EASA 2012 Uncertainty and disquiet The 12th biennial conference was hosted by Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC) at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Over 1400 academics discussed work based around the theme. The keynote address was given by Professor Caroline Humphrey of the University of Cambridge. With three plenaries, over 140 workshops, a film programme, and and the usual additional attractions this was a busy conference.. Useful tips To download a certificate of attendance, use the login link up top; once within Cocoa, find the line referring to your registration and click on the 'C' icon at the end to download and print off a signed PDF. Local committee Scientific committee All conference correspondence should be addressed to conference(AT)easaonline.org This conference was supported by:
Savage Minds | Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Resources for teaching medical anthropology With the school year approaching, many academic blogs have featured posts about teaching. We’ve run a few of these over the past years, including a number of syllabi related to medical anthropology. You can see them all by clicking on the “Teaching Resources” category in the sidebar, but I’ve also gathered the best of them here — along with a number of health + social science teaching resources from other sites. We’re always looking for more teaching resources to share, so if you have a syllabus or course design that has worked particularly well–or a resource that we’ve missed, get in touch with us at admin@somatosphere.net. Somatosphere posts Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Governance, Culture, and Subjectivities: a Syllabus This course looks at current trajectories in medical anthropology theory. Eugene Raikhel, Syllabus: Culture, Mental Health and Psychiatry Chris Garces, Teaching Critique of Humanitarianism: A Syllabus for Comparative Study Eugene Raikhel, Teaching Anthropology of the Body
What is philosophical anthropology? ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY Should We Clone Neanderthals? The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles The 50,000-year-old skull of a Neanderthal from the site of Shanidar in Iran (top) has a prominent browridge and more projecting face than the 40,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull found at Pestera cu Oase in Romania. (Erik Trinkaus) If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut. Over the past 4 years those beads have been gathering tiny fragments of DNA from samples of dissolved organic materials, including pieces of Neanderthal bone. Genetic sequences have given paleoanthropologists a new line of evidence for testing ideas about the biology of our closest extinct relative. The first studies of Neanderthal DNA focused on the genetic sequences of mitochondria, the microscopic organelles that convert food to energy within cells. Human rights laws vary widely around the world.
About the Department – University of Copenhagen The Department of Anthropology is one of Europe's largest anthropological research establishments in Europe with an academic staff of 50 (including PhD students), a joint administration with Department of Sociology and approximately 550 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Research The Department of Anthropology represents a broad approach to anthropology. This diversity is expressed in regional foci, theoretical orientation and methodology, and results in a dynamic practice of anthropology, acutely aware of its own traditions and upcoming challenges. The research of the Department falls in five core areas: Studies The Department of Anthropology offers two Master's degrees in English - the Master in Anthropology and in Master in Anthropology and People-Centred Business. On these pages you can read more about the different possibilities for studying at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
Culture Matters An Extreme Reading of Facebook | OAC Press Working Papers Series #5 ISSN 2045-5763 (online) An Extreme Reading of Facebook Daniel Miller University College London © 2010 Daniel Miller Open Anthropology Cooperative Press www.openanthcoop.net/press Forum discussion in the OAC network. I welcome the development of internet forums such as the Open Anthropology Cooperative and Medianth. The publication these excerpts are taken from is called Tales from Facebook (Polity April 2011). The three propositions I propose to push to more extreme lengths here are as follows: 1) That Facebook radically transforms the premise and direction of social science. 2) That Facebook is a medium for developing a relationship to god. 3) That Facebook, like Kula, is an ideal foundation for a theory of culture mainly because Facebook and Kula are practically the same thing. I am optimistic that academics will find grounds for disagreement with these three assertions. Proposition one – Facebook radically transforms the premise and direction of social science.
Waterworlds – University of Copenhagen The Thesis Whisperer NEEM – University of Copenhagen The History of Ideas and the History of Science The Department focuses on the European contribution to the development of intellectual and scientific thought from the 16th century onwards, looking at the way this was shaped by Europe’s contacts with the outside world, and the way European thought impacted on the societies with which it had contacts, as part of the colonial experience. At the EUI the History of Ideas is interdisciplinary, comparative and European in its outlook. Whilst pursuing their own concern with genuinely historical reconstructions of the cultural and intellectual life of the past, intellectual historians are engaged in dialogue with the concerns of those working in fields such as Literature, Philosophy, Law, Politics and Religious Studies. A number of researchers situate their research projects explicitly at the crossroads of history and literature, focusing on figures such as the late Victorian moralist John Morley, the Austrian author Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Giuseppe Mazzini in British exile.