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SUMMARY:2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Contest Entry
DESCRIPTION:2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing\nThe 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 this project. We seek graceful\, accessible ethnographic writing which deeply explores its subject and contributes in innovative and engaging ways to the genre(s) of ethnography and the field of humanistic (and/or post-humanistic) anthropology. \nAward\nA $1\,000 first-place\, a $500 second place and a $250 third-place prize will be awarded in autumn of 2025 (either via online SHA awards ceremony\, or in person at the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans\, November 19-23\, 2025). \n2025 Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing\nAuthors for whom their submission to the Victor Turner Prize is also their first book publication will also be eligible for consideration for the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing\, a newly created award which recognizes Edie Turner’s support and mentorship of junior scholars. Up to two winners of the Edie Turner Prize may be selected at the discretion of the prize committee. \nAward\nA $1\,000 first-place prize\, potentially split between co-winners\, will be awarded in autumn 2025 (either via online SHA awards ceremony\, or in person at the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans\, November 19-23\, 2025). This award will not affect any book’s consideration for the Victor Turner Prize\, and a book may win both awards. There is no separate entry form for the Edie Turner Prize. \nEligibility\n\nEligible ethnographic genres for both prizes include single or co-authored book-length monographs\, narratives\, historical accounts\, biographies\, memoirs\, dramas\, and creative ethnography (including nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetic works); as well as single-authored collections of essays\, short prose\, or poems (sorry\, no edited collections with multiple contributors).\nOnly books copywrited in 2024 will be eligible. If the work is in translation to English\, we allow 2 extra years from the original publication date; therefore a book published in its original language no earlier than 2022 would be eligible.\nBooks must have been peer-reviewed independently of its author(s).\nBooks may be entered into the competition by authors\, publishers\, book editors\, or colleagues. No formal letter of nomination is needed.\nPublishers are encouraged to limit their submissions to ten books per publisher.\n\nSubmission Guidelines\nBy June 1\, 2025\, Please: \n\nComplete your information in this ENTRY FORM\nPay the entry fee (details to be provided)\nSubmit an electronic copy of your book by the June 1 deadline to SHAVictorTurner@gmail.com.\nShort listed book authors will be asked to submit paper copies of their books to each of the judges (addresses will be provided to these authors and/or publishers).\n\nBiographical information submitted will be used for presenting the winners and publicizing the results of the competition and will not be used for judging the quality of the entries. \nSubmission Fee\nFor authors who are already or become SHA members\, the entry fee is $25/book. For authors who are not SHA members\, the entry fee is $75/book. (Publishers: for all books you submit\, please check with authors first to discover whether they are current SHA members and please encourage authors to join SHA). The fee may be paid online by June 1 at 11:59pm.
URL:https://americananthro.org/event/2025-victor-turner-prize-in-ethnographic-writing-contest-entry/
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SUMMARY:Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Spring Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Don’t we all love a little magic and mystery? Ancient mystery schools taught ways of navigating the universe\, connecting with the divine\, and gaining wisdom. Magic was a method of interacting with the supernatural and to influence desired outcomes. Yet\, even as science has changed our understanding of the world and our place in it\, people still seek out the mystical. Many seek out spiritual experiences\, delight in being fooled by illusionists\, attend role-playing mysteries\, and hope their Hogwarts letter will arrive. For the upcoming conference we invite members to explore how and why mystery and magic are so enchanting to us. While there have been many anthropological studies of magic in the past\, there are still many meaningful ways in which we can look at how magic and mystery impact humanity. We are looking for topics from personal experiences of magic\, magic as control\, connection\, self-actualization\, even to the mystery of consciousness itself.
URL:https://americananthro.org/event/society-for-the-anthropology-of-consciousness-spring-meeting/
LOCATION:Palazzo\, 3325 S Las Vegas Blvd\,\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC)":MAILTO:johnbaker@vcccd.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T150000
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SUMMARY:Defending Anthropology: Strategies for Sustaining Our Departments
DESCRIPTION:Anthropology departments across the country are facing unprecedented challenges—from budget-driven closures and mergers to increasing threats to academic freedom. Now more than ever\, faculty\, students\, and advocates must come together to protect the future of our discipline. \nRSVP today for our critical Town Hall focused on equipping our community with the tools and strategies needed to push back against these pressures. \nThis interactive session will feature: \n\nExpert insights on navigating institutional challenges\nAdvocacy and strategies to protect anthropology programs\nAction planning to mobilize faculty\, students\, and professional organizations\n\nPanelists will include: \n\nJoy Connolly\, President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\nAntonio Ingram\, Senior Counsel at the NAACP\nStephen Kidd\, Executive Director of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA)\nRobert Quinn\, Executive Director of Scholars at Risk (SAR)\nChad Morris\, Professor and Chair in Anthropology\, East Carolina University\nMissy Maceyko\, Lecturer in Anthropology\, California State University\n\nWe will also introduce the newly developed Anthropology Department Crisis Toolkit—a comprehensive resource offering guidance on legal advocacy\, policy engagement\, and faculty organizing. \nYour voice and participation are essential. Let’s build a collective strategy to defend anthropology together. \nWe hope you’ll join us online\, May 6\, from 3-5PM ET\, for our Defending Anthropology: Strategies for Sustaining Our Departments Town Hall\, where faculty\, students\, and advocates will come together to discuss strategies for protecting our discipline. \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://americananthro.org/event/threats-to-anthropology-and-higher-education-town-hall/
LOCATION:CO
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:2025 SCA Biennial Restorative Relations: An Unconference
DESCRIPTION:A central ethos of the 2025 SCA Biennial\, Restorative Relations is renewing our relationships with ourselves\, our academic lives\, and one another. The biennial will take place from May 8th to 11th at the Stony Point retreat center in upstate New York\, where meals will be included for all participants\, and accommodations will be provided for those who choose to stay in residential accommodations on-site. Space is limited at the conference venue and priority will be given to those who make arrangements for double-occupancy accommodation. Please reach out to colleagues and friends and make a plan to attend the conference together. \nAs part of the registration process\, SCA has made it possible to secure for your room for the meeting at the same time you register for the conference. Attendees are encouraged to select the Double Room during the registration process. For those who need help finding roommates\, this Wufoo form has been set up to help. Once you have matched with someone\, please email SCA via board@culanth.org and let them know who you are rooming with\, so the list of prospective roommates can be updated accordingly. If you already have a specific roommate in mind\, you can indicate this on the Wufoo form.
URL:https://americananthro.org/event/restorative-relations-an-unconference/
LOCATION:Stony Point Retreat Center\, 17 Cricketown Rd\, Stony Point\, NY\, 10980\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to imagine today?\nThe 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. \nStarting with the idea of imagination as movement toward a thing\, state of affairs\, and/or set of ideas that does not (yet) exist\, we prompt participants to ask: Who imagines? What gets imagined? Toward what ends and with what effects? How do particular imaginaries resist or engage practices and technologies of mediation?  What happens when imagination is not just linked to\, but is also untethered from temporal terms and logics? What is the relationship between imagination and forms of individual and collective action\, including narrative\, claims-making\, and other rhetorical modes? How can we understand the myriad instantiations of imagination\, creation\, and critique—from innovation\, construction\, or invention to destruction\, violence\, or the reinforcement of the status quo?
URL:https://americananthro.org/event/the-2025-society-for-linguistic-anthropology-biennial-conference/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, University of Chicago: Hyde Park\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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