CUSAS Event

This talk draws on Tinius' current research and book project about practices of curating narratives of world across and after the European museum of world. It documents and analyses artistic and curatorial narratives of world-production that respond to the crisis of the Western universal museum and its colonial legacies...

CUSAS is excited to host a discussion and screening of Scratches on Celluloid (2018). Directed by Timothy Cooper (Cambridge) and Vindhya Buthpitiya (St. Andrews). Tim and Vindhya will begin the event by introducing the film, followed by an epilogue of short clips on the making of the film. In the rapidly changing urban...

250x250-randersson.jpg Security and Subversion in a Time of Monsters A border wall. An aid bunker. An Oxford garden. These are among the disparate sites of the new security landscape proliferating across our crisis-beset world, from the militarised no-go zones at the geographical margins of capitalism right into its...

During this talk, I will discuss a couple of projects I’ve been engaged in over the past 10 years that combine a focus on environmental knowledge and alternative educational strategies (in rural Alaska, Oaxaca, and East Anglia). And, we can explore together a new project that my colleague Olga Ulturgasheva and I are...

250x250-cusasevent-jasperwaugh.png This talk addresses how methodologies employing apprenticeship and collaboration as structuring principles take place across diverse ethnographic and documentary projects in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. Folklorist and anthropologist Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth will...

Join postgraduate students in the Anthropology Department at Cambridge for a candid discussion on life as MPhil and PhD students in the department. Open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students.

After stumbling into anthropology via economics/management and sociology around ten years ago, Johannes has focused in his research (and practical work) on two topics as different as they could be, at least on the surface: his PhD and postgrad work before that was focused on the survival and home-making practices of people...

Indigenous Media & Sovereignty in Taiwan Founded in 2005, Taiwan Indigenous Television is the first Indigenous television station in Asia, a ground-breaking national media network created by, for, and about Taiwan’s diverse Austronesian Indigenous groups. My talk will offer an overview of Indigenous media production in...

Orientalist Constructions of the Frontier Pashtuns This article seeks to explore the colonial encounters with Pashtuns of the erstwhile North West Frontier Province (now renamed as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan and their mythical Orientalist constructions in the colonial historical and ethnographic accounts of the late...

250x250-cusasevent-hegarty.png This presentation is based on Benjamin Hegarty’s forthcoming book, (Cornell University Press), which will be published in November 2022. Indonesia’s trans women have achieved hypervisibility in the postcolonial nation. Yet this has not translated into complete acceptance or legal recognition...