Announcing Video Availability of the SMA Conference Plenary Presentations
So that those who cannot attend the SMA Conference "Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity" can view the plenary presentations, full video of these events will be available, free of charge, on the conference website and via the AAA blog beginning in late September.
Registration for the conference is full, and there will not be on-site registration (please do not come to the conference if you are not pre-registered). If you are registered or have an unused online registration permission but do not plan to attend the conference, please let the conference organizers (medanthro.conference@yale.edu) know so that we can give your spot to someone on the waiting list.
We hope that providing a video option makes participating in the conference easier for medical anthropologists around the world!
Medical Anthropology (the Journal) Op-Eds
Medical Anthropology announces the addition of op-ed contributions in each issue from experts and world-renowned scholars who recognize and explain the issues in health, illness, and medicine that matter in your life and the lives of others. The op-ed contributions in each issue of Medical Anthropology provide commentary and opinion on the human stories of health and illness. These timely responses highlight the social conditions and cultural frameworks central to health beliefs and medical behavior of individuals, of families, and of societies. See the breaking news page for details.
To the SMA Membership from Carolyn Sargent
I would like to share with you a message from Lenore Manderson (Monash University, Australia, SMA Board Member), who writes "I just want to let you know that Cecil Helman, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Brunel University, died last night. As you will know, he was awarded the SMA Career Achievement Award in December 2004, and in September 2005 received the 'Lucy Mair Medal in Applied Anthropology' from the Royal Anthropological Institute. His book Culture, Health and Illness had enormous impact in encouraging engagement with anthropology, especially I think from clinicians and other people working in applied public health and clinical arenas."
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/depts/anthropology/anth_staff/cecilhelman
SMA Conference Schedule
- The conference schedule is now available
- See the conference website for more details
Upcoming Award Deadlines
SMA Awards - Deadline July 1: see links for details
- The Ellen Basker Memorial Prize
- The New Millennium Book Award
- The Hughes, Rivers, and Polgar Paper Prizes
- The MASA dissertation Award, and the MASA Graduate Student Mentoring Award
SMA Awards - Deadline Sept 1: see links for details
Special Interest Group Awards: see links for details
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Rudolf Virchow Awards (given by the Critical Anthropology for Global Health caucus, a SMA special interest group). Deadline is July 15, 2009. The professional award honors a recent published article, and the graduate and undergraduate student awards honor recent student papers, all deemed by the judges to best reflect, extend, or advance critical perspectives in medical anthropology.
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ADTSG (Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Study Group) competition for the best graduate student paper in the anthropology of alcohol, drugs, or tobacco. Submissions from all anthropological subdisciplines are encouraged. The papers will be judged by a committee of ADTSG members. The author of the winning paper will receive a cash award of $250. The winner will be announced in Anthropology News and at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Extended Deadline November 1, 2009
Calling All Filmmakers!
2009 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival
Oct 2nd, 2009 - Entry submission deadline: June 10th, 2009 - Details
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity
An International Conference of the SMA
Sept 24-27 2009 - Yale University
For More Information: Conference Website - Conference Brochure
Announcing Early Closure of Registration - We are happy to report that we have had a much higher than anticipated level of abstract submissions and registrations! However, since venue size and local hotel availability are limited, this unfortunately means that we were forced to close registration for the conference at midnight (EST) on April 15th.Fulbright Scholar Grants
March 1 is the opening of the Traditional Fulbright Scholar competition. Over 800 grants are available for lecturing, conducting research, or combining both in over 130 countries around the globe. The deadline is August 1. For information on Fulbright Scholar Awards, consult our website at www.cies.org for descriptions of awards and new eligibility requirements. If you are interested in requesting materials, please write to scholars@cies.iie.org
Research Review
The American Anthropologist has accepted the idea that it should review important volumes of work that may not appear in usual published venues, e.g., gray literature or technical reports.
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The Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology is interested in 1) volumes in medical anthropology that would be good to review, e.g., the WHO report on Social Determinants, and 2) potential reviewers. If you have suggestions for volumes, or are interested in serving as a reviewer, please contact Robert Hahn directly at rah1@cdc.gov
Podcasted SMA Sessions for SfAA 2008
Check out the podcasted sessions from the 2008 SfAA/SMA meetings - many SMA sponsored sessions can be found there - and many many thanks to the SfAA for recording/processing/posting these sessions
- For example: The SMA Plenary Session: The Political Construction of Global Infectious Disease - there are numerous others - be sure to check them out!
