By Sophie Lovell-Kennedy, Sarah Turner and Lenka Medvecová Tinková ~ This week, the 11th – 17th of March, is Safer Sleep Week in the UK. Safer Sleep Week is a national awareness campaign run by The Lullaby Trust that raises awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS, and Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy or […]
By Erick Nascimento Vidal ~ The Layton Dialogue is in the nature of an experiment: two scholars are invited to speak on the same topic to see how their ideas might interact. It seems appropriate, then, that last year’s edition of the event took place in honour not only of the remarkable anthropologist it is […]
By Laura McGuire ~ “We feel conflicted about thought”, begins Professor Tanya Luhrmann. The experience of thought as interior and individual, or more diffuse – contained only partially, by a penetrable self-boundary – is non-universal. Different people may experience thought as less or more bounded, Luhrmann continues, and intuitions of the former are not unusual. […]
By Emily Jeffries ~ The Layton Dialogue is an annual event in the Durham Anthropology Department where the medical, evolutionary, and social disciplines of anthropology come together in honour of Emeritus Professor Robert Layton, whose life’s work encompassed uniting the anthropological disciplines as one. This year, Professor Tanya Luhrmann and Professor Daniel Nettle talked about […]
