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Susan Drucker Brown

We were sad to learn of the death of Susan Drucker Brown, who died peacefully in her sleep at the Arthur Rank Hospice in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge in the morning of May 1, 2023. Susan Drucker Brown was a familiar face at our Senior Research Seminar, and it was lovely to see here there just a few weeks ago. Dr. Susan Drucker...

COLOUR: Art, Science & Power exhibition extended until 23 April

COLOUR: Art, Science & Power has been extended until 23 April. FREE ADMISSION. Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 5pm; Sunday 12pm - 5pm Click here to explore the virtual tour https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/story/colour-art-science-and-power/

Philomathia 5th Annual Symposium

Philomathia 5th Annual Symposium is convened by five Philomathia Fellows in the Philomathia Research Programme, School of Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce the details for the Philomathia 5th Annual Symposium on April 27 th in Cambridge. Two of the...

Gillian Tett Elected as next Provost at King’s

The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to hear that alumna Dr Gillian Tett will be returning to Cambridge in October of this year. Currently chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US, of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett has been elected as the 250x250-author_pic_gillian_tett.jpg next Provost of King...

New Special Issue – Negative Ethics: Taking the Bad with the Good

Anthropology at times overlooks immorality in its study of ethics, privileging ‘the good’ and people’s positive practices of self-cultivation. This elision reflects a broader disciplinary tendency towards viewing social life as inherently positive or benign. Edited by Tom Powell Davies and Corinna Howland, this special...

Postgraduate Photographic Competition 2023 Launched

Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs Postgraduates in Social Anthropology are invited to enter this year’s Postgraduate Photographic Competition to have their work displayed in the Department and on the Department’s website and to have the chance to win a Blackwells book voucher (First Prize £75, Second Prize £50 and Third...

Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize Award

Anita Herle and Jude Philip have won the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize for their book Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 – 1898. The award was presented on behalf of the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Australian Association for Maritime...

New MOOC launched to improve cross-disciplinary understanding of cancer risk

Cancer Research UK launched a new MOOC (massive open online course) on 17 January. Different approaches to risk and its communication form the subject of this new, bitesize online course, which is aimed at helping early career researchers to define and communicate the idea of cancer risk across disciplinary boundaries. The...

New Book - How We Struggle A Political Anthropology of Labour by Professor Sian Lazar

When it comes to labour movements, unionised industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy and geographical contexts, the question of how working people struggle in the day-to-day has no single answer. Here Sian Lazar offers a...

Welcome to Dr Mike Degani

Welcome to our new Assistant Professor in Environmental Anthropology This term the Department warmly welcomes Dr Mike Degani as our Assistant Professor in Environmental Anthropology. Mike is an anthropologist of infrastructure and energy in Africa and beyond. Having received his PhD from Yale University in 2015, he then...

Susan Drucker Brown

COLOUR: Art, Science & Power exhibition extended until 23 April

Philomathia 5th Annual Symposium

Gillian Tett Elected as next Provost at King’s

New Special Issue – Negative Ethics: Taking the Bad with the Good

Postgraduate Photographic Competition 2023 Launched

Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize Award

New MOOC launched to improve cross-disciplinary understanding of cancer risk

New Book - How We Struggle A Political Anthropology of Labour by Professor Sian Lazar

Welcome to Dr Mike Degani

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