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Climate Change and Anthropology Seminar
Climate Change and Anthropology Seminar January 19, 2012 Listen to the seminar here The Climate Change and Anthropology seminar aimed to foster discussion on environmental change between students and staff, to highlight staff support for students thinking of engaging with environmental issues, and to discuss the range of projects that are eminently feasible within the [...]
January 31st, 2012
Climate Change and Anthropology Seminar January 19, 2012 Listen to the seminar here The Climate Change and Anthropology seminar aimed to foster discussion on environmental change between students and staff, to highlight staff support for students thinking of engaging with environmental issues, and to discuss the range of projects that are eminently feasible within the [...]
January 31st, 2012
Funding Success: The Social Life of Achievement and Competitiveness in Vietnam and Indonesia
The UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has recently awarded £99,573 to two Cambridge social anthropologists, Dr Susan Bayly and Dr Nicholas Long, to conduct research on ‘The Social Life of Achievement and Competiveness in Vietnam and Indonesia’. This project, which will run until October 2013, will investigate the changing ways in which Indonesian [...]
December 20th, 2011
The UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has recently awarded £99,573 to two Cambridge social anthropologists, Dr Susan Bayly and Dr Nicholas Long, to conduct research on ‘The Social Life of Achievement and Competiveness in Vietnam and Indonesia’. This project, which will run until October 2013, will investigate the changing ways in which Indonesian [...]
December 20th, 2011
After Achievement: Dr Nick Long speaks on Cam FM
On Friday 18th November, Nick Long, a postdoctoral fellow and affiliated lecturer in social anthropology here at Cambridge, will be featuring in the inaugural ‘Cam FM Lecture Series’. Nick’s talk is entitled ‘After Achievement’ and draws on his own research in the Riau Islands of Indonesia to explore what happens to people after they achieve, [...]
November 7th, 2011
On Friday 18th November, Nick Long, a postdoctoral fellow and affiliated lecturer in social anthropology here at Cambridge, will be featuring in the inaugural ‘Cam FM Lecture Series’. Nick’s talk is entitled ‘After Achievement’ and draws on his own research in the Riau Islands of Indonesia to explore what happens to people after they achieve, [...]
November 7th, 2011
Still Life – new publication by Professor Henrietta Moore
The trailer for Professor Henrietta Moore’s new book “Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions” (Polity Press) is now available on YouTube. “Still Life” looks at how adequate our theories of globalisation are for analysing the worlds we share with others. Professor Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections [...]
September 28th, 2011
The trailer for Professor Henrietta Moore’s new book “Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions” (Polity Press) is now available on YouTube. “Still Life” looks at how adequate our theories of globalisation are for analysing the worlds we share with others. Professor Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections [...]
September 28th, 2011
Wyse Prize for Postdoctoral Research Proposals
The Department is pleased to announce a competition for the best research proposal for external Postdoctoral Funding falling within the remit of the Department's three research tracks.
August 31st, 2011
The Department is pleased to announce a competition for the best research proposal for external Postdoctoral Funding falling within the remit of the Department's three research tracks.
August 31st, 2011
Henrietta Moore at HowTheLightGetsIn
HowTheLightGetsIn: the philosophy and music festival at Hay 26th May – 5th June 2011 Videos of Professor Henrietta Moore taking part in talks and debates at HowTheLightGetsIn, in June 2011, are now available online on the Institute of Art and Ideas website: http://iai.tv. The discussions included: My Avatar, Myself When we extend ourselves into [...]
August 19th, 2011
HowTheLightGetsIn: the philosophy and music festival at Hay 26th May – 5th June 2011 Videos of Professor Henrietta Moore taking part in talks and debates at HowTheLightGetsIn, in June 2011, are now available online on the Institute of Art and Ideas website: http://iai.tv. The discussions included: My Avatar, Myself When we extend ourselves into [...]
August 19th, 2011
Wyse Prize for PhD Proposal Awarded
The William Wyse Professor Henrietta Moore and the Department of Social Anthropology are delighted to announce that the 2010-’11 Wyse Prize for the best PhD Proposal on the lines of the Department’s Research Themes goes to Paolo Heywood. Paolo’s research is about the ethical and political cultivation of masculinities in Bologna, Italy and builds upon [...]
July 26th, 2011
The William Wyse Professor Henrietta Moore and the Department of Social Anthropology are delighted to announce that the 2010-’11 Wyse Prize for the best PhD Proposal on the lines of the Department’s Research Themes goes to Paolo Heywood. Paolo’s research is about the ethical and political cultivation of masculinities in Bologna, Italy and builds upon [...]
July 26th, 2011
Wyse Postdoctoral Prize Awarded
Dr Irene Peano has won the first Wyse Postdoctoral Prize for her research proposal ‘Beyond Cynicism and Bare Life’. The prize is given to the most promising postdoctoral research proposal falling within the remit of the Department’s three research tracks of Intimate Aspirations, Resources and Sociality. ‘Beyond Cynicism and Bare Life: Somatic and Intimate Resources [...]
July 22nd, 2011
Dr Irene Peano has won the first Wyse Postdoctoral Prize for her research proposal ‘Beyond Cynicism and Bare Life’. The prize is given to the most promising postdoctoral research proposal falling within the remit of the Department’s three research tracks of Intimate Aspirations, Resources and Sociality. ‘Beyond Cynicism and Bare Life: Somatic and Intimate Resources [...]
July 22nd, 2011
King’s Work-in-Progress Seminar: Michael Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld will present some early thoughts on his new ethnography of town-planners in Italy at the King’s Work-in-Progress Seminar series. In his own words: This project, very much in its early stages, is an ethnography of Italian town-planners. Ethnographies of whole professions, even within national borders, pose both practical and epistemological problems, but potentially [...]
July 12th, 2011
Michael Herzfeld will present some early thoughts on his new ethnography of town-planners in Italy at the King’s Work-in-Progress Seminar series. In his own words: This project, very much in its early stages, is an ethnography of Italian town-planners. Ethnographies of whole professions, even within national borders, pose both practical and epistemological problems, but potentially [...]
July 12th, 2011
Climate Histories Network
The Climate Histories Network has received a grant from CRASSH to host an interdisciplinary Climate Histories seminar series with sustainable engineering over the coming academic year.
June 29th, 2011
The Climate Histories Network has received a grant from CRASSH to host an interdisciplinary Climate Histories seminar series with sustainable engineering over the coming academic year.
June 29th, 2011