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AI and scholarship: a manifesto

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Two leading academics from the ̽��ֱ��'s School of Humanities and Social Sciences provide a framework that supports scholars and students in navigating generative AI.

Cambridge ReseARch Trail

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A new augmented reality trail, launched as part of the Cambridge Festival, is showcasing the world leading research of the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge in a new light.

Cancer isn’t fair – but care should be

lw355 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 07:50:57 +0000

Listening to people's lived experiences is helping to improve the awareness and uptake of cancer care. On World Cancer Day, we take a look at some of the ways researchers are working with communities to ‘close the cancer care gap’.

Vision in the field: Photography from social anthropology

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̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ��’s Department of Social Anthropology studies how people live: what they make, do, think and the organisation of their relationships, societies and cultures. Photography is a core part of that research. For social anthropologists, this imagery is not just part of the story, but a source of insight into who people are.

Five Cambridge academics elected to the British Academy in 2022

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̽��ֱ��academics have been elected to the fellowship this year in recognition of their work in the fields of literature, visual culture, memory, history and heritage, and are among 85 distinguished scholars to be elected to the British Academy in 2022.

Professor Virginia Cox (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics; Trinity College)
Virginia Cox’s research focuses on Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature, on the history of the reception of classical rhetorical theory in Italy between the 13th and 16th centuries, and on the history of Italian early modern writing by women.

Professor Richard Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
Richard (Rik) Henson’s primary research focus is how the brain 'remembers' things. His work uses focuses on trying to understand how our brains support different types of memory, which is vital for understanding the memory problems associated with brain damage and disease. He is current president of the British Neuroscience Association.

Professor Heonik Kwon (Department of Social Anthropology; Trinity College)
Heonik Kwon is the author of prize-winning books on the historical memories of the Vietnam War, Asia’s Cold War, and the Korean War. He is currently working on the history of cultural internationalism in the 20th century and beyond as part of a five-year research project called Beyond ̽��ֱ��Korean War.

Professor Marie Louise Sorensen (Department of Archaeology; Jesus College)
Marie Louise Sorensen specialises in European prehistory, gender and theory, as well as contemporary heritage politics: in particular around conflict, including destruction and reconstruction. Sorensen has recently worked on early colonial expansion into the Cape Verde islands, and investigated domestic life in Bronze Age Hungary.

Professor Emma Wilson (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics; Corpus Christi College)
Emma Wilson researches contemporary visual culture, modern French literature and gender. She has written on contemporary women filmmakers in France, along with the uses of cinema to respond to loss and pain in her book Love, Mortality and the Moving Image. Wilson’s book on filmmaker Céline Sciamma was published last year.

Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. ̽��ֱ��Fellowship claims over 1600 of the leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas, with other Cambridge fellows including the classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard and the historian Professor David Reynolds. ̽��ֱ��Academy is also a funding body for research, nationally and internationally, and a forum for debate and engagement.

"I am delighted to welcome these distinguished and pioneering scholars to our Fellowship,” said new President of the British Academy, Professor Julia Black. “I am equally delighted that we have so many new female Fellows. While I hope this means that the tide is finally turning for women in academia, there is still much to do to make the research world diverse and open to all.”

“With our new Fellows’ expertise and insights, the Academy is better placed than ever to open new seams of knowledge and understanding and to enhance the wellbeing and prosperity of societies around the world,” said Black.

Five academics from the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

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Korowai on TV: the naked truth

jg533 — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:24:41 +0000

Why an indigenous people takes their clothes off for cash, and what it reveals about culturally complex hopes and dreams.

Supporting people who are homeless during COVID-19, notes from Cambridge

fpjl2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:39:35 +0000

Dr Johannes Lenhard from the Department of Social Anthropology has started a new project with homeless people and those who support them in Cambridge during the pandemic.

Ailing bodies, angry mountains, healing spirits: shamanic healing in Mongolia

lw355 — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:30:05 +0000

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Through sound and photography, Cambridge researcher Dr Elizabeth Turk shares her experiences of talking to shamanic healers in Mongolia. Over the past eight years, the social anthropologist has been exploring the increased popularity of nature-based remedies and ‘alternative’ medicine in the wake of the region's seismic politico-economic shifts of recent decades.

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Buyankhishig criss-crossed the hillside before making offerings of vodka and milk. Then, beating her drum and chanting, she invited her ancestral spirits to enter her body.

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