No Paper, No Research, and No Job (or Barely a Job): Why Should I Attend an Anthropology Conference?

Be Curious and Go: Our Anthropologist Superpower At least once a year, most anthropology societies, professional associations, networks, hold meetings. If you are lucky, like I was, one of the big ones will host their annual meeting near you. SfAA (Society for Applied Anthropology) held theirs in Portland, Oregon (March 25th-29th). This six-day conference registered over 1,700 people. I came to the SfAA Conference as someone who felt out-of-touch with the world of anthropology—outside of attending virtual ACRN meetings and workshops—since leaving grad school almost 10 years ago. Like many who graduate with a degree in anthropology, I could not find [...]