On 6 December 2021, Dr Katerina Hatzikidi (University of Tübingen, University of Oxford) presented a fascinating talk titled ‘Moulding collective identities: Reflections on quilombo heritage politics in Brazil’ in our Anthroehampton seminar series, which is now available for viewing below.
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Spotlight on… Giovanna Capponi
Position: Postdoctoral fellow, ‘From Feed the Birds, To Do Not Feed the Animals’ Bio: Born in Italy, Giovanna obtained her first degree in Anthropology at the University of Bologna. She then moved to London to study a MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, and she continued her PhD in Social Anthropology at the Read More…
Hidden Anthropology Gems V: A conversation with Eres Ciencia
Welcome to the fifth post of the series. On this occasion, we have decided to remain far from our silo of social anthropologists to have an interdisciplinary conversation about ‘scientific dissemination’ with the project Eres Ciencia. Eres Ciencia (Spanish for “You are Science”) was created in 2018 by Maite Pérez Cidoncha, a biochemist and virologist Read More…
(Re)introducing our new postdoctoral fellow: Ricardo Ontillera
We are delighted that Ricardo Ontillera, who gained his PhD with us in 2020, is returning to spend a year (starting this autumn) as a SeNSS Post-Doctoral Fellow. He will have Professor Garry Marvin and Professor Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths) as his mentors. During this time, he and Garry will work on a project exploring the Read More…
James Davies’ new book ‘Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis’
James Davies’ new book Sedated has just been released with Atlantic Books. In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of Read More…
Rio Heriniaina has been selected as a top 100 young African conservation leader
Former MRes in Primate Biology, Behaviour and Conservation student, Rio Heriniaina, has been selected as one of the top 100 young African conservation leaders. These awards were created by the African Wildlife Foundation, together with Africa Alliance of the YMCA, World Scouts Movement, and the WWF consortium, and seek to recognise and nurture top Young Read More…
Being Human: Is obesity best understood as a social or biologically/evolutionarily-driven phenomenon?
As part of our first year Being Human module, students write an essay where they consider social and biological anthropological perspectives on a key topic in anthropology. This week we are featuring an essay by Katie Goode. Katie’s bio: I am a first-year anthropology student from Berkshire. I came across anthropology unexpectedly when looking for Read More…
Culture, Madness and Medicalisation: COVID, communities of colour and mental health
In our third year Culture, ‘Madness’ and Medicalisation module, students receive a critical introduction to today’s dominant psychological/clinical practices such as psychoanalysis, bio-psychiatry, psychotherapy, counselling and clinical psychology and the importance of anthropology in illuminating how psychological/clinical practices are dramatically shaping contemporary subjectivities and wider socio/cultural life. This year, our featured essay from the module Read More…
CRESIDA seminar by Ayaz Qureshi on valuing stigma in Pakistan’s HIV prevention
Alt. Vibes Online Festival
‘Alt. Vibes! A Spring in the step around Roehampton’ is a University of Roehampton, Wandsworth Council and community supported initiative funded by the Research England Strategic Priorities Fund. In lieu of a planned parade through Alton Estate and the University of Roehampton campus, this is an online performance featuring university partner the World Heart Beat Read More…
