We hereby announce the results of the SoilCare Research Grant selection.
Based on the selections, we granted the funding to:

• Kezia Shafarani Khansa
• Elsha Pipit Nathalia

Congratulations to the two students who have been awarded the Social Relations and Soil Care in Smallholder Oil Palm Landscapes research grant, in collaboration with Wageningen University.

Thank you to those who have participated in the application process.

Dear Bachelor’s students of Anthropology UGM,

For the Autumn 2026 academic year, the Department of Anthropology at UGM is pleased to relaunch its student exchange program with the Department of Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder (Norway).

Through the Erasmus+ program, UGM students are invited to apply for this opportunity to join regular teaching activities, experience a different academic environment, and earn 10–20 ECTS credits, which can be converted into SKS.

Departemen Antropologi Universitas Gadjah Mada mengundang seluruh sivitas akademik UGM untuk mengikuti Visiting Lecture Prof. Dr. Timothy Oakes (Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder) dengan topik “Global China and Infrastructure Power: the technopolitics of the ‘China Model’ of development”.

Visiting lecture akan diselenggarakan pada Kamis, 28 Mei 2026 pukul 15.30 to 17.00 WIB bertempat di Ruang Soegondo 709, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM.

Acara ini terbuka untuk umum, mahasiswa dipersilakan untuk ikut bergabung.

Abstract:

China’s expansive engagements beyond its borders over the past decade have resulted in increased scholarly attention to the idea of ‘global China.’ While there is a broad range of activities inherent in this term – including construction investments, digital technologies, development finance, and soft-power projects – popular conceptions of global China tend to focus on the signature policy initiative of the Xi administration: the Belt & Road (BRI).

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam is currently seeking three PhD candidates for the project ‘Activist Techtopias: Crafting Alternate Infrastructures of Resistance in Asia’ (‘AlterTech’), led by Dr Yatun Sastramidjaja.

To Anthropology Alumni, Berlin University Alliance is looking for a research assistant for the following project:

Anthropology / Medical Anthropology for the interdisciplinary project “Codesigning Digital Technologies to Enhance Youth Mental Wellbeing in Tanzania and Uganda”! The researcher will investigate how environmental, digital, and socio-cultural factors intersect to shape youth mental health across rural and urban settings in Uganda, using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods.

The Department of Anthropology at UGM, in collaboration with the Plant Production Systems Group at Wageningen University & Research, through the SoilCare Research Project, is offering thesis research grants to two Master’s students in Anthropology at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University.

Photo: Christmas market in the Altstadt-Mitte, Freiburg. (Source: author’s personal documentation, 2023)

In December, people across Europe begin to get busy with various Christmas celebrations.

PLAN Indonesia through project Voice for Equality seeking for baseline team of consultants. The scope of project will take focus on capacity building of civil society organization (CSO) to address gender based violence (KBG/GBV) in the following locations.

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