Professor Alan Barnard - Retirement
The Social Anthropology department will be hosting a symposium on 3 September 2015 in honour of Alan's retirement.
View ArticleRealizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
Article on Dr Richard Baxstroms upcoming book, which will be available from October 31 from Fordham University Press.
View ArticleBeyond the Human
On the 19th of October the department of Social Anthroplogy hosted a roundtable event for researchers from Aberdeen, St. Andrews and Edinburgh to discuss the role of human-nonhuman relationships in...
View ArticleHaxan / Realising the Witch - Halloween Event
Join us on Halloween for our Atmosphere of Haxan (1922) with live score by the improv ensemble of the Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra. Saturday 31 October 2015 @ 22.00- 23.59 Reid Concert Hall, Bristo...
View ArticleEdinburgh Film Seminar: Roundtable
Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema and the Mastery of the Invisible Thursday 5 November 2015 @ 17.30 - 19.00 Lecture Theatre G.03, 0 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU
View ArticleLotte Hoek wins Bernard S. Cohn Prize
The Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize honors outstanding and innovative scholarship across discipline and country of specialization for a first single-authored monograph on South Asia, published during the...
View ArticleSocial Anthropology Tutor shortlisted for Teaching Award
Social Anthropology Tutor Alex Gapud has been shortlisted for an EUSA Teaching Award for his work as a Tutor.
View ArticleVeterinary Anthropology Workshop
18th - 19th April 2016 6th Floor Staffroom, Chrystal Macmillan Building Kindly sponsored by - CHSS Challenge Investment Fund & SPS Strategic Support Fund
View ArticleCare Symposium 11 May 2016
Care has recently emerged as a key concept in medical anthropology. But why should we care about care? What does the term offer? What do we really know about care and caregivers? The theme of care runs...
View ArticleBook Forum: Realizing the Witch
Richard Baxstrom and Todd meyers will be discussing their new book Realizing the Witch (Fordham University Press).
View ArticleAgathe Mora wins Hocart essay prize
Agathe Mora has just been awarded the RAI's Arthur Maurice Hocart prize for her essay: 'We Don't Work for the Serbs, We Work for Human Rights': Justice and Impartiality in Transitional Kosovo.
View ArticleEdinburgh welcomes Sri Lanka researchers
Sri Lanka in Transition: Society, Polity, Economy 5th Roundtable on Contemporary Sri Lanka, University of Edinburgh
View ArticleMy Neighbourhood: The Zabbaleen Rubbish Collectors of Cairo
A performance by Christian Stejskal: This show is a colourful personal journey from my birth city of Vienna to Ethiopia by foot, then into the lives of Cairo’s rubbish collectors, most of them...
View ArticleMSc by Research student Imogen Bevan awarded the 2016 Christine Wilson Prize
The Christine Wilson Prize is awarded by the AAA's Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition for the best graduate student essay on nutrition, food studies and anthropology.
View ArticleESRC-AHRC 'Arts for Advocacy' Project Launch
Dr Laura Jeffery (PI) and Dr Sebastien Bachelet have just launched their new ESRC-AHRC Globlal Challenges project, 'Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Forced Displacement in Morocco'
View ArticleSPS Student Receives Emerging Leaders in Anthropology Award
PhD student, Catherine Whittaker, has been presented with the Emerging Leaders award by the National Association of Student Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
View ArticleUndergraduate Students and Faculty in Journal Special Issue
Second-year students in the course "Ethnography: Theory and Practice" published in the journal "The Unfamiliar."
View ArticlePhD Student Wins Lisbon International Film Festival Award & RAI Award
Social Anthropology student, Diego Malara, has been awarded Best Documentary Short Film for his documentary entitled The Devil and the Holy Water.
View Article4th Year Social Anthropology Student wins Dissertation Photo Prize
At the recent SocAnthSoc Christmas Gathering event, 4th year student Katie Lawrence, was awarded a prize in recognition of the quality of the photographic images taken as part of her Dissertation...
View ArticleFourth Year Undergraduate Student's Article Published by Dangerous Women Project
Fourth-Year Student Adela Briansó's article "Pink Skeptics: Dangerous Women and the Pink Ribbon Culture" has been published by the Dangerous Women project.
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