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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
Sue Benson Dissertation Prize
The Sue Benson Prize for the best Part IIB dissertation for 2010/11 has been awarded to Shem Jarrold (Pembroke College) for his work on the topic The Little Spirits of Antofagasta: Popular Religion and Relations with the Dead in Chile.
June 28th, 2011
The Sue Benson Prize for the best Part IIB dissertation for 2010/11 has been awarded to Shem Jarrold (Pembroke College) for his work on the topic The Little Spirits of Antofagasta: Popular Religion and Relations with the Dead in Chile.
June 28th, 2011
Wyse Visiting Professors for 2011-2012
The 2011-2012 academic year will be an exciting one for our Department as we play host to three of the world's most distinguished and innovative anthropologists.
June 8th, 2011
The 2011-2012 academic year will be an exciting one for our Department as we play host to three of the world's most distinguished and innovative anthropologists.
June 8th, 2011
Wolfson Prize awarded to Professor Nicholas Thomas
The Department warmly congratulates Professor Nicholas Thomas, FBA, Professor of Historical Anthropology and Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, on the announcement of his award of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize for his book Islanders, published by Yale University Press in 2010. The Wolfson Prize, founded in 1972, is Britain’s most [...]
June 8th, 2011
The Department warmly congratulates Professor Nicholas Thomas, FBA, Professor of Historical Anthropology and Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, on the announcement of his award of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize for his book Islanders, published by Yale University Press in 2010. The Wolfson Prize, founded in 1972, is Britain’s most [...]
June 8th, 2011