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I-SCI | Extending the imagination
A Word of Welcome:
The Institute for Subjectivity and the Cultural Imagination (I-SCI) brings together anthropologists working on the role of the imagination in diverse social and cultural scales – from the intimate arenas of subjective experience to the most encompassing vistas of cosmological contemplation. Rooted in rigorous ethnographic research in settings across the globe, we explore comparatively the imaginative and intimate dimensions of history, politics, law, economy, religion, and cosmology. Using ethnographically-based insights we seek to refigure the ways in which we, as social scientists, imagine the social and cultural world, and ultimately to extend the anthropological imagination itself.
A hub for versatile anthropological research, activities and events, I-SCI promotes empirically driven thinking and a readiness to experiment with novel themes and contemporary theoretical frameworks. Our research activities range from informal, student-led reading groups and workshops to major internationally funded research programmes and networks. Combining the knowledge and skills of academic staff and research students at UCL and beyond, our research clusters around five core themes:
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News
Call for papers - 21st Century Body Reloaded
Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases. Consider genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants and prosthetics, nanomedicine and the required socio-cultural accommodations to ageing and you will see how the way in which we perceive ourselves and those around us is slowly being recast. As our knowledge and its application continues to grow and expand, the range, scope and magnitude of what we are able to achieve seems to be limitless. More...
Opportunities for Brazilian students to study at UCL
Venham para Londres estudar no Departamento de Antropologia na UCL- estamos prontos para receber vocês aqui!! More...
Events
Anthropological Perspectives on the Crisis in Southern Europe
The workshop provides an arena for comparative discussion on the impact of socioeconomic crisis in southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain). Contributors will consider issues of historical consciousness, temporality, social movements, suffering and material poverty in the context of eurozone crisis and fiscal austerity. More...
Starts: Jun 28, 2013 12:00:00 AM
We are plurally rational and inherently relational: causes, corroborations and consequences
for researchers interested in developing and applying the legacy of the late Professor Dame Mary Douglas
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Starts: May 31, 2013 12:00:00 AM
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