Department of Anthropology Seminar Series

Spring Term Seminar Series 2019-20

Due to the current industrial action, talks on 26th Feb, 4th and 11th March will not be going ahead. For information about events and talks taking place during the strikes, please visit the Student's Union website.

The Anthropology Seminar Series is every Wednesday 4 - 6pm. All are welcome to attend.

For more information about each seminar, please check our events calendar.

Petro-charisma and its discontents: oil, crisis and morality in urban Venezuela

Matt Wilde, University of Leicester
15 January 2020, Ben Pimlott Building (BPB), lecture theatre

Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth

Guy Standing, SOAS
22 January 2020, Ben Pimlott Building (BPB), lecture theatre

Brexit, Empire, and Questions of ‘National Inheritance'

Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex
29 January 2020, Ben Pimlott Building (BPB), lecture theatre

Transformation and Satisfaction

Andrew Sanchez, University of Cambridge
5 February 2020, Ben Pimlott Building (BPB), lecture theatre

On Currency and Conversions: Container Economies in a Mediterranean Megaport

Hege Høyer Leivestad, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
12 February 2020, Ben Pimlott Building (BPB), lecture theatre

(19 February 2020 - Reading week - no lecture)

Cancelled: Gender of the Commodity: recognition, emotions and care in the Goroka marketplace, Papua New Guinea

Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh, Goldsmiths, University of London
26 February 2020, Media Research Building (MRB) 05, Screen 1

Cancelled: Class, Anthropology, and the Illiberalism Discussion

Don Kalb, University of Bergen
4 March 2020, Media Research Building (MRB) 05, Screen 1

Cancelled: Heroes of Labour to Cogs in the Machine (Or Roughly So)

Alina Sandra Cucu, Post-Doctoral fellow, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
11 March 2020, Media Research Building (MRB) 05, Screen 1

Women Weaving the Utopia: Subjectivity, Morality and Space in Kurdish Conflict

Esin Duzel, LSE
18 March 2020, Media Research Building (MRB) 05, Screen 1

Windrush Migrants in Brixton: Old but not Cold

Audrey Allwood, Goldsmiths, University of London
25 March 2020, Media Research Building (MRB) 05, Screen 1