APLA Statement on the 2024 AAA Annual Meeting in Tampa
The Board of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) wants to support all APLA members in deciding how, … More
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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 … More
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 … More
Call for Papers: PoLAR First Article Mentoring Workshop
PoLAR invites submissions for its newly launched first article mentoring workshop, in which scholars who have not yet published a peer-reviewed article with PoLAR are invited to submit…
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program to send papers centering the analysis of political and/or legal institutions and processes…
AAA Annual Meeting Call for Submissions
Truth and Responsibility is the theme for the 2021 AAA Annual Meeting, which will be held November 17 – November 21 in Baltimore, Maryland…
APLA On Demand
In addition to APLA’s livestream events at the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices, APLA is sponsoring a number of on-demand events including podcasts, talks, and a…
APLA Livestream Events
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce its schedule of sponsored livestream events for the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices. Don’t miss…
APLA 2020 Book Prize!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased award the 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology to Dr. Alpa Shah (London School of Economics) for her book Nightmarch: Am…
Call for APLA Graduate Student Representative!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is currently accepting applications for a third Graduate Student Representative to the section’s Board of Directors. The successful applican…
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize 2020
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 on the analysis of political…
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…
AAA Annual Meeting 2020 CFPs
The 2020 AAA Annual Meeting, will be held November 18 – November 22 in St. Louis, Missouri. If you are looking for panelists for your session or looking for…
2019 Schedule for APLA at AAA/CASCA!
Welcome to the 2019 edition of APLA at the AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting schedule. Below is a list of events, panels, and workshops that are sponsored or co-sponsored by…
Graduate Student Workshops at AAAs
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…
APLA at the AAAs: Early Career Mentoring
APLA is hosting a series of events for individuals who are attending the joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society in Vancouver…
AAA/CASCA 2019 Annual Meeting CFPs
Abstracts for the AAA Annual Meeting must be submitted by 3 p.m. EST on April 10th. If you are looking for panelists for your session or looking for a panel…
APLA at AAA 2018: No Small Change
Co-Sponsored by the Society for Economic Anthropology and APLA Since 2011, anthropologists have been researching cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the blockchain technologies on which they are bas…
APLA at AAA 2018: 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…
APLA at AAA 2018: 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…
Book and Paper Prize Winners!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Book Prize and Graduate Student Paper Prize competitions. Join us at the…
APLA at AAA 2018: Anthropology Confronts the Trolls
APLA and PoLAR are pleased to announce our special event at the 117th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association! Technology and New Media have become central players in the…
APLA at AAA 2018: 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, but please RSVP by…
A Mile High in November!
“Bronco Buster” statue in Denver. Photo courtesy Barbara Jones Denver in November can be a very interesting place to visit. The weather changes by the second so you…