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 [email protected])

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:

• Vote for new members of the Executive Committee

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