Events Associated with our School
Anthropology and Contemporary Worlds Research Group, UEL
INFORMAL CONVERSATIONS and RESEARCH SURGERIES
DATE: DECEMBER 6TH
TIME: BETWEEN 13:00 HOURS AND 16:00 HOURS BY APPOINTMENT
PLACE: DOCKLANDS CAMPUS
Professor Helena Wulff
Leverhulme Visiting Professor
University of East London Autumn 2012
Department of Social Anthropology
Stockholm University
As part of a Leverhulme-funded visiting programme, Professor Helena Wulff will be available by appointment to research students and to staff for informal conversations and consultations on
- research and dissemination
- methodological issues in relation to empirical research
- grant development for projects incorporating fieldwork and/or ethnography.
- research networking
If you would like to meet with Helena on this date, please get in touch with Narmala to arrange a time; group appointments also available
Helena Wulff is professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. Her research is in the anthropology of communication and aesthetics based on a wide range of studies on the social worlds of literary production, dance, and visual arts. Her current research is on writing and literature focusing on contemporary Irish writers as cultural translators and public intellectuals. Among Wulff´s publications are the monographs Ballet across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers (1998, Berg) and Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland (2007, Berghahn), as well as the volumes The Emotions: A Cultural Reader (editor, 2007, Berg), and Ethnographic Practice in the Present (editor with Marit Melhuus and Jon P. Mitchell, 2010, Berghahn). Helena Wulff was editor-in-chief (with Dorle Dracklé) of Social Anthropology, the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), and Vice President of EASA.
