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1966
New Orleans, LA
1967
Atlanta, GA. Program Chair, William E. Carter. March 30-April 1
1968
Gainesville, FL. Program Chair, Miles E. Richardson
1969
New Orleans. LA. Program Chair, David J. Hally
1970
Athens, GA. Program Chair, Joseph B. Aceves
1971
Dallas, TX. Program Chair, Alden Redfield. April 1-3
1972
Columbia, MO. Program Chair, Thomas K. Fitzgerald; Local Arrangements, Harriet Kupferer. February 24-26
1973
Wrightsville Beach, NC. Program Chairs, Joseph B. Aceves & Carole E. Hill. March 8-10
1974
Blacksburg, VA. Program Chair, Michael V. Angrosino. April 4-6
1975
Clearwater Beach, FL. April 3-5
1976
Atlanta, GA. Program Coordinator, E. Lamar Ross. April
1977
Miami, FL. Program Coordinators, Susan Abbott & John van Willigen. March
1978
Lexington, KY. Program Chair, Tom Collins. March 1978
1979
Memphis, TN. Program Coordinator, Ann I. Ottesen. February
1980
Louisville, KY. Program Coordinator, Andrew W. Miracle. March 21
1981
Fort Worth, TX. Program Coordinator, Gregory Reck. April
1982
Boone, NC. Program Coordinators, Gregory G. Reck & L. Jill Loucks
1983
Baton-Rouge, LA. Program Coordinators Miles Richardson & Malcolm Webb. February 12-14
1984
Atlanta, GA. Program Coordinator, Carole E. Hill
1985
Fayetteville, AR. Program Coordinator, William M. Schneider
1986
Wrightsville Beach, NC. Program Coordinator, Pat Lerch
1987
Atlanta, GA. Program Coordinator, Thomas W. Collins. March 25-28
1988
Tampa, FL. Program Coordinator, Thomas W. Collins
1989
Atlanta, GA.
1990
Atlanta, GA. Local Arrangements, Holly Mathews
1991
Columbia, SC. Program Chair, Morgan Maclachlan
1992
St Augustine, FL. Program Chair, G. Armelagos
1993
Raleigh, NC.
1994
Atlanta, GA.
1995
Memphis, TN. Program Chair, Kate Young
1996
Baton Rouge, LA. Program Chair, Miles Richardson
1997
Memphis, TN. Program Chairs, David Suggs & Andrew Miracle
1998
Wilmington, NC. Program Chair, Thomas W. Collins; Local Arrangements, Jim Sabella. Theme: Communities and Capital: Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization
1999
Decatur, GA. Program Chairs, Daryl White, Art Murphy, & Martha Rees. Theme: Latino Workers in the Contemporary South
2000
Mobile, LA. Program Chair, Thomas W. Collins. Theme: Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity
2001
Nashville, TN. Program Chair, Celeste Ray. Theme: Contested Identities and Regional Memories: Public Display and Ethnic Heritage Festival in the American South
2002
Asheville, NC. Program Chair Margaret Bender; Local Arrangements, Lisa Lefler. Theme: Linguistic Diversity in the South
2003
Baton Rouge, LA. Program Chair, Helen Regis. Theme: Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South
2004
Decatur, GA. Program Chair, George Armelagos; Local Arrangements, Daryl White. Theme: Globalization and the Evolution of Emerging Disease
2005
Chattanooga, TN. Program Chair, Betty Duggan. Theme: Sustaining and Reimagining Community in a Global World. March
2006
Pensacola, FL. Program Chair Terry Prewitt. February
2007
Oxford, MS. Program Chair, Robbie Ethridge. Theme: Southern Cuisine and Southern Foodways
2008
Staunton, VA. Program Chair Margaret Huber; Local Arrangements, Carrie Douglass. Theme: Memory and Museums. March 13-16
2009
Wilmington, NC. Program Chair, Christina Beard- Moose; Local Arrangements, Pat Lerch. Theme: Beyond Southern Borders. March 12-14
2010
Savannah, GA. Program Chair, Robert Shanafelt; Local Arrangements, Heidi Altman. Theme: Ports, Hubs and Bridges: Key Links in Anthropological Theory and Practice. February 18-20
2011
2011 Richmond, VA. Program Chair, Eric Gable; Local Arrangements, Margaret Huber. Theme: The Anthropology of Art/The Art of Anthropology. March 24-27
2012
2012 Birmingham, AL. Program Chair, Lori Cormier; Local Arrangements, Sharyn Jones. Theme: Peace, Justice, and the Environment (from an anthropological perspective). March 15-17
2013
2013 Johnson City, TN. Co-Coordinators: Lindsey C. King and Melissa Schrift. Theme: The Culture of Healing: Physical, Spiritual, Social, and Environmental Healing. March 7-10
2014
2014 Cherokee, NC. Coordinator: Lisa J. Lefler. Theme: Weaving our Discipline with Community. March 30-April 1
2015
2015 Athens, GA, Program Chair and Coordinator: Colleen O’Brien Cherry. Theme: Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: Fifty Years of Traditions and Transitions in the Southeast
2016
2016 Huntington, WV, Coordinator: Brian A. Hoey, Theme: Reinventing and Reinvesting in the Local for Our Common Good, April 7-9
2017
2017 Carrollton, GA, Coordinator: Marjorie M. Snipes, Theme: Ethnocentrism in its Many Guises, March 23-25
2018
2018 Chattanooga, TN, Coordinators: Betty Duggan and H. Lyn White Miles. Theme: Innovations through Anthropology: Connecting with Communities, Partners, Places, & Issues, April 19-21
2019-20
2019-2020 Knoxville, TN; Coordinator: Trish Hepner. Theme: Intersections: Adversity, Identity, Perspectives. This meeting was postponed until Spring 2020 in order to coincide with the biannual meeting of the University of Tennessee, Disaster, Displacement, and Human Rights program, but was then cancelled due to public health concerns about COVID-19.
2021
Virtual; Coordinator: Matt Samson. Theme: Tales from the Storms, June 8-10
2022
2022 Raleigh, NC; Coordinator: Tim Wallace. Theme: Public Interest and Professional Anthropology in the South, April 7-9, 2022
2023
2023 Valdosta, GA; Coordinator: Shelly Yankovskyy. Theme: Anthropological Orientations: Ways of Being Interdisciplinary, March 9-11
2024
2024 Newport News, VA; Coordinator: Andria Timmer. Theme: Climate Crisis and the Politics of Diminishing Cultural Landscapes, March 14-16
2025
Davidson, NC; Coordinator: Matt Samson. Theme: Places We Inhabit – Stories We Tell, March 13-15
2026
Florence, SC; Coordinator: Kiley Molinari. Theme: Palmetto Perspectives: Shifting Cultural, Social, and Environmental Landscapes, March 5-7