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Student Community

We are a friendly and vibrant community.
Throughout the year we host a variety of events beyond the classroom, and our department spaces offer the perfect setting for you to study, relax, and socialise.


 

 

 

Events hosted by the department

  • Departmental parties in Autumn and Winter term for all students and staff to connect and socialise at the end of the term.
  • Weekly undergraduate events hosted by Student Community Ambassadors in the undergraduate common room.
  • Annual community events organised by the department for each undergraduate year group.
  • ‘Meet the Anthropologist’ events for MSc and MRes students to learn more about faculty research and careers.
  • Annual anthropology alumni careers events organised in partnership with LSE Careers for undergraduate and postgraduate students. 
  • Annual postgraduate social events for all masters students.

Throughout the year there will be a range of other departmental events for students to attend such as workshops and book launches. 

 

Communication 

Throughout the year we will be communicating a variety of information with you from important updates, events and news. Here is how we will communicate with you so you don't miss out!

  • Emails
  • WhatsApp
  • Student Hub
  • Moodle
  • Department Newsletter

Common Rooms

Visit the cosy and stylish common rooms on the 3rd floor of the Old Building to study or catch up with friends.

Undergraduate: 3.28

Postgraduate: 3.40

 

Old Anthropology Library

Visit the Old Anthropology Library up on the 6th floor of the Old Building. This is a quiet room for studying with fellow students.

You will notice beautiful painted murals on the wall. The three paintings in the library are faithful copies, based on photographs, of painted panels by Abelam artists in the Middle Sepik area of New Guinea. The original panels were commissioned by LSE doctoral student and  staff member Anthony Forge during his visits to the area between 1958 and 1963. The names  of the artists are not known, but Forge wrote about working with the following men from the village of Kwanimbandu: Nyagərə, Tagwo ŋgwu, Aŋgə, Djaŋgərə, Tsirətsitban, and Toto. Forge provided the artists with black sugar paper and powder tempera paints in colours like those of their own earth paints. Triangular or rectangular paper shapes were given to the artists to replicate the traditional shapes and dimensions of the sago spathe normally used. Forge asked the artists, who often worked collaboratively, to paint the designs that would  typically decorate the large façade of the men’s house (tambaran) and line its  interior chambers. In exchange for small cash payments, Forge elicited around  500 paintings by this method from over twenty Abelam villages.

 Please note events and meetings are held in this room from time to time

 

Anthropology Society 

Why not join the Anthropology Society for more social events with other anthropology students and the wider LSE community. 

Each year new student members are elected from the Department to run the society.