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.
