Decolonise Anthropology

Teach-in Session - Palestine: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on Current Events Decolonize Anthropology Society, teach in session The Decolonise Anthropology Society warmly welcomes you to an anthropological teach-in session about the current violent events in Palestine and their historical contexts. The teach-...

Sensitive Inheritance: Zine Creations with Visual Material as a Research-Based Archival Practice, a workshop by Nuno Cassola Please note, t his workshop includes a one-hour break for lunch. We ask participants to bring images from their fieldwork or the MAA’s archive. In t his workshop, the artist Nuno Cassola will be...

Co-creating Fertilizing Mourning, a workshop by Eliana Otta In the workshop, the artist Eliana Otta will introduce the participants to the intuitions and concerns that led her to conceive her work Fertilizing Mourning, a concept in the making which has to be brought to life through communal practice. After a brief talk...

Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning A lecture and VR presentation with artists Eliana Otta and Nuno Cassola. Artists Eliana Otta and Nuno Cassola talk about the origins and development of their project Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning, now materialized in a website called Luto Verde . The website hosts 360...

Who are “we” now? Book Talk with Dr. Liana Chua & Dr. Nayanika Mathur Who do “we” anthropologists think “we” are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, write, and do anthropology? In 2018, we co-edited a volume on how the anthropological “we” has been construed...

On Hope and False Hope in Grey Times: Anthropology, History and Why We Write Book talk by Dr. Lori Allen Decolonise Anthropology Cambridge speaks with Dr Lori Allen (SOAS). "In this somewhat informal and personal talk, I want to think with you about what’s at stake in doing interdisciplinary scholarship, through a...

We welcome all students and staff to take part in our first reading group of this academic year. We will gather on zoom on Monday 22nd of November between 5 pm -6:30 pm to discuss two works centred on Palestine, the Israeli military and international law: 1) Palestinian anthropologist Rema Hammami's article in Current...

Decolonise Anthropology - Reading Seminar (students only)

Decolonise Anthropology Seminar with Anna Ramos- Zayas Parenting empires: A moral economy of priviledge, whiteness, and interiority currency in latin american elite neighborhoods In this presentation I draw from a recent comparative ethnographic project in which I examined the intersection of race, class, and parenting in...