CUSAS Event

Brown Bag Lunch: Dr Matei Candea (University of Cambridge) Theme: Publishing and the JRAI

Dr Özlem Biner (University of Kent) Precarious solidarities: ‘Poisonous knowledge’ and the Academics for Peace in times of authoritarianism Based on the case of Academics for Peace (BAK) in Turkey, in this seminar, I discuss the conditions and trajectories that constitute precariousness and solidarity in the academic...

Dr Irit Katz (University of Sheffield) Cities on the move: On urban spaces of presence and transience of irregular migrants

Brown Bag Lunch with Dr Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge)

Professor Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) On the prospects for a comparative study of the good: Beyond the bad and the ugly in anthropological relativism

Panel: Patrice Schuh, Valeria Aydos and Helena Fietz, (UFRGS) Living with disabilities: An anthropological contribution to public policies

CUSAS Welcome Social

This event is for Department of Social Anthropology students and staff.

Prof Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) On the prospects for a comparative study of the good: Beyond the bad and the ugly in anthropological relativism In her influential recent article on “Dark Anthropology,” Sherry Ortner questions the critical potential of anthropological studies of ethics, and particularly of...

Dr Nick Long (LSE) Troubleshooting the human laptop: Thinking through undesirable behaviours in the company of anthropologists, philosophers, and Indonesian hypnotherapists To be active on Indonesia’s hypnosis circuit is to stand at the forefront of a movement grappling with complex questions regarding the nature of human...