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Charlotte Loris-Rodionoff (UCL) MARTYRDOM, REVOLUTION, PREDESTINATION: Making Sense Of The Syrian Revolution’s Unexpected Outcomes This paper explores the ways in which Syrians displaced to Turkey make sense of the series of unexpected and unpredictable transformations that resulted from revolutionary actions and events...

Dr Liana Chua (Brunel University) Disentangling Entanglement: Ethics, Politics and Privilege in the ‘Multispecies Turn’ In recent years, ‘entanglement’ has become a pervasive trope in anthropological and other scholarly discussions of multispecies relations, particularly in ‘the Anthropocene’. In this paper, I reflect on...

CUSAS Welcome Back Pub Meet at The Bath House

Brown Bag Lunch with Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones

Dr Laurie Denyer Willis (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Bodies Under Pressure: Sensory Forms of Knowing within Rio de Janeiro’s Suburbs Over the past decade, ethnographies of bodies that move, perceive and react - bodies that ache, eavesdrop, glare and hurtle - have become an entry point into understanding...

Dr Ryan Davey (London School of Economics) Class, Coercion and Optimism on an English Housing Estate

Dr Alanna Cant (University of Kent) The Aesthetics of Practice and Presence: Authority, Community and Immanence in a Mexican Catholic church

Brown Bag Lunch with Dr Matei Candea

Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel - Violent Scepticism: Modern Christian Witch Trials in Papua New Guinea