Bianca Brijnath Monash University Victoria, Australia Elizabeth Manton Monash University Victoria, Australia Mary Mitsch Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Monica E. Rodriguez Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Sappaporn Wirattanapokin Monash University Victoria, Australia Jayne Yatczak Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Postconference Reflections by Emerging Scholars The editors of MAQ are pleased to present reflections from several emerging scho- lars on this historic convocation of the Society for Medical Anthropology, held September 24–27, 2009, at Yale University. We hope these serve to amplify and refract the preceding account of these meetings by Marcia Inhorn, whose descrip- tion of the scope, scholarly locations, and organizational supports for the first-ever conference was, perforce, an insider’s top-down view. The following thoughts are provided by students from Monash University Melbourne, Australia, and from Wayne State University, Michigan, who took part. Although there are worthy in- sights from the many students at the meetings, we hope these give a taste; publication deadlines limited our ability to include others planned. These scholars coming of age in today’s medical anthropology and sharing their reflections and experiences from the conference presage good things to come from our next generation of medical anthropologists. Bianca Brijnath, Monash University, Victoria, Australia For an Australian Ph.D. student, attending an international conference in the United States is an uncommon occurrence on the calendar. The journey is long, the costs 270 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp. 270–273, ISSN 0745- 5194, online ISSN 1548-1387. C  2010 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01101.x