Student Achievement Awards
Submit your paper to the NAPA Student Awards! Deadline May 23, 2025. The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) offers the annual Student Achievement Awards&#…
Tag: 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
Vacancies for PhD candidates, working in Kazakhstan
Our colleague Peter Finke will launch a new project on the production, processing and trade of food in Kazakhstan. The project offers a really generous 4 full years…
SLA Conference 2025: Panel Matchmaker Forum, Program Committee Office Hours, and more
We’re just under a month from the submission deadline for proposals to the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s 2025 Conference: Imagination, Creation, Critique. As you work to prepare your prop…
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
2025 SLA Conference!
Join us for the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference! Focused on Imagination, Creation, and Critique, the conference will be held from May 29-31, 2025 at the…
Demystifying Language Project
Check out the Demystifying Language Project’s (DLP) new site for high school teachers, students, and academics: https://demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/ This week features a great article,…
Announcing the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference: Imagination, Creation, Critique
May 29–31, 2025 | The University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago What does it mean to imagine today? The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference invites participants to explore…
new Finnish Sámi research ethics: a reading circle & discussion 19 Sep 2024
Within Finland the new ethical guidelines for research involving the Sámi people in Finland have been widely announced, starting with their launch in June 2024. The guidelines also…
Throw Away or Find a Way to CIRCULARITY
Exhibition by Anna Stammler-Gossmann As humans, we have adopted a linear “take, make and throw away” approach, in contrast to the circular processes observed in nature. In the…
The impact of mobility for people and food in the Arctic, 5-6 September 2024, Rovaniemi
A seminar in the Japanese – Finnish researcher exchange programme funded by ArCSII, Human movement between the Arctic and East Asia due to tourism and business is increasing.…
Submit your paper to the NAPA Student Awards! Deadline June 15, 2024.
The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) offers the annual Student Achievement Awards to recognize undergraduate and graduate student contributions in practicing…
Fieldnotes returning to the field: Tim Ingold and the Skolt Sámi
Those of our readers who read Finnish may have seen this already, but this event may be of some wider relevance: https://www.ulapland.fi/events/Antropologi-Tim-Ingoldin-kenttamuistiinpanojen-luovutust…
Be Loud, Be Proud Professional/Practicing/Applied Anthropologists!
NAPA invites professional, practicing, and applied (PPA) anthropologists to show your colors at the upcoming AAA meeting in Tampa, Florida Wednesday, November 20, 2024 – Saturday, November 23,…
sNAPAshots is back this April 1st!!!
sNAPAshots Season 3 Drops Tomorrow!!
Professional Presentations and Workshops* at the Santa Fe SfAA Meetings 2024
Anthropology Careers Readiness Network (ACRN) and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) …Present the following sessions, workshops and events! Day Events Tuesday 3/26 …
NAPA is going to the SfAA Annual Meeting!!
Join us at the SfAA Annual Meeting in Santa Fe for panels, presentations and events hosted and co-sponsored by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA).…
Thank You!
Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of…
Circumpolar Arctic Anthropology? Seminar Series addressing the pasts and prospects of an again-divided field
Half of the People and the Land in the Arctic are in Russia. Quo Vadis Arctic Anthropology? Many of us who have worked for years, decades or their…
Join us for the 2023 Careers Exposition
Transcript 0:12 [NAPA Logo] 0:12 [40th Anniversary NAPA Logo Changing Size] [Toronto CN Tower] [On Screen Text] The NAPA Careers Expo is just days away! Join us to…
Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia, online seminar 13 October
As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII – funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS,…
Making Good Luck in North Korea – online guest lecture by Heonik Kwon 12 October
time: 13.30 Finnish, 11.30 UK, 18.30 Beijing time, 12 October 2023. Online at zoom, meeting id: 641 887 4740, password: 2023. For those in Rovaniemi: join us in…