Hamsa Rajan gave a talk via Skype at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany on 8th October. Her talk, entitled Cultural Differences and Fieldwork, was part of the Institute’s Gender Inequality Symposium, held to discuss gender inequality in academia. Dr. Rajan’s talk covered questions of cultural differences in gender relations and how to approach and deal with these when undertaking fieldwork far from home.