UCL Medical Anthropology Outreach: Residential Summer School Medical Anthropology for Dummies and an Insight into Yemen’s Crisis

Saturday, 16 September 2017

UCL Medical Anthropology Outreach: Residential Summer School Medical Anthropology for Dummies and an Insight into Yemen’s Crisis By Naqiya Hassanali Upper Sixth former from Leicester For the fifth week of my summer holiday I’d signed up to actually get out of bed for a Medical Anthropology summer school at UCL.  Meeting a few friends at...

Graceful Creature

Thursday, 14 September 2017

How can you interact with these people? I am a graceful creature 13.4 million followers At least Would you like to see? Filtered, distilled, drooping strained creolin across canvasses of vacuous artistry Loved by every eye that wavers on my form Retweeted thousands of times across the middle east Feast your soul on my magnetic… Continue reading Graceful Creature →

Toolkit for an Art-Anthropology Exchange, Tavan Tolgoi – Part 1

Monday, 04 September 2017

This is the first in a series of short blogs by Rebecca Empson and artist / curator Hermione Spriggs about our on-going exhibition project called Tavan Tolgoi, taking place between the UCL Department of Anthropology and a selected group of international artists. Our art-anthropology exchange has begun and will result in an exhibition, with associated […]

Fake news in conservation: Overfishing or over-reacting?

Friday, 26 May 2017

Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti University College London I started my career as a conservationist in the Pantanal, Brazil. I remember the first thing I heard was that the local fish population was decimated. Some people even called the Paraguay River an empty river. The widespread belief was that the river had been devastated and that it … Continue reading Fake news in conservation: Overfishing or over-reacting?

Young Curators Club Maria Fidelis exhibition

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

What stories lie inside collections? How can we connect historical artefacts to our everyday lives? Can heritage be an object? The UCL Young Curators project brings a group of GCSE students from a local secondary school, Maria Fidelis, to work with the Ethnography Collections and learn a little about what anthropologists do. Housed in the […]

In Memory of Gill Conquest

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gill Conquest on May 5, 2017.

Gill was an exceptional student and an exceptional person. Her interests were broad-ranging, extending well beyond the academic through performances of traditional stories and pantomimes, to writing plays and science fiction, sailing and playing games, and to music and dancing, all alongside her passionate commitment to developing the interfaces of technology and citizenship to support cultural and ecological diversity. She brought a sense of wonder and fun to all of her activities, embracing new experiences and opportunities at every chance with good humour and enthusiasm.

Gill joined the anthropology department as a Masters student in Anthropology, Environment and Development in 2011. Her masters’ dissertation examined the potential of new technologies to support environmental justice movements lead by indigenous peoples.…