The UCL Department of Anthropology has a new position, a lectureship in Digital Anthropology. Open to anyone with a strong ethnographic foundation to their research into the digital. Research areas can include robotics, artificial intelligence, the anthropology of data, social media, consumption, or other emerging topics within the field. For furtherContinue Reading
Via Haidy Geismar, UCL The Science Museum Group Journal is a relatively new, and very exciting, open access journal that “provides an innovative voice in discussions worldwide about science and its history, material culture, communication, display and presentation in museums.” [Disclosure – I’m on the editorial board]. Recent issues include aContinue Reading
Annamaria Dall’Anese – PhD Anthropology Lloyd Coleman on How He Has Music at His Fingertips Anthropology’s aim is to see the world through the native’s point of view (Malinowski 1961[1922]:25), and intersubjectivity is often the trigger of fruitful ethnographic discoveries, as well as human bonds in generalContinue Reading
Via Ricardo Andres Labra Mocarquer Symposium in Santiago, Chile. November. The way “things” are analyzed in the contemporary world had changed, from antiquarians to different approaches in social science, philosophy, arts, arquitecture and other discipline witch have ascertained the importance of the role that objects play in societies.Continue Reading
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE MAJOR CONFERENCE: ART, MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATION BRITISH MUSEUM/SOAS 1st-3rd JUNE 2018 CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS We are very pleased to announce the call for panel proposals for the fourth of the RAI’s recent major conferences. As before, it will be jointly organised by the RAI and theContinue Reading
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gill Conquest on May 5, 2017. Gill was an exceptional student and an exceptional person. Her interests were broad-ranging, extending well beyond the academic through performances of traditional stories and pantomimes, to writing plays and science fiction, sailing andContinue Reading
Location: London Salary: £37,936 to £41,163 per annum (UCL Grade 7), inclusive of London Allowance. Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 24th April 2017 Closes: 26th May 2017 Job Ref: 1641489 The UCL Institute of Archaeology is recognised as one of the leading academic departments ofContinue Reading
Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik Deadline abstract (2,000 characters): 15 June 2017 Deadline article (30,000 characters): 31 October 2017 Journal for Art Market Studies – Issue on “Translocations and the Art Market” https://www.fokum-jams.org Since 2017 the Institute for Art History and Historical Urban Studies at TechnischeContinue Reading
Hannah Knox, UCL Anthropology When I was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester in the late 1990s I recall being introduced by John Gledhill to something called ‘Experience Rich Anthropology’. Established by the anthropology department at the University of Ken, the ERA project was an early attempt to useContinue Reading
Teaching Fellow in Heritage and Museum Studies, – Ref:1616705 UCL Department / Division: UCL Institute of Archaeology Grade: 7 Hours: Full Time Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £37,936 – £41,163 per annum Duties and Responsibilities: The UCL Institute of Archaeology is seeking to appoint a full-time Teaching Fellow in HeritageContinue Reading
Via Merten Lagatz There is are two post-doctoral positions at the Technische Universität Berlin, department for art history, under Prof. Bénédicte Savoy. The two post-doc positions will be available starting September 1, 2017 within the project cluster “Translocations.” The research project will study large-scale displacements of cultural assets from antiquity to theContinue Reading