CUSAS Event

Cambridge Film Festival: Atlantics A film by Mati Diop (Arts Picturehouse tickets are £11.50) With Mama Sané, Amadou Mbow, Ibrahima Traoré 'Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. Harnessing fantasy and social relevancy in this haunting tale of love...

Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson (University of Cambridge) Thoughts as space: Deaf story-telling as cosmogenesis Visual Vernacular ﴾'VV'﴿ is a formal narrative praxis through which deaf performers externally map thoughts‐in‐space, constructing weather, creatures, people, landscapes, emotions, and musings made manifest using their...

Dr Megan Laws (LSE) Demanding the capacities of others: How ancestors and shamans govern opacity in the Kalahari Among Ju|'hoan speakers today, a tension exists between the need to 'give thought' to relatives and to give in to broader pressures to share. Where the former brings people home to their families and territories...

Welcome Social (After Prof. Veena Das SMUTS lecture)

Garden Party SocAnth staff and students welcome for celebratory drinks and refreshments. Please enter via the West Road King's Staff Car Park (Garden Hostel entrance).

CUSAS Annual General Meeting

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.