CUSAS Event

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

Dr Julienne Obadaia (University of Cambridge) How to Make Your Sex Life Normal: Polyamory, Sexuality, and the Threshold of Civility in American Late Liberalism This talk examines how, at the opening of the 21st century, sexuality indexes and regulates civility. Based on the finding in 2012-2013 that many polyamorists in...

Charlotte Loris-Rodionoff (UCL) MARTYRDOM, REVOLUTION, PREDESTINATION: Making Sense Of The Syrian Revolution’s Unexpected Outcomes This paper explores the ways in which Syrians displaced to Turkey make sense of the series of unexpected and unpredictable transformations that resulted from revolutionary actions and events...

Dr Liana Chua (Brunel University) Disentangling Entanglement: Ethics, Politics and Privilege in the ‘Multispecies Turn’ In recent years, ‘entanglement’ has become a pervasive trope in anthropological and other scholarly discussions of multispecies relations, particularly in ‘the Anthropocene’. In this paper, I reflect on...

CUSAS Welcome Back Pub Meet at The Bath House