CUSAS Event

“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...

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...

coupaye_1_885x432.png “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)...

"China and the West: How Can We Understand Each Other?" with Professor Alan Macfarlane The encounters between China and the West have long been a central topic in Anthropology, with art, culture, and museums offering valuable perspectives for interpreting these interactions and their wider significance. In today’s rapidly...

“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...

Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series: Research without Fieldwork with Anna Guasco Dr Anna Guasco Dr Anna Guasco will virtually join the CUSAS Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series on 6 March to discuss her article, “On an ethic of not going there” (2022) , and broader issues in non-fieldwork research...

Panel discussion on the value of disability, neurodiversity, and other 'non-normal' lifeways within anthropology Panel members: Prof Nora Groce, Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development Julia Sauma, Goldsmiths Julia Modern, Disability London Harshadha Balasubramanian (UCL) Chaired by Kelly Fagan...

Q&A lunch and roundtable discussion of barriers to inclusion in anthropology with two former members of the department: Harshadha Balasubramanian (UCL), and Julia Modern (Inclusion London). This event is part of the celebration of the launch of the book Inaccessible Access (2024), edited by Kelly Fagan Robinson, Mark T...