CUSAS Event

CUSAS is hosting Professor Mark Goodale for a Brown Bag lunch, a space for staff members to informally speak to students about their career development, research interests, and the world of social anthropology. No sign-up required. Please find an abstract of the talk below: Locating Lithium within Scales of Time, Place...

Week 6 - All in Your End: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain, Mara Buchbinder Link: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520285224/all-in-your-head iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA51620804810003606 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05deFsAFCRWEfvrrxrJFI1?si=uhAg6FfGQFuSBuDarBjaMw...

Week 4 - Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, Juno Salazar Parreñas Link: Decolonizing Extinction . iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA51558274800003606 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ueh80rdlwSa9Shyv7fOAD?si=c4a752ff9c564841 About the...

Introduction to the Group Here is the reading list for our CUSAS reading group this term (Michaelmas 2023), focusing on medical anthropology. I (Sam) have tried to choose eight monographs with some shared themes to help comparison between the texts, although there is no need to attend every session or read every book cover...

CUSAS Brown bag lunch with Dr Mike Degani This is a conversation centered around infrastructure as both an ethnographic object and style of analysis. Drawing on long-term research on Tanzania’s national power grid, and a range of other exciting scholarship, we will discuss how infrastructures relate to concepts such as...

CUSAS: Santi Migranti : Film Screening and Q&A with Prof. Magnus Course Prof. Magnus Course, who is joining virtually, will provide a brief introduction to the film. We will watch the film, Santi Migranti , together and have subsequent Q&A with Professor Course. Film Runtime : 24 minutes Synopsis: By drawing a...

CUSAS Speaker Panel: Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Precarity in Anthropology CUSAS is delighted to host an open panel discussion, featuring: Dr Barbara Bodenhorn, Dr Hildegard Diemberger, Dr Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp, and Dr Jonathan Woolley. They will discuss the ways anthropologists can study human...

CUSAS Brown Bag Lunch CUSAS is hosting Dr Maurizio Esposito La Rossa for a Brown Bag lunch, a space for staff members to informally speak to students about their career development, research interests, and the world of social anthropology. No sign-up required. Please find an abstract of the talk below: Bringing together...

Professor Adia Benton (Northwestern University) The Words are Maps: On War, Extremism and Ebola under Empire In the Imperial War Museum’s 2016 exhibit, “Fighting Extremes: From Ebola to ISIS,” visitors are invited to consider the scope of contemporary military intervention--from humanitarian aid to combat--while also...

CUSAS will screen two ethnographic films, “ Faces | Voices ” (dir. Paul Basu and Christopher Thomas, 2019) and “ New York, just another city” (dir. André Lopes and Joana Brandão, 2019), followed by a director Q&A with Paul Basu and a discussion session.