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SMA Student Travel Fellowships: Apply by March 1, 2013
The SMA is pleased to be able to offer its student members a limited number of $800 student travel fellowships for travel to the 2013 SMA/EASA meeting in Tarragona, Spain. Eligibility is restricted to student members of the SMA who are (1) presenting at SMA/EASA meeting, or (2) presenting at the Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) meeting and attending the SMA/EASA meeting. Fellowships will be awarded based on the clarity, significance and innovation of their submitted abstract, and the strength of a letter of support from a faculty member who can discuss the significance of their presented work.
Eligibility Requirements (must meet all four)
- Submit proof of current student SMA student membership
- Submit proof of registration for the SMA/EASA conference
- Submit a copy of your SMA/EASA or MAYS paper abstract (due February 15, 2013 via conference website)
- Submit a letter of recommendation from an advisor
Creating new agendas: Impediments and catalysts
MAYS (Medical Anthropology Young Scholars) 4th Annual Meeting
10-11 June 2013, Tarragona, Spain
After the successful Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) meetings in Berlin and Oxford (2010), Warsaw (2011) and Paris (2012), MAYS would now like to invite young scholars of medical anthropology to present their work in the usual enjoyable and creative MAYS atmosphere at the next annual meeting in Tarragona, Spain, 10-11 June 2013.
This MAYS meeting will precede the Joint International Conference “Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology” organized by the American Anthropological Association’s Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ (EASA) Medical Anthropology Network and the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, 12-15 June 2013. (more…)