Reminder: Racism, Black Lives Matter, and Immigrant Rights: Activism and the Academy, discussion at the APLA 2016 Business Meeting
Saturday, November 19, 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 209AB
https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/apla-at-aaa-2016-rac…/
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s fifth emergent conversation reflects on the recent U.S. presidential election, presenting a variety of perspectives on the social conditions and implications of the election results and its possible implications. It is provided as part of PoLAR Online’s mission to provide spaces for emergent conversations and debates related to political and legal anthropology. Marc Edelman kicks off the discussion… [ 45 more words ]
http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/new-polar-emergent-con…
New online in PoLAR: Marc Edelman kicks off our next emergent conversation on the U.S. presidential election, which will continue through next month - submissions and responses are welcome! https://polarjournal.org/…/14/emergent-conversations-part-5/
Info on Racism, Black Lives Matter, and Immigrant Rights: Activism and the Academy, a Discussion at APLA 2016 Business Meeting https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/apla-at-aaa-2016-rac…/
We are releasing new book reviews regularly via WIley's early view feature and now on our website. If you haven't had a chance to catch up on them, check them out at http://polarjournal.org/ or http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/%28ISSN%291555-2…/earlyview
Human Rights Vernacularizations: Celebrating the Work of Sally Merry
Saturday, November 19, 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 102EF
In the last decade Sally Merry’s work on vernacularization and translation has recast anthropological analysis of human rights. These concepts have helped anthropology move beyond the universalism-relativism debate to open a new ethnographic and theoretical terrain concerned with the practice of human rights.
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Sponsored by APLA and the Society for Medical Anthropology
Friday, November 18, 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 200E
We live in a world where human health is increasingly rendered knowable through technologies of molecularization. These technologies allow for data to be mobilized, disseminated, and contested in hitherto unknown ways, raising important questions about the intersection of law and science in contemporary forms of statecraft.
http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/apla-at-aaa-2016-post-…
Evidence of Malfeasance
Sponsored by APLA and the American Ethnological Society Thursday, November 17, 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 200C
The globalization of both liberal, transparent selfhood and neoliberal, commodified selfhood have altered local ethical regimes around the world. But has the spread of liberal and neoliberal ethics also transformed local ways of verifying ethical breaches...
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Sponsored by APLA and the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Thursday, November 17, 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 101B
...Anthropology’s knowledge project has long been entangled with its political project. The questions we have asked have emerged from specific real world issues and problems, even as they have been also geared toward elaborating the broadest possible theoretical issues: What does it mean to be human?
http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/apla-at-aaa-2016-life-…
At the 2016 AAA meetings, APLA will be offering two Early Career mentoring events; these events are free and open to all conference attendees. The first event, titled "Writing for the Media," asks how we, as anthropologists, can contribute to public discussions on current events by using the media to reach broader audiences. Three anthropologists who have experience working with the press – Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University), Gabriella Coleman (McGill University), and Alex Fattal (Penn State University) – will share tips with junior scholars who are interested in writing feature articles, op-eds, and commentaries.
http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/apla-at-aaa-early-care…
A new issue of Political and Legal Anthropology is out! Read the editorial introduction and access the articles at: https://polarjournal.org/current-issue/
Service and Community as a Graduate Student in APLA by Joshua Clark: http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/service-and-community-…
Does your LSA paper need a home? Consider submitting it through the Collaborative Research Network on Ethnography, Law & Society! Deadline is October 5. Details on how are here: https://lawandethnography.wordpress.com/…/does-your-lsa-pa…/
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: APLA is sponsoring 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.
http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/apla-graduate-student-…
APLA has an exciting roster of events planned for the AAA meetings this year including 43 sessions, graduate student workshops, early career mentoring events and a presentation of the annual APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize and APLA Book Prize. The business meeting will feature a moderated conversation with Bianca Williams and Awa Abdi on their anti-racism advocacy work with Black Lives Matter and immigrant groups.
http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/09/22/apla-at-aaa-prev…
Watch Natalia Guzmán Solano's discussion with David Rojas and Antonia Walford on the Role of Anthropology in Public Debates about Climate Transformations: https://polarjournal.org/…/the-role-of-anthropology-in-pub…/
With a new semester starting at many universities, PoLAR is launching a few back-to-school features! Check out our new forum, a cross-disciplinary conversation ...on climate transformations, which is a supplement to our symposium on Climate Change Transformations - both free to access! https://polarjournal.org/…/conversations-on-climate-transf…/
See MoreMark your calendars! The APLA business meeting will be held on Saturday, Nov 19th from 12:15-1:30pm. It will feature a moderated conversation with Bianca Williams and Awa Abdi on their anti-racism advocacy work with Black Lives Matter and immigrant groups. Bianca Williams is Associate Professor at University of Colorado, moderator of the Association of Black Anthropologists, member of the AAA Working Group on Racialized Brutality and Extrajudicial Violence, and a BLM organizer in Denver. Awa (Cawo) Abdi is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Minnesota who teaches and writes about Islamophobia, xenophobia, terrorism panics, and Somali immigrant experience in the US and elsewhere.
What does an anthropological engagement with policing look like? What can ethnography contribute to urgent practical issues in contemporary policing? These questions were among those explored by students in a recent class on The Anthropology of Policing at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (ULUC)... More by Sophia Balakian at http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/…/campus-policing-a-new-…
