March 25-29

Hilton Portland Downtown

View the complete SANA Spring Meeting 2025 Program here!

Dear SANA Members and Friends,

We’re delighted to share with you the program for the upcoming SANA Spring Meeting, to be held March 25-29 in collaboration with the Society for Applied Anthropology in Portland, Oregon! In addition to a dozen inspiring sessions organized by SANA members, we have an exciting lineup of special events. 

These include a keynote dialogue with Emily Yates-Doerr and Chelsey Carter on critical medical anthropology of North America; a free workshop on public-facing writing organized by SANA’s graduate student representatives; and a roundtable with leading North Americanists, including SANA founders and longtime contributors, who will help us take stock of and reflect upon SANA’s 30-year history. On this anniversary of our creation, we are considering ways to document our history as a section and create a SANA archive, and we welcome others interested in this project to join us.

We are also excited about our closing special event on Saturday morning, to which we invite all SANA members and friends to consider future directions for SANA. The SANA Futures visioning session will include empanadas, coffee, intentional relationship-building, and a celebration of this year’s Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America winner, longtime SANA member Dr. Sue Hyatt.

Please join us to kick off the spring meeting at our offsite Thursday evening reception (free food and drink!) with the collectively-organized Ground Score Association of informal recyclers, with an opportunity to view the Project Space Junk art installation by anthropologist Christine Hegel based on her fieldwork with NYC waste pickers. This event is not listed in the SfAA program, so please mark your calendars now (address below)!

Finally, SANA will have a dedicated book exhibit table at the meeting, where members who have released books in the past decade may exhibit a copy of their book and/or book flyers. If you would like to add your book to the table, please bring it to Portland!

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