Explore This Year’s Conference Program Download PDF Conference Pricing The AAAS annual conference is a must for members, and pricing is designed to benefit members. Review the pricing grid below and see what discounts you qualify for. See the difference an AAAS membership makes. Attendee Type AAAS Member Pricing Non-member Pricing Faculty / Professional $192 $364 International Faculty / Professional $165 $310 Adjuct / Contingent Faculty $101 $181 Unemployed / Retired $101 $181 Graduate Student $101 $181 Post-Doctoral Student $101 $181 International Student $101 $181 Undergraduate Student $65 $115 Community Organizer (per person) $101 $181 Non-Academic Community Organization Member and Artists $101 $192 One-Day Fee $150 $290 K-12 Student $10 $20 Event Logistics Planning to attend a conference can be overwhelming. That’s why AAAS aims to keep attendees informed of meeting logistics, before, during and after the conference season ends. Hotel Information Hilton Denver City Center 1701 California St, Denver, CO 80202 Phone: (303) 297-1300 AAAS conference rate: $169/night plus 15.75% tax On-Site Meeting Logistics During the conference, AAAS volunteer leaders and staff will make every effort to provide a healthy and safe environment for attendees. All attendees of the in-person Denver meeting need to be fully vaccinated and boosted, and masks are required indoors. We have set aside a room for attendees comfortable eating without their masks, and encourage spreading out in the conference spaces. We continue to monitor the pandemic situation and will communicate any changes in programmatic offerings and/or managing the event. Please contact AAAS if you have questions. Contact Us Guidebook App While you are attending the AAAS annual conference, download our helpful mobile application and stay up-to-date on the program schedule, discussions, and social media activity. Download Now Vaccination Requirements After carefully reviewing the public health data, we have decided that attendees at the in-person conference this spring must be fully vaccinated as currently defined by the CDC (January 1, 2021), and boosted (receiving one mRNA shot) prior to attending. As a registrant for this event, we ask that you complete the following form, which will ask for your vaccination status and acknowledgment of our COVID-19 waiver. Information you share on this form will only be accessible to those responsible for the execution of this program. COVID-19 VACCINATION AND WAIVER FORM If you are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical and/or religious exemption, you will still be able to attend the event but will be required to provide documentation of a negative PCR COVID-19 test completed no more than 72-hours prior to arriving onsite. At this time, we are not requiring daily testing of our participants, but we reserve the right to update this procedure if the COVID-19 status changes in the location of the event. You will be required to show documentation of your vaccination status or your negative PCR test results at onsite registration prior to receiving your name tag. If you are not able to provide this documentation, you will not be allowed to participate in the event. Cancellation Policy All registrants who cancel prior to the conference or do not attend the conference forfeit their entire registration fee. Once you submit your registration you are not entitled to a refund. Please remember that canceling your conference registration does not automatically cancel your hotel and travel arrangements, individuals are responsible for canceling their own hotel and travel reservations. Get Involved There are many opportunities to participate in the AAAS annual conference. Submit a proposal to lead a session, come alongside AAAS as a sponsor or exhibitor, and learn how to take advantage of our program advertisement options for even more visibility. Volunteer As the old adage says, ‘many hands make light work,’ and a lot of work goes into each year’s conference. Find out more about how you can share your time and talents. Submit A Proposal Have you been solving difficult problems? Has your research birthed new insights? Do you have a strong voice and an even stronger desire to use it at next year’s AAAS Annual Conference? Then we encourage you to submit a proposal for a workshop, panel or roundtable. Learn more below. Submit A Proposal Sponsor & Exhibit AAAS is grateful for all the sponsors, advertisers and exhibitors who help make the conference possible every year. Sponsor a coffee break, book signing exhibit, or share in joint sponsorship of the closing night Awards Reception. Learn more below. Sponsors & Exhibitors 2022 Conference Co-Chairs AAAS has a healthy tradition of respect and recognition. It is expressed both in our commitment to awarding excellence, as much as it is in showing appreciation to those whose efforts make the 2022 annual conference a reality. Marguerite Nguyen Associate Professor of English Wesleyan University [email protected] Marguerite studies 20th – 21st-century American literature, specializing in Asian American and diasporic literature, refugee contexts, and environmental humanities. She is author of America’s Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire (Temple University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Refugee Cultures: Forty Years after the Vietnam War (MELUS, 2016). Her next project, tentatively titled “Refugee Ecologies,” is based on this work and argues for ecocritical readings of refugee cultures. Catherine Fung English Faculty Lick-Wilmerding High School [email protected] Catherine is currently a high school English teacher specializing in Ethnic Studies and social justice curriculum. As a former professor of English and Media Studies, she also has 13 years of experience working in higher education. She continues to be an active researcher and writer, having published in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies. She has served as a reviewer and editor for journals and as a board member of academic associations. Faye Caronan Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado Denver [email protected] In 2008 Faye received the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She specializes in Comparative Ethnic Studies and the study of U.S. Imperialism. Her book, Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Her new research project looks at the role that race played in the imagining of the U.S. nation and its empire in the Pacific in the first half of the 20th century. Nishant Upadhyay Department of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado Boulder [email protected] Nishant joined the Department of Ethnic Studies in Fall 2019. They received their PhD at York University, Toronto in the Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought in 2016. Their dissertation received the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Award in 2018. Their research focuses on intersections of race, indigeneity, caste, gender, and sexuality. They have edited a special issue of Sikh Formation on the Ghadar movement and co-edited a special issue of Feral Feminisms on transnational feminist analysis of settler colonialism.
