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Listen to Camthropod podcasts and audio recordings of events from the Department of Social Anthropology:
Episode 43. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Aline Motta with Alex Ungprateeb Flynn
Episode 42. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Ayala Gazit with Rotem Steinbock
Episode 38: An Interview with Stuart Strange by Ashley Chin
Episode 37: Origin Studies Part 3, by Adam Hinden.
With Mike Degani, Timothy Cooper, and Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge). March 2024
Episode 36: Origin Studies Part 2, by Adam Hinden.
With Andrew Sanchez, Elizabeth Turk, and Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge). February 2024
Episode 35: Origin Studies Part 1, by Adam Hinden, an Irish-American researcher and musician currently based in London. His work, both for his anthropology MPhil at the University of Cambridge and in his current research with ACLED, surrounds activism and allyship among indigenous groups in Taiwan.
With Sian Lazar, Thomas White, and Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge)
February 2024
Episode 33. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 7: Emiko Agatsuma with Iza Kavedžija
Dr Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) - supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins (SOAS). February 2024
Episode 32. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 6: Bronagh Lawson with Kayla Rush
Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins. November 2023
Episode 31. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 5: Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh with Anonymous Anthropologist
Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins. October 2023
Episode 30. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 4: Jesús Guevara Rico with Alanna Cant
Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins. June 2023
Episode 29 The 'Political' in Northern Irish Protestant Marching Bands, by Sean French
Sean French is a third year Social Anthropology PhD student at the University of Cambridge. May 2023
Episode 28. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 3: Tuguldur Yondonjamts with Hermione Spriggs
Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins. March 2023
Episode 27. Kurdish Women and Desires for Voice by Marlene Schäfers
Marlene Schäfers (Utrecht University) with thanks to the Kurdish women who so generously shared their time and consent to be recorded in Wan,Turkey, 2011-12. February 2023
Episode 26. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 2: Mzuzile Mduduzi Xakaza with Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer
Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins. January 2023
Episode 25. The Future of the Anthropological Journal
Andrew Sanchez, Liana Chua, and Natalia Buitron (University of Cambridge)
November 2022
Episode 24. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 1: Maree Clarke with Fran Edmonds.
Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins. November 2022
Episode 23. The Recorded and the Live: Shi’i Islamic Media in Pakistan. With Charles Hirschkind, Karen Ruffle, and Abeera Arif-Bashir.
Timothy Cooper (University of Cambridge) 1 November 2021
Episode 22. 30 years of German unity
Laura Tradii (University of Cambridge) 29 May 2020
Episode 21. An Interview with Max Bolt
Kevin Yildirim and Javier Ruiz 27 February 2020
Episode 20. Anthropology Beyond the Academy: Public Health
Dr Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge) June 2019
Episode 19. Anthropology Beyond the Academy: Diplomacy
David Sneath (University of Cambridge) Thursday 21 February 2019
Episode 18. Circus Stories
Laura Byng (University of Cambridge) Thursday 15 November 2018
Episode 17. An interview with Michael Puett
Beth Turk (University of Cambridge) Friday 2 February 2018
Episode 16. An interview with David MacDougall
Rafael Dernbach (University of Cambridge) Friday 24 November 2017
Episode 15. An interview with Ilana Gershon
Oliver Balch (University of Cambridge) Friday 27 October 2017
Episode 14. Thinking about Vision. An investigation with visually-impaired theatre-goers and audio describers
Harsha Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge) Friday 10 March 2017
Episode 13. Welcome to Dataworld
Alex Taylor (University of Cambridge) Friday 10 February 2017
Episode 12. Wicked problems in the world of debt advice
Ryan Davey (LSE) and Carl Packman Friday 25 November 2016
Episode 11. Birdsong
Jonathan Woolley and Hugh Williamson (University of Cambridge)
Friday 11 November 2016
Episode 10. An Interview with Richard Werbner
Joe Philp (University of Cambridge) Friday 28 October 2016
Episode 9. MIASU at 30
Dr Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge) Friday 14 October 2016
Episode 8. Your Local
Farhan Samanani (University of Cambridge) Friday 10 June 2016
Episode 7. An Interview with Tanya Luhrmann
Dr Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge) Friday 27 May 2016
Episode 6. Sounds of Protest
Dr Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge) Friday 13 May 2016
Episode 5. Hiddo Dhawr: Singing Love in(to) Somaliland
Christina Woolner (University of Cambridge) Friday 29 April 2016
Episode 4. An Interview with Anna Tsing
Corinna Howland and Christina Woolner (University of Cambridge)
Friday 4 March 2016
Episode 3. Treating English Handicaps: Spoken English Training Centres in Bangalore, India
Dr Sazana Jayadeva (Affiliated researcher, The German Institute of Global and Area Studies) Friday 19 February 2016
Episode 2. Save the Date
Patrick O'Hare (University of Cambridge) Friday 5 February 2016
Episode 1. Gogo Breeze and Radio Kinship
Professor Harri England (University of Cambridge) Friday 22 January 2016
Recordings from Senior Research Seminars
The morals of effect in north India's goonda raj (rule of strongmen)
Dr Anastasia Piliavsky (University of Cambridge)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 30 October 2015
Imperial Transgressions: The Histories of the Animal and Human in Race Science
Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 22 May 2015
“The Revolution is Not a Wedding Reception”: queer activism and recursive anthropology
Dr Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 1 May 2015
Mending Mother’s Kitchen: Negotiating Pentecostal Values on the Zambian Copperbelt
Dr Naomi Haynes (University of Edinburgh)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 6 February 2015
Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (University of Cambridge)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 23 January 2015
Formal friendships in Amazonia – a reconsideration
Dr Anne-Christine Taylor (Director of Research, CNRS)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 16 January 2015
Professor Philippe Descola (College de France)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 28 November 2014
Inhabiting democracy: politics as a personal and cultural construction in post-Suharto Indonesia
Dr. Nick Long (LSE)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 14 November 2014
On Freedom, Destiny, and Consequences
Dr Samuli Shielke (Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 16 May 2014
Trading Worlds: Everyday Diplomacy on The Frontiers of South and Central Asia
Professor Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 14 February 2014
Professor Christina Toren (University of St Andrews)
Senior Research Seminar, Friday 22 November 2012