CUSAS Event

Dr Ryan Davey (University of Bristol) ‘Snakes and ladders’: legal coercion, housing precarity and home-making aspirations in England Potential eviction is an ordinary condition of domestic life for many in Europe and North America. This poses a challenge to anthropological theories of the state’s presence in ordinary homes...

Dr Yanti Hoelzchen (Frankfurt University) Kyrgyzstan's New Mosques: Religious Knowledge ilim , Resources and Religious Infrastructure in Present-day Kyrgyzstan In her talk, Yanti Hoelzchen will present the main findings from her PhD thesis “Kyrgyzstan's New Mosques: Religious Knowledge ilim , Resources and Religious...

Professor Penny Harvey (University of Manchester) The Awkward Relations of Infrastructural Politics Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Professor II at the University of Oslo. Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Co-editor of the Routledge book series Culture, Economy and...

Brown Bag Lunch with Professor Joel Robbins Please note that this event has been postponed.

Dr Elizabeth Turk (University of Cambridge) Consuming History: Geophagy of an Archaeological Site as Diabetic Treatment and the Politics of Exclusionary Care in Contemporary Mongolia

Love Commandos Followed by Q&A with Director Miriam Lyons

Dr Khaled Furani (Tel-Aviv University) Redeeming Anthropology: A Theological Critique of a Modern Science

Dr Ram Natarajan (University of Arkansas) Violence and Narrative Nostalgia: A Retired Officer and the Age of Human Rights Prosecutions in Argentina This paper ethnographically focuses on a former captain with the Argentine armed forces who now stands trial for crimes against humanity committed during the last military...

Dr Jonah Lipton (LSE) Modernity ‘as if’: Crisis, Ritual, and Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Brown Bag Lunch: Dr Andrea Grant