The 10th annual Information Architecture Summit will be in Memphis, Tennessee, March 18th – 22nd, 2009, at the Peabody Memphis Hotel. More information will be posted to iasummit.org (after the 2008 conference is over).

(Originally announced from February 18-22.)

The AIGA Design Conference 2009 will be October 8–11, 2009, in Memphis.

The AIGA Design Conference is a biennial gathering of the design community to celebrate design excellence, reinforce friendships and connections and stimulate thinking about the critical issues that surround design practice. This conference is generally recognized as one of the most engaging, provocative, inspiring and fun conferences offered in the design community.

The Society for Applied Anthropology’s 68th Annual Meeting will be March 25 - 29, 2008, in Memphis.

The theme of the 2008 SfAA meeting, “The Public Sphere and Engaged Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities for Applied Anthropology” will provide a venue to highlight the specific contributions of applied anthropologists in the public sphere. In addition, this theme will allow anthropologists to explore innovative ways in which they can participate more prominently in public discourse while addressing pressing human issues in contemporary local and global communities. This broadly defined theme will attract all those working in collaborative and interdisciplinary settings to shape public policy and improve people’s lives through direct action and community advocacy.