Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity?br>
The 16th World Congress
The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Kunming, China
July 15-23, 2008

The 16th World Congress of IUAES will be held in the city of Kunming, China, from July 15 to July 23, 2008. The Congress’s Organizing Committee is at the stage of calling for proposals to organize academic sessions. Those who wish to organize the sessions should contact us immediately. So far we have 165 session proposals.

We want to suggest that each session could be divided into as many as three panels (i.e., smaller groups) and each panel could be consisted of 5 paper presenters. If a session has three panels and a total of 15 speakers, the session leader will be granted by the organizing committee one waiver of registration fee. This measure is taken to encourage scholars to become session leaders. Those who want to serve as session leaders should load the application forms here . Scholars may also recommend other individuals to serve as session leaders by downloading the recommendation forms here .

Proposals and inquiries should be simultaneously sent to the following two addresses:

iuaes2008@hotmail.com; iuaes2008@126.com 

There are four types of registration fees: (1) IUAES members, US$100; (2) Non-IUAES members, US$150; (3) students, US$50; (4) companions, US$30.

The organizing committee is now raising funds to create a basis of financial support to cover travel and lodging for a selected group of individuals in special financial needs and for scholars whose roles are crucial to the success of the 16th World Congress. Details of the financial support will be announced when we have a clear idea of how much funding will be at our disposal.