CUSAS Event

Phenomenologies of Anthropology: Academic politics and pedagogy seminar Our new seminar series on Academic Politics and Pedagogy brings together academics and students to engage anthropologically with questions about the politics and practices of academia and pedagogy. We hope to engage with existing literature while also...

Work satisfaction and academic precarity

Professor Sian Lazar How We Struggle. A Political Anthropology of Labour How We Struggle. A Political Anthropology of Labour When it comes to labour movements, unionised industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy and...

Come along to find out more about CUSAS, our events, and consider getting involved. We are seeking a Postgraduate Co-President, but are also interested in speaking to anyone and everyone who wants to take part! Come for 18:00pm to start promptly at 18:15pm.

CUSAS is hosting Professor Mark Goodale for a Brown Bag lunch, a space for staff members to informally speak to students about their career development, research interests, and the world of social anthropology. No sign-up required. Please find an abstract of the talk below: Locating Lithium within Scales of Time, Place...

Week 6 - All in Your End: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain, Mara Buchbinder Link: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520285224/all-in-your-head iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA51620804810003606 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05deFsAFCRWEfvrrxrJFI1?si=uhAg6FfGQFuSBuDarBjaMw...

Week 4 - Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, Juno Salazar Parreñas Link: Decolonizing Extinction . iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA51558274800003606 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ueh80rdlwSa9Shyv7fOAD?si=c4a752ff9c564841 About the...

Introduction to the Group Here is the reading list for our CUSAS reading group this term (Michaelmas 2023), focusing on medical anthropology. I (Sam) have tried to choose eight monographs with some shared themes to help comparison between the texts, although there is no need to attend every session or read every book cover...

CUSAS Brown bag lunch with Dr Mike Degani This is a conversation centered around infrastructure as both an ethnographic object and style of analysis. Drawing on long-term research on Tanzania’s national power grid, and a range of other exciting scholarship, we will discuss how infrastructures relate to concepts such as...

CUSAS: Santi Migranti : Film Screening and Q&A with Prof. Magnus Course Prof. Magnus Course, who is joining virtually, will provide a brief introduction to the film. We will watch the film, Santi Migranti , together and have subsequent Q&A with Professor Course. Film Runtime : 24 minutes Synopsis: By drawing a...