Durham Anthropology

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Read the original article in The Conversation: https://t.co/nbtNpl22Mk

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"Everyone’s invoking context, but nobody’s agreeing."

New article from our Department's Dr Paolo Heywood:
How to spot the use and abuse of the word ‘context’

https://t.co/8oOVrUL1z4

#DUresearch #DurhamAnthropology #SocialAnthropology

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📣 Applications for @durham_uni's pre-university summer school are open
🏰 Spend 10 days in a @UNESCO World Heritage city
👩‍🎓 Seminars taught by Durham academics
🛏️ En-suite accommodation in a college to gain experience of undergraduate life
💻 Apply: https://t.co/sWgfngS1wu

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Find out more in our news story: https://t.co/i0LZGYgLIG

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New special collection: 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography'

Read it here: https://t.co/WBGb2tnsew

Featuring many of our health anthropologists: staff members, postdocs, and PhD students!

#Anthropology #GlobalHealth #DUresearch

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Find out more about Prof Rob Barton's work: https://t.co/AFgf8eJD8A

#Anthropology #EvolutionaryBiology #BiologicalAnthropology #DUresearch

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Delighted to announce our Prof Rob Barton has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology!

RSB Fellows demonstrate a distinctive and notable contribution to the advancement of the biological sciences, with min. 5yrs influential experience throughout their career.

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"Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual"

Last term our Department's Dr Paolo Fortis was invited to give the weekly Departmental Seminar at the University of Oslo's Social Anthropology Department - learn more:
https://t.co/FVhAbnuzPJ

#Anthropology

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📃 Out now! 📃

Our Department's Professor Yulia Egorova has co-edited an issue of Ethnoscripts titled 'Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State' - available free and open access here 👉 https://t.co/f6Jsm3ujjj

#DurhamAnthropology #Anthropology #CulturalHeritage

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Research by @t_yarrow of @AnthDurham1 challenges the idea that emotional openness is the only route to connection & friendship.

He found that care & intimacy can be forged through shared work, banter and even silence.

👉 https://t.co/xMry2sDXce

@ConversationUK #DUresearch

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Keep an ear out this Thursday 18 Dec at 11am for our Professor Jo Setchell on BBC Radio 4! It's all about monkey business... 🐒

If you can't wait - it's already available online: https://t.co/ZTNNT3Gi26

#Anthropology #Primates #DurhamAnthropology

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Looking forward to the upcoming Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Ben Campbell - “What Are you Doing in this Place of Nothing but Rocks and Trees?”

🗓️ 3-5pm, 10 Dec 2025
📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre

Free to attend!

More info and abstract:
https://t.co/RkMrJtMnOs

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Ancient Identities in Britain, my @ahrcpress funded book with Richard Hingley and Kate Sharp is just out and available OA here:

https://t.co/RV7l8nOyJf

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@edu_juniv (2/2) ...met the public anthropology collective and anthropology colleagues at various universities, and celebrated the book publication of 'IVF and Childlessness in Bangladesh: Constructions of Motherhood', by Nayanika's past PhD student, Professor Taslima Sultana Mirza!

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📷Looking back to Aug 2025, when our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee was in Bangladesh 📷

Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at @edu_juniv and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)

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Learn more about Yulia's research: https://t.co/tE6K3LJqfm

Learn more about our #SocialAnthropology Research Group and related Master's courses: https://t.co/Jt0wdZBCgV

#Anthropology #SocialScience #Research #PostgraduateStudy

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💭 In Sep our Head of Dept Prof Yulia Egorova presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop on ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’.

📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara

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Delighted to share that Athena Swan @AdvanceHE have conferred a Silver Award on our Department!

This recognises our Department's efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application!

#AthenaSwan

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Day 1 of our recent Gibraltar field school:
🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve
📋practice behavioural data collection
😋and a dinner in Casemates Square

Find out more about our residential field courses: https://t.co/5pUO9Uv4Vb

#Anthropology #StudyAnthropology

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Learn more in this news story: https://t.co/nS6uJIdMYT

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Congratulations to Prof Jo Setchell, appointed to the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 sub-panel on #Anthropology and #DevelopmentStudies!

This expert sub-panel will assess research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, in UK higher education institutions.