The power-chronographies of waiting for asylum in Marseille, France

Christine M. Jacobsen

Printed Copies of the Qur’an vs. the Luh: The Racial Dilemma of the White Muslim

Ezgi Gunner, University of Illinois-Urbana, Dept. of Anthropology

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE

Bettina Stoetzer, MIT, Dept. of Anthropology

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE - ’Insurrectionary Imagination’: The Rehearsal is the Revolution

Damani Partridge, University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Nilotes,” “Hamites,” and “True Negroes”: The Legacies of Anthropology’s Africa

Jemima Pierre, UCLA, Dept. of Anthropology

The Psychiatric Hospital in the Colonial Matrix of Power: Fanon, Zona del Estar, and the Mexican State

Beatriz Reyes-Foster, University of Central Florida, Dept. of Anthropology

Class and Race at the Bottom of the Labour Market: Organising Outsourced Migrant Workers in 21st Century London

Joe Trapido, SOAS, Dept. of Anthropology

Education and Race in Black and Asian Communities in Britain: An Archival Study

Emma Abotsi, British Sociological Association Fellow at the British Library

Meritocracy and Democracy: The Social Life of Caste in India

Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University, Dept. of Anthropology

Racism Matters in Decolonising Universities

Suki Ali, LSE, Department of Sociology

Once Were Warriors: Colonial Violence and Its Gendered Legacies in Morocco and the Diaspora

Paul Silverstein, Reed College, Dept. of Anthropology

Between Racist Past and Racialized Present in Germany: Islam Critics, Holocaust Memory, and Immigrant Integration

Esra Ozyurek, London School of Economics, European Studies

Whose heritage and for whom? Heritagization by dispossession in Taiwan's military dependents' villages

Elisa Tamburo (SOAS)

What is a church (and why this matters)? How sound turns space into place for Christians in London.

Alina Apostu (SOAS)

The On-the-Ground Discursive Game: Constructing Chinese image under China-Africa Media Cooperation.

Weidi Zheng (SOAS)

That Bar Life: Nightlife, Gender and Service at Japanese-style Gay Bars

Marcello Francioni (SOAS)

Animating the Image: Film Appreciation and the Labour of Cinephilia in Bangladesh

Lotte Hoek (Edinburgh)

Those with big stick get the buffalo: An ethnographic interrogation of the land acquisition regime in Pakistan

Mustafa Khan (SOAS)

We are Indians, firstly and lastly: the politics of belonging and difference in a Mumbai chawl

Jonathan Galton (SOAS)

The complex effects of South Korean resettlement policy on the social class of North Koreans in South Korea

Jennifer Hough (SOAS)

Decolonising International Research Coalitions

Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby, Jas Kaur, and Bethel Worku (SOAS)

What Remains of the Social: Exploring the (Post)-Apartheid Condition in Namibia

Mattia Fumanti (St Andrews)

Post-truth, Metacognition and the Anthropology of Belief

Jonathan Mair (Kent)

Work-in-Progress Workshop (pre-circulated paper): "Muddy Waters: South East England's waterways as a site of amphibious dwelling"

Benjamin Bowles (SOAS)

Work-in-Progress Workshop (pre-circulated paper): title to come

Ruba Salih (SOAS)

Work-in-Progress Workshop (pre-circulated paper): Title TBC

Kevin Latham (SOAS)

Recognition as Moral Disruption: Outrage, Tragedy and Triumph in Indonesia’s Confucianist Revival

Nicholas Long (LSE)

Work-in-Progress Workshop (pre-circulated grant proposal; by invitation only)

Fabio Gygi (SOAS)

Work-in-Progress Workshop (pre-circulated paper): "Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity, ambivalence and austerity in the South African health sector"

Elizabeth Hull (SOAS)

“That’s media coverage, it’s not publicity!": Form and substance of some French publics

Matei Candea (Cambridge)

Roundtable Discussion: Anthropology at SOAS Since 1989

Memories at the margins: Stolpersteine and grievability in Norway

Ruth Mandel (University College London)

Solidarity beyond compromise: Dependency and resistance in times of protracted austerity

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent)

Routes to coevalness: Generation and migration after Yugoslavia

Spela Drnovsek Zorko (University of Warwick)

Maghrebinicité: North African Jewish experience in greater Paris since 1981

Sami Everett (University of Cambridge)

[Event Cancelled] The value of bread: exploring the links between domestic labour and political legitimacy in urban Morocco

Dr Katharina Graf, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, SOAS

Challenging Global Geographies of Power: Sending Children back to Nigeria from the United Kingdom for Education

Dr Pamela Kea, Sussex University

The contribution of African feminist thought to gender and development

Professor Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies

Doing it the ‘Village Way’: Determining Paternity in a Malawian Magistrates’ Court

Dr Jessica Johnson, Lecturer in the Anthropology of Africa, University of Birmingham

The cryptic origins of Ebola in West Africa: science and narratives of spillover in Meliandou, Guinea

Professor James Fairhead, University of Sussex

What is Global Health?

Professor Ian Harper, Department of Anthropology, Edinburgh University

Narratives, Networks and NGOs: Dalit Rights and Development in South India

Professor David Mosse, SOAS

Who are the true sons of God? Suspicion in Rwanda's new Pentecostal churches

Dr Andrea Grant, Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge

Travel, Tourism, Pilgrimage and Anthropological Theory

Professor Tom Selwyn, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS

Liberal Entanglements in the International Order: A History of International Investigative Commissions to Palestine

Lori Allen, SOAS

Archives of Insecurity: Revisiting J. D. Y. Peel’s ‘Making History’ in the Nigerian Petro-State

David Pratten, University of Oxford

Things That Believe: A Material Ecology of Religion in Japan

Fabio Gygi, SOAS University of London

Blurring Bovine Boundaries: Cow Politics and the Everyday in Contemporary South India

James Staples, Brunel University

Found Cambodia: Photography and Social Memory after 1979

Charles Fox, Joanna Wolfarth and Haidy Geismar

Skipping Memories on Partition and the Intersensory Field in Subcontinental Britain

Raminder Kaur, University of Sussex

“Beyond Religion: New Age Nigerian Style"

Marloes Janson, SOAS

‘Intellectuals Know, but People Feel’: Palestinian Refugees, Gramsci and Cathartic Politics

Ruba Salih, SOAS

Anthropology at SOAS: Historical Reflections

Adrian Mayer, David Parkin, and Richard Tapper

“A Yao Self, a Miao Portrait: Two Moments of Filmmaking in ‘Minority’ China”

Jenny Chio, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Emory University

Film Screening: Travel: understanding Nigerian migrant women's experiences of sex work and trafficking through participative filmmaking, 2016, 63 min.

Nickola Mai, Professor, Criminology /Sociology, Kingston University London

“Pirate Enlightenment or the Mock Kings of Madagascar”

David Graeber, Professor, Anthropology Department, LSE

Social Sense and Embodied Sensibility: Towards a Social Phenomenology of film going in Colonial South India

Dr Stephen Hughes

“Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa”

Joe Trapido, Temporary Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SOAS

“Why do some ideas become concrete realities and others not? The politics of roads, cars and mobility on Reunion Island.”

Edward Simpson, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SOAS

"The In Amenas (Sahara) terrorist attack of January 2013: anthropological method v an official 'cover up'"

Jeremy Keenan, Professorial Research Associate, Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, SOAS; Visiting Professor, School of Law, Queen Mary University, London (QMUL)

"Food and Multiculture: An East End Case Study"

Alex Rhys-Taylor, Lecturer, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths

Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75*

Peter Sutoris, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University

“Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75”

Peter Sutoris, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University

The Waterless Sea: A World History of Mirages

Chris Pinney (UCL)

Borderlands: From migrant question to a new cosmopolitism

Michel Agier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

Migration and the mapping of global danger

Ruben Andersson (LSE)

Falling for Parliament: Political struggle, kinship and shape-shifting representation

Emma Crewe (SOAS)

Translational Politics and Law in the High Imperial Age, 1875-1914: The view from the Straits of Malacca

Michael Gilsenan (NYU; SOAS Centenary Fellow)

Kinship, leadership and friendship: Relating to strangers among the Mursi in South-Ethiopia

Támas Régi (Kodolányi János University, Hungary)

Digging: The spiritual-material imagination of (dis)possession in Mardin, Southeastern Turkey

Ozlem Biner (LSE)

Engineering activism: Unpicking the fossil economy in Bangladesh

Paul Robert Gilbert (University of Brighton)

The return of curiosity: What museums are good for in the 21st century

Nicholas Thomas (Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Communicating with Non-Academic Audiences

Kitrina Douglas (Leeds Beckett) & Sara Tetley (Kent)

Collaborative Work & 'Radical Craft'

Trevor Marchand (Emeritus, Anthropology, SOAS)

'Now That's What I Call History'

Lucy Robinson (History, Sussex)

What are 'impact' and 'engagement'?

Felix Rehnberg (Impact Officer, SOAS)

Collaboration and Public Engagement

Edward Simpson (Anthropology, SOAS)

Participatory and Process-Orientated Research

Paul Basu (Anthropology, SOAS)

Speaking From Materials: Form, Presence and Power in Hindu South India

Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester University)

Choreographies of Landscape in Yosemite National Park: A Theory of Eco-semiotics

Sally Ness (University of California, Riverside, USA)

Speak No Evil: Inversion and Evasion in Indonesia

Andrew Beatty (Brunel University London)

Listening to Levinski Street: Ethiopian and Eritrean Dialectics of Cultural Citizenship in Tel Aviv

Ilana Webster-Kogen (SOAS, University of London)

Moral Imaginaries of Oneness: A Japanese NGO in Myanmar

Chika Watanabe (Manchester University)

Race, Religion and the Lost Tribes of Israel

Yulia Egorova (Durham University)

Modern encompassment or traditional individualism? Revisiting the personhood debate in the context of Afghan-Iranians

Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford)

“You are the state”: Latvian diaspora politics and the spatial distribution of sovereignty and statehood

Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford)

Singapore, Big Village of the Dead: Cities as Figures of Desire, Domination, and Rupture among Korowai of Indonesian Papua

Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge)

A book of good faith? The contradictory nature of the present in the work of Henri-Alexandre Junod (1898-1927)

João de Pina-Cabral (University of Kent)

A Question of Ethics: The Creative Orthodoxy of Buddhist Monks in the Mongolian Gold Rush

Mette High (University of St Andrews)

Hope and Betrayal on the Platinum Belt

Dinah Rajak (University of Sussex)

As Yet Untitled

Laura Bear (LSE)

Everyone Is Not Illuminated: Light, Energy and Markets in Rural India

Jamie Cross (University of Edinburgh)

Producing 'Global' Corporate Subjects in Post-Mao China: Management Consultancy, Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility

Kimberly Chong (UCL)

Sentiments of Aid: Microfinance as Affective Practice

Anke Schwittay (University of Sussex)

The Problem of Charismatic Violence

Linsey McGoey & Darren Thiel (Essex University)

Risk, Trust and Pray: Somali Entrepreneurship in Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate

Neil Carrier (University of Oxford)

Geology, Potentiality, Speculation: On the Indeterminacy of "First Oil"

Gisa Weszkalnys (LSE)

Informalization and its Discontents: Inclusive Markets, Islamic Radicalization and the Informal Economy in Northern Nigeria

Kate Meagher (LSE)

Demonic Violence and Moral Panic in Post-War Sri Lanka

Rajesh Venugopal (LSE)

Title TBD

Phil Swift (UCL)

The Infrastructural Anthropologist: Queer Connections in the Field

Mark Graham (University of Stockholm)

Bleurgh! On the Erotics of Disgust

Michael O'Rourke (Independent Colleges Dublin)

Spaces, Objects, Practices: Aisthesis in the Tea Room

Kristin Surak (SOAS)

The Malian State, Global Humanitarianism, and the Narrative of Cultural Heritage

Charlotte Joy (Goldsmiths)

Homophobia, Homohysteria, and Gender Regulation

Eric Anderson (Winchester)

Fearing My Informants: Popular Vocabularies of Homophobia in Chennai

Sneha Krishnan (Oxford)

Queer Giving: An Audio-Visual Shared Ethnography of The Wotever Vision, London 2003-06

Zem Moffat

Modernity and the Human Sciences

Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths)

Looking from the outside in: The Kakfaesque experience of seeking asylum in the UK

Dr John Campbell, SOAS

Exploring the Moral Panic around FGM in the UK

Dr Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth

Legal Inscriptions: The Potential Problem of International Criminal Law's Complicity with Ethno-nationalist Politics. The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dr. Sari Wastell, Goldsmiths

TBA

Professor Anne Griffiths, Edinburgh

When the Village Meets The Hague: Competing Conceptions of Transitional Justice in the African Great Lakes

Dr Phil Clark, SOAS

Architects of Justice? Exploring the links between design and due process

Professor Linda Mulcahy, The LSE

Force and Right: Money, violence and consent in Kinshasa's 2011 elections

Dr Joe Trapido, Anthropology & Sociology, SOAS

What happens to justice when the courts start to sponsor settlement?

Professor Simon Roberts, The LSE

The Rights of Others: conflicting concepts of ownership, family and wealth in areas impacted by the extractive industries

Dr Emma Gilberthorpe, School of International Development, UEA

Mission to a Prodigal Continent! An Ethnography of Religious Mutation and Mobility – the Case of African Christianities

Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh

Creolization, Ritual, and Syncretism

Charles Stewart, University College London

Keeping the Secret, Losing the Secrets: Sufism, Esoterism, and the State in Libya

Igor Cherstich, SOAS

‘Secular’ Politics in the Age of ‘Religion’: Soka Gakkai and the Clean Government Party (Komeito)

Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen, SOAS

On the Jugaad Image: Embodying the Mobile Phone in India

Amitabh Rai, Queen Mary University (joint with SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies)

New and Not-Quite-So-New Religious Movements

Eileen Barker, London School of Economics and Political Science

Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West

Fenella Cannell, London School of Economics and Political Science

What Happened to Soviet Atheism?

Mathijs Pelkmans, London School of Economics and Political Science

The ‘Witchcraft of the House’ Going Global: Occult Aggression, Intimacy, and Transcontinental Migrants from Africa

Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam (joint with SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies)

Crisis and Famine in Island Greece: Sovereign Debt, Political Violence, and Topologies of Memory in Chios

Nicolas Argenti, Brunel University

Militant Masks: Youth and radical insecurity in the Niger Delta

Dr. David Pratten, Oxford University

Pacific presences: Oceanic art and European museums

Prof. Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge

Westminster MPs at work: performance and relationships

Dr. Emma Crewe, SOAS

Disciplining the everday state: anti-corruption activism in Delhi'

Dr. Martin Webb, Sussex

Multidisciplinary Anthropology: film, history, arts and media

Dr. Giulia Battaglia, SOAS

Urban community building and planning and residents’ responses in contemporary China

Prof. Stephan Feuchtwang, LSE

Trans-sptial Protest: The Geography of Iranian Post-election Protest in the age of Web 2.0

Dr. Reza Masoudi-Nejad, SOAS

Anthropological approaches to the study of drug consumption and drug control?

Prof. Axel Klein

Post Independence Displacement in Eritrea: causes and consequences'

Gaim Kibraeb

Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space

Claire Alexander (Department of Sociology, University of Manchester)

Transnational Connections and Development Disconnections: stories from Sylhet

Katy Gardner (Social Anthropology, University of Sussex)

The Self in the World and the World in the Self: Contributions to anthropological theory from anthropology of travel, tourism, and pilgrimage

Prof. Tom Selwyn, SOAS

'The Art of Capture: Hidden Jokes and The Native Reinvention of Animistic Ontologies in Southwest China'

Dr. Katherine Swancutt, Oxford University

Amra shob shoman" (We are all the Same): Being Hindu and Muslim on the Bangladesh/India Border

Dr. Delwar Hussain, University of Cambridge

Anthropology and 'land grabs' : reflections on our history of activism

Prof. James Fairhead, University of Sussex

Between Development and Clinical Trials: Generating evidence for maternal child health programme interventions in Nepal

Dr. Ian Harper, University of Edinburgh

The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized market

Dr. Johan Fischer, Roskilde University, Denmark

The changing mediascape of Spain's 15-M movement: a processual analysis

Dr. John Postill, Sheffield Hallam University

What are the Ethnic Options of Chinese/White young people in Britain Today?

Prof. Miri Song, University of Kent

Jews and Palestinians: Separate or Together?

Dr. David Wesley, Tel-Aviv University

How mana/qi concepts shape sociality: the example of the Shuhi house in Southwest China

Prof. Elisabeth Hsu, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford

Money-Go-Round: Personal Economies Of Wealth, Aspiration And Indebtedness In South Africa

Prof. Deborah James, LSE, University of London

The Uncertainty of Nationalism: Alienation, the Middle Class and Narrative in Maputo

Dr. Jason Sumich, University of Pretoria

Word and Image: an ethnography of the religious imagination in Central Africa

Dr Ramon Sarrò

“An ethics of the rough ground of the everyday: the struggles and entwinements of life in post-invasion Iraq”

Mr. Hayder Al-Mohammad University of Kent at Canterbury

“Father Mao and the Country-Family: Affection for the Chinese State”

Dr Hans Steinmuller. London School of Economics

“Globalization, multiculturalism and ‘the autochthonous’ working-class: Comparing two steel-towns in Brazil and Britain"

Dr Massimiliano Mollona Goldsmiths, University of London

"Fields of desire: Poverty, policy and aspiration in the south of Laos"

Dr Holly High, University of Cambridge

“Politics, prostitution and the emergence of a new popular audience in 1920s Lagos”

Professor Karin Barber University of Birmingham

“Facebook and Digital Anthropology’”

Professor Daniel Miller, University College London

“The Birth of the Word: language, force, and Mapuche ritual”

Dr Magnus Course, University of Edinburgh

“Answering the 'so what?': Applying Anthropology to Defence and Security”

Dr Andrew Gee, Anthropologist, Influence Analysis Team - Strategic Analysis Group, Policy and Capability Studies Department

For a life of virtue: Knowledge and morality in an Islamic academic setting in contemporary Malaysia

Mahnaz Marashi (SOAS)

'What stinks?': Perfume & the productivity of smell

Dr Kit Davis (SOAS)

Astana: Making a Kazakh City? Power and New Identity in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Aigul Zabirova (SOAS)

Processions of grief: Shii ritual, everyday life and sectarian difference in urban Pakistan

Paul Rollier (SOAS)

The land of gold: Rupture and social change in East Timor

Dr Judith Bovensiepen (University of Kent)

Insights from the Maoist Revolution in India

Alpa Shah and George Kunnath, (Goldsmiths)

Nichiren'spolitical attitude and Soka Gakkai's quest for social transformation: Keeping the balance between the "Ethics of Ultimate Ends" and the "Ethics of Responsibility"

Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen (SOAS)

The tell-tale heart: emotion and conversion in Nias

Dr Andrew Beatty (Brunel University)

Making Mela in Brick Lane

Dr. Nicola Frost (Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies and Centre for Food Studies)

(joint seminar with the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies)

Comparisons for the anthropologist: when organ and tissue donations are matters of concern

Prof. Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge)

The land of gold: rupture and social change in East Timor

Dr Judith Bovensiepen (University of Kent)

Can the thing speak?

Dr Martin Holbraad (UCL)

Balandier and the postcolonial messiahs

Dr Ruy Blanes (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)

From the mouth of god: divine kinship and charismatic legitimation across India and Venezuela

Dr Lucia Michelutti (Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford)

Cultivating 'good people': volunteering, giving and the ongoing political crisis in Thailand

Nattaka Chaisinthop (PhD candidate, SOAS)

The hidden dimensions of polygyny

Professor Paul Spencer (SOAS)

The work of law in controlling ‘terrorists’ in the UK

Dr. John Campbell (SOAS)

This paper looks at the case of an individual held under the UK Prevention of Terrorism Act (2005) on a ‘control order’.

Between deciding and justifying: Islamic judges in England and Aceh

Professor John Bowen (Washington University in St Louis/LSE)

Rethinking Democracy: New Politicians in Uttar Pradesh, India

Dr Craig Jeffery (University of Oxford)

The Silent Voice: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Activism and Resistance

Anne de Jong (SOAS)

Beyond 'Relationalist Cultures': Towards Another Anthropology of Human Rights

Dr Harri Englund (University of Cambridge)

Messages from Paradise followed by discussion with its makers: Dr Samuli Schielke (ZMO) and Daniela Swarowsky

Dr Samuli Schielke (ZMO) and Daniela Swarowsky

The travails of the secular: gender and citizenship in Turkey

Professor Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS)

The Power of Secrets in Nepal

Professor David Gellner (University of Oxford)

The theatre state of North Korea

Heonik Kwon (London School of Economics)

Brahmans, society and the state in colonial and post-colonial Tamilnadu, South India

Chris Fuller (London School of Economics)

The future of human rights: Torture, boredom, and doubt at the United Nations

Toby Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

Odessa: Pogroms in a cosmopolitan city

Carrie Humphrey (University of Cambridge)

Splitting hairs: Horse breed classification and inter-disciplinarity

Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College)

The Islam of power and the Islam of powerlessness

Nico Martin (London School of Economics)

Arts of the possible: culture, agency and subjectivity

Henrietta Moore (University of Cambridge)

Something for posterity or hostage to fortune? some problems around archiving anthropological field material

Pat Caplan (Goldsmiths College)

Ghettoizing a matriarch and a city: An everyday story from the Palestinian/Israeli borderlands

Tom Selwyn