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Seminars

Social Anthropology Events 2011 – 2012

Monday, 30 January 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Johan Rasanayagam (Aberdeen)
Beyond Islam: Tradition and the Intelligibility of Experience
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 6 February 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Mette Berg (Oxford)
Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics and Nation among Cubans in Spain
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 13 February 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Ciara Kierans (Liverpool)
Organ Transplantation in Mexico: controversies and catastrophes
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 20 February 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Raymond Lucas (MMU)
Sense and Space in the Urban Marketplace: a Comparative Study Seduction of Ethics
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 27 February 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Charis Thompson (Berkeley/Paris)
Bio-scapes and Necro-scapes of Sciences that Have Ethics
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 5 March 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Joe Webster (Cambridge Peter’s prize)
"I got saved at the sea": 'Born-Again' Testimony in a Scottish Fishing Village
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 12 March 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Paul Henley (Manchester)
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 19 March 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Michelle Obeid (Manchester)
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

23 March 2012 – 13 April 2012 Easter

Monday, 16 April 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Steven Robins (Hallsworth Visiting Professor)
Title TBC
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 23 April 2012

Social Anthropology Seminar
Anders  EmilRasmussen (Denmark)
Request and remittance: How a relationship is valued amongst the Mbuke, Papua New Guinea Anders Emil Rasmussen holds a PhD from Aarhus University and is currently a postdoc at University of Oslo, Museum of Cultural History. He has done extensive fieldwork among Mbuke people, both on Mbuke Islands in Manus Province, and amongst immigrants from there, in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby.
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)

Monday, 30 April 2012

Joint Social Anthropology/City Initiative Seminar
Sandra Wallman (UCL)
Title TBC
Venue: 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Time: 4.15pm (Tea will be available in the outside the Boardroom at 4.00pm)