Wenner-Gren Workshop scheduled for 29th September 2010
Thanks to the generosity of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge will be running a workshop dedicated to ‘The Social Life of Achievement’...
View ArticlePanel accepted for the AAA Annual Meeting
Our proposal to stage a double panel on ‘The Social Life of Achievement’ at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans has been accepted! The session will start at...
View ArticleAAA Venue confirmed
The venue for our AAA session has been confirmed as Balcony N, Fourth Floor, Marriott. Do be sure to pop in and see us – we’re session number 2-0860. If you’re going to the meetings you can note our...
View ArticlePanel accepted for AAS/ICAS Conference in Hawaii
The Social Life of Achievement will be out in force at next year’s joint conference of the Association for Asian Studies and the International Convention of Asia Scholars. Held in Honolulu, from March...
View ArticleWenner-Gren workshop is a great success
At the end of September, our network hosted its inaugural event – a workshop bringing together experts from anthropology, psychology, film studies, history and the humanities to think creatively about...
View ArticleESRC award for ‘The Social Life of Achievement and Competitiveness in...
The UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded £99,573 to two social anthropologists, Dr Susan Bayly and Dr Nicholas Long, to conduct research on ‘The Social Life of Achievement and...
View ArticleSymposium: Motivational Psychology in Educational Settings
Image courtesy of wodleywonderworks, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/4381277644/ On 20th July 2013, staff at the Greenwich Free School hosted a symposium on ‘Motivational Psychology in Educational...
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