Severalscholar-activists represented IJAN's Academic Work Group at the US Assembly ofJews Confronting Israeli Apartheid and Racism, where we attended and directedworkshops, participated in roundtable discussions, and met as academics growingour network within IJAN and across anti-imperialist movements. Currently,the IJAN Academic Work Group is collecting material for an anthology of writing fromor inspired by the US Assembly - the Call for Papers is attached and downloadable at the bottom of this text. Please send submissions to: academic.network@ijsn.net. The IJANAcademic Work Group will hold its first meeting at the Critical Ethnic StudiesConference at UC Irvine in February 2011. Please see the IJAN academicnetwork's statement of purpose in the entry directly below.