Wenner-Gren Sponsored Events at AAA 2014

If you are planning to attend the meetings, please join us at the following Foundation-sponsored events:

1. Thursday, December 4, and Friday, December 5, 2014:
   Current Anthropology Office Hours (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Exhibition Hall, University of Chicago Press Booth)
   Stop by to meet Current Anthropology Editor Mark Aldenderfer and Managing Editor Lisa McKamy.
2. Friday, December 5, 2014:
   How to Write a Grant Proposal: An Introduction to Grants and Programs at the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation (8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Maryland Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel)
   Featuring Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren), Deborah Winslow (NSF), and Jeffrey Mantz (NSF). The workshop is free but please pre-register at the AAA website or stop by the Wenner-Gren or NSF tables in the exhibition hall.
3. Friday, December 5, 2014:
   Wenner-Gren Foundation Reception (8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Palladian Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel)
   Public reception with an open bar for the first hour. Come to meet other anthropologists and celebrate the Foundation’s ongoing support for anthropology.

Please stop by and visit us in the Exhibition Hall (Booth 518). We look forward to seeing you! Our staff will be there to answer questions about our grant programs and introduce some new initiatives leading up to our 75^th anniversary in 2016. These include:

1. The Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film. Next deadline: May 1, 2015.  More information can be found at: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/fejos-postdoctoral-fellowships .
2. Innovations in the Public Awareness of Anthropology. To be launched in 2015. This new grant program is designed to fund innovative projects to raise public awareness of anthropology.

The Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of the following 2014 open access Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplementary issues of Current Anthropology. These supplementary issues highlight important and emerging themes in anthropology across the four fields and we congratulate the guest editors and contributors.

1. Crisis, Value, and Hope:  Rethinking the Economy (Current Anthropology, Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplementary issue 9, Eds. Susana Narotzky and Niko Besnier). No. S9, pp. S1-S154 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675941).

The Anthropology of Christianity:  Unity, Diversity, New Directions (Current Anthropology, Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplementary issue 10, Eds. Joel Robbins and Naomi Haynes). (http://www.jstor.org/stable/curranth.ahead-of-print)

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