UCL Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates to the Postgraduate Open Day on Monday 25th June at 1.30pm.

Join us to celebrate the publication of two new books by anthropology staff on Thursday 31 May 2012 at 6pm.

When: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 - Fri, 20 Jul 2012
Costs: £1299 or £999 for UCL students

A graduate workshop organised by the UCL Anthropology CROC (Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture) Research Group.

Date: Monday 11 June 2012 from 9.30am
Venue: UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW

Love in the Time of the Frontier
Three short films on migrations, detentions and expulsions across the Mediterranean

Friday 18 May 2012 - 9:30AM - 4:30PM

UCL Archaeology LT 06, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY

Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Department 14 Taviton Street, University College London Bloomsbury Campus

One-day workshop on the 26th of June at University College London

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Department of Anthropology, University College London
Tuesday, 12 June 2012, from 10:00 to 17:30
Conference Schedule
Conference Abstracts
Conference Poster

Please note the following studentship is only available to current UCL Anthropology students.

The Department of Anthropology invites applications for one MRes Studentship (£5,500 towards fees plus £12,000 p.a. stipend)  available from September 2012.

Special UCL Anthropology Departmental Seminar

Standardizing Cultural Distinction in the Neoliberal Politics of Heritage.
Prof. Rosemary Coombe, York University (Canada)

Ruth Mace, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology in UCL Anthropology, took part in a panel discussion at The Royal Society on ‘What it means to be human’.

Wednesday Afternoons (2pm-5pm), 2nd- 30th May, 2012.

Do you ever visit museums and feel that you lack the specialist knowledge, skills and experience to critically analyse and evaluate ethnographic objects and displays? This training course, run by the UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies, is designed to provide the skills necessary to do this.

CERTAINTY?

Organised by UCL and University of East London in collaboration with Brunel University, SOAS, Goldsmiths and LSE, the conference is now calling for panel proposals and individual papers.

Dr Kaori O'Connor, a Senior Research Fellow in UCL Anthropology, has been awarded the Pasold Prize 2011, for the best paper published in Textile History in 2011, for her paper entitled:

There is a vacancy in the department for a Research Associate in Anthropology (Ref:1237707).

This is a 6 month full time post-doctoral research position to work on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Ancestry, Admixture and Breast Cancer in Brazil: an ethnographic investigation of population genetics, disease risk and identity’.

The Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates for the BSc Anthropology degree to our open day on Monday, 19th March at 1.00pm.

Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) Research Group - Launched at Citizen Cyber Science Summit 2012. UCL Anthropology’s collaboration with UCL Engineering officially launched at the Royal Geographic Society on February 16^th. Watch talks from leading figures exploring the possibilities of citizen cyber science. The Launch is reported in Nature . Read about it on Andrea Wiggins blog. There a range of reports on talks at http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.com/

Thursday 15th March 2012 13.00- 16.00. Followed by Films and Drinks.

UCL Anthropology warmly invite all prospective MSc and MA candidates to visit the Department and meet individual members of staff on Thursday 15th March.

There is a vacancy in the department for a Lectureship in Quantitative Methods in Anthropology (Ref:1234295).

Anthropology PhD student Jane Dickson wins the top prize for Best Hack at the recent the London Green Hackathon.

Professor Volker Sommer will be giving a public lecture for UCLU Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society on Thursday evening 2 February. Drink and interesting debate guaranteed!

Symposium

18th May 2012, London (Hosted by UCL)

Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases.

UCL Anthropology is offering two MPhil/PhD studentships (3 years) on the Leverhulme funded project “Hunter-gatherers resilience: Past, present and future adaptations to a world in transition”, to begin by 1 March 2012. 

Have Your Say!

Final-year* undergraduate students are encouraged to complete the 2012 National Student Survey (NSS) which is being run this term. 

What happens to the clothes that you recycle? Bring along an item of unwanted clothing to our charity shop and discover the hidden journey of your cast-offs during a three-day exhibition featuring workshops, short films and talks.

Deadline: 10th February 2012
Doctoral Training Centre (DTC): ESRC +3 Award
Number of ‘quota’ awards available: 2

The first talk of Anthropology in the Professional World seminar series will be given by Geke van Dijk, Baas Raijmakers from STBY in London and Josephine Wong and Daniel Szuc from Apogee in Hong Kong.

The academic year 2011/12 has started well. We have four new lecturers starting across social anthropology, medical anthropology, material culture and biological anthropology and have been able to offer Cressida Jervis-Read a contract as Teaching Fellow, assisting social anthropology in the running of the Masters Programme. We have also been awarded two large research grants, both together bringing seven new postdoctoral research fellows and twelve PhD students to the Department over the next five years. The first grant was awarded under the Leverhulme call on resilience and is directed to research on Hunters and Gathers, while the second grant was awarded by the European Research Council for research on Social Networking.