Mediator impartiality and implicit bias How do mediators seek to ensure their duty of neutrality in their process interventions and what practical steps can they take to become more aware of their implicit biases?
Environment, Resources and Representation in the Southwest and Northwest of the Qing Empire This workshop brings together ongoing research on the environmental, religious, and cultural history of the South- and Northwestern frontier regions of the Qing empire. This event is part of the SOAS History Seminar series.
The Non-Neutrality of Commodity Money: From a classical production economy to corporate cash hoards This Seminar is part of the SOAS Economics Seminar Series - Autumn Term 2026. Speaker: Jose Alejandro Coronado (University of Greenwich).
Afghan Precarity in Pakistan: From legal exclusion to ethnic cleansing Alice Elliot (Goldsmiths, University of London) explores how research methods and structural conditions shape each other, and what this means for what is possible, and impossible, in the anthropology of migration.
Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power' 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power' features cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention of 2001.
The Reluctant Ethnographer: Using multimodal ethnography to decolonise the figure of the child Drawing on an 18-month multimodal ethnography in an inner London borough, Brenda reflects on researching alongside children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention, and on how creative, participatory methods can help decolonise that work.
Mexico’s Left Turn: what’s right and what’s left? Join us for an examination of the achievements, setbacks, and road ahead for Mexico’s Left Turn.
Ethnographies of Dalit Life in the Songs of Gaddar - a talk by Prof Lisa Mitchell Drawing on oral history interviews with iconic balladeer Gaddar (Gummadi Vittal Rao, 1949–2023) and the Telugu songs of the Jana Natya Mandali (People’s Theatre Troupe), this talk traces a shift in communicative relationships between city and village that became visible in the 1970s.
Screening of Nobody Nowhere – Self Portrait of a Ghost (2026) The first session of Film@CAMHRA, Collaborative Screening Practices: A Reflection on Mental Health and Anthropology Through Film.