Department of Social Anthropology Seminar Series

10 September 2024

Fri 27 Sept. Dr Bridget Bradley| University of St Andrews

Growing with BFRB U & I: Collaboration, Charity and the Struggle for Care


Fri 4 Oct. Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal| University of St Andrews

Vitreous Visions: Histories of Glass as a Media Objects


Fri 11 Oct. Professor Kirsty Màiri Robertson| Western University

Virtual speaker Building Collaboration from the Ground Up: The Centre for Sustainable Curating and the Synthetic Collective


Fri 18 Oct. Dr Françoise Barbira-Freedman |University of Cambridge

Mastership of Cosmopolitical Polarities: Shamanic Plant  Medicine in Western Amazonia

Fri 01 Nov. Dr Thomas White| King's College London

Frontier Livestock: Science, Capital, and Culture in a Chinese Borderland


Fri 08 Nov. Professor Caroline Humfress| University of St Andrews

Ensouled Law in Late(ish) Antiquity


Fri 15 Nov. Dr Jacob Doherty| University of Edinburgh

Driving Rents and the Infrastructure of Exploitation


Fri 22 Nov. Dr Aimée Joyce| University of St Andrews

“There Are no Ghosts Here”: Necessary Violence and Post-Imperial Heritage in Ireland

Fri 29 Nov. Professor Stuart Elden|University of Warwick

Virtual speaker Indo-European Thought at the Collège de France


All seminars are 2-4pm (UK time) and will be run in a hybrid style, with all sessions available to watch in-person or virtually.

To join us in-person:Room UCO 50, School 5, North Street, St Andrews

To join us virtually:Register via hyperlinks above or Social Anthropology Events

Seminar Convenors: Professor Christos Lynteris & Dr Patrick O’Hare