Past Events

Senior Research Seminars, Lent Term 2010
The timetable for the Senior Research Seminars for Lent Term is now available
January 25th, 2010
The Rivers Lecture
Professor Bruno Latour will give the Rivers Lecture, ‘On Gabriel Tarde’s idea of society as possession’, in Cambridge on 29 January 2010.
January 29th, 2010
Senior Research Seminars, Easter Term 2010
The updated timetable for the Senior Research Seminars for Easter Term is now available.
April 19th, 2010
CUSAS Annual Lecture
The 2010 CUSAS annual lecture will be held on Thursday, 20 May at 5pm in the South Lecture Room of the McDonald Institute, Downing Street.
May 20th, 2010
What is Left Behind: Remnants of Past Inhabitants and their Place in Turkey’s Present
What is Left Behind: Remnants of Past Inhabitants and their Place in Turkey’s Present.
September 1st, 2010
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A Critical Anthropology of Anarchy
22-23 September 2010 Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge This workshop, organised by Holly High, investigates the intersections between anthropology and anarchy. The burgeoning uptake of anarchist perspectives in the political realm and the academy (Scott 2009, Graeber 2004, Morris 2005) prompts a critical reflection. What ideas of human nature, society, power or community are at [...]
September 10th, 2010
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Postgraduate Masterclass: Affect and the Ordinary
The next postgraduate masterclass, entitled 'Affect and the ordinary' will take place on Wednesday 29th September 2010, in the Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane.
September 10th, 2010
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Birthlight Day Conference Series – From Womb to World
To develop the Birthlight 2006 Cambridge international conference ‘Visions of Infant Joy’ with interdisciplinary research perspectives, a series of thematic day conferences ‘From Womb to World’ will be held in Cambridge starting on 2 October 2010. The aim is to bring together scientists, doctors and midwives, academic researchers, practitioners involved in maternity care in the [...]
September 24th, 2010
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Social Anthropology Research Associates (SARA) Colloquium Series
11th October Katharina Schneider ‘Impacts and Imprints: saltwater-bush relations in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea’
October 6th, 2010
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CUSAS Talks
Thursday 14 October Ecuador’s Yasuni Initiative: The Old and New Values of Petroleum Dr Laura Rival, University of Oxford To be held in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, from 5-6.30pm
October 6th, 2010