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Urgent Anthropology Programme Seminar

May 9 @ 12:00 am

Urgent Anthropology Programme Seminar

Monday, 9 May 2011 from 1pm to 4pm at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum.

Welcome Address

Professor Roy Ellen, President RAI and School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK

Urgency in Anthropology: some history and the aims of AFUAR

Dr. Rajindra K. Puri, RAI Urgent Anthropology Committee and School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK

From the Horse’s Mouth: perceptions of development from Papua New Guinea

Dr. Emma Gilberthorpe – Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK

Collect, Protect, Connect: Reflections on the Digital Himalaya Decade

Dr. Mark Turin, World Oral Literature Project, Cambridge University, UK

Economy, kinship and belief among the Ulwa (Southern Sumu) and Miskitu, Nicaragua

Dr. Mark Jamieson – Department of Anthropology, University of East London, UK

Urgent Anthropology in Times of Crisis: A Scientist’s Dilemma in the Aftermath of the Tsunami

Dr. Simron Singh- Institute for Social Ecology, Vienna, Austria

Questions and discussion

This event is based on the Urgent Anthropology Fellowship.

All welcome. Admission free without ticket. Refreshments afterwards.

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