Past events in Social Anthropology
Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology
Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet...
Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activis...
Sami Hermez (Northwestern University, Qatar) and Sireen Sawalha: My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traf...
Jakkai Siributr: There’s no Place. Artist talk and launch event
Join us for the opening launch event and artist talk by acclaimed Thai artist, Jakkai Siributr on hi...
Sophie Woodward (Manchester): Imagination and Gifts: The lives and temporalities of dormant gifts
Gifts that are hidden unwanted in a cupboard could be dismissed as a relationship that has gone wron...
Jon Schubert (Basel): Authoritarian Planning: Speculation, spectral infrastructure, and extractivism in Angola
In a moment of pervasive economic crisis, when any economic rationalities that may have justified in...
Dalia Iskander (UCL): Exteriorising (Hidden) Interiority and Interiorising (Unruly) Exteriority: Miniature dioramas of home and the uncertain terrain of empathetic imagination
Based on ethnographic research conducted over the last two years in the UK, I describe the work of a...
Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (Manchester): Living the Dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East
This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and respondi...
Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. S...
Mike Degani (Cambridge): Nun of the River: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania
This talk examines the significance of hydroelectric mini-grids owned and operated by Catholic siste...