CUSAS Event

Choosing Social Anthropology , for SAN1 students Wednesday 11th February, 13:00-14:00, Meyer Fortes room CUSAS 'Anthropology Pub Quiz' (Week 8 of term, time/venue TBC)

CUSAS Seminar with Professor Gabriella Coleman (Harvard University) How Anonymous hackers dodged the cyber-extremism bullet This talk examines how Anonymous—despite a sustained hacking campaign that involved disruption, arrests, and even sabotage—largely avoided being successfully labeled as cyber-extremists or terrorists...

CUSAS Seminar with Dr. Sophia Goodfriend (University of Cambridge and Harvard University) Ethnographic Approaches to ‘AI’ and Violence: Notes from Palestine and Israel Commentators increasingly describe our political moment as one of “techno-fascism,” marked by deepening alliances between technology firms and...

CUSAS Seminar with Professor Robert Foster (Rochester University) Tracking ‘Primitive Art’ from New Guinea to New York: Morton D. May's department store exhibition sales, 1963 – 1964

CUSAS Seminar with Dr. Rijul Kocchar (Harvard University) As Drugs Fade: The withering antibiotic commons in America This talk examines the historical factors behind why no new classes of antibiotics have been developed by pharmaceutical companies since the 1980s, better remembered as the high noon of economic deregulation...

CUSAS Workshop with Prof. Roxanne Varzi (University of California, Irvine) Murderous Methods: Multimodal anthropology in story form 240x240.silent_audio_copy.jpg Why would an anthropologist turn to Murderous Methods to impart anthropological research? In this talk, Prof. Roxanne Varzi (University of California, Irvine)...

CUSAS Workshop with Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson (University of Cambridge) ABC Methods: A practical workshop using citizen social science with less-listened-to adults and kids In this practice-based workshop, Kelly will share some of the methods work she has been doing with less-listened-to kids and adults via a multimodal...

CUSAS Workshop with Dr Andrea Pia (LSE) What are you doing it for? A conversation about public anthropology at the collapse of the liberal order What is anthropology’s contribution to public life, and how is it delivered? Do anthropologists have a responsibility to contribute to the communities beyond the academy that make...

CUSAS Workshop with Shohei Nakamoto 中本翔平 美味しい人類学:　コーヒーの試飲 / Delicious Anthropology: A Coffee-Tasting Experience Shohei Nakamoto is an exuberant travelling barista and "coffee anthropologist" from Japan, who combines his love for coffee with his curiosity about other countries and cultures. He has hosted coffee ceremonies...

CUSAS Seminar with Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard University and University of Oxford) Contested Sovereignty: Planners, residents and Chinese-led urban development in Nairobi, Kenya This paper examines Nairobi’s contemporary processes of city-making to show how sovereignty is negotiated beyond the bounds of the Kenyan nation-...