Department of Anthropology Seminar Series

Spring Term Seminar Series 2019-20

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)

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

Class, Anthropology, and the Illiberalism Discussion

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

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