Important Dates
This is the a quick-reference guide to help you remember key dates and deadlines as we prepare for our 2021 annual meeting.
April 6, 2021:
- Drop-in “office hours” for session chairs & presenters to gain familiarity with the zoom webinar environment. See program or the Pathable site for times.
April 7, 2021:
- 12-2 pm (eastern) Plenary session: Include is a Verb: Act to Make Inclusion a Reality by Sherry Marts
- 2-4 pm (eastern) Undergraduate Research Symposium
- 4-6pm (eastern) Opening Teception and Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony
April 8, 2021:
- 10am-12pm (eastern) HBA-AAPA Joint Symposium: Human responses to climate change
- 12-2pm (eastern) Invited Symposium: Building intersections of Covid-19 scholarship, health inequalities, and systems of care in pregnancy and the postpartum
- 2-4pm (eastern) AAAG-AAPA Joint Symposium: Thinking beyond the lab? Anthropological geneticists’ response to the Covivd-19 pandemic and the summer of civil unrest
- 4-6pm (eastern) HBA-AAPA Joint Symposium: 20 years of the human genome
Past:
August 17, 2020:
- Invited Symposia Proposals (PAST)
October 15, 2020:
- Abstract Submissions for Podium and Poster Presentations (PAST)
- Nominations for Executive Committee
- Nominations for Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award
- Nominations for Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award
- Nominations for AAPA Communication and Outreach Award
December 21, 2020:
- Registrations for the Throwback Program are due (invitations were sent out to all 2020 lead authors who did not submit an abstract for 2021; last invitation sent out on 12/14/202 from aapa2021@berkeley.edu)
February 1, 2021:
- Pollitzer Student Travel Awards (essays due by 11:59pm Somoa Standard Time, UTC-11)
February 15, 2021:
- Abstracts due for the Undergraduate Research Symposium
February 24, 2021:
March 1, 2021:
- Applications for the Student Presentation Awards
March 8, 2021:
- Webinar: Insider’s Guide to AAPA’s 2021 Virtual Conference
- Video link: coming
March 11, 2021
- Last day to order your AAPA 2021 t-shirt! Place orders here for home delivery. Scroll to the bottom of the form to place your order.
March 12-19, 2021:
- Upload your presentation to the Pathable website (if you have an accepted abstract, you will receive an email invitation from Pathable)
April 5, 2021:
- Pathable invitations for meeting attendees are sent out
- The meeting begins! Scientific presentations are accessible to all registrants to peruse
- Code of Conduct training session for all Session Chairs, H-Care members, and members of the Executive Committee