(SoSS) Social Anthropology

Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester) and Adam Reed (St Andrews) "Democratic Epistemology, Anyone? Approaches to and Images of Knowledge as Radically Open to All Comers"

15:00 - 17:00 28 September 2026
This paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork among British Spiritualists in Edinburgh by Adam Reed and pub philosophers in Liverpool by Soumhya Venkatesan, seeks to propose an anthropologically…

Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"

15:00 - 17:00 5 October 2026
What might it mean to think of anthropology through lateness, as a way of staying with forms of thought that remain difficult, unresolved, excessive, or somehow out of time with the…

Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 12 October 2026
Abstract TBC Andrew Irving is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 19 October 2026
Abstract TBC Gabriel Marques Camargo recently completed his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester) "Filmic Relationality: Towards an Eethnographic Ecocinema"

15:00 - 17:00 26 October 2026
Abstract: Rooted in ecocriticism and ecomedia studies, the field of ecocinema counts by now a significant volume of scholarship analysing works as diverse as Hollywood catastrophic…

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 9 November 2026
Abstract TBC Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent

Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 16 November 2026
Abstract TBC Yael Navarro is Professor of Social, Political and Psychological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge

Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics

15:00 - 17:00 23 November 2026
Engaging critically with recent interdisciplinary arguments linking repressed economic shame to anger and resentment among right-wing voters, in this paper I draw on long-term ethnographic…

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (UCLA) "The Momentinho and the March: Temporalities of Struggle in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement"

15:00 - 17:00 30 November 2026
Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork with Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST), this talk presents material from the recently published Pathways to Utopia (Indiana…

Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an Evangelical Rio: Pleasure, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom"

15:00 - 17:00 7 December 2026
This talk begins from an unlikely scene: a sex costume party hosted by an evangelical pastor in a woman’s home in Rio de Janeiro, where lingerie is prayed over as a tool of marital…

Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) "Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan"

15:00 - 17:00 14 December 2026
As oceans rise worldwide, many governments are intensifying efforts to defend the towns and cities bordering them. Advocates of coastal infrastructure often argue that the best way…

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