David Gellner
@DavidGellner
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Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy; specialist on Nepal and South Asia
Joined September 2011
Congratulations to @sshneiderman and her team for winning the 2024 Surya P. Subedi Prize. Note the deadline for submitting books or articles for the 2025 prize: 24th September 2025.
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Huge turnout and terrific discussion for @oxford_anthro last seminar of Hilary Term by Iza Kavedzija.
Join our last seminar of Hilary term and delve into Japan's artistic world with Dr Iza Kavedžija (Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology @Cambridge_Uni):.‘Embodying Emptiness: Enskillment and the artistic imagination in Japan’.🔗
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New position in social anthropology, Oxford; deadline noon on 31st March:.
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Come tomorrow (58a Banbury Rd, 4 p.m.) to hear about migration, masculinity, and Pakistani households in the UK and to celebrate @DrSuriyah 's new book.
Looking forward to hosting our wonderful Alum and Affiliate, @DrSuriyah, for this talk on 6 March which will be introudced/chaired by our former Head of the Institute, @DavidGellner @oxford_anthro.
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Conference on Newah culture and heritage, 13th and 14th Sept 2025, London. Call for papers now open (deadline 31st March).
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RT @KrishnaAdhi15: Please join us on Saturday, 4 Jan. 2025 (online via Zoom) .#NepalDialogueUK
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RT @oxford_anthro: Are you applying to one of our MSc or MPhil courses?.Your application includes supporting documents with specific requir….
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RT @DrSuriyah: Delighted to have endorsements from Prof @DavidGellner from @UniofOxford and Prof Linda McDowell @StJohnsOx and Prof Marcia….
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Congratulations to @oxford_anthro's newest Doctor of Philosophy (passed with no corrections), Zoe Zielke, here with her two examiners, post viva.
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Want to do a PhD on environment and local knowledge in Sikkim? Deadline 1st Oct 2024: PhD position in Social Anthropology - Leiden University (.
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RT @Dignitytweet: One more academic intervention from Dignity colleague. Our board member Ratna BK reviewed the book Nepal's Dalit in Trans….
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RT @Ram_Guha: “You cannot say that communalism is bad when practiced by the Muslims and good if the Hindus or Sikhs practice it. If it is b….
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IEVA RAUBISKO @Ieraub , @oxford_anthro alumna (DPhil 2012 on Chechnya), human rights defender helping Syrian refugees, now charged, with Egils Grasmanis, under the Latvian state's Emergency Law: - UN SR Human Rights Defenders (.
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My L Holy lecture, in which I juxtapose Dumont and the anthropology of liberalism by colleagues @GwenBurnyeat and @DaceDzenovska (and also in SA) (open access): Liberalism and Hierarchy: A Tension-filled Relationship as Seen from Social Anthropology (.
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RT @Oxford_HumSci: Many congratulations to @DavidGellner, our Director of Academic Development and former Head of Human Sciences, who has b….
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RT @oxford_anthro: It's with great sadness that we heard of the death of Professor Robert Barnes. Our thoughts are with his friends and fam….
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