CUSAS Event

Dr Jonah Lipton (LSE) Modernity ‘as if’: Crisis, Ritual, and Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Brown Bag Lunch: Dr Andrea Grant

Dr Julienne Obadaia (University of Cambridge) How to Make Your Sex Life Normal: Polyamory, Sexuality, and the Threshold of Civility in American Late Liberalism This talk examines how, at the opening of the 21st century, sexuality indexes and regulates civility. Based on the finding in 2012-2013 that many polyamorists in...

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