AQA Board Openings in 2018! Reply by 2/1/18

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Calling all AQAns! The Nominations Committee encourages you to run or sign up for a position on the AQA board! This election season we have three open balloted positions: Co-Chair (2018-2020), Communications Director, and Secretary. If you would like to throw your hat in the ring for any of these balloted positions, please let us know by Thursday, February 1 so that […]

Call for Grad Rep for the Benedict Prize

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The Ruth Benedict Prize Committee is now accepting applications for the 2018-2019 Student Representative (2 year term). The Ruth Benedict Book Prize honors excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a topic that engages issues and theoretical perspectives relevant to LGBTQ studies. You can browse previous Ruth Benedict Prize books here: […]

APLA event at the AAA Annual Meeting 2017

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At the 2017 AAA Meetings in Washington D.C., APLA (Association for Political and Legal Anthropology) is holding a cocktail reception and roundtable discussion at Busboys & Poets, 14th and V location, 2021 14th St NW. It will be Thursday, November 30, at 7.45 pm. The event is called “Speaking Justice to Power: Anthropology Responds to the New World Disorder.” […]

2017 Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize Winners Announced

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The Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize is presented each year by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) of the American Anthropological Association to a graduate or undergraduate student in acknowledgment of outstanding anthropological work on 1) a lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans* topic, or 2) a critical interrogation of sexualities and genders more broadly defined. Thirteen […]

2017 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Winners Announced

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  The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is very pleased to announce the 2017 winners of the Ruth Benedict Book Prize for outstanding scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic. The prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association’s national meeting to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an […]

APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize 2017

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The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology 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 stand-alone papers centering on the analysis of political and/or legal institutions and processes. Topics may include citizenship; colonialism and post-colonial public spheres; cosmopolitanism; cultural politics; disability; environment; globalization; governance; […]

2017 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE JUNE 15, 2017)

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  Call for Submissions The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2017 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Competition for outstanding anthropological scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer topic. The Ruth Benedict Book Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a […]

AAA 2017: Call for Presenters for Roundtable on “Empathy Matters”

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AA 2017 Call for Five (5) Presenters on Proposed Roundtable: Empathy Matters: Teaching Interventions in a Time of Intensive Inequality and Division  If interested, please send us your name, email address, institutional affiliation, issue or subject matter, name of course and degree program or educational context, and brief description of your approach to social empathy. […]

CFP / AAA 2017: “Digital Deception and the Queer Life of Data”

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CFP / AAA 2017: “Digital Deception and the Queer Life of Data”  Organized by Mitali Thakor (Northwestern), Shaka McGlotten (SUNY Purchase), and Paul Michael Atienza (UIUC) Keywords: critical data studies, biometrics, intimacy, secrecy, queer studies  This panel explores questions of secrecy, exposure, and deception through intimate narratives of data. Drawing on queer media studies, science […]

AAA 2017 CFP – From Berlin to the Bay and In-Between: Queer Life In and Outside of the Gayborhood

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From Berlin to the Bay and In-Between: Queer Life In and Outside of the Gayborhood Anthropologists and geographers investigating social organization among queer and LGBT people have analyzed how constructions of place and identity mutually constitute one another (Blackwood 2008; Boellstorff 2003; Gieseking 2013). The analytical and methodological approaches developed by these scholars present conceptual […]