CUSAS Event

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...

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...

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...

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