Mondays 5-6:30 pm
All talks are in person. Daryll Forde Seminar Room (UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW).
All Welcome. Seminar Convenors: Susanne Kuechler s.kuechler@ucl.ac.uk and Shireen Walton shireen.walton@ucl.ac.uk
Spring 2023
16 January - Graeme Were (University of Bristol)
Museums, Collections and Social Repair: Transforming the Past in Vietnam
23 January - Haichao Wang (UCL)
Beyond Social E-commerce: a comparative study of practicing values in Chinese Hui Muslims Jama’at
30 January - Emma Tarlo (Professor Emerita, Goldsmiths)
Hairy Entanglements – working towards a public anthropology
[Cancelled] 6 February - Elena Liber (UCL)
“The First TikTok War”: Narratives of conflict and emergency on TikTok
Reading Week
20 February - Heather A. Horst (Western Sydney University)
Doing kalavata: The performance and practice of collective identity
27 February - Elena Liber (UCL)
“The First TikTok War”: Narratives of conflict and emergency on TikTok
6 March - Kevin Smets (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
(De)bordering imaginations: “reel” power struggles in a bordered world
13 March - Karen Strassler (Queens College, Graduate Center of the City University of New York) [*on Zoom*]
The Mirror and the Lens: image-work and bodily reckoning after breast cancer