The Board of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) wants to support all APLA members in deciding how,…
Nominations Open: 2024 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2024 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition. The association…
AAA Town Hall on the Annual Meeting in Tampa
AAA invites members to join a Town Hall on Tuesday, February 27th from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. EDT, for a discussion of…
APLA Statement in Support of Critical Scholarship
To add your name, complete this form. As concerned anthropologists and social scientists, we join scholars and scholarly associations around…
Repair: AES / APLA Spring Conference 2024
April 4-6, 2024 | University of Pittsburgh In the face of compounding harms—mass extinctions, settler-colonial dispossession, gentrification, displacement—what does it…
Florida 2024 Annual Meeting: APLA Calls for AAA Transparency
This statement is a call to action from the board of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. The Association…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Contingent Labor
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology The seventh episode of Hiring Rituals focuses on contingent labor in…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Australia
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology This sixth episode of Hiring Rituals focuses on hiring practices in…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in South Africa
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our fifth podcast episode explores how South African anthropology departments hire. …
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering the analysis of political and/or legal institutions and processes by July 31st.
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Sweden
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our fourth podcast episode explores how Swedish anthropology departments hire. Every…
Nominations Open: 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition.
Congratulations! APLA’s 2022 Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The 2022 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology was awarded to James H. Smith for “The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo.” Congratulations!
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Norway
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our third podcast episode explores how Norwegian anthropology departments hire. Every…
Indeterminacy: A co-hosted spring conference
Registrations and submissions are now open! This year’s spring conference is committed to exploring the nature and dangers of indeterminacy. The time has come for indeterminacy to be interrogated, not least for the ways it prevents a rush to judgment, enables prurient behavior, and creates blind spots towards injustice. Yet if anthropology is to avoid retreating to a high moralizing stance…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: UK Hiring
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our second podcast episode explores how UK anthropology departments hire. Every…
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