeting to examine the many potentials of applied anthropology and other social sciences. The meeting will be primarily onsite in Santa Fe, with prerecorded presentations available online.

The theme for SfAA 2024 is "Enchantment and Transformation." Social scientists have long been drawn to captivating landscapes and the study of cultural difference. In the 21^st century, we must face and transform exclusionary relations and discourses that permeate our institutions, fields of work, partnerships, and habits of practice and thought. We invite participants to engage in, share, and reflect upon the work of transformation required of the social sciences 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. Contributors are invited to share their efforts to diversify applied social science in ways that are hospitable to those historically excluded and to focus on dismantling systems and relationalities that produce exclusion. We encourage contributors to showcase new forms of collaboration for mutual benefit in the spirit of care and radical hospitality and identify how to use social science in the service of projects for inclusion, autonomy, and social change. How can we imagine and operationalize these possibilities without falling into old habits and relationalities? How does applied social science look and feel when we put these perspectives front and center?

The abstract submission deadline is October 15. Registration is required to submit an abstract. To begin the registration process and learn about the theme and participation options, please go to:

https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting