Senior Seminar

On becoming a ‘Victim’: some observations from Bangladesh Professor Katy Gardner (London School of Economics) katy_gardner_300x.png Based on ethnographic research in a feminist NGO in Dhaka, this paper examines the bureaucratic processes whereby people are classified as victims. In particular, the paper focuses on young...

Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being Professor Naisargi Davé (University of Toronto)

(Re)Generating Kinship: Intimate Encounters and the Making of 'New Worlds' in Canada's Climate Crisis Dr. Koreen Reece (University of Bayreuth) koreen_reece_300x.png Canada currently faces unprecedented climate disaster – from devastating wildfire to drought and flooding. Evoking a global array of other crises, from...

Arts of Irreconciliation and the Futuring of Bangladesh Professor Nayanika Mookherjee (University of Durham) photo_nmwebpage_2023_2.png Irreconciliation focuses on the less examined but frequent ethnographic instances when survivors refuse to forgive in response to persistent impunity of past injustices, particularly, in...

Kinship and Tourism Earnings in Papua: The Indigeneity of Commodification Professor Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge) rupert_stasch_300x300.png Since the 1990s, Korowai of Indonesian Papua have been globally iconic subjects of primitivist tourism and television, due to foreigners’ idealization of them as living...

Entangled Sovereignties: New Land Markets and the aspirations of a 'Criminal Caste' in Gurugram, Haryana (India) Professor Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS, University of London) professor_sanjay_srivastava.png Over the past three decades, the largely rural district of Gurugram in Haryana has witnessed intense urbanisation and land...

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An ethnography of ‘overdiagnosis’: The ethics and epistemics of criticising cancer screening Dr. Elspeth Davies (University of Oxford) elspeth_photo_300x300.png For decades, public health campaigns in the UK and elsewhere have promoted the idea that ‘cancer early detection saves lives’. This paper explores a growing field...

Salvage Expertise: The Making of ‘Movable Nature’ for Post-Submergence Life Dr Ekin Kurtiç (University of Cambridge) e.k_350x350.png This talk explores the environmental salvage projects undertaken in the frontier landscapes of northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors who design and...

The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change Professor Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) joel_350x350.png Many people have come to the conclusion that simply sharing the scientific data on global warming with the public has not been enough to motivate the kind of consistent action...