📣Exciting news📣- Professor Simone Abram is announced as the new Durham University Ørsted UK Chair of Green Energy Systems and Director of our Durham Energy Institute (DEI). She is the first social scientist to lead the DEI. Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/21wIPo5

We're thrilled to announce our outstanding performance in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 🏆🎓🥳

⭐ 3 subjects in the top 10
⭐ 10 subjects in the top 50
⭐19 subjects in the top 100

Find out which ones secured top spots 👉 brnw.ch/21wIGio

#QS WUR #QS #DUinspire

If you are in Durham on Wednesday next week, come and join S Erikainen Celia Roberts Andrea Ford Lisa Raeder and I for the launch our new book, Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary. @durhamIMH
Durham Anthropology All welcome!

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Scientists from Durham Anthropology have uncovered surprising insights into the behaviour of wild #baboons in South Africa using an innovative camera collar system.

Read more: brnw.ch/21wI2Ok
#DUresearch

The Call for Papers ends in two days!!!!

Anthropology Postgraduate Conference 2024: Diversity
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Location: Durham University
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, March 15, 2024, Midnight GMT

Please fill out the form (link in bio or scan QR)!!!

Professor Andrew Russell on how language shapes the climate space beyond #COP28

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The head or the space between us?  – An evolutionary perspective on the Ecologies of the Mind anthro-scene.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2024/02/09/the… great inaugural piece on Durham Anthropology student blog #Anthroscene

Our next Fellows' seminar is on Mon 05 Feb, 1pm and given by anthropologist Dr Mara Leichtman (Michigan): 'Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens'. To attend sign up at forms.office.com/e/NzKpUEtSZY
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How avian flu became endemic: history and anthropology of a global mobilisation Durham Anthropology seminar by Frederic Keck, leading off our themed series on environment

Are you doing an ethnographic PhD and at the stage of writing up? This two day workshop at Durham could be helpful (applications close Feb 5th):

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Great talk by Ben Walton on how crop foraging baboons in South Africa use space and manage risk at PrimateSocietyGB conference #PSGB2024

Come along to St Aidan's College (Lindisfarne Centre) tonight at 5.30pm to hear IAS Fellow, Dr Mara Leichtman (Michigan State), discuss what it means to be Shi‘a in a Sunni Muslim-majority West African context.
SGIA Durham Durham Anthropology Durham History St Aidan's College

Staff at DISC (Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre) are collaborating with the charity Amma Birth Companions 🧡 on a research project looking at the experiences of caring for babies in temporary accommodation.

Members of the research team are pictured at the Amma offices in Glasgow.

Abstract submission for #ces2024durham is OPEN!! Deadline to submit is the 11th March 2024 09:00am GMT! Cultural Evolution Society Submit here ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/abstract-submi…
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Only 3 days until Friday 12th when abstract submission opens for the #CES2024Durham conference! Today's EDI Initiative: the conference will be hybrid to enable those who have care responsibilities, can't fly etc to still attend Cultural Evolution Society

I'll be running this PhD ethnographic writing workshop Durham Anthropology
together with Michael Crawley, Dr Skyler Hawkins, Prof Cate Degnen and others. Please consider applying if you're post-fieldwork:

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