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The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is part of the new School of Environment and Society (formed in January 2005). We have thriving and rapidly expanding Taught Masters programme in Social Research. Students can also pursue individual research at postgraduate level. We no longer offer degree schemes at undergraduate level, but we continue to offer undergraduate modules in other subjects' degree schemes.
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Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland has been researching performance dance in Indonesia since 1982. Her book, Embodied Communities: dance traditions and change in Java (Berghahn 2008), follows two internationally renowned films and many academic publications about the transformation of Javanese court dance, based on original research and fieldwork between 1982 and 1999.
Felicia Hughes-Freeland will be organising the 2009 conference of the Association of Southeast Asianists UK (ASEASUK), at Swansea University, 11-13 September. A call for panels will be made soon.
Felicia Hughes-Freeland was invited to present the paper ‘Divine Cyborgs? Ritual Spirit Presence and the Limits of Media’ to the panel ‘Media and/as Ritual at the conference ‘Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual’, 29 September- 2 October 2008, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Dr Leonard Mars, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, delivered a paper in the ‘Heritage’ section of the Sixth International Archaeological Congress to be held at the University College of Dublin, 29 June-4 July 2008. The title is "Fresh Air and Fun: Patterns of Production and Networks of Consumption" and concerns Blackpool in the 1940s and 1950s.
Felicia Hughes-Freeland was Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Feb-May 2008. During her visit she participated in the following seminars: ‘The Aesthetics of Hybridization: Performance Culture in Indonesia after 1998’, to the Cultural Studies Cluster Round Table, Asia Research Institute (12 Feb); ‘In the beginning was… a poem’, seminar to the Asia Research Institute; ‘Victim or Virago no More? Women’s Impacts on Recent Indonesian Cinema’ to the Cultural Studies Cluster, Asia Research Institute; and ‘Two films by Felicia Hughes-Freeland’, to the Cultural Studies Cluster for the Asia Research Institute Seminar Series (25 April).
Dr Prodromos Panayiotopoulos (aka Dr Mike Pany) gave a paper at the IV International Congress on Cyprus Studies in Nicosia, Cyprus (28 April-3 May 2008), with the title ‘Cyprus, immigrant workers and the world economy: a case study of Filipina domestic workers’
Felicia Hughes-Freeland was invited to be a key note speaker at the symposium ‘Re-placing Ritual and Ceremony’, Lancaster University, where she presented the paper ‘Divine Cyborgs? Ritual Spirit Presence and the Limits of Media’.
Felicia Hughes-Freeland presented the paper ‘Java-Japan-Java: Didik Nini Thowok’s Bedhaya Hagoromo’, to the panel ‘Southeast Asian Arts in Transnational Perspective’ convened by Matthew I Cohen and Laura Nozslopzy, at the Conference of the Association of Southeast Asianists UK (ASEASUK), John Moores University, Liverpool.
Stephanie Jones presented a paper at St Andrews University’s Social Anthropology Department titled ‘Using ethnographic approaches in participatory research on supported employment for people with learning difficulties’ on 8 May 2008.
Dr Prodromos Panayiotopoulos (aka Dr Mike Pany) gave a paper at Manchester Business School, Ethnic Minority Enterprise Seminar Series, on 17 April 2008, on ‘Immigrants, entrepreneurs and local economic development’.
Charlotte Davies and Stephanie Jones presented a paper titled ‘Gender balance, political culture and working environment in the National Assembly for Wales’ at the BSA (British Sociological Association) Annual Conference on 28 March 2008.
Charlotte Davies presented a paper titled ‘My family and other animals: pets as kin’ at the same conference on 29 March 2008.
Charlotte Davies presented a paper titled ‘Gender and political Culture at the National Assembly for Wales ‘ at the Wales Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs (WISCA), Bangor University on 5 March 2008.
Charlotte Davies and Stephanie Jones presented a paper titled ‘Challenging masculinist political cultures? Experiences of devolved government in Wales’ at the Engendering Politics and Devolution Workshop at Warwick University on 15 February 2008.
Felicia Hughes-Freeland spent a week in January 2008 interviewing women film directors in Jakarta, Indonesia as part of research about women filmmakers for a film being produced with the filmmaker and development communications consultant, Elizabeth Wickett.