Conferences

Annual General Meeting

The Association holds an AGM usually in conjunction with the Annual Conference (see below).

Conferences

Forthcoming Conference

The Association holds an annual conference. The venue for this conference rotates between a number of different centres.

31st Annual conference, Bracketing (Belief), University of Canterbury, 9-11 November 2006

Past Conferences

The Association has held an annual conference since its formation in 1975.

Details of each can be found below.

ASAA/NZ (formerly NZASA) Past Annual Conferences

Precursory Conference: Conference of University Teachers of Social Anthropology, University of Auckland 12-14 May 1975

First Annual Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, 25-28 August 1976.
Theme: Ideology and belief systems in change

Second Annual Conference, Massey University, 24-26 August 1977

Third Annual Conference, University of Otago, 23-25 August 1978

Fourth Annual Conference, Hawkes Bay Community College (Taradale), 20-22 August 1979

Fifth Annual Conference, 1980, Victoria University of Wellington

Sixth Annual Conference, 1981, University of Waikato

Seventh Annual Conference, 1982, University of Otago

Eighth Annual Conference, 1983, University of Auckland (simultaneous with the University's centenary conference)

Ninth Annual Conference, 1984, Victoria University of Wellington, 23-25 August 1984

Tenth Annual Conference, 1985, Massey University, August 1985

Eleventh Annual Conference, 1986, University of Waikato (at the Waahi Marae, Huntly)

Twelfth Annual Conference, 1987, University of Otago, 26-28 August 1987

Thirteenth Annual Conference, 1988, University of Auckland 23-26 August

Fourteenth Annual Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, 21-23 August 1989.
Theme: Fieldwork and home/ fieldwork at home - reflections on the uses of fieldwork.

Fifteenth Annual Conference, 1990, University of Waikato 23-26 August.
Theme: The politics of interpretation

Sixteenth Annual Conference, 1991, University of Auckland 27-29 November.
Theme:"To be or not to be?"; the anthropology of identities and the identity of anthropology.

Seventeenth Annual Conference,1992, Massey University, 26-28 November.
Theme: Teaching Anthropology in the 1990s.

Eighteenth Annual Conference, 1993, University of Waikato 21-23 August.
Theme: Cultural management from above and below.

Nineteenth Annual Conference, 1994, University of Auckland, 22-24 August.
Theme: Revisioning the family

Twentieth Annual Conference, 1995,Victoria University of Wellington, 26-28 August.
Theme: Identity

Twenty-First Annual Conference, 1996, Massey University
Theme: Displacing anthropology

Twenty-Second Annual Conference, 1997, University of Waikato, 30-31 August.
Theme: Culture, heritage, and development

Twenty-Third Annual Conference, 1998, University of Otago
Theme:

Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference, 1999, University of Auckland,
Theme: "Displaying culture"

Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference, 2000, University of Waikato, 2-3 September
Theme: Anthropology in Times of Risk. Conference proceedings are available at http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/anthropology/conf2000/conf2000.shtml

Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference, 2001, Massey University (Palmerston North)
Theme:

Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference, 2002, Massey University (Albany)
Theme: "Whose Home? Thinking about Anthropology, Home and Indigeneity"

Twenty-Eigth Annual Conference, 2003, University of Otago,
Theme: "Anthropology and Expert Knowledge: Celebrating the Life and Works of Sir Raymond Firth"

Twenty-ninth annual conference, 2004, Auckland, December 3-4th Translations, treaties and testimonies: The cultural politics of Interpretation. For more information http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/ant/ASAAConference/index.htm

30th Annual conference, 24-26 November 2005, Victoria University of Wellington: "Beyond Ethnography" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/sacs/news/anthconference/anthconference.aspx

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