SHS Latest News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/shs/shs-news-viewer/rss admin 2011-11-10T10:56:14Z IoA Rock Art Fieldtrip - Dordogne 2013 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20130523 A group of Institute students has recently returned from the Dordogne where they gained unprecedented access to Palaeolithic decorated cave sites. Jo R Dullaghan 2013-05-23T15:24:25Z Elizabeth Graham on the lost 'White City' of Honduras http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20130522 Elizabeth Graham was the invited expert in a recent podcast discussion about the potential discovery of the lost 'White City'. Jo R Dullaghan 2013-05-22T10:01:19Z 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 Popular Antiquities 2013: Call for Papers http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20130517 The third multidisciplinary conference on 'Popular Antiquities: Folklore and Archaeology' will be held at the Institute on 12 & 13 October 2013. The deadline for the call for papers is 28 June 2013.  Jo R Dullaghan 2013-05-17T09:50:46Z Dr Maki Kimura - Japan's politicians have a problem with 'comfort women' http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/spp-news/170513 Dr Maki Kimura, a Teaching Fellow in Gender and Politics, at The School of Public Policy wrote an article for The Guardian on recent remarks by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto justifying Japan's war-time use of sex slaves. Stephen Thomson 2013-05-17T08:33:16Z UCL Connections awarded Digital Humanities Prize http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20130515c The UCL Connections project , involving Institute PhD researcher, Jia Liu, was the winning project at UCL's Digital Humanities prize workshop . Jo R Dullaghan 2013-05-15T16:18:01Z Andrew Chesher appointed as William Stanley Jevons Chair of Economics and Economic Measurement http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/chesher15may13 Perhaps the most eminent figure to hold a professorship of economics at UCL was William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), also earlier a student of the college. Often seen as the main British contributor to the marginalist revolution in economic thought of the 1870s, he challenged Ricardian ideas, seeking for instance to replace theories of value based on labour input with theories based on utility. In his support for the use of mathematical analysis in economics and in his practical use of economic statistics, he can be seen as one of the first exponents of recognisably modern econometric methods. Andrew Chesher’s standing in the profession and his contributions make him an extremely worthy holder of the William Stanley Jevons Chair of Economics and Economic Measurement. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-15T07:20:28Z Fabien Postel-Vinay to join UCL Economics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/postel-vnay14may13 UCL Economics is pleased to announce that Fabien Postel-Vinay (Bristol) will join the department this coming academic year. We are proud to be able to add his significant talent to our departmental portfolio. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-14T07:30:19Z Professor Iwan Morgan awarded the Commonwealth Fund Professorship in American History http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-news/commonwealth-fund In a packed Gustave Tuck lecture theatre after Professor Iwan Morgan's Inaugural Lecture , Professor Stephen Conway (Head of the Department of History at UCL) announced that University College London has awarded the Commonwealth Fund Professorship in American History to Professor Iwan Morgan . Paul A May 2013-05-13T10:15:47Z Dr Guillaume Long Appointed Ecuador's Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-news/guillaume-long-appointment The Government of Ecuador has announced that Dr Guillaume Long has been named Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent.Dr Long completed his MA and PhD while a student of the staff now at UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) . Oscar V Martinez Gonzalez 2013-05-13T09:59:56Z Job Vacancy: Teaching Fellow in Environmental Archaeology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20130513 The Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Teaching Fellow in Environmental Archaeology (Ref.:1333179) . The deadline for applications is 27 May 2013. Jo R Dullaghan 2013-05-13T09:24:09Z Orazio Attanasio appointed as Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/attanasio13may13 Jeremy Bentham, was the “spiritual founder” of UCL and a key player in the establishment of UCL Economics. He made fundamental contributions to economics and many of them still shape modern economic theory. Perhaps most importantly, Bentham developed Utilitarianism. Although his felicific calculus has not survived to modern economic theory, the idea of utility being the main object of interest for welfare and choice theory is still very much the dominating paradigm. Utilitarianism also provides the foundation of much modern econometric measurement, testing and estimation of economic theory without which macroeconomics would have little relevance. Bentham also worked on macroeconomic theory including monetary economics. Orazio Attanasio has made fundamental contributions to many of these areas and is an extremely worthy holder of the Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-13T08:25:53Z