UCL Anthropology

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

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.

The symposium will explore Moroccan textiles in their historical and social context; contemporary Moroccan textile designers and artists will present their work and creations.

How Anthropologists Think: Refiguring the Exotic

Professor Bruce Kapferer, Honorary Professor at UCL Anthropology, will give the Huxley Memorial Lecture on Friday 16 December at 5.30pm, in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum.