This is the first time an annual AAS conference is to be held at Mparntwe/Alice Springs. We want to take this opportunity to gather anthropologists from far and wide and introduce them to the splendour of Arrernte Country. We are also inviting delegates to participate in what makes Mparntwe/Alice Springs so special, providing an inspiration for the presentations, panels and plenary sessions. Our conference theme – Lines, Layers, Depth – pays homage to Mparntwe/Alice Springs, and the intertwining of its tracks of dancing Dreaming caterpillars, the contour lines of Alhekulyele/Mt Gillen against the desert sky, the telegraph line that marked Mparntwe on the maps of the colonialists, the lines of representation in desert art, and the intertwining storylines of and about Mparntwe/Alice Springs.

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