Anthropology A-level Conference
Date and Times: Friday 22nd March 2013 10:00-14:30 at Brunel University
This day-long conference, jointly organised by the Department of Anthropology at Brunel University, and the Humanities Department at Heston Community School, and supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute, will revolve around a series of workshops modelled on actual university lectures. These workshops will draw directly from the fieldwork experiences of Brunel’s Anthropologists and tie in with the core A-level themes:
- Being Human: Unity and Diversity
- Becoming a person: identity and belonging
- Global and local: societies, environment, globalisation
- Practising Anthropology: methods and investigation
Tentative topics include:
- Disco in ‘traditional’ ritual in Papua New Guinea
- An anthropological perspective on AIDS in South Africa
- Language and emotion: how do we understand emotions across cultures?
- Being seen and unseen: visibility and invisibility in school
- Reading the body anthropologically
- Anthropological perspectives on female circumcision
- How do Indians eat?
- What does it mean to be hungry?
- Practising anthropology: ethnographic ‘methods and investigation’
This exciting event promises to give pre-university students a taste of what it is like to study Anthropology at University. Students will be able to purchase their lunch on campus, and will also be invited to go on a campus tour.
Places are limited so please book in advance. Contact tmaric@hestoncs.hounslow.sch.uk for booking details.
