2009
View desktop pageSocial Anthropology Announces Autumn Seminars
This autumn's seminars in social anthropology range in topic from gambling in London to pornography in Bangladesh.
Social Anthropology Seminars and Workshops
Semester 1, 2009-10
2nd October, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Anthropology in Practice: Workshop in Honour of Tony Good (with Jonathan Parry, Chris Fuller, Tony Cohen and others)
Staff Common Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building
9th October
Bob Simpson and Salla Sariola (Durham): Subjectivity and notions of self in bioethics discourses and clinical trials in Sri Lanka
16th October
Lotte Hoek (Edinburgh): Voice, Vision, Veils: Purdah and Pornography in the Bangladesh Film Industry
23 October
John Harries and Guro Huby (Edinburgh): Bloody Paperwork
Thursday 29 October, 5.15 p.m.
Munro Lecture
Karin Barber (Birmingham): The present in the past: the emergence of new genres and publics in early Yoruba print culture
Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower
30 October
Karin Barber (Birmingham): Moral energy and what looks like life in African popular culture
6 November
Magnus Marsden (SOAS): Of Caviar, Jihad and Diplomacy: Islam and Trade on the Frontiers of South and Central Asia
13 November
Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths): Time and the Betting Shop
20 November
Faisal Devji (Oxford): The Language of Muslim Universality
Monday 23 November, 4 p.m.
Marnia Lazreg (CUNY): Turning to the veil: Surplus or loss of meaning?
Seminar Room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Wednesday 25 November
Alexander Robertson (Edinburgh): How can Lukoho be his own grandfather? Being and Becoming in East Africa *
Charles Jedrej Lecture in African Anthropology (with CAS)
Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building 4 p.m.
27 November
Niko Besnier (Amsterdam): Athletes' Bodies and Global Connections: Rugby, the Abacus, Tonga, Japan
4 December
Mukulika Banerjee (LSE): Caste, Communism and Cultivation: Harvest and Democracy
Seminars are held every Friday from 2 to 4 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square (except 2nd October workshop, 29 October Munro Lecture, and 23 and 25 November seminars).
For more information please contact May Rutherford: may.rutherford@ed.ac.uk, 0131 650 3933
All Welcome