(SoSS) Social Anthropology

Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025
As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India,…

Charlotte Al Khalili (University of Sussex). Scales of justice in post-Assad Syria

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2025
This paper proposes an ethnographic exploration of post-Assad Syria that focuses on ideas and practices of justice in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Based on fieldwork in the city…

Gaudenz Metzger (University of Manchester). Life in Limbo: Hospice care, photography, and the performance of the everyday

15:00 - 17:00 24 November 2025
Modern Western societies have struggled to find appropriate ways of dealing with the existential situation of dying and death. Under the influence of biomedicine, rationalisation, and…

Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid

15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse…

Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy

15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
This talk will present my forthcoming book, which interrogates the historical formations and contemporary reconfigurations of the Tunisian public sphere. While profoundly delimited…

Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’

15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of…

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