CUSAS Event

We are happy to announce an Extraordinary General Meeting Tuesday 27th October at 5pm. This meeting will be held on Zoom and will be a chance to meet and formally elect the new committee for 2021/22, as well as being a chance to discuss the new CUSAS constitution and put forward any changes or suggestions. This is a...

CUSAS - Welcome Social: Online Quiz, this Friday 16 October 2020 at 6pm (UK time) CUSAS welcome you all to join our first event of the year - a Zoom quiz this Friday at 6pm! It will be a great chance to meet some of the new committee in a fun and relaxed (and hopefully highly competitive setting!) The rules will be like...

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Conversation - POSTPONED Doing ethnography for the first time This event will be rescheduled in the Easter Term.

Professor Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto) On theopolitics: Notes on an anthropology - theology (un)awkward relation This paper presents a perspective on the relation between Anthropology and Theology via aspects of apophatic theology, and its roots in the history of ethnographic practice and its engagements...

Brown Bag Lunch: Dr Matei Candea (University of Cambridge) Theme: Publishing and the JRAI

Dr Özlem Biner (University of Kent) Precarious solidarities: ‘Poisonous knowledge’ and the Academics for Peace in times of authoritarianism Based on the case of Academics for Peace (BAK) in Turkey, in this seminar, I discuss the conditions and trajectories that constitute precariousness and solidarity in the academic...

Dr Irit Katz (University of Sheffield) Cities on the move: On urban spaces of presence and transience of irregular migrants

Brown Bag Lunch with Dr Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge)

Professor Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) On the prospects for a comparative study of the good: Beyond the bad and the ugly in anthropological relativism

Panel: Patrice Schuh, Valeria Aydos and Helena Fietz, (UFRGS) Living with disabilities: An anthropological contribution to public policies