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Dear SLA Members,
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<div>I am writing to convey information about a program with an approaching deadline that would allow you to bring in one </div>
<div>Guest Participant into a session or an event that you are organizing. The Deadline for my submitting the application of the one individual allocated to SLA is April 1 which means that we would need your complete application to me by March 27.</div>
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<div>Below I provide several pertinent bits of information:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>What is the Section Assembly Guest Registration Program?</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Each year, in an effort to draw international and community‐based participants to the AAA Annual Meetings</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>and increase AAA members' access to these participants' expertise, the AAA Executive Board and Executive</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Program Committee make Annual Meeting guest registrations available to all 40 Sections of the Section</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Assembly (SA). These Meeting Guest Registrations allow each Section to support the participation of a</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>qualified individual to participate in a Section‐sponsored event or Invited Session who might otherwise not</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>attend the AAA Annual Meetings. The AAA waives both registration and membership for the approved</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>qualifying participant. Sections and individual qualifying participant are responsible for all other Meetingassociated</i></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Who counts as a “qualified participant” for this Meeting Guest Registration Program?</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Qualifying participant are: 1) individuals, regardless of academic degree, who bring a perspective to</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>meetings valued by the nominating Section and 2) individuals asked to participate in a proposed event or</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Invited Session sponsored by your Section. Qualifying participants may be employed outside the United</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>States or Canada as practicing or university‐based anthropologists in any of the discipline's four main</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>subfields (archaeology, sociocultural, biological, linguistic) but they cannot be employed as practicing or</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>university‐based anthropologists in the United States or Canada. Qualifying participants need not be current AAA</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.5px; font-family: Helvetica;"><i> members.</i></div>
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<div>Since each section receives only one guest registration on a “use it or lose it” basis, only sections that have filed their annual reports are allowed to request these guest registrations. Fortunately SLA has filed its report and is in a position to receive
at lest one guest registration and possibly an additional one if other sections fail to use their allocation.</div>
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<div>I will accept a preliminary application to me (email address below), from an existing SLA member, consisting of the following information:</div>
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<div>The first and last names of the proposed guest. His/her: 1) affiliation, 2) complete postal address, 3) email, 4) name of the section-organized invited session and a brief description of it, 5.) statement about why a registration waiver is appropriate
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<div>The SLA Executive Board will evaluate nominations for guest status that I receive by March 27. Incomplete nominations will not be considered.</div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
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<div>Paul</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Paul V. Kroskrity</b></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i>President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology</i></b></span></div>
<div><b style="font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i>Professor of Anthropology</i></b></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b><i>Chair, American Indian Studies</i></b></font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Department of Anthropology</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">341 Haines Hall - Box 951553</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">University of California, Los Angeles</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Ph. 310 825-6237</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;">
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">E. <a href="mailto:paulvk@ucla.edu">paulvk@anthro.ucla.edu</a></span></div>
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