The purpose of the University of Buffalo’s AGSA is to further research and intellectual aims of
graduate students in anthropology and allied disciplines by the organization of symposia, lectures,
and seminars or current research and other aspects of anthropology and other interdisciplinary
studies. It aims to: foster increased communication between graduate students and faculty in
anthropology and allied disciplines at this institution and institutions outside of the university;
to promote greater graduate student cohesion and communication and welcome new graduate
students to the Department of Anthropology, as well as recommend new approaches and engage
the study of present approaches in anthropology.