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Departmental Lecturer – Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography DEPARTMENTAL LECTURER – VISUAL, MATERIAL AND MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY Grade 7: £31,076-£38,183 p.a.  Vacancy No. 133502 Applications are invited for a fixed-term Departmental Lecturer (Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology) post required for 12 months from mid-September 2018.Continue Reading

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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

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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

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  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

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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

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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

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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

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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