CUSAS Event

‘Living Anthropology’ Undergraduate Discussion Group: Activism and Protest

Digital Society Reading Group: Rebecca Stein (2017) “GoPro Occupation: Networked Cameras, Israeli Military Rule, and the Digital Promise”

Roundtable discussion with Dr Arran Davies (University of Oxford), “Mixed methods approaches to the links between poverty, loneliness, and experiences of pain, fatigue, and low mood”

Digital Society Reading Group: Skyler Wang (2025) “Data Auxiliaries: Making Online Dating ‘Work’ with Dating Spreadsheets” Digital Society Reading Group: Skyler Wang (2025) “Data Auxiliaries: Making Online Dating ‘Work’ with Dating Spreadsheets” The Digital Society Reading Group is an interdisciplinary research cluster...

Fuyuan Luo, “Dharma and Diplomacy: Fieldwork with Tibetan Lamas and their Han Chinese followers – plus reflections on working for the United Nations” This talk explores the contemporary practice of Tibetan Buddhism in Chengdu, a city in southwestern China where Han Chinese make up the majority population. Rather than...

‘Living Anthropology’ Undergraduate Discussion Group - Sports

Adam James Smith, “Practical Tips on Documentary Filmmaking for Anthropologists” Adam James Smith is a British-American documentary filmmaker based in New York. His work explores identity and migration across China’s rapidly changing rural and urban landscapes. His debut feature, The Land of Many Palaces (2015), follows...

Film Screening - Daphne Xu’s (2022) “Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations” Huahua, an eccentric and exuberant woman from Xiongan New Area, livestreams herself dancing, singing, and chatting with fans on Kuaishou for a living. Cell phone screens, beauty filters, and digital soundscapes reveal a world that...

Dr Brenda Herbert (Postdoctoral Fellow, British Academy), “The Reluctant Ethnographer: Using multimodal ethnography to decolonise the figure of the child” Dr Brenda Herbert is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy, having recently been the Sociological Review Fellow for 2024–25. Dr Herbert will discuss her...

Professor Perig Pitrou (Maison Française d’Oxford), “From the Anthropology of Life to the Anthropology of Astrobiology” The Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) is delighted to welcome Professor Perig Pitrou for a talk entitled: “From the Anthropology of Life to the Anthropology of Astrobiology”...