The 2025 Southern Anthropological Society will be held on the campus of Davidson College in Davidson, NC, just 20-miles from Charlotte and the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. Davidson is a walkable community with a mix of local shops, restaurants, and cultural events, with a small-town atmosphere. Davidson College is a small liberal arts college with a commitment to the memorialization of enslaved African Americans who labored on the campus, reparative relationships with the Catawba Nation, on whose land the college sits, and reconciliation with the descendant communities displaced by the creation and growth of the institution. As such, Davidson is a generative site to examine the fraught relationships between people, the environment and macrosocial processes that undergird these relationships. How do we make sense of the spaces we inhabit in light of climate change, continued dispossession, displacement, and political upheaval? SAS seeks presentations, posters, and roundtables from all fields of anthropology that take up these, and other, questions.
The due date for Proposals is 10 January 2025. All participants must be registered for the meetings and be a member of SAS. Conference rates for room reservations are available at Homewood Suites in Davidson for the nights of 13-15 March. There are several other housing options in Davidson and the surrounding area.