Events http://www.ucl.ac.uk/labuk/events-anth/rss The Laboratory for the Ethnography of the UK (LabUK) is a research platform for the study of contemporary British society and culture through an anthropological lens. Along with other post-industrial societies, Britain is an implicit reference point in much anthropological thinking, imagined primarily as an exemplar of ‘the West’. Man Yang 2013-01-22T21:24:26Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Anthropology Undergraduate Open Day http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/undergraduate_open_day_oct2012 The Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates for the BSc Anthropology degree to our open day on Wednesday, 24th October 2012 at 1.00pm. Man Yang 2012-08-29T11:13:59Z 2012-10-24T11:00:00Z Feast and Famine: Exploring Relationships with Food in the Pacific http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/feast_and_famine Inaugral Pacific Islands Research Network Conference - UCL, 7th-8th September 2012 Man Yang 2012-07-09T09:50:36Z Institute of Archaeology, UCL 2012-09-07T08:30:00Z 2012-09-08T16:30:00Z The Ethnography of Eastern Christianities http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/the_ethnography_of_eastern_christianities Workshop at UCL - Tuesday 18th September 2012, 2-6pm - Programme now available. Man Yang 2012-06-29T10:47:03Z Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW 2012-09-18T13:00:00Z 2012-09-18T17:00:00Z WORKSHOP: STRUCTURE INSIDE ORGANISATIONS http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/structure_inside_organisations Tuesday 3rd July Daryll Forde Seminar Room, UCL Man Yang 2012-06-15T10:37:40Z UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW 2012-07-03T08:30:00Z Open City Docs Fest http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Open_City_Docs_Fest_2012 Open City Docs Fest is a live festival devoted to exploring the world we live in through documentary film. Presenting films about real life, about the experience of real people many of whose voices are not otherwise heard, we challenge, explore and expand ideas of what documentary can be and do. Man Yang 2012-05-25T10:15:41Z UCL / Torrington Square WC1 2012-06-20T23:00:00Z 2012-06-23T23:00:00Z 15 Day Documentary Summer School http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/news-files/15-day-documentary-summer-school When: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 - Fri, 20 Jul 2012 Costs : £1299 or £999 for UCL students Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-05-18T09:36:17Z 2012-07-01T23:00:00Z 2012-07-19T23:00:00Z Moving scales and scales of movement: cosmologies of borders and crossings http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/CROC_RRG_Workshop A graduate workshop organised by the UCL Anthropology CROC (Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture) Research Group . Man Yang 2012-05-14T13:56:13Z DFSR, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW 2012-06-12T08:00:00Z 2012-06-13T17:00:00Z Film Showing - Love in the Time of the Frontier http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/film-showing Love in the Time of the Frontier Three short films on migrations, detentions and expulsions across the Mediterranean Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-05-09T16:31:41Z 2012-05-16T16:00:00Z 2012-05-16T18:00:00Z Sustainability: Concepts & Materials http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Sustainability_Workshop Friday 18 May 2012 - 9:30AM - 4:30PM Man Yang 2012-05-04T10:10:51Z Archaeology LT G06, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY 2012-05-18T08:30:00Z 2012-05-18T16:00:00Z The 21st Century Body Symposium http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/the_21st_century_body_symposium Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Department 14 Taviton Street, University College London Bloomsbury Campus Man Yang 2012-05-03T14:45:25Z 2012-05-18T08:00:00Z 2012-05-18T17:00:00Z The Creativity of Property: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Reinvention of Ownership http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/The_Creativity_of_Property One-day workshop on the 26th of June at University College London Man Yang 2012-04-24T12:07:46Z 2012-06-25T23:00:00Z http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/standardizing_cultural_distinction Standardizing Cultural Distinction in the Neoliberal Politics of Heritage. Prof. Rosemary Coombe, York University (Canada) Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-04-13T18:11:02Z 2012-05-09T13:00:00Z 2012-05-09T15:00:00Z Meet the Staff Day http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Meet_the_Staff_Day UCL Anthropology warmly invite all prospective MSc and MA candidates to visit the Department and meet individual members of staff on Thursday 15th March . Man Yang 2012-02-17T15:51:35Z 2012-03-15T13:00:00Z