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Lys Alcayna-Stevens

@lysalcayna.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk | Environmental Justice | Epidemic Economies | Degrowth | DR Congo

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Come work with our wonderful and dynamic Medical Anthropology teaching team @oxford-anthro.bsky.social ! Deadline 23 September for an October start my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

10.09.2025 11:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Holman Fellow for African Health and Medicine Research University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

Job alert ๐Ÿšจ Holman Fellow for African Health and Medicine Research @upenn.edu | wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

10.09.2025 11:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
2025 Programme - London Anthropology Day London Anthropology Day A university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

We'll be at London Anthropology Day to chat about our department & programmes, including our undergrad courses in #HumanSciences and Archaeology & Anthropology.
Plus, Dr Lys Alcayna-Stevens will lecture on 'Pandemics and People'. Join us there!
More info: londonanthropologyday.co.uk/programme/

27.03.2025 12:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social on Friday for our final Department Seminar of the Term! We will be joined by Iza Kavedลพija, presenting her paper โ€˜Embodying Emptiness: Enskillment and the artistic imagination in Japanโ€™. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/embody...

13.03.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Intrepid Women Due for publication 8thย March 2025 Introducing the extraordinary women who broke through the proverbial glass ceiling to carry outย revolutionary field research in distant parts of the world โ€˜unsuitabl...

๐Ÿ“ฃ Out now! 'Intrepid Women'
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

10.03.2025 11:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social on Friday for our weekly Department Seminar - weโ€™ll be joined by Katrien Pype, presenting her paper โ€˜The Post-Global City: South-South geographies and political affects in Kinshasa's emerging tech sceneโ€™. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/from-l...

03.03.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper โ€˜Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegalโ€™. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...

25.02.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Really looking forward to screening โ€˜Kongoโ€™ (2019) by Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav at tomorrowโ€™s @oxford-anthro.bsky.social film session with @chihab.bsky.social!

25.02.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The first launch of #PlantationWorlds at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social, with Thomas Cousins, @lysalcayna.bsky.social and @chihab.bsky.social!

28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social

24.02.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ Next in our weekly Seminar Series:
'Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological description as scaffold or mosaic'
Join us and our speaker Professor David Zeitlyn (Professor of Social Anthropology) at 2pm on Friday 21 Feb!
More info: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/tradin...

20.02.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social tomorrow for our second Department Seminar of the Term to hear Sandra Calkins talk on โ€˜The Undergrowth: Plotting human-plant futures from Ugandaโ€™

30.01.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Politics of Rain: Political violence and the potential for new life in the Palestine Anthropocene

More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/politi...

23.01.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social tomorrow at our first Department Seminar of the Term at 2pm, for what promises to be a fascinating talk by Dr Emilie Glazer on โ€˜The Politics of Rain: Political violence and the potential for new life in the Palestine Anthropoceneโ€™

23.01.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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