Senior Seminar

Senior Research Seminar with Dr Sofía Ugarte (University of Cambridge) Racialisation as encounter: migrant labour and ‘white’ pedagogies in the Chilean service economy This presentation examines the effects of racialisation practices in quotidian encounters between migrant Haitian women looking for work and Chilean...

Senior Research Seminar with Dr Timothy Cooper (University of Cambridge) “Live has an atmosphere of its own”: Co-presence and ethical orientation in Shi’a azadari recordings Among producers of Shi’a Islamic media in Pakistan, the quality of being live as an atmosphere capable of mediation has gained efficacy along with...

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR WITH: Tom Powell-Davies (University of Cambridge) Ritual feasting and the ‘three hearths’ of custom, church and government: The reorganisation of the space and time of social life in Asmat, Indonesian Papua Asmat villagers say that their broader collective life is centred around the ‘three hearths’...

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Antagonistic connections: siblingship-in-breakdown and the limits of obligation with Corinna Howland Building on a case study of fractious relations among the Charka Ramos half-siblings following the sudden death of their father, this paper considers kinship-in-breakdown. Using life histories gleaned from family members...

Dr Christina Woolner (University of Cambridge) Listening to love: aural attention, vocal iconicity and intimacy in Somaliland On first listen, both music and talk about love are conspicuously absent from Hargeysa’s contested public soundscapes. Yet behind closed doors, lonely love-sufferers and love-hopefuls tune in to the...

Dr Nofit Itzhak (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Signifiers for the Divine: from Dyad to Triad in the Humanitarian Relation Le Rocher is a Catholic Charismatic NGO operating in the French cités, concerned with ameliorating the living conditions of immigrant populations inhabiting these peripheral neighborhoods. While the...

Professor Patricia Spyer, (The Graduate Institute Geneva) Extreme Perception and the Work on Appearance Drawing on my forthcoming book, Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia (Fordham University Press 2020), the presentation addresses a momentous transformation of the terrain of the visual...

Dr Alice Street (University of Edinburgh) Humanitarian entrepreneurs: Hype and hope in Boston’s biotech hub What happens when speculative capitalism collides with humanitarian concern? Boston’s biotech hub, long established as a premium location for commercialising life-science research, is also home to a growing number of...