Jeremy Walton (Max Planck Institut) gave a talk titled “Grave Matters: Sepulchral Reflections on the Poverty of Nostalgia for Imperial Diversities” on Friday the 12th of April.
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Jeremy Walton: Grave Matters
Ed Simpson: State Highway 31
Ed Simpson (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) gave a talk on Friday 1. March 2019 titled “State Highway 31: A road trip through the heart of modern India“.
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Bill Maurer: The Racial Capitalism of Blockchain
Bill Maurer (UC Irvine) gave a talk titled “The Racial Capitalism of Blockchain: Alternative Markets for Human-Computer Flourishing or Computational Slavery?”on the 8th of Frebruary 2019.
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Catherine Alexander: Indeterminate classifications
Anni Kajanus: Who will yield?
Cris Shore: “Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse”: Metricised Management, Peformativity and Perverse Incentives
Interview with Angie Heo
In the beginning of March 2018, Angie Heo gave a talk in our visiting seminar and we used this great opportunity to speak about her research. The interview, which is presented to you here in an audio form, was conducted in a collaboration with the LSE Religion and Global Society, and you can find its written version on their website.
Angie Heo is Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at the University of Chicago. Her first book is The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (University of California Press, 2018).
Melissa Demian: The gender of the minibus
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Melissa Demian (University of St. Andrews) gave a talk titled “The gender of the minibus: Women and the navigation of urban space in Papua New Guinea” on the 14th of April 2018.
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Joel Robbins: Anthropology between Europe and the Pacific
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Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) gave a talk titled “Anthropology between Europe and the Pacific: Values and the Prospects for a Relationship Beyond Relativism” on 16 March 2018.
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Angie Heo: The Political Lives of Saints. Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt
On March 2, 2018 Angie Heo delivered a talk in our visiting seminar titled “The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt”. We later conducted a brief interview with her.
Photo: Angie Heo
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