(Allen cont from pg. 1)entering the year 2000.

Three new officers were elected in 1999 and

include the following:

1) Program Chair-Elect David Beriss (U New Orleans)

2) Member-at-Large: Matti Bunzl (U Illinois-Urbana-

Champaign)

3) Graduate Student Representative: Brian Palmer

(Harvard U)

In addition, Pat Heck (U of the South) stepped down as

editor of the SAE Bulletin and was replaced by Kelli

Ann Costa (Franklin Pierce Q.

Peter Allen, current President of SAE, was ree-

lected Convener of the Section Assembly at the AAA

Leadership Retreat and Section Assembly in May 1999.

At the annual meeting in Chicago (November,

1999), the SAE had a very high profile. The SAE organ-

ized two invited sessions, reviewed another 10 (of

which two were cosponsored with the Society for Visual

Anthropology), and organized one poster session for a

total of thirteen sessions. In addition, the SAE spon-

sored five roundtable luncheon meetings to which ap-

proximately 35 individuals subscribed. One of the

highlights of the meeting was our annual distinguished

lecture, this year delivered by Scott Lash and tided

"Critique of Information." It was followed by a recep-

tion for attendees and SAE members.

Both the meeting of the Executive Board of the

SAE and the business meeting were well attended and

substantial amounts of business were conducted.

Finally, the SAE provided venues for meetings of four

subgroups with European foci: The Anthropology of

German Studies, The East European Anthropology

Group, Network for the Anthropology of French and

Francophone Cultures, and the Hungarianist Research

Group.

In the area of publications, the SAE has an-

nounced a plan to modify, over time, the Bulletin by

incorporating more of the materials normally published

there on the Society's website and electronic internet

list The new Bulletin will begin publishing longer re-

views and some short articles and will come out less

frequently-two times a year. Initial plans are to publish

selected papers from annual AAA and regional meet-

ings.

The SAE is particularly pleased to announce the

publication of "Films for Teaching the Anthropology of

Europe," a project that was more than a decade in the

making. Compiled and edited by Mary Nolan, this is a

compendium of more than 400 films and tapes of inter-

est to Europeanists and includes all the relevant distri-

bution information as well as short descriptive

annotations on all productions. It was published by the

AAA and is available from the central office. There are

plans to make it available electronically in the near fu-

ture and to continually update it as new productions

become available.

The SAE electronic list and website are among

the best offered by AAA sections and under the able di-

rection of Anthony Gait (U Wisconsin, Green Bay),

both have flourished and continue to grow. Almost 800

individuals now subscribe to the H-SAE list

The SAE continues to sell syllabi and slide sets

to accompany selected ethnographies.

The SAE sponsors two annual competitions, a

pre-dissertation fellowship and a student paper prize.

This year the pre-dissertation fellowship was awarded

to Stephen Hibbard (U Chicago) for linguistic research

in Poland. The student paper prize was won by Jeffrey

Feldman (U Virginia). The pre-dissertation competition

will be continued this year in cooperation with the

Council on European Studies at Columbia U and the

amount of the award will be increased from $3000 to

$4000. Plans are underway to alter the guidelines of

the student paper competition and expand the number

of prizes given to include both undergraduate and

graduate students.

AAA 2000 Program NotesEva Huseby-Darvas

U Michigan

Dear Colleagues,

This is a preliminary note regarding the pro-

gram for the 2000 AAA Meetings. I will be sending out

more information after I receive the final brochures

from the Program Committee of the Association at the

end of January, or beginning of February.

(Cont pg 4 Huseby-Darvas)

(Huseby-Darvas contfrom pg. 3) suggestions for this year's meeting:

As I am sure you all know, the January 2000

AAA newsletter will have the submission and other

forms for this year's gathering in San Francisco. At

this time, I am encouraging you to start seriously

thinking about and actively organizing sessions

and/or giving papers. Please follow all directions very

closely on the forms and mail everything directly to

the AAA Program Committee in Arlington by the 1st

of April.

Regarding "Invited Status": For invited ses-

sions we, the members of the Society for the

Anthropology of Europe, get either one double ses-

sion (consisting of one 3 1/2 hour time period), or

two single sessions (each consisting of one 1 hour

and 45 minute time period). We also are given

space for one invited poster session, something

which has been underutilized in the past. Some of

you were thinking of asking for invited session status.

In these cases, please send me—as soon as possible-

the final draft of the title and abstract of the session,

as well as the titles and abstracts of all the papers

presented in the session. In order to send all mate-

rial to this year's SAE Program Committee members

for review, I will need to have the material proposed

for invited sessions no later than the 10th of March.

The best way to do this is to send the proposals ei-

ther via email (evdarvas@umich.edu), of fax

734/769-7889. If you need to talk with me, please

telephone me at 734/769-7698, and if I am not

there I will return your call as soon as possible.

During the special meeting of the AAA

Program Committee for Section Editors/Program

Chairs in Chicago last November, Louise Lamphere,

Lucille Horn, Helena Ragone, and Jan Meier empha-

sized that San Francisco is a very popular meeting

place. Therefore, as a rule, there are many more ap-

plications, more submissions, ergo there is much

more competition for sessions and papers. This

means that the abstracts will have to be even better

and more appropriate to the annual theme than they

are when we meet elsewhere. Toward this end, I am

enclosing here, verbatim, the guidelines/

The Public Face of Anthropology in the Millennium"

Louise Lamphere, President and Helena Ragone,

Program Chair

"Since its inception anthropology has long

been concerned with and contributed greatly to our

understanding of humanity. Building upon this tradi-

tion, the theme of the 2000 meeting, to be held in

San Francisco, CA (15-19 November), is "The Public

Face of Anthropology in the Millennium." We envi-

sion participants extending anthropology's contribu-

tions by focusing even greater attention on our

discipline's ability to shed light on complex issues af-

fecting people's lives both here in the US and

abroad.

"One of the Association's long range goals is

to ensure that national discussion of critical societal

issues become informed by anthropological perspec-

tives. Members are encouraged to showcase and ex-

plore the many ways our research touches upon

issues of social, political and public concerns from

the perspective of all four fields of anthropology, as

well as, practicing anthropology. We are particularly

interested in exploring social justice, health research

and health policy, education, development, ecologi-

cal movements and environmental degradation,

globalization, science, technology and the informa-

tion revolution, violence, conflict and peace,

race/ethnicity, gender and class.

"The meeting's theme will also serve to high-

light the many ways in which anthropological

knowledge can be directed toward educating both

public and private sectors and in disseminating criti-

cal information to policy makers, decision makers

and opinion makers on a variety of issues. The ad-

vancement of anthropology will serve a multitude of

purposes: to promote the discipline, to facilitate hir-

ing of anthropologists in the private and public sec-

tors, and to increase the use of anthropological

systems of knowledge, methodology and skills,

thereby increasing public awareness of the uses and

efficacy of anthropological knowledge.

(Cont next page Huseby-Darvas)

(Huseby-Darvas cont)

Participants are actively encouraged to recast

their work by exploring innovative and creative link-

ages, implications and applications. We encourage

you to submit proposals and papers that forge

bridges between subjects and subfields moving us

beyond traditionally conceived categories. For exam-

ple, an archaeology paper on slave plantations would

typically be conceived for an archaeology panel with

a focus on race, but we would like to see such a pa-

per enrich panels that address issues of health, vio-

lence, social justice, political economy, and so forth.

We should also like to see, for example, a cultural

and/or linguistic paper that explores the effects of

war or violence enhance a forensic panel and/or an

archaeological panel on sites that depict violence.

Applying the same approach topically also reveals

the intersections of subjects and approaches. Panels

that incorporate the 4 subfields (as well as practicing)

in innovative ways that cross boundaries and that ex-

plore nuances of race/ethnicity, gender, and class are

highly desirable.

'The 2000 meeting provides us with a forum

to engage with one another and with the public in a

collaborative and creative process. Aside from its ob-

vious historic value, it is our hope that "The Public

Face of Anthropology in the Millennium" will show-

case our strengths and usher in a new era of growth

and collegiality in anthropology."

1999 AAA Program ReportWinnie Lem

Trent University

At the 1999 Meetings in Chicago, the SAE

sponsored a total of thirteen sessions thanks to the

enthusiastic participation of its members. The titles

of the sessions and their orgainizers were as follows:

Invited: The Making of Wealth and Poverty in a

Europe of the Regions (Gavin Smith (U Toronto) and

Susana Narotzky (U de Barcelona))

Invited: Why Post-Socialism is Good to Think: The

Anthropology of Transforming States: Part I (Nancy

Ries (Colgate) and Sascha Goluboff (Washington and

Lee))

Other Sessions:Why Post-Socialism is Good to Think: The

Anthropology of Transforming States: Part II (Nancy

Ries (Colgate) and Sascha Goluboff (Washington and

Lee))

Class Counts: An Ethnographic Look at the Salience of

Class in European Contexts (Diane O'Rourke (Victoria

U-Wellington) and Deborah Chahalen (SUNY- -

Binghamton)

History and Politics of Desire: Nostalgic Futures Across

the New Europe (Melissa Caldwell and Tracey

Heatherington (Harvard))

Bodies in Motion, Identities in Place: Cultural Politics

in the Portuguese Speaking World (Andrea Klimt (U

Mass-Dartmouth) and Kimberly Holton (Wesleyan)

Visual Coherence: Local and Transformational

Identities in Europe: Part II (Peter Allen (Rhode Island

C) and Alison Jablonko)

Socialism's Other: Imagining the Normal in Eastern

Europe and Cuba (Paul Ryer (U Chicago))

Maps, Mobility and Organisation: Time and Space in

Northern Europe (SAE)

Rurality, Rationality and Ritual in the Balkans and .

Central Europe (SAE)

Population, Consumption and Belonging in Northern

and Southern Europe (SAE)

Poster Session:

Envisioning Southern Europe (SAE)

Many particpants in SAE sessions also trav-

elled a great distance from both the northern reaches

and southern reaches of Europe to attend the

(Cont next column) (cont pg 6 Lem)