CUSAS Event

Please join CUSAS and the Department of Social Anthropology for our annual end-of-year celebration. All faculty, staff, and students affiliated with the Department are welcome!

“Ethnographies of Technology” with Alexandrine Royer, Debra Phelps, Sakari Mesimäki, and Dr Xin Zhan This two-hour roundtable discussion invites early-career researchers specializing in different ethnographic locales to explore the intersection of technology, work and power. Panellists will take turns answering prompts...

“A Conversation on Ukraine” with Dr Volodymyr Ishchenko Event description TBC Time TBD

Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series “Returns to the Field” with Dr Liana Chua, Dr Iza Kavedžija, and Professor Yael Navaro In this roundtable, we will reflect on the manifold forms that ‘returns to the field’ can take (physical, epistemological, digital, etc.) and the particular challenges and possibilities that...

“Trajectories Around Objects: An Account” with Dr Ludovic Coupaye Dr Coupaye conducted his fieldwork among the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea. His interlocutors carefully cultivate large yams which they handle as art objects. The monograph he wrote from this ethnography (published in 2013) pioneered a non-...

Book Talk: Monumental Graffiti with Dr Rafael Schacter in conversation with Dr Natalie Morningstar What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In...

CUSAS: Talk with Professor Alan McFarlane Title and event description TBC In collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum Society Time TBD

“Social Infrastructure: A Conversation between Anthropology and Policy” with Owen Garling, Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson, Dr Mike Degani, and Dr Lalli Metsola This panel invites a conversation between a recent project that directly responds to UK policy and anthropologists working on social infrastructure in diverse contexts. It...

CUSAS Annual General Meeting The time has come at the Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) for new people to join our committee for the next academic year! Please join us to elect a new committee and plan for next year. CUSAS is Cambridge's oldest Social Anthropology society, established to run events...

Peace, Violence, and Buddhism: The First Indochina War (1945-54) in the Cambodian-Vietnamese Borderlands with Professor Shawn McHale Professor Shawn McHale (George Washington University) During the First Indochina War in the Mekong delta of Vietnam, lay Buddhists both engaged in extensive ethnic and political violence as...