deadline reminder

[Laura Miller]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Soon it will be that time of year when frantic email flows along Internet lines as we prepare session and paper abstracts for the 2000 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  I wanted to remind everyone about our deadlines.

1. SLA abstracts for Invited Sessions (as well as abstracts for papers included in Invited sessions) are due March 1, 2000.  Be sure to specify  Session Organizer and contact information. These are sent to Laura Miller, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, 6525 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois  60626, USA. Send abstracts only--registration fees and another set of abstracts are later sent to AAA.

2. If your session is selected as *Invited,* you will receive a letter from the SLA Program Chair to send with your packet to AAA.  You will need to send your whole packet, along with registration fees, to the AAA by April 1st.

3. The AAA deadline for everyone---all sessions, individual papers, and posters ---is April 1, 2000. These should be submitted on the forms, or exact copies of the forms, printed in the January 2000 Anthropology News. These must be accompanied by registration fees.  If you don*t have that issue of Anthropology News, visit the AAA  web site. The address is http:\\www.aaanet.org.  The Call for Papers, submission information, and proposal forms have been posted to the site. These forms and fees are sent to the main office: AAA, 4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 640, Arlington, VA 22203-1620, USA.

4.  If you are planning a Poster presentation, be sure to specify on the Author Data Form whether or not you will need an electrical outlet. It would be a good idea to back up this request with a telephone call to the Meetings Department (703-528-1902, ext.3009 or 3025) and an email to Lucille Horn at lhorn at aaanet.org.

5. Please consider this year*s meeting theme as you think about your paper and session proposals--"The Public Face of Anthropology in the Millennium."  The 2000 meeting theme will serve to highlight the ways in which anthropological knowledge can be directed toward educating the public and private sectors, and in disseminating critical information to policy makers, decision makers, and opinion makers. Members are encouraged to showcase and explore how our research touches on social, political, and public concerns.

6. Two *Call for Papers* for organized sessions have already been posted. Contact Fazila Bhimji (fbhimji at ucla.ed), if you are interested in participating on a panel co-organized with Pam Bunte on *Language Socialization in Multilingual Communities: The Role of Language Ideologies in Developing Social Identities,* which will focus on identity and language ideologies in *natural interaction* between children and caregivers or educators in multilingual or bilingual environments.  Leila Monaghan (monsghan at anthro.ucla.edu) is looking for participants for the panel *International Economies of Language.*  Leila says *Papers should be on the intersection between Eric Wolfian analysis of international systems and traditional linguistic anthropology concerns such as language ideology and language in context.*