CUSAS Event

Rethinking with Dr Mikkel Kenni Bruun (University of Cambridge and Kings College London) Guest interviewer: Marni Owen (MPhil student in Health Medicine Society) Different modes of monitoring are integral to many aspects of health in the UK, in clinical settings particularly, but also beyond: people are encouraged to...

Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series: "Precarity and academic labour"

Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series: "What makes arguments and theories interesting?" Speaker: Prof Matei Candea

Conduct, Culture, and Critique: Anthropologies of Ethico-Aesthetic Traditions Lecture and book presentation by Dr Jonas Tinius (ERC Minor Universality, Saarland University), with a response by Dr Martin Ruehl (Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History, Cambridge) Theatre critic and playwright Eric Bentley once...

Lent Term 2024 will consist of three sessions on ‘ Health and Wellbeing: (Re)thinking with anthropologists ’. Each session will begin with a 30-40 min interview with a Cambridge anthropologist, followed by Q & A and wider discussion. Session 3: Life and death Rethinking with Dr Maryon McDonald (University of Cambridge...

How can medical anthropology, with its long tradition of studying pathologies and suffering, help us to (re)consider health and wellbeing? The CUSAS Health and Wellbeing Discussion Group proposes a reimagining of medical anthropology, in which wellbeing, not merely illbeing, becomes a primary focus of inquiry. Bridging...

CUSAS workshop - Sound Essay with Dr Tim Cooper SIGN-UP needed This workshop asks, how might we devise a podcast or radio format suited to anthropological analysis and critique? We might look to proponents of Sound Art, such as Alvin Lucier’s studies of reverberant spaces, techniques of sound-mapping and soundwalking...

Phenomenologies of Anthropology: Academic politics and pedagogy seminar Our new seminar series on Academic Politics and Pedagogy brings together academics and students to engage anthropologically with questions about the politics and practices of academia and pedagogy. We hope to engage with existing literature while also...

Work satisfaction and academic precarity

Professor Sian Lazar How We Struggle. A Political Anthropology of Labour How We Struggle. A Political Anthropology of Labour When it comes to labour movements, unionised industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy and...