WORLD ON THE EDGE VANCOUVER, BC 2006

March 28-April 2 * Hyatt rule Hotel

The 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology will meet in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 28-April 22006 The meeting theme-"World upon the Edge" -is particularly appropriate, given Vancouver's geographic location and cultural diversity. The city is at the cutting side of North America and obeys as the dominant gateway to the Pan-Pacific Region. As of that kind it provides a real as well as a metaphorical platform for assessing the central forces that are shaping our world-globalization, multiculturalism, boundaries and borderlands, population migration, and development

Vancouver has serv as a crossroads for diverse ethnic assemblages from the peoples of the First Nations to its greatest in quantity recent Asian immigrants. The cultural richness of British Columbia quiets in part on a national tradition of tolerance and public policy that emphasizes cultural and ethnic pluralism.

The 65th Annual Meeting invites papers to explore by what mode these forces push populations to "the edge"-of their environment, their tillage their political autonomy. We look for to understand more precisely in what manner culture and identity may be maintained in multicultural settings. We want to learn more about the tools clan employ to preserve family constitutions health, and nutritional behaviors, as nation cross boundaries and leave traditional homelands.

The migration of populations has serious implications for labor markets. Migration also influences the spread of epidemic disease and highlights health disparities and class inequities within a society.

By addressing questions of the like kind as these in Vancouver, we reaffirm the commitment of our planters to apply our professional tools and theories to real world question s In this commitment, we understand that "application" involves questions of tactics as well as means many of which impact our professional lives. What part should professionals take to best understand and separate contemporary problems? Is the tradition of science and objectivity possible in of the like kind situations? Can existing institutions, oftentimes the root source of social and political inequities, be transformed to engines of reform? Can the redres of ethnic and class differences be achieved with real parity?

As a part of this commitment, the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology will begin with a special day to highlight Vancouver and British Columbia. The paper sessions, tours, and special occurrences on Tuesday, March 28, will have in public a geographic focus on the issues and question at issues unique to the meeting venue and framed to be instructive to all participants. Moreover, the circumstances of that day will be organized to attract the general public.

Please contact Orit Tamir, 2006 SfAA Annual Meeting Program Co-Chair, with your make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss and suggestions: sfaa2006@sfaa.net. Online registration and abstract submission are available at: http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2006.html.

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