At the kind invitation of Scott Lukas at Lake Tahoe College, I was invited to speak on a panel at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association earlier this year. I'm happy to say that the event is now confirmed.
The panel is called Experiential, Branded, and Lifestyle Spaces: Dialogues Between Architecture and Anthropology and will include such authors as Anna Klingmann (Brandscapes: Architecture in the Experience Economy) and Miodrag Mitrasinovic (Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space). Our panel convenes on November 21, from 1:45–5:30pm, at the San Francisco Hilton. I've been asked to speak about thematic design and Dubai, and I will be basing this presentation on information I gathered for the Sisters in the Sand project this past spring.