Academic Freedom, Immigration, and Carceral Regimes At the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans Cosponsored by APLA (Association for … More
Category: Announcements
Resources and Links on Academic Freedom Relevant to Anthropologists
To be updated regularly. Last update March 21, 2025 Contact: Heath Cabot (heath.cabot@uib.no) Have you found yourself under attack within … More
APLA Taskforce on Academic Freedom
Letter from APLA President: Call for Action and Help March 21, 2025 Dear APLA Members and Friends, As you know, … More
Nominations Open: 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2025 APLA Book Prize in … More
Announcing the winners of the APLA Book and Paper Prizes
APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or … More
Letter From The President
Dear APLA members and friends, Writing to you on the eve of a hugely consequential election, I want to take … More
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…
APLA’s Statement on Academic Freedom in Turkey
APLA stands in solidarity with Boğaziçi University students, faculty and staff who have been protesting the anti-democratic and illegitimate…
Now Open: APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2021 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition.
Recruiting: APLA Junior-Senior Mentoring
We are now recruiting mentors and mentees for the APLA Junior-Senior Mentor Program!
APLA 2020 Book Prize!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased award the 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology…
Call for Nominations: Editor(s) of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
The APLA Board of Directors seeks nominations for the next editor(s) of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We aim to announce the appointment by February 2021. The new editors…
Now Open: 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, we have changed the name of the APLA book prize to the “APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology.” APLA is pleased to…
Borders/Bridges Preliminary Program!
We are pleased to announce that the preliminary conference program for the AES/APLA Spring 2020 Conference is now available HERE. Please note that the schedule is subject to to change….
APLA Book Prize Winners!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Book Prize! After months of work, the APLA Book Prize committee has selected two books…
Borders & Bridges: An AES/APLA Spring 2020 Conference!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce that it will work in collaboration with the American Ethnological Society to co-host a spring conference…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology 