News and Events http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/news-and-events/rss admin 2011-05-09T16:58:58Z UCL Global Citizenship Programme http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/global-citizenship Man Yang 2013-05-22T09:55:14Z 2013-05-27T23:00:00Z 2013-06-06T23:00:00Z New IBSc Film http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/ibsc-film 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. Man Yang 2013-05-17T13:37:57Z Eight Teaching Assistants Required http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/summer-postgraduate-tas 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. Man Yang 2013-05-02T12:45:41Z Travel, Imagination and Experience http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/travel-imagination-and-experience A discussion on the pleasures of armchair anthropology and the suffering of travellers with Man Yang 2013-04-25T11:19:38Z Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW 2013-05-01T16:00:00Z 2013-05-01T18:00:00Z Asian Philosophical Encounters http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/ape This workshop hopes to bring together a range of themes, including ideas of sameness and difference, temporality, comparison, and cosmology, drawing on philosophical and religious texts from Chinese, Japanese, and inner Asian traditions to inform anthropological perspectives.  In particular, we are interested in discussing and exploring how and to what extent ideas from these traditions can help problematize ethnographic concerns with cross-cultural translation. Man Yang 2013-04-24T09:25:12Z Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW 2013-04-29T08:30:00Z 2013-04-29T17:00:00Z Michael Stewart at the UCL Festival of the Arts http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/art-festival 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. Man Yang 2013-04-23T12:56:15Z A V Hill Lecture Theatre, 131, UCL 2013-05-07T17:30:00Z 2013-05-07T20:30:00Z Padma Shri Award http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/padma-award 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. Man Yang 2013-04-23T09:37:47Z Postgraduate Open Day http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Postgraduate_Open_Day_Jun_2013 The Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates to the Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday, 12th June (from 1.15pm onwards). Man Yang 2013-04-19T09:31:09Z 2013-06-12T12:15:00Z Birth Order http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/bringing-up-britain 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. Man Yang 2013-04-18T10:11:07Z Max Planck Award http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/max-planck-award 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. Man Yang 2013-04-16T12:52:57Z Temporary Lectureship in Evolutionary Anthropology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/temporary-lectureship Original call for application available on the UCL Human Resources webpage . Man Yang Sorin Gog 2013-04-10T18:58:31Z Economic and Political Transformations in Inner Asia http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/inner-asia-workshop 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. Man Yang 2013-03-21T15:58:50Z 2013-03-25T10:00:00Z 2013-03-25T17:00:00Z The Big Ig Nobel UK Show - with Volker Sommer Performing http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/improbable-research 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". Man Yang 2013-03-12T17:30:34Z The Bullshitologist: Anthropology and Lies http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/anthropology_and_lies The final event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 13th March 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room Man Yang 2013-03-08T16:59:46Z 2013-03-13T16:00:00Z Poster Competition Won by Anthropology Student Kathleen Bryson http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/post-competition 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. Man Yang 2013-03-01T16:04:17Z THE FIFTH GASHAKA FIELD DAY http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/gashaka-field-day-mar-2013 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. Man Yang 2013-02-25T12:13:42Z 2013-03-02T10:00:00Z Mary Douglas Awards http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Mary_Douglas_Awards 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.  Man Yang 2013-02-05T17:07:27Z Professor Christopher Pinney Awarded Padma Shri http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Padma_Shri 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 Man Yang 2013-02-01T11:59:15Z The latest issue of ANTHROPOLITAN is available online http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/newsletter7 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. Man Yang 2012-12-14T15:58:02Z Dr Rebecca Empson on the Fatherhood Show http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/fatherhood 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 Man Yang 2012-11-19T17:03:50Z Beyond Humanism: where do we take anthropology? http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Beyond_Humanism The second event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 21st November 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room Man Yang 2012-11-12T14:30:50Z 2012-11-21T16:00:00Z 2012-11-21T18:00:00Z ETHNOGRAPHIC TERMINALIA 2012: SAN FRANCISCO http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/ethnographic-terminalia-2012 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. Man Yang 2012-11-02T15:07:57Z San Francisco 2012-11-15T00:00:00Z 2012-11-17T00:00:00Z Former anthropology student wins first Prix Virginia http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Prix_Virginia 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 Man Yang 2012-10-22T11:53:48Z Critical Mass http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Critical_Mass 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 Man Yang 2012-10-16T12:34:04Z The Hunter-Gatherer Anthropologist: Hunting the Cosmos and Gathering Data http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/hunter-gatherer The first event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 24th October 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room Man Yang 2012-10-15T13:23:19Z 2012-10-24T15:00:00Z 2012-10-24T17:00:00Z Cancer Cultures http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/cancer_cultures_event This two day event will bring together academics and postgraduate research students from across the social sciences to examine  the diverse experiences and cultural or social engagement with the illness and disease of cancer. It will explore  the varied dimensions of ‘cancer cultures’ as they are constituted at the level of individual experience, family, community and both within or across different national contexts. Man Yang 2012-10-11T21:35:10Z UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW 2012-11-06T17:00:00Z 2012-11-07T17:00:00Z The Digital Human http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/digital_human 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 Man Yang 2012-10-08T13:37:42Z Pacific Islands Research Network - Occasional Lectures Term 1 2012 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Pacific_Islands_Research_Network The Pacific Islands Research Network (PIRN) is very pleased to announce 2 forthcoming lectures in the PIRN (UCL) Occasional Lecture Series. Man Yang 2012-09-24T11:39:47Z Room 209, Institute of Archaeology, UCL 2012-10-04T16:30:00Z Army ants and chimps give researchers some food for thought http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/evolutionary_anthropology Evolutionary Anthropology makes headlines for all the right reasons: Guardian report on a truly merciless self-experiment by Volker Sommer. > Read: Guardian Man Yang 2012-09-20T10:02:20Z Research in the Media: Anthropology of Food http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/research_in_the_media 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. Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-09-14T09:51:38Z