Graduate student opportunities via the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology posted by Sarah Lamb in Anthro Grad Student April 11, 2008

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS and PAPER PRIZE We would like to invite you to join the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. APLA ( http://aaanet.org/sections/apla/index.html) is a vibrant and member oriented section within AAA that brings together graduate students and faculty doing research on political and legal issues from an anthropological perspective. The Association is deeply committed to supporting graduate students and during the AAA meetings holds mentoring workshops, networking activities, and research feedback workshops. It also holds a Graduate Student Paper Prize competition, awarded at the meetings. The only requirement to take part in these activities is to become an APLA student member. At last year's AAA meetings in Washington D.C., APLA organized a mentoring workshop on "How to get a job outside of Anthropology?" led by Susan Coutin and Rosemary Coombe. We also organized three research workshops to discuss student projects with leading faculty from around the country on topics such as social movements, science, technology and the law, and religion and politics. Graduate students from all over shared their work and received focused feedback from faculty members during these workshops where they had the opportunity to also network and get to know the work of their peers in other universities. For the 2008 AAA meetings, we will also organize the following workshops and mentoring activities and want to invite you to be part of them: (1) Religion and Politics: intersections, co-minglings, and oppositions (2) Social Movements: NGOs, non-NGO's and other political strategies (3) Science, Technology, and Law: circulations and placements (4) Time: anticipation and memory in Law and Politics (5) Public Policy and the Law: politics in action Graduate Student Paper Award: APLA awards a cash prize of $300.00, plus travel expenses of up to $500.00 if the prize winner attends the 2008 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association to receive the prize in person. The prize winner will be announced in the Anthropology News, and the winning paper will be published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review. APLA is looking for stand-alone papers between 5000 and 7500 words centering on the analysis of political and legal institutions and processes. Topics may include the State; citizenship; civil society; colonialism and post-colonial public spheres; nationalism; cultural politics; multiculturalism; cosmopolitanism; globalization; immigration and refugees; resistance; human rights; and communicative media. We encourage submissions that expand the purview of political and legal anthropology and challenge us to think anthropologically in new ways about power, politics and law. Submissions should be sent before October 10th, 2008 to: Mark Goodale George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution 3330 N. Washington Blvd. Truland Building, 5th Floor Arlington, VA 22201 Fax: 703-993-1302 Or, preferably sent as email attachments mgoodale@gmu.edu If you have any questions you can contact the APLA Graduate Student Representative Andrea Ballestero (aballes@uci.edu) or visit our website http://aaanet.org/sections/apla/index.html. Also you can take a look at our Journal PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review to have an idea of the diversity of topics that APLA members work on http://aaanet.org/sections/apla/polar.html We hope that you join APLA and you participate in one of the many activities we will organize for this year's AAA. Andrea Ballestero aballes@uci.edu Student Representative Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

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