ANTHROPOLOGY
"The most scientific of the humanities, the most humanistic of the sciences"
UCL
Anthropology studies humanity in all its aspects - from our evolution as a
species to our relationship with the material world and our vast variety of
social behaviours.
UCL is one of the world's top universities and our
department is the highest ranked broad-based department in the UK. Our
research expertise covers over 60 countries and the whole human story from our
earliest origins to today's digital age.
With over 30 academic staff,
400 students and 16 different courses on offer, UCL is a great place to learn
the art and science of studying people.
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In the 2009 Times Higher Education QS World University
Rankings UCL has been ranked 4th in the world, indicating research and teaching
quality of international excellence (THE QS World University Rankings 2009).
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Events
Travel, Imagination and Experience
A discussion on the pleasures of armchair anthropology and the suffering of travellers with
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Published: Apr 25, 2013 12:19:38 PM
Asian Philosophical Encounters
This workshop hopes to bring together a range of themes, including ideas of sameness and difference, temporality, comparison, and cosmology, drawing on philosophical and religious texts from Chinese, Japanese, and inner Asian traditions to inform anthropological perspectives. In particular, we are interested in discussing and exploring how and to what extent ideas from these traditions can help problematize ethnographic concerns with cross-cultural translation.
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Published: Apr 24, 2013 10:25:05 AM
Michael Stewart at the UCL Festival of the Arts
Michael Stewart (UCL Anthropology and founder of Open City Docs) will introduce Chronique d'un Été, a film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin 92' as part of the UCL Festival of the Arts on 7 May. More...
Published: Apr 23, 2013 1:56:15 PM
Postgraduate Open Day
The Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates to the Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday, 12th June (from 1.15pm onwards). More...
Published: Apr 19, 2013 10:31:09 AM
Economic and Political Transformations in Inner Asia
The workshop will address
processes of transformation in the Inner Asian cultural region, and
explore themes such as shamanic economies, political histories, and routes
and frontiers.
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Published: Mar 21, 2013 3:58:48 PM
News
Padma Shri Award
Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual
Culture at UCL has been awarded the Padma Shri on the occasion of Republic Day
by the Government of India.
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Max Planck Award
Beatriz
Aragon, a first year PhD student in the department, has been awarded a 2-year
doctoral researcher position with stipend at the Max Planck Institute for the
study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. The award will help fund her PhD
research about Roma minority and their interactions with healthcare services in
Madrid.
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Temporary Lectureship in Evolutionary Anthropology
Original call for application available on the UCL Human Resources webpage.
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The Big Ig Nobel UK Show - with Volker Sommer Performing
Professor Volker Sommer has been honoured with an
invitation to perform at this year's Ig Nobel UK show - under the time-honoured motto
"Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK".
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Poster Competition Won by Anthropology Student Kathleen Bryson
UCL ran its 2012/13 Graduate School Research Poster Competition on 25th and 26th February. The event is intended to enable graduate students to advertise their innovative research. Overall, 247 posters were displayed in the North & South Cloisters.
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