"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
📣 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
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
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.
"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
📃 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
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
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
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
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
@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!
📷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)
💭 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
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
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
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.