CUSAS Event

The Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) Executive Committee would like to formally invite all students studying Social Anthropology (undergraduate and postgraduate) to attend our Annual General Meeting (AGM). During this meeting, the current CUSAS Officers will give an overview of CUSAS and the 2021-22...

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.