Via Felix Driver AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship on indigenous maps within the collections of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). …
Members of the Emerging Subjects project at UCL and the National University of Mongolia contributed to this post. What does focusing on gifts given and received during the Lunar…
is awarded periodically to an author or photographer whose publication, exhibit, website, or other multimedia production exemplifies the use of still photographs (both historical and contemporary) for…
Via Sandra Rozental, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City The Absent Stone (2013) is a documentary film that combines contemporary ethnographic filmmaking, animation and a wide …
Samantha Ellis at the Times Literary Supplement reviews a new book by Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in nine objects. This book is partly an attempt to…
Christopher Pinney, UCL Anthropology I recently came across M.N. Srinivas’ observation that his enthusiastic engagement with photography, during his fieldwork in Mysore in the late 1940s, earned him…
Haidy Geismar, UCL The movement towards open access has continued to gain momentum in the social sciences, and in anthropology, with important new journals such as Hau;…
Haidy Geismar, UCL I recently spent an afternoon at the site of the former twin towers, where now there lies, imprinted on the foundations, one of the largest…
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, and Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the ANU has recently advertised three positions for which…
A major international conference focused on the intersection of media art and technological change over time. How is this shifting the way museums operate and how conservation works?…
David Jeevendrampillai, UCL Anthropology Image 1: The Story of Seething Exhibition. Jan – May 2015. UCL Anthropology (Photo Credit: Timothy Carroll). UCL promotes itself as a leading global…
Ludovic Coupaye, UCL Anthropology Over the last five years, undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in the course emphatically called “Transforming and Creating Worlds: Anthropological Perspe…
Via Olav Velthuis, University of Amsterdam 28-30 January 2016, University of Amsterdam, Department of Sociology The aim of this multidisciplinary international conference is to bring together theoreti…
Anna Grimshaw, Emory University In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to…
The amateur film is becoming a global visual lingua franca, a consequence of the conjuncture of the digital with new and widely accessible film technologies (notably the camera…
An event with Professor Anthony Shelton Thursday 21 May 2015, 6pm, Room G01, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Between the…
Via Guggenheim.org This month, the Guggenheim Museum is proud to donate 100 images of artworks to Wikipedia, including selections from the museum’s collection by Edgar Degas, Paul Klee,…
Christopher Tilley, Department of Anthropology, University College London (c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk) Robert Macfarlane Landmarks (2015) London: Hamish Hamilton, 387pp. £20.00 rrp This is the fifth bo…
Jane Yoonjeong Rhee, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL “The Social Museum is a democratic space of civil society that envisions a neutral zone of values. We begin…
Via Felix Driver, Royal Holloway May 19, 2015 World Museums: Geographies and Genealogies Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, 5.15pm In conversation: Anthony Shelton, Director of the Museu…