Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) sponsors a series of special workshops in which small groups of graduate students and faculty…
Category: AAA Meetings
AAA 2015 Preview: Speaking of Evidence
While many anthropologists’ discussions of evidence turn on a disciplinary concern with the ethnographic record and ethnographic texts as forms of evidence, the making and application of both evidence and evidence protocols are widespread, iterative social…
AAA 2015 Preview: The Actant Archive: On Surveillance, Subversion and Self-Fashioning
Anthropology’s interest in archives (and/or “The Archive”) is, of course, nothing new…From our own work in two East European contexts, we have discovered common..
Registration Now Open for Cannabis Cultures AAA 2015
Cannabis Cultures Event Registration: http://tinyurl.com/n9awxhe As you plan for the American Anthropological Association meeting in November, save the date for a special cannabis … More
#BlackLivesStillMatter: Race and Justice at AAA 2015
In response to the overt racial injustice embedded in the organization of American policing and justice system, made undeniably visible … More
Producing Political and Legal Knowledge through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements
By Jennifer Curtis APLA hosted its inaugural salon, Producing Political and Legal Knowledge through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements, on December 3, 2014 … More
Winner and finalists for APLA’s Graduate Student Paper Prize!
The 2014 APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize committee was Gabrielle Hosein, Mark Schuller, and Chika Watanabe. This year we added … More
Happy Hour Salon: “Producing Political and Legal Knowledge Through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements” at the AAA Meetings
Save the date! Happy Hour Salon: “Producing Political and Legal Knowledge Through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements” When: Wednesday, December 3, 6-8 pm. … More
Graduate Students: these workshops during the AAAs are for you!
APLA Graduate Student Workshops at AAA 2014 Call for participants… Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for … More
Presidential Address Now Published!
Don’t miss Susan Coutin and Sally Merry’s joint APLA-AES 2013 Presidential Address now published in American Ethnologist: Technologies of truth … More
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. and J.D.) to send stand-alone papers … More
Another of our 2013 AAA meetings mentoring workshops: mobility, law and citizenship
“Mobility, Law & Citizenship” Workshop, by Véronique Fortin, UC Irvine. On November 21st 2013, a small group of scholars gathered … More
Law and Rurality Workshop at AAA 2013 in Chicago:
Workshop on “Law and Rurality” by Michele L. Statz, University of Washington. Taking “rurality as a continuum” (Pruitt 2006) as … More
APLA Business Meeting at AAA 2013
Don’t miss APLA’s business meeting substantive discussion on broadening anthropology’s reach! Saturday November 23rd, 12:15-1.30 pm, Chicago Hilton, Marquette Room.
APLA Mentoring Events at AAA 2013
Continuing its strong mentoring tradition, APLA will be holding a series of Graduate Student Workshops during the AAA meetings. Since … More
Upcoming AAA events!
Take a look at some of the events that APLA is organizing for our upcoming AAA meetings. The full list … More
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