2005 Annual Meeting

2005 SEA Annual Meeting
April 21-23, 2004
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

Program Chairs:

Lisa Cliggett, Department of Anthropology, 211 Lafferty Hall, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0024 (cligget@pop.uky.edu)

Chris Pool, Department of Anthropology, 211 Lafferty Hall, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0024
(capool0@pop.uky.edu)

Local Arrangements Coordinator:

Deborah L. Nichols, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 (deborah.l.nichols@dartmouth.edu)

Program Theme - Economies and the Transformation of Landscape

The Society for Economic Anthropology seeks proposals for papers and poster presentations for our 2005 annual meetings, April 21-23, 2005 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire on the theme: “Economies and the Transformation of Landscape.”

The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused and coherent program of presentation, with time for critical discussion in a convivial intellectual setting. About 15 papers are selected from abstracts for a program that allows 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion in a single plenary session over two days; 20-30 additional abstracts will be selected for an afternoon poster session. Each SEA conference also produces a book on the same theme. Submitting a paper for the plenary session is a commitment that you wish to be considered for inclusion in this volume.

We seek papers that address the interconnected themes of conceptual and physical transformations of the landscape, as well as those that focus more specifically on one or more of the following cross cutting sub themes:
* Livelihoods and Access to Resources (including the intersection of economy-ecology at household, community and regional scales).
* Political-economy of landscape transformation – (including the role power plays in transforming landscapes).
* Beyond the local – multilevel transformations (including links between interregional and global processes and their impacts on local landscapes).
* Historical and pre-historical processes of human adaptation and environmental change
* The "constructedness" of landscapes – physically and cognitively – and the role of the economy in conceptualizing the environment.

We encourage archaeologists to submit abstracts as well as cultural anthropologists, geographers and other social scientists concerned with economy-ecology linkages. Send an abstract for a paper or poster of 400-600 words to Lisa Cliggett and Chris Pool, Department of Anthropology, 211 Lafferty Hall, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0024. Deadline for abstracts is November 1, 2004.

Program Schedule (Available in December)

Information for Poster Presenters:

Poster presentations should fit onto a three panel, fold-out, self-supporting display board. The boards will be provided by SEA when you arrive at the conference. The display board is 36" high; the middle panel is 24" wide and the two side panels are 12" wide each. The display unit is corrugated cardboard so it will take pins. Presenters should plan to bring
their own pins and/or tape, as needed, and to have their presentations ready to be mounted on the display units. Each person will also have some flat display space on the table on which their display is mounted that can be used for a laptop, other objects, or handouts.

AAA Guidelines for Effective Poster Presentations (From the AAA website)

"Fear Not the Poster" (From the AAA website)

Travel Information (Available Soon)