Participation is limited to current paid AAA members. To join please visit http://www.aaanet.org/membership/join.cfm  The membership requirement may be waived for scholars from other disciplines, distributors submitting films, or for anthropologists from countries other than the US or Canada.  How and where  to request a waiver? (LINK)

• All participants must register; There is NO waiver for the registration fee payment.  Membership and registration are not the same thing.

• No proposals for participation in the scholarly program of the meeting can be considered unless formally submitted online through the AAA website.

• Final Program Decision: The AAA follows a policy of peer review and merit consideration for acceptance and inclusion on the program. The programming decisions are made by a committee composed of section program editors, executive program committee members, the executive program chair and officers of the AAA.

• Review Procedure: Volunteered sessions and individually volunteered papers and posters are reviewed by section program editors and committees established by each of the sections of the AAA. The recommendations of these sections are forwarded to the executive program chair, who assumes final responsibility for the acceptance or rejection of proposals. The executive program committee prepares the final program schedule following the rankings submitted by each section. All final program notifications about acceptance and scheduling will be mailed by the executive program chair. There is no appeal process.

Organizers and presenters are required to select one review section when submitting proposals online. Only one section may be checked. The decision should be made on the basis of content and intended audience; membership in a section has no bearing on the review process.

• Presentation Policy: Participants may present one paper and accept one other role other than a paper presentation (discussant, organizer or chair) in a second session. The policy of one paper presentation plus one other role will be strictly enforced. The program committee will remove any name that appears more than twice on the scholarly program, and urges individuals to refrain from accepting more than one commitment of any kind in the scholarly program. A participant may be credited with co-authorship of one or more additional papers when co-authorship is understood to include participation on a research project. Presenters’ names must appear first, with others following in alphabetical or other appropriate order.

Registration fees are refunded to presenters whose proposals/abstracts have not been accepted for the annual meeting program. The request must be made by the presenter. Registration fees will not be refunded to program presenters who withdraw/cancel. All refund requests must be submitted by October 15th. Please submit requests to aaameetings@aaanet.org.

Meeting Dates: The scholarly program of the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting will begin at 12 pm on Wed, Dec 2, and continue through the morning of Sun, Dec 6th.