Durham University Anthropology

Flashes of Responsibility special collection announcement - Durham University

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Screenshot of a page on the Society for Medical Anthropology website, showing 12 thumbnail links for a variety of online articles. The webpage is titled 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography'.

Special collection out now: 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography'

Read it here: medanthro.net/critical-car...

Featuring many of our Department's health anthropologists: staff members, postdocs, and PhD students!

#Anthropology #GlobalHealth #DUresearch

Welcome! - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Application Processes Toolkit Welcome! What is EDI? Throughout this toolkit we will use the acronym EDI to mean Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Durham University is committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment wher...

Many thanks to the team behind it!

Prof @rachkendal.bsky.social (Anthropology), Lizzie Ranson (RIS), Lorna Winship (formerly Anthropology, RIS) and @sarahewright.bsky.social (formerly Anthropology, Psychology)

@cultevolfunding.bsky.social

Toolkit: editoolkit.webspace.durham.ac.uk

The toolkit is intended to help people embed EDI principles into all types of application processes, including funding, jobs or experience opportunities. It provides a step-by-step guide and resources to promote efficiency and reduce the admin burden traditionally associated with EDI. (cont'd below)

Seminar room of people listening to a presentation delivered by Prof Rachel Kendal, part of the launch event for the 'EDI in application processes’ toolkit.

Group photo of the team behind the EDI in application processes toolkit. They stand at the front of a seminar room, next to a screen with a PowerPoint slide titled 'What is in the toolkit?' with a colourful infographic.

Last week we saw the launch of the new 'EDI in application processes' toolkit!

editoolkit.webspace.durham.ac.uk

(more info in thread 👇)

Photo of Prof Rob Barton, speaking at a panel event. He holds a wireless microphone and behind him is a large photo full of green plants.

Our Prof Rob Barton has been elected as a fellow of the @rsb.org.uk!

Fellows of the RSB demonstrate a distinctive and notable contribution to the advancement of the biological sciences, with min. 5yrs' influential experience throughout their career.

More about Rob: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/r-a-ba...

2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs Rumour is part of politics and society but now it can be magnified and curated at speed in the age of the (un)smart phone. Compared to the digital control of the previous regime what we have now is th...

"- each of these events become a means to prey on existing codes of vulnerabilities, to ensure the weak remain weak and the powerful remain powerful." [end of thread]

Read Prof Nayanika Mookherjee's original article here: counterpointbd.com/2026-Banglad...

"My research on birangonas (Survivors of wartime sexual violence of the Bangladesh war of 1971) instruct me to argue that anyone researching on the innumerable cases of blasphemy, killings, lynchings being carried out in South Asia are bound to come across how -" (continued in thread)

Prof Nayanika Mookherjee has said of her article: "In this essay I write on the danger of misinformation in South Asia in the run up to the Feb 2026 Bangladeshi elections and the codes of vulnerabilities which becomes preyed on."

(continued in thread)

2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs - Durham University

New article published by our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee, '2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs'

Read it here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... (republished from counterpointbd.com)

#Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #DurhamAnthropology

Paolo Fortis: "Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual" - Department of Social Anthropology The Departmental Seminar Series features Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Durham University, U.K.

"Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual"

Last term our Department's Dr Paolo Fortis was invited to give the weekly Departmental Seminar at the University of Oslo's Social Anthropology Department - learn more here!

www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/...

#Anthropology

Screenshot of the EthnoScripts Contemporary Anthropology webpage, showing the Vol 27 No. 1 (2025) issue: Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State. The issue was published 2nd Dec 2025.

📃 Out now! 📃

Our Anthropology Department's Professor Yulia Egorova has co-edited an issue of Ethnoscripts titled 'Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State' - available free and open access here: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts...

#DUresearch #Anthropology #CulturalHeritage

Heritage railway volunteers show how deep friendships can be formed without discussing emotions - Durham University

Research by @tomyarrow.bsky.social challenges the idea that emotional openness is the only route to friendship. He found that care & intimacy can be forged through shared work, banter & even silence. www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
@uk.theconversation.com @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

My @uk.theconversation.com piece on male friendship and intimacy beyond words is out today:

Mental health: Research shows not all men should open up to their friends Professor of Anthropolgy at Durham University, Thomas Yarrow, explains his findings.

Me on Sky News waffling nervously about friendship and intimacy:

news.sky.com/video/mental...

BBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 34, Monkey Business - Robin Dunbar, Dave Gorman and Jo Setchell Robin Ince and Brian Cox go bananas for our monkiest episode yet, all about primate love.

Keep an ear out this Thursday 18 Dec at 11am for our Prof Jo Setchell on BBC Radio 4! It's all about monkey business... 🐒

If you can't wait - it's already available online: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Anthropology #Primates #DurhamAnthropology

Picture of front cover of Theme Issue entitled "Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures." The image on the front cover is of a Yao honey hunter in Mozambique holding retrieved honeycomb.

Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Ben Campbell Lecture 10 Dec 2025 - Durham University

We're looking forward to the upcoming Inaugural Professorial Lecture by our Professor Ben Campbell - “What Are you Doing in this Place of Nothing but Rocks and Trees?”

🗓️ 3-5pm, 10 Dec 2025
📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre

Free to attend!

More info and abstract:
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Walking habits of young men in Cape Town and London - Durham University

Professor Gina Porter, @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, and Bradley Rink, at the University of the Western Cape, draw on research in Cape Town and London to challenge the common assumption that young men walk freely and without fear within communities. Read more 👉 bit.ly/43I4D8B

#DUResearch

Two photos and text against a textured light beige background. The top is a group photo with Nayanika in the centre. The bottom photo is of Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza introducing Nayanika before Nayanika gives a lecture. The text is a bullet point list of activities: Fieldwork, lecture at Jahangirnagar University, Speaker at Legal Aid (BLAST) event, Meeting anthropology colleagues across universities, book launch of Nayanika's past PhD student Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza!

(2/2) ...met the public anthropology collective and anthropology colleagues at various universities, and celebrated the book publication of 'IVF and Childlessness in Bangladesh: Constructions of Motherhood', authored by Nayanika's past PhD student, Professor Taslima Sultana Mirza!

Photo collage against a textured light beige background. Clockwise from top left: Nayanika and Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza; Nayanika on the right of a group photo; Nayanika speaking at an event; Nayanika celebrating the book launch of “IVF and Childlessness in Bangladesh: Constructions of Motherhood" with Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza who is cutting into a cake. Text at the centre reads: "Professor Nayanika Mookherjee" with the subtitle "Bangladesh, August 2025" next to a map location icon.Photo collage against a textured light beige background. Clockwise from top left: Nayanika and Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza; Nayanika on the right of a group photo; Nayanika speaking at an event; Nayanika celebrating the book launch of “IVF and Childlessness in Bangladesh: Constructions of Motherhood" with Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza who is cutting into a cake. Text at the centre reads: "Professor Nayanika Mookherjee" with the subtitle "Bangladesh, August 2025" next to a map location icon.

Aug 2025 when our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee was in Bangladesh:

Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at Jahangirnagar University's Anthropology Dept and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)

Children’s preferences for features and designs of KN95-style respirators: A comparative study between Indonesia and Nepal This study explores children’s preferences for different designs of KN95-style respirators in two highly polluted cities: Kathmandu, Nepal and Bandung, Indonesia. It aims to understand which designs a...

First paper out in FACE-UP project on protecting children from urban air pollution www.growkudos.com/articles/10.... with Judith Covey and @clairehorwell.bsky.social. @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

'Undamned: indigenous leadership in river restoration in North America', a talk by Prof Beth Rose Middleton Manning (University of California, Davis) on 10 Nov, 5.30pm at Trevelyan College. No need to book, just come along. #IASFellows @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Thanks @patrickesavage.bsky.social great to see the door stop being used in great teaching @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social

Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Layton Dialogue - Durham University

📢 Upcoming event! 📢

This year's Layton Dialogue will be on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

📅 5 Nov, 3-5pm
📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre

Free and open to all!

More info: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

#Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateChange

Learn more about Yulia's work: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/yulia-...

Visit our #SocialAnthropology Research Group: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Photo of Prof Yulia Egorova standing near a wall sign saying 'The University of Chicago: John W. Boyer Center in Paris'.

Our Head of Department Prof Yulia Egorova a few weeks ago:

💭 Yulia presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’.

📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara

Delighted to share that Athena Swan have conferred a Silver Award on our Department!

This recognises our efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application!

@advancehe.bsky.social

#AthenaSwan #Anthropology

Photo collage showing four photos from a field trip to Gibraltar in 2025. Left photo shows students walking across a rope bridge, top right shows students observing a macaque, central right shows students and staff enjoying dinner together at a long table. Bottom right is a photo of three macaques, including an infant.

Day 1 of our recent Gibraltar field school:

🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve
📋practice behavioural data collection
😋and a dinner in Casemates Square!

Find out more about our residential field courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/...

#Anthropology #StudyAnthropology #Fieldwork

REF 2029 sub-panels announcement - Durham University

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