Press Releases
15 May 2008
Anthropology Award
Katherine Smith (PhD student in Anthropology) and Dr Àngels Trias i Valls (Lecturer in Anthropology) have been awarded the top £2,500 bid for an anthropology postgraduate project by the Higher Education Academy for the Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP). The project competed with another 50 national projects and was selected as one of the final ten awards. The project examines issues of consent and dominance in areas of citizenship, ethnicities and sexuality in the world today. The project will consist of two one-day postgraduate conferences and workshops at the Gregynog University of Wales Conference Centre in Newtown, Powys with the title: ‘Interrogating Consent and Dominance: citizenship, ethnicities and sexualities in research and teaching’. The dates for the two events are 10 September 2008 and 9 February 2009. The conferences will address the complex interplay of consent and dominance in the constitution of ethnicities, citizenship and sexualities and offer new researchers an avenue for the exploration of these issues. Furthermore, the events will explore theory and ‘best practice’ in research and teaching in social anthropology and related disciplines. The workshops aim to foster mutually-informing dialogues between postgraduate students at all stages of their career and staff, and it aims at connecting research and teaching in Wales with those beyond. Some of the outcomes of this project will be, in addition to the conference events, the dissemination of findings through publication, the strengthening of research networks among postgraduate students in Wales and the UK, and a website.
