Department of Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Seminar series for Semester 2, 2024-2025.
Department news
One year of the Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods
Launched in October 2023, the Alliance has since held ten major events, launched three seed funds, and established a national Emerging Research Leaders Programme.
Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis
Daniel M. Knight has received a grant of 1.5m euros from the Humanities in the European Research Area - Collaboration of Humanities and Social Science in Europe (HERA-CHANSE).
Book Publication: Rural Disease Knowledge, edited by Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva and Christos Lynteris
New book publication by the Global War Against the Rat project on Rural Disease Knowledge.
Porous Becomings YouTube discussion and Podcast
Dr Daniel M. Knight has presented presented ideas from his new book 'Porous Becomings' on a YouTube discussion and Podcast.
Department of Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Seminar series for Semester 1, 2024-2025.
Zoonotic Transformations of a Pandemic Disease
Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christos Lynteris on 25th September 2025.
Zoonotic Collecting Conference, June 24-25 2024
Registration is open for Zoonotic Collecting, the 4th annual conference of the Global War Against the Rat project (June 24-25, in person), convened by Drs Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva and Jules Skotnes-Brown.
Porous Becomings: New Book co-edited by Daniel M Knight
Daniel Knight is co-editor of a new book publication, Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres, recently released by Duke University Press.
Tristan Platt (1944-2024)
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews grieves the passing of world-leading Andeanist, Emeritus Professor Tristan Platt (1944-2024).