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The MSA annual dinner and meeting will be held Friday, February 20, 2026, at AB Steak, a highly reputed Korean restaurant at 124 Ellis St, San Francisco, close to the RSA convention hotel. Cash bar 5:30-7:00; dinner / program begins promptly at 7:00. The meeting includes presentation of awards and an address by the 2025 Honored Scholar.

All are welcome at the cash bar 5:30-7:00! But there is a strict limit of 84 available places for dinner and you must purchase your ticket by February 10. Because the restaurant features tabletop grills, you’ll be prompted to choose a beef, seafood, or vegetarian table at the time of purchase, at which point you also can indicate dietary restrictions. Tickets will be available until February 10, or until they sell out.

In an ongoing effort to make the annual dinner affordable for members who wish to attend, we always have priced dinner tickets at a loss to the organization. With food and restaurant prices rising, we have decided this year to keep the ticket prices at the same level as the recent past ($90 for tenured faculty; $70 for others), but to move to an all-cash bar, where you can purchase drinks throughout the evening by cash or credit card. Additionally, we are newly offering a limited number of $50 tickets that members can buy for an accompanying graduate student.

Members who want to help grow the organization and support broad attendance: here are some things you can do! 1) Widely extend invitations to the cash bar (5:30-7:00). 2) Buy a graduate student  or contingent colleague a drink (before or during the dinner). 3) Bring a graduate student to the dinner. 4) Contribute to the dinner-subsidy fund (do this using the separate button toward the bottom of this page). These contributions will be used to offset the $50 reduced-ticket price and thereafter the overall dinner deficit.   

You will receive a paypal acknowledgement of your order within 24 hours of purchase. This will include a recap of the meal and ticket type selections you made.