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Seminar Series
The Department holds a range of
seminars in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room every week during term time.
These seminars are open to all. See all seminars...
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LAHP AHRC Funding
Apply now for this new AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) studentships
covering the full costs of a degree programme in Anthropology leading to the
award of MPhil/PhD.
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Published: Dec 13, 2013 3:03:44 PM
Call for Proposals & Films: The Bodily AND Material Cultures of Religious Subjectivation
Department of Anthropology,
UCL
Intended Date: 17-18 June 2014
Convenors: Urmila Mohan and
Jean-Pierre Warnier
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Published: Dec 11, 2013 11:05:00 AM
The latest issue of ANTHROPOLITAN is available online
It has been a hugely busy start to the academic year 2013/14 for staff and students alike. Our Anthrosociety has held a successful debate, hosting Dr Jo Cook and Dr Lucio Vinicius on the topic of Piece of Mind. Staff put the finishing touches on the Research Excellence Framework submission due this November and began to discuss the directions which research and teaching will take in the Department over the next seven years. With the arrivals of the new President & Provost, Professor Michael Arthur, and the new Dean of the Social and Historical Sciences (SHS), Professor Mary Fulbrook, the College is abuzz with debate about the vision for UCL reaching forward into the 2020s. More...
Published: Nov 29, 2013 5:04:11 PM
Inaugural Lecture: For an Anthropology of History
Professor Charles Stewart is to give an inaugural lecture at 6.30pm on Tuesday 28 January 2014, at Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. More...
Published: Nov 29, 2013 11:04:48 AM
"Monkey Planet" with Volker Sommer on BBC Radio 4
"Archive on 4" will air "Monkey Planet" on Saturday 30 Nov 2013, 20:00-21:00. More...
Published: Nov 27, 2013 2:18:54 PM
Wind at the Margins of the State: Autonomy and Renewable Energy in Southern Mexico
A special talk by Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe, Department of Anthropology, Rice University More...
Published: Nov 21, 2013 3:50:24 PM
Reviewer Meets Reviewed
In a departure from the normal format, the British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present two papers by Dr Kaori O’Connor. She will begin by talking about her book ‘The English breakfast’: there will then be a short break during which it is hoped to serve a few ‘alternative’ Christmas ‘puddings’ from around the globe, after which she will finish by talking about ‘The King’s Christmas pudding’. More...
Published: Nov 19, 2013 4:46:45 PM
Allegory & Illusion
Professor Christopher Pinney will be in conversation with the film director Mira Nair at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, Wednesday November 20, 2013 @ 7:00 PM.
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Published: Oct 25, 2013 2:19:00 PM
Material Motivations: Why Attack Art?
Professor Christopher Pinney is giving a public
lecture at Tate Britain in connection with their current exhibition Art Under Attack. The lecture is on Friday 8 November 2013, at
18.30. More...
Published: Oct 23, 2013 2:19:33 PM
Workshop: Epistemologies of Technology and Techniques
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together representatives of different disciplines (anthropology, archaeology, history, philosophy, sociology, economics), which have all thought about/discussed/analysed concepts/phenomena pertaining to techniques and technology, and invites them to discuss the relevance and possibilities of establishing some degree of comparability between these different fields. More...
Published: Oct 17, 2013 4:58:13 PM
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