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Department of Social Anthropology

 
Read more at: The King of Bangkok with Claudio Sopranzetti, Chiara Natalucci and Sara Fabbri

The King of Bangkok with Claudio Sopranzetti, Chiara Natalucci and Sara Fabbri

Monday, 7 February, 2022 - 17:00 to 19:00

The English translation of this best-selling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village. Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of...


Read more at: CUSAS Brown Bag lunch with Dr Dolores Senorans

CUSAS Brown Bag lunch with Dr Dolores Senorans

Tuesday, 30 November, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30

CUSAS Brown Bag lunch with Dr Dolores Senorans CUSAS welcomes you to the first of the series of Brown Bag Lunches with Dr Dolores Senorans on Tuesday 30th November at 12:30pm. Dr. Dolores Señorans will be leading an informal session on her current research on unwaged garment sector workers’ union organisation in Argentina...


Read more at: CUSAS - Workshop on Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking

CUSAS - Workshop on Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking

Thursday, 25 November, 2021 - 14:30 to 18:30

Part 1: 2:30 - 4:30 , Babbage Auditorium, Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. In this session, Adam will s creen his new short film on America's largest and longest-running black rodeo, the Okmulgee Invitational, as well as an extended trailer for a feature documentary currently in production about a team of black...


Read more at: CUSAS Webinar with Dr Anna-Riikka Kauppinen

CUSAS Webinar with Dr Anna-Riikka Kauppinen

Thursday, 17 June, 2021 - 17:00

CUSAS Webinar with Dr Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, Research Associate, Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change (University of Cambridge) To register please email: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk


Read more at: CUSAS Webinar

CUSAS Webinar

Thursday, 27 May, 2021 - 17:00

CUSAS - Social Anthropology and Theology in Conversation CUSAS warmly invites undergraduate and postgraduate students to our second Theology and Social Anthropology Chat on Thurs. 27 May at 4pm on Zoom. Please register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErdumqpj4uH9MLATQy2VdoDYv3Nm7fSw8P Based on the...


Read more at: CUSAS Postgraduate Picnic

CUSAS Postgraduate Picnic

Tuesday, 25 May, 2021 - 12:00

CUSAS Postgraduate Picnic Join your fellow postgraduate students for a walk to beautiful Grantchester Meadows! With COVID restrictions easing to allow up to 30 people to meet outside, we want to create an opportunity for MPhil, MRes, and PhD students to come together and relax in the sunshine. We will meet outside of the...


Read more at: CUSAS Coffee Morning

CUSAS Coffee Morning

Wednesday, 19 May, 2021 - 10:00 to 11:00

CUSAS Coffee Morning - Writing Anthropology CUSAS warmly invites undergraduate and postgraduate students to a virtual coffee morning titled ‘Writing Anthropology’ on Wednesday 19th May at 10am. This will be an opportunity for students to share their best tips for writing exam essays, dissertations, and research papers in...


Read more at: CUSAS Film Screening and Q & A

CUSAS Film Screening and Q & A

Wednesday, 5 May, 2021 - 19:00

Dis.em.POWER.ed: Puerto Rico’s Perfect Storm Dr Sandy Smith-Nonie (Director) and Roque Nonini In the fall of 2017 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, wiping out the electric grid and plunging 3 million people into the worst blackout in US history. Roughly 3000 people died in the months after the storm and thousands lived in...


Read more at: CUSAS - Annual General Meeting

CUSAS - Annual General Meeting

Thursday, 6 May, 2021 - 17:00 to 18:30

CUSAS is happy to announce that our Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday 6th of May, 5pm on Zoom. You can register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkduChpjkoEtFvTIbNrFBjvx4eKu2pbOF7 This is a great opportunity for students to give feedback to CUSAS to make sure that your interests are being...


Read more at: CUSAS Annual Strathern Lecture with Professor Dan Hicks

CUSAS Annual Strathern Lecture with Professor Dan Hicks

Thursday, 13 May, 2021 - 17:30 to 19:00

Professor Dan Hicks (University of Oxford) A Dead White Man #PittRivers is trending. Don’t worry, he’s still dead. The news that curators have removed the displays of human remains from the Victorian galleries of the Pitt Rivers Museum spread quickly last autumn. And yet the world-view of Augustus Pitt-Rivers — the soldier...