• 2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Contest Entry

    2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces the annual juried competition for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. The late Victor Turner devoted his career to seeking an accessible language that would reopen anthropology to the human subject, and the competition recognizes the innovative books that further […]

  • The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference

    University of Chicago University of Chicago: Hyde Park, Chicago, IL, United States

    What does it mean to imagine today? The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference invites participants to explore the many ways that imagination critically shapes, reproduces, and transforms social worlds across times, spaces, and scales through discursive and non-discursive processes and practices. Starting with the idea of imagination as movement toward a thing, state of […]

  • 2025 Society for Economic Anthropology 45th Annual Meeting: Sustaining Life between Popular and Illicit Economies

    Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Puebla, Mexico

    The 2025 SEA meeting proposes to explore constellations of practices and strategies for sustaining life through activities that are not necessarily part of formal or even legal work and commerce. Our call seeks to explore the expansion, heterogenization and transformation of these practices and economies, questioning concepts of periphery, marginality and exclusion in order to […]

  • Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Conference

    University of California, Santa Barbara

    The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Conference will be held June 21-23, 2025 at U.C. Santa Barbara. SAR welcomes paper and panel proposals on ALL TOPICS in the Anthropology of Religion. At the same time, we do have a main Conference theme for 2025:  Religiosities, Ecologies, and Environmentalisms in the Age of the […]

  • Publishing Webinar Series

    Publishing an Article: Tips and Strategies from AAA Journal Editors

    Virtual Event

    Publishing an academic article can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be! This webinar will help early-career researchers navigate the process. Our panel of editors will help demystify journal publishing and offer practical tips for writing and revising your article. Panelists Elizabeth Chin, editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist Dána-Ain Davis, former editor-in-chief of Feminist Anthropology […]

  • Publishing Webinar Series

    Engaging Publics: Science Communication for Anthropologists

    How can anthropologists effectively communicate their research to broader audiences without sacrificing complexity or context? Join us for a webinar on science communication tailored specifically for anthropologists. This session will explore tools, strategies, and real-world examples for translating anthropological insights into accessible, compelling narratives for public audiences, policymakers, journalists, and interdisciplinary collaborators. Our panelists will […]

  • Call for Papers and Sessions for the 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference

    Concordia University 1450 Guy Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Submissions are now open for the Work and Family Researchers Network 8th Biennial Conference, June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University Montreal Canada. More than 400 scholars are anticipated to attend. The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. Submission deadline is October 1, 2025. Upon request, submissions received by September 1, 2025 will be […]

  • Publishing Webinar Series

    Publishing Impact: Elevating the Work of Practicing Anthropologists

    This webinar is designed for practicing anthropologists who want to learn more about publishing and engaging in broader conversations in the field. Whether working in government, nonprofits, private industry, or community-based organizations, practicing anthropologists offer valuable contributions to anthropological knowledge and praxis. But in many cases, the publishing needs of practicing anthropologists do not align […]

  • AES 2026 Spring Conference Registration

    Register for the 2026 American Ethnological Spring Conference to take place May 1 - 3 at the University of Victoria, British Columbia Canada. Submissions due January 15, 2025. Forty years […]