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Yes, I'm on that panel. The topic is "Is public outreach enough?". The African Diaspora Archaeology Forum is always a very lively discussion -- gets pretty loud sometimes, in fact! It's very casual and very much a GROUP discussion...there are no formal papers, just a few comments by the panelists to get things rolling. There have been lots of "activist archaeology" sessions, at SHA, SfAA, and SAA, over the past 5 years or so (and a couple of books as well, both already published and in press).....but you are right, perhaps it's time that the organizations come out with statements themselves. Of course, given the recent debates on the WAC listserv, I doubt it would be easy to come up with any consensus about what a statement should say. I think AAA is much more centrally managed, in terms of it's ability to put forth position statements of this sort. carol p.s. "concatenations of floaters in my Alphabits"? Eeuww! **************************** Carol McDavid, Ph.D. 1638 Branard Houston, TX 77006 www.webarchaeology.com www.publicarchaeology.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Carlson-Drexler" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:45 AM Subject: Re: American Anthropological Association (AAA) >I may be wrong, but the African Diaspora Archaeology Forum at the SHAs > (Albuquerque, January) is to be focused on activist archaeology, which > would bear on this discussion, at least tangentially. While I agree > that WAC is much more responsive to these issues, perhaps we are at a > point where this needs to be brought more directly to the SAA, SHA, > SfAA, and other concatenations of floaters in my Alphabits. > > Peace, > Carl > > -- > Department of Anthropology > College of William and Mary > Williamsburg, VA 23187