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Applications are invited for a 1 year EPSRC/ESRC funded MRes studentship available for UK/EU candidates starting on the UCL MRes in Anthropology in September 2013.

Symposium, 7-8th November 2013, London

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.

Venham para Londres estudar no Departamento de Antropologia na UCL- estamos prontos para receber vocês aqui!!

Why the UK: How can the ethnography of Britain contribute to the major discussions in the anthropological agenda?

Friday 28 June 2013

Daryll Forde Seminar Room, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

The academic year 2012/13 has been busy for staff and students alike. We have had a very successful visit by the Internal Quality Review, commending the Department for its openness and inclusivity, for our enthusiastic and articulate students, for the accessibility of the staff, the effective pastoral support provided to the students, and the commitment of staff to teaching. All the students the IQR team met were very positive about the Department and were appreciative of the high quality teaching delivered by staff.

Why not study anthropology in London for one or two semesters?

UCL Dept of Anthropology fourth annual Mary Douglas seminar

for researchers interested in developing and applying the legacy of the late Professor Dame Mary Douglas

Damían Ortega’s exhibition "Apestraction", conceived in conjunction with the Gashaka Primate Project in Nigeria, is on show at The Freud Museum 6 June – 1 September 2013 (www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions)

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).

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.