Autumn Seminars
Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Wednesdays 4pm, Room 256
Date to be confirmed
11 January 2012
Dr Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh
The 100th Object: Solar Lights and the Social Good
18 January 2012
Dr Alex Flynn, University of Cambridge
‘Brasil, Cuba, América Central, A luta socialista é internacional!’: Cultural politics and the Landless Workers’ Movement
25 January 2012
Dr Hans Steinmuller, London School of Economics
Father Mao and the Country-Family. Affection for the Chinese State
1 February 2012
Mr Patrick Wilcken, Researcher for Amnesty International and Independent Writer
Claude Lévi-Strauss: the poet in the laboratory
8 February 2012
Dr David Pratten, University of Oxford
Radical insecurity and rugged lives: the politics of youth in Nigeria
22 February 2012
Dr Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge
Taking (to) the streets: non-verbal languages of demonstrations in Bolivia, Argentina and the UK
29 February 2012
Dr Victoria Goddard and Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo, Goldsmiths
Enduring uncertainties and the persistence of work: the steel industry in a time of global crisis
7 March 2012
Tim Martindale, Goldsmiths
The heritage of labour in the Cornish fishing industry
14 March 2012
Dr Jo Cook, Goldsmiths
Negotiating and narrativising ‘not-achieving’ in Thai Buddhism
21 March 2012
Dr Sylvia De Zordo, Goldsmiths
Vita-politics & abortion in Italy: conflicts around the fetus’ “life” & “death”