CUSAS Event

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...

CUSAS End of Term Quiz Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

CUSAS Seminar with Dr Natalie Morningstar An Artistic Precariat? Revisiting Theories of Class and Creativity This paper examines the enduring relevance of traditional class distinctions among precariously employed workers in post-recession Dublin. It argues that tensions remain between creatives from middle-class families...

CUSAS Seminar with Dr K G Hutchins (Oberlin College) The melodious hoofbeat: Ungulate rhythms in the post-socialist conservatory This paper examines cases in which traditional musicians in Mongolia bring the perspectives of rural non-human animals into urban music institutions, troubling the colonial nature–culture and...

CUSAS Seminar with Dr Michael Edwards, Smuts Research Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies (University of Cambridge) The Reality of Fire: Converting Politics in Burma “Real change”: This was the National League for Democracy’s offer to voters in Myanmar’s 2015 general election, the first since the apparent formal end of...

CUSAS Chats - Making Digital Ethnography Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

Postponed - CUSAS International Women's Day Panel Discussion with leading women and non-binary anthropologists Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

CUSAS Seminar with Dr Susan Greenwood (University of Sussex) As recent insurrection events at the US Capitol have shown – where alt-right white supremacist activists stormed the government waving confederate flags and a noose to hang the Vice-President for not overturning the results of an election not in their favor -...

CUSAS Event in Collaboration with Theology Society Interdisciplinary Chat: Theology and Social Anthropology Hosted in collaboration with Cambridge Theologians, we’re going to discuss important theological and anthropological issues. Theologians, Social Anthropologists and anyone interested is welcome to come and join what...

CUSAS Seminar with Dr Elliot Prasse-Freeman (National University of Singapore) Cartoons, Curses, and Coups: Interpellation from Below in a Rights-less Burma How are political cartoons similar to occult cursing ceremonies, and what can both tell us about acts of resistance in a context where resistors lack rights to secure...