Department of Anthropology Seminar Series

Spring Term Seminar Series 2019

3 January - 27 March 2019, 4 - 6pm, Ben Pimlott Building, Lecture Theatre (please note room change for 20th March)

16 January: Collective: A Maroon sociology, Julia F. Sauma, University of Bergen

23 January: Love as understanding: marriage, aspiration and the joint family in middle-class Pakistan, Ammara Maqsood, UCL

30 January: Householding against work, Martin Fotta, Goethe University Frankfurt

6 February: Living archive of diaspora: Encounters with black feminism in the archive, Nydia A Swaby, SOAS

13 February: A Ride on the Elevator: Infrastructures of brokenness and repair in Georgia, Tamta Khalvashi, Ilia State University

27 February: Varieties of life forms, and the return of animism, Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

6 March: An anthropologist in the archives: Reading letters to the League of Nations on minorities and Macedonia, Jane K. Cowan, University of Sussex and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

13 March: Moving Global Horizons: imagining selfhood, mobility & futurities through creative practice in ethnographic research, Alexandra D’Onofrio, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology 

20 March: Family Business and the Business of Family: Running a Palestinian Café in London, Michelle Obeid, University of Manchester *this seminar will be in RHB 300a

27 March: Balkanizing Sahlins: national humiliation and stranger capitalism in a semi-periphery, Ivan Rajković, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology

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