Department of Social Anthropology Seminar Series

23 January 2025

Fri 31 Jan. Steven Brown, University of Nottingham

Violence, Cemeteries and Necropolitics in the Work of Michel Serres


Fri 07 Feb. Matteo Saltalippi, University of St Andrews

The Role of Waste Pickers and Market Sellers in Italy within Reuse Economies: Value Creation and the Politics of Exchange


Fri 21 Feb.  Sharonne Specker, University of St Andrews | David Riches Medal 2024

Learning to Listen: The Informal and Formal Learning of Swiss folk Music and Cultural Belonging


Fri 28 Feb. Alex Archer, University of St Andrews

One Dog and Her Man: Apprentice Anthropology and Multi-Species Ethnography in Britain's Northern Uplands


Fri 14 Mar. Maan Barua, University of Cambridge

An Amphibious Urbanism


Fri 21 Mar. Mattia Fumanti, University of St Andrews

Italian Physicians in the Colonial World: Medicine, Mobility and the Hippocratic Imagination


Fri 28 Mar. Sabine Parrish, University of Aberdeen

The Jabuticaba Problem: Specialty Coffee and Cross-Cultural Taste


Fri 04 Apr. Yichi Zhang, University of St Andrews

Feeling “Good”: Living and Working with the Chinese Shopkeepers in Jamaica


Fri 18 Apr. Vindhya Buthpitiya, University of St Andrews

The Matter of State Violence: A Monument to Prema


Fri 25 Apr. Grzegorz Palka, University of St Andrews | David Riches Medal 2024

Huni Meka: Weaving Visions through Song with the Huni Kuin of the Brazilian Amazon


All seminars are 2-4pm (UK time) and will be run in a hybrid style, with in-person speakers and 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 through Social Anthropology Events

Seminar Convenor: Professor Christos Lynteris