CUSAS Event

CUSAS Chats Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

CUSAS Social Film Friday: The Healer and the Psychiatrist (2019) dir. Dr Mike Poltorak ‘On the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u, the traditional healer Emeline Lolohea treats people affected by spirits. One day away by ferry, the only Tongan Psychiatrist Dr Mapa Puloka has established a public psychiatry well known...

CUSAS Seminar with Dr Irit Katz, Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Studies (University of Cambridge) Cities on the move: On urban spaces of presence and transcience of irregular migrants Irit Katz is an architect and scholar who focuses on the socio-political and cultural aspects of architecture and urbanism. Her work...

CUSAS Chats: Preparing for the field Join us for a relaxed chat with undergraduate and postgraduate students about the practical aspects of carrying out ethnographic fieldwork. We will discuss how to prepare to enter the field; how to reach out to potential gatekeepers; the practicalities of carrying out interviews and...

CUSAS Event for first year HSPS students Why Choose Social Anthropology? Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

CUSAS Film Screening - Dis.em.powered: Puerto Rico's Perfect Storm (2019) DIr. Roque Nonini Followed by a discussion Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

CUSAS Seminar with Dr Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor (Stanford University) Magic and the Mind This talk presents an approach to magic through theory of mind. It takes up the challenge presented by Tambiah’s model of magic as performative, and asks what understanding of mind that model requires. Prof Luhrmann...

CUSAS Annual Holiday Party Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

CUSAS Seminar: Goodnight Colston, Mourning Empire: Death Rites and Duppy Conquering in a Circum-Atlantic City - Dr. Adom Philogene Heron Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk

CUSAS Webinar with Dr. Ana Dragojlović: Practising Affect for Haunted Speakability: Triggering Trauma Through an Interactive Art Project Please register for this event: cusas@socanth.cam.ac.uk