Durham Anthropology

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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’ durham.ac.uk/research/curre… #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: durham.ac.uk/gfss

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New special collection: 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography' Read it here: medanthro.net/critical-care-… Featuring many of our health anthropologists: staff members, postdocs, and PhD students! #Anthropology #GlobalHealth #DUresearch

Find out more about Prof Rob Barton's work: durham.ac.uk/staff/r-a-bart… #Anthropology #EvolutionaryBiology #BiologicalAnthropology #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: sv.uio.no/sai/english/re… #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 👉 journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/i… #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. 👉 brnw.ch/21wYRW0 @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: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #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: durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…

Ancient Identities in Britain, my @ahrcpress funded book with Richard Hingley and Kate Sharp is just out and available OA here: uclpress.co.uk/book/ancient-i…

@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)

Learn more about Yulia's research: durham.ac.uk/staff/yulia-eg… Learn more about our #SocialAnthropology Research Group and related Master's courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/ac… #Anthropology #SocialScience #Research #PostgraduateStudy

💭 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: durham.ac.uk/departments/ac… #Anthropology #StudyAnthropology

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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.