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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:#548ED5">NORTHWEST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:#548ED5">ANTHROPOLOGICAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:#548ED5">CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:black">March 23-26, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:black">CONFERENCE AT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">Hotel Murano<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">1320 Broadway<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">Tacoma, Washington 98402<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mark your calendars!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:black">2016 Northwest Anthropology Conference
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">is scheduled for </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:black">March 23-26, 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">. Hosted by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Washington State Parks, the conference will be at the
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:black">Hotel Murano
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">in downtown </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:black">Tacoma,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:black">Washington</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Tacoma’s downtown core has undergone significant urban renewal since the last time it hosted NWAC in 1988. Within walking distance of the conference hotel, attendees
will find the Washington State History Museum (home to the East Wenatchee Collection), the Tacoma Art Museum (hosting in 2016
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Italic;color:black">“Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley”
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">and the Tacoma Museum of Glass (arguably the glass house that Dale Chihuly built!). Just a short distance away is the new LeMay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Car Museum which houses a collection of over 250 cars spanning a century of automotive history. Of course, attendees will find plenty of conference amenities too: fine
dining, night life and microbreweries. The conference website will open by mid-December 2015. Information about conference registration, lodging, paper submissions and deadlines will be posted there when available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">See you in Tacoma next March!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">CONFERENCE WEBSITE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Opening Mid-December 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">TRACK US ON FACEBOOK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Northwest-Anthropological-Conference/183968841643738</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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