UCL Anthropology

A two week programme offering the chance to put your studies in a global context, learn new skills and see the world differently.

Hear more about past and present students' experience of the IBSc programme in medical anthropology, including the journalist Max Pemberton, in this new promotional film.

Tuesday 28th May – Friday 7th June

Would you like to earn approximately £670 (possibly a little more) helping to run the ‘People and the Sea’ Global Citizenship Programme which is being piloted for the first time this year at the end of this term.

Wednesday 1st May 2013 - 5pm

DFSR, 2nd floor Anthropology Department, 14 Taviton St

Monday, 29th April 2013

Daryll Forde Seminar Room, UCL Anthropology

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.

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.

The Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates to the Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday, 12th June (from 1.15pm onwards).

Ruth Mace was on Bringing Up Britain with Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4, looking at the evidence and experience of how important your place in the family pecking order is, and its potential consequences. Catch up the episode on BBC Radio 4.

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.

Original call for application available on the UCL Human Resources webpage.

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.

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".

The final event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 13th March 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room

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.

Exploring & Protecting West Africa's Biodiversity

Presentations by a multi-national network of researchers and conservationists working in West Africa and in particular at Nigeria's Gashaka Gumti National Park - one of the region's premier wildernesses. Of special interest to students who contemplate to conduct their own fieldwork.

The Anthropology department is delighted to announce that it will be awarding a number of Mary Douglas Awards, collectively worth £32,000, to students applying for our Master’s programmes for entry in September 2013.  These fee waivers, worth between £1000 -£ 4000 pounds depending on the programme, will be available across all eight of the masters programmes and will be awarded based on the merit of individual applications. 

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. Pinney was given the award under the category of Literature and Education. Non-citizens of India are very rarely given the Padma Shri. The award will be presented by the President of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan. > Read: The Ministry of Home Affairs press release

The start of the academic year 2012/13 has been hugely positive for staff and students alike. We were joined by four new members of staff, all of them appointed to entirely new posts. This is the best indication that our Department is thriving, able to provide a hugely vibrant atmosphere that assures excellence in teaching and learning. Newly appointed in the second quarter of last academic year were also three members of the administrative team, enabling us to provide the very best service to our students and support to our staff.

Dr Rebecca Empson, a Social Anthropologist with an interest in kinship, took part in a panel discussion on Fatherhood, featured on Resonance FM Group Therapy show. > Listen: Fatherhood Podcast

The second event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 21st November 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room

Exhibition & Opening Receptions

Audible observatories are points of sensory convergence. They are nodes where worlds perceived through the senses intersect and begin the labor of transforming independent events into knowable and meaningful claims. They speak and they are spoken to.

Former Anthropology MA student Liz Hingley has been awarded the 2012 Prix Virginia for The Jones Family, a series of photographs depicting poverty and deprivation in the UK. > Read: British Journal of Photography

Joshua Lipworth and Megan Laws won first place for their film "Critical Mass" in the Seize the Night Alternate Ending Competition. Josh and Megan capitalized on the massive worldwide bicycle culture and showcased the beauty of London as a large group of people meet up for a night-time ride through the city. > Watch: Seize the Night Alternate Ending winning films

The first event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 24th October 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room

A two day International Event at Anthropology Department, UCL on 6th and 7th November 2012

Daniel Miller appeared on BBC Radio 4 `The Digital Human' last week, discussing whether digital technology is a threat to cultural heterogeniety. > Listen: BBC Radio 4 Podcast

The Pacific Islands Research Network (PIRN) is very pleased to announce 2 forthcoming lectures in the PIRN (UCL) Occasional Lecture Series.

Evolutionary Anthropology makes headlines for all the right reasons: Guardian report on a truly merciless self-experiment by Volker Sommer. > Read: Guardian

Continuing her work on the anthropology of food, Dr Kaori O’Connor appeared 11^th September on the Great British Bake-Off programme, the popularity of which reveals a growing interest in baking by men, talking about American pies and food as identity. She will shortly be appearing on the Hairy Bikers series discussing eggs in traditional British cuisine, and in the Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner series with Clarissa Dickson-Wright, speaking on the history and cultural significance of breakfast cereals.