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…
Tag: Announcements
Discussion: pros and cons of research cooperation between academia and military/security organisations
This month’s reading and discussion circle of our Arctic Anthropology team is open to all interested participants! Given the relevance of the topic for the entire academia, we…
Arctic anthropology job in St Petersburg
Our colleagues from Arctic Anthropology at the European University in St Petersburg have a job vacancy at their department. I guess reading on from here is relevant only…
Another Summer school: Oulu 12-16 August 2019
Colleagues from Oulu also put together an interesting programme for their doctoral course, with a focus on studying ‘dark heritage’, i.e. civil wars, atrocities. Here is their programme…
Anthropology and History: summer school 5-11 August
Colleagues from Russia put together a really interesting programme to revisit the relation of anthropology and history, particularly in Russia and post-socialist countries. Their summer school announc…
Arctic Research: Co-production of Knowledge
The intensive Finnish-Russian PhD course “Arctic Research: Co-production of Knowledge” organised by the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) will be taking place 20-24 April 2019, in Rovaniemi, Finla…
ICE LAW meeting ’Climate, fish and fisheries sector: Local and indigenous perspectives’
On April 16-17, 2019, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland. (For more information please contact Anna Stammler-Gossamann) AGENDA: April 16, Thule room Session 1: 9:00 – 12.00 Prof. Koivurova Timo,…
Does anthropology need to engage with well-being as a concept?
This is the topic of our next reading circle discussion, to which you are all welcome, 23 April 2019, 13-14.30. We first meet in Florian’s office on…
DATT/S is on Patreon!
Greetings everyone! I wanted to notify my readers & those who regularly use my content both on DATT & DATS that I will be producing content at. patreon.com/Hood_Biologist.…
APLA Graduate Representatives
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is currently accepting applications for a third Graduate Representative to the section’s Board of Directors. The successful applicant will…..
Announcement: new Managing Editor and members of Editorial Collaborative! by Eugene Raikhel
There are a few exciting additions to the Somatosphere masthead that I’d like to announce. (Please note that we are working to fix up the masthead itself, and that a…
Cambridge Arctic teaching position open
Our colleagues from the Scott Polar Research Institute search for an Arctic human geography teacher for supervising their undergraduate and masters students. The funding is fixed term for…
CfP (AAA 2019): Reworking the Cognitive Bias in and out of Biomedicine by Emily Yates-Doerr
This year, we at Somatosphere are trying an experiment in academic mentorship. Two of our regular contributors and editorial collaborative members, Emily Yates-Doerr and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, are hosti…
Saami rights lecture, Rovaniemi
Our colleague Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi will give a lecture this Friday at 13.15 at the University of Lapland main building, with a title that would sound in english something…
New PoLAR Editors and Editorial Board
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to welcome the new co-editors of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Jessica Greenberg and Jessica Winegar.
Of Camels, Platypuses, and the Future of the Blog
It has been said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. We might think of the platypus in much the same way, though the key…
Job for Arctic Anthropologists in Europe? Oulu
The University of Oulu is strengthening their Arctic profile and have announced several jobs. Let’s hope they will hire anthropologists eagerly! It depends on how many good anthropologists…
Job: Arctic Sustainability, resilience and climate change
Fancy a career in Canada? If your are suitably qualified, you can try this one. They claim they want a special focus on indigenous knowledge too: SSHRC CANADA…
New Issue of PoLAR: Volume 41, Issue 2
The latest issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review marks the end of Heath Cabot and William Garriott’s tenure as the editors of PoLAR. In their introduction, “In Good Faith …
Call for Editors – 2019
Platypus, the CASTAC Blog, is seeking a new Editor and several new Contributing Editors for our team in 2019! The blog is a weekly, collaborative publication of the…
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…
Call for PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellows
In 2012, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review launched the Digital Editorial Fellows (def) Program for graduate students interested in enhancing their knowledge and experience in scholarly e…
A new book about Yukaghir people
Our anthropological team would like to congratulate Dr Cecilia Odé with her new book Life with the Yukaghir: North-East Siberia’s oldest tundra people. The book was published this summer…
extractivism conference, November 2018
Our colleagues from the peace studies institute in Tromso share the announcement to this conference, which sounds interesting. https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel/564387/resisting_extractivism_in_border_zon…