CUSAS Event

Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland, by Dr Christina Woolner in conversation with Professor Angela Impey, Professor Martin Stokes and Dr Perveez Mody Please join us for a book talk with author Dr Christina Woolner (SocAnth, Cambridge) who will speak about her recently published book Love Songs in Motion...

Political Economy of Wellbeing Rethinking with Dr Elizabeth Turk (University of Cambridge) Guest interviewer: Ellen Forsman-Larsson (PhD student in Social Anthropology) How is ‘alternative’ medicine defined, measured, and negotiated, and how does it relate to wider processes of legitimacy-making in public life? How does a...

Liminal bodies Rethinking with Dr Karolina Kuberska (University of Cambridge, THIS institute) Guest interviewer: Evelyn L Hoon (MPhil student in Health Medicine Society) How does pregnancy blur traditional boundaries of self and other, of emotion and somatic experience? In what ways might we complicate these dualities...

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...