Meetings
As of 2011, the ASA has held nine major conferences, with attendees from around the world, but mostly from the United States and Europe. The first meeting of the ASA was held at Princeton University in 2001 with the attendance of numerous synesthesia researchers including Larry Marks, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Peter Grossenbacher, and artists and authors including Patricia Lynne Duffy and Natasha Lvovich. This meeting was featured in the popular press, including Time magazine and other media outlets. The first conference also became the subject of a documentary video. Since 2002, the ASA has instituted a Keynote speaker, who gives an hour long lecture linking synesthesia with other domains of research. In 2011, the University of California, San Diego became the first location to host the ASA annual meeting twice (2002, 2011).
| Meeting | Location | Dates | Presentations | Keynote Speaker |
| 1st | Princeton University | May 19, 2001 | 10 | None |
| 2nd | University of California, San Diego | May 17-19, 2002 | 15 | Richard Cytowic |
| 3rd | Rockefeller University | May 2-4, 2003 | 18 | Lawrence Marks and Mriganka Sur |
| 4th | University of California, Berkeley | November 5-7, 2004 | 20 | Daphne Maurer |
| 5th | UT Health Science Center | October 28-30, 2005 | 17 | Lynn C. Robertson |
| 6th | University of South Florida St. Petersburg | January 26-28, 2007 | 21 | Mike Dixon |
| 7th | McMaster University | September 26 – 28, 2008 | 27 | Jamie Ward |
| 8th | Vanderbilt University | October 1-3, 2010 | 18 | Julia Simner |
| 9th | University of California, San Diego | October 14 – 16, 2011 | 20 | Edward Hubbard |
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Famous quotes containing the word meetings:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
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—Madonna [Madonna Louise Ciccione] (b. 1959)