{"id":6219,"date":"2021-06-01T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2021-06-01T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T11:44:09","slug":"may-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2021\/06\/01\/may-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"May News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Conflict, Football, Wildlife and Sex Toys -there&#8217;s something for everyone in our May newsletter. <\/p>\n<h2>The Annual Dice Lecture took place&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Erik Meijaard joined the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE) for their prestigious annual lecture series. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6117\/dice-talk-2021-when-to-rescue-orangutans-and-other-conservation-dilemmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Dissertation topics got interesting&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018The beautiful thing about an Anthropology degree, anything to do will humans is a viable writing topic\u2019. Nerys Bushnell blogged about writing her Stage 3 dissertation on female sex toy preference. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6235\/phallus-for-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We hosted a &#8216;BioBlitz\u2019 on campus!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A variety of specialist surveys took place with experts on hand to explain how each species\u2019 data is collected, facts about their behaviour\/natural habitats and how they are protected. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6174\/join-the-canterbury-campus-bioblitz-29-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more from Jacob Coles<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Sicily Fiennes who is studying for a Masters in Biodiversity Management shared why she was looking forward to getting her hands dirty. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6182\/who-is-joining-in-this-months-bio-blitz-and-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>MSc Conservation Biology student, Kieran Richardson wrote about his passion for nature and wildlife ahead of the BioBlitz. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6249\/meet-your-wild-neighbours-at-our-bioblitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Research shed hope on the Israeli Palestinian conflict<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>During these dark times in Jerusalem and the wider Israeli Palestinian conflict, this new paper from Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem sheds some hope for a return to a more peaceful yet unequal urban co-existence.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6200\/towards-urban-geopolitics-of-encounter-spatial-mixing-in-contested-jerusalem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Premier League came to a finish but&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Does Cocaine Make Football Fans More Aggressive? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6106\/does-cocaine-make-football-fans-more-aggressive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>WAIT!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On Tuesday 25 May, Professor Shahram Khosravi from the University of Stockholm gave a talk in our Public Anthropology in Times of Crisis research seminar series, &#8216;Waiting, a state of consciousness&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6230\/public-anthropology-in-times-of-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>See more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Anthropology Society Need YOU!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropology enthusiast? The Anthropology Society are recruiting for next year\u2019s committee and you can be a part of it. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6100\/anthropology-society-need-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We&#8217;ve been podcasting<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Head of School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/546\/kivell-tracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Tracy Kivell<\/a>\u00a0has been recognised along with 14 other grantees to celebrate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Research Council (ERC)<\/a>\u2019s milestone of funding 10,000 grantees. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6113\/professor-tracy-kivell-project-highlighted-in-ercs-funding-success-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Could today&#8217;s zoo animals be descendants of the same lion subspecies that fought in Rome&#8217;s Colosseum? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6264\/could-todays-zoo-animals-be-descendants-of-the-same-lion-subspecies-that-fought-in-romes-colosseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>And lastly, what can be said about the sustainability of sand?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sand usage is integral in the production of nearly all of the world\u2019s buildings, roads, laptops, phone screens and more. Do we need a stronger understanding of its use and extraction? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/6210\/usage-of-sand-worldwide-presents-critical-sustainability-implications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Anthropology and Conservation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflict, Football, Wildlife and Sex Toys -there&#8217;s something for everyone in our May newsletter. The Annual Dice Lecture took place&#8230; Professor Erik Meijaard joined the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2021\/06\/01\/may-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":6279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}