ANTHROPOLOGY CONFRONTS THE TROLLS: TECHNOLOGY, NEW MEDIA, AND CYBER ACTIVISM IN THE AGE OF DISINFORMATION
APLA and PoLAR are pleased to announce our special event at the 117th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association! Join us at the San Jose Women’s Club on Thursday, November 15th at 7:15pm for drinks, snacks, and a panel discussion with Gabriella Coleman (McGill), Joan Donovan (Data & Society), James Holston (UC Berkeley), and Graeme Wood (The Atlantic), moderated by Louisa Lombard (Yale)…
APLA BUSINESS MEETING AND AWARDS CEREMONY:
Join us to celebrate the APLA Book Prize winner and the APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize recipient on Saturday, November 17th at 12:15 in the San Jose Convention Center (MR 212 B). All are welcome.
EMPOWERING CONTINGENT FACULTY:
What are your rights as contingent faculty? How can you improve your working conditions? The Society for the Anthropology of Work will host a workshop during the AAAs for contingent faculty to learn about their rights. Jonathan Karpf, who has been a Lecturer in Anthropology at San José State University for 30 years, and is the AVP for Lecturers in the California Faculty Association, will be leading a discussion on salary, health benefits, unemployment benefits…
EARLY CAREER MENTORING WORKSHOPS:
At the 2018 AAA meetings, APLA will be offering two Early Career Mentoring events; these events are free and open to all conference attendees. This year’s workshops are “Publishing Your First Book” and “The First Three Years: What I Wish I Knew When I Started the Tenure Track.” Register by November 9!
GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS:
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 convene around thematic conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues. These workshops offer an intimate mentorship context in which students can engage in intensive discussions regarding specific problems in their anthropological research and writing…
APLA Co-Sponsored and Invited Panels
MAGICAL THINKING AND TINKERING:
In a global context of forced mobility, growing inequality, and economic restructuring and austerity, actors in the social domain face an expanding sphere of intervention and, often, shrinking material resources to address it. Working through “relationality” to generate cohesion or “solidarity”…
THE USES OF TRUST:
The English legal historian Frederic Maitland argued (around 1900) that the trust was one of the great innovations of his country’s legal development: a flexible legal mechanism that protected property, fostered common purposes, and even served as a tool of collective resistance, resilience, and adaptation under the narrow conditions of feudal property law. Most importantly, the trust provided families, religious groups, associations, and communities of all kinds with a way of managing their worldly affairs…
NO SMALL CHANGE:
Since 2011, anthropologists have been researching cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the blockchain technologies on which they are based. As its dollar value skyrocketed (and plummeted) and mainstream companies proposed new applications for blockchain systems in payments, finance, law, and logistics, Bitcoin has survived multiple bubbles of attention. Today, myriad enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and investors argue that blockchain technology…
For a quick guide to APLA-sponsored events, along with their dates, times, and location see the APLA schedule.
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