Networks
The Division of Social Anthropology co-ordinates a number of exciting anthropological and interdisciplinary network projects, while Cambridge Anthropologists are active participants in many others. These pages give you all the details of what we’re up to!
Buddhist Ethics Network
The Buddhist Ethics Network exists to encourage collaboration and exchange of knowledge between academics with expertise in the study of Buddhism, moral philosophers and members of Buddhist communities. The network is based at Cambridge University in the UK, but includes members drawn from a range of academic and Buddhist organisations. We hope to be able [...]
The Buddhist Ethics Network exists to encourage collaboration and exchange of knowledge between academics with expertise in the study of Buddhism, moral philosophers and members of Buddhist communities. The network is based at Cambridge University in the UK, but includes members drawn from a range of academic and Buddhist organisations. We hope to be able [...]
The Social Life of Achievement
Convened by: Dr Nick Long & Prof Henrietta Moore Funders: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Background As ever more countries around the word seek to increase their competitiveness in a neoliberal ‘knowledge economy’, notions of economic, academic, and personal ‘achievement’ are becoming increasingly important in public policy and social life. Moreover, policy interventions often [...]
Convened by: Dr Nick Long & Prof Henrietta Moore Funders: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Background As ever more countries around the word seek to increase their competitiveness in a neoliberal ‘knowledge economy’, notions of economic, academic, and personal ‘achievement’ are becoming increasingly important in public policy and social life. Moreover, policy interventions often [...]
European Consortium for the Humanities in the 21st Century
The Department is an active member of this consortium, which brings scholars from across Europe to consider the contribution and relevance of Humanities scholarship to contemporary times. The Consortium is co-ordinated by the Centre for the Humanities at Universiteit Utrecht.
The Department is an active member of this consortium, which brings scholars from across Europe to consider the contribution and relevance of Humanities scholarship to contemporary times. The Consortium is co-ordinated by the Centre for the Humanities at Universiteit Utrecht.
Subjectivity in Europe
This network brings together social anthropologists, philosophers, psychoanalysts and sociologists concerned with he changing nature of subjectivity in Europe today. Participants come from the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht, and the University of Ljubljana.
This network brings together social anthropologists, philosophers, psychoanalysts and sociologists concerned with he changing nature of subjectivity in Europe today. Participants come from the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht, and the University of Ljubljana.
Reconsidering Detachment: Building an exploratory network
Dr Joanna Cook has been awarded an ESRC International Training and Networking Opportunities Grant alongside Matei Candea (University of Durham), Tom Yarrow (University of Wales, Bangor), and Catherine Trundle (Victoria University, Wellington). This project aims to create an interdisciplinary exploratory network of scholars invested in critically engaging with the constructive aspects of detachment.
Dr Joanna Cook has been awarded an ESRC International Training and Networking Opportunities Grant alongside Matei Candea (University of Durham), Tom Yarrow (University of Wales, Bangor), and Catherine Trundle (Victoria University, Wellington). This project aims to create an interdisciplinary exploratory network of scholars invested in critically engaging with the constructive aspects of detachment.