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"Everyone’s invoking context, but nobody’s agreeing." New article from our Department's Dr Paolo Heywood: How to spot the use and abuse of the word ‘context’ durham.ac.uk/research/curren… #DUresearch #DurhamAnthropology #SocialAnthropology
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Read the original article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-to-s…

How to spot the use and abuse of the word ‘context’

It’s common to hear someone claiming controversial comments were ‘taken out of context’ but this is a word with many meanings.

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📣 Applications for @durham_uni's pre-university summer school are open 🏰 Spend 10 days in a @UNESCO World Heritage city 👩‍🎓 Seminars taught by Durham academics 🛏️ En-suite accommodation in a college to gain experience of undergraduate life 💻 Apply: durham.ac.uk/gfss
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New special collection: 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography' Read it here: medanthro.net/critical-care-… Featuring many of our health anthropologists: staff members, postdocs, and PhD students! #Anthropology #GlobalHealth #DUresearch
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'.

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Find out more in our news story: durham.ac.uk/departments/aca…
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Delighted to announce our Prof Rob Barton has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology! RSB Fellows demonstrate a distinctive and notable contribution to the advancement of the biological sciences, with min. 5yrs influential experience throughout their career.
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.

ALT 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.

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Find out more about Prof Rob Barton's work: durham.ac.uk/staff/r-a-barto… #Anthropology #EvolutionaryBiology #BiologicalAnthropology #DUresearch
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"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: sv.uio.no/sai/english/resear… #Anthropology

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

The Departmental Seminar Series features Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Durham University, U.K.

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📃 Out now! 📃 Our 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/… #DurhamAnthropology #Anthropology #CulturalHeritage
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.

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Research by @t_yarrow of @AnthDurham1 challenges the idea that emotional openness is the only route to connection & friendship. He found that care & intimacy can be forged through shared work, banter and even silence. 👉 brnw.ch/21wYRW0 @ConversationUK #DUresearch
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Keep an ear out this Thursday 18 Dec at 11am for our Professor Jo Setchell on BBC Radio 4! It's all about monkey business... 🐒 If you can't wait - it's already available online: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kjv… #Anthropology #Primates #DurhamAnthropology

BBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 34, Monkey Business - Robin Dunbar, Dave Gorman and...

Robin Ince and Brian Cox go bananas for our monkiest episode yet, all about primate love.

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Looking forward to the upcoming Inaugural Professorial Lecture by 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: durham.ac.uk/departments/aca…
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Ancient Identities in Britain, my @ahrcpress funded book with Richard Hingley and Kate Sharp is just out and available OA here: uclpress.co.uk/book/ancient-…
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📷Looking back to Aug 2025, when our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee was in Bangladesh 📷 Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at @edu_juniv and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)
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.

ALT 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.

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(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', by Nayanika's past PhD student, Professor Taslima Sultana Mirza!
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!

ALT 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!

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💭 In Sep our Head of Dept Prof Yulia Egorova presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop on ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’. 📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
Photo of Prof Yulia Egorova standing near a wall sign saying 'The University of Chicago: John W. Boyer Center in Paris'.

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

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Learn more about Yulia's research: durham.ac.uk/staff/yulia-ego… Learn more about our #SocialAnthropology Research Group and related Master's courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/aca… #Anthropology #SocialScience #Research #PostgraduateStudy
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Delighted to share that Athena Swan @AdvanceHE have conferred a Silver Award on our Department! This recognises our Department's efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application! #AthenaSwan
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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/aca… #Anthropology #StudyAnthropology
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.

ALT 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.

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Congratulations to Prof Jo Setchell, appointed to the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 sub-panel on #Anthropology and #DevelopmentStudies! This expert sub-panel will assess research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, in UK higher education institutions.
Selfie of Prof Jo Setchell standing in a mountainous landscape on a blue-skied, sunny day.

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