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  1. Acting on Climate Change

    Acting on Climate Change

    Policy, Rights and Net Zero

    Balancing rising energy demands with the need to curb and adapt to anthropogenic climate change in a just and equitable way is at the heart of an existential...

  2. The Diplomacy of Terror.  European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War

    The Diplomacy of Terror. European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War

    CSTPV Seminar with Prof. Valentine Lomellini, University of Padua (Italy)

    In the late 1960s, a new political actor appeared on the European stage: armed organisations from the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin export terrorism...

  3. Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?

    The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats). Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on...

  4. 'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will give a masterclass on his film, Dog Apartment as part of the two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds'

    As part of a two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds: Ethnography/Animation' Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will be presenting a...

  5. Disability in Higher Education
    Cancelled

    Disability in Higher Education

    A Roundtable Event hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology

    Please join us for a roundtable event to discuss Disability in Higher Education

  6. Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    'Engineering Reality' with Cornelia Helmcke

    During this book launch event, author Cornelia Helmcke will meet critics Bibiana Duarte-Abadía (Wageningen University) and Christopher Schulz (University of St...

  7. Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Hosted by Anna-Sophie Hobi. Lithium-ion batteries are pivotal in the efforts to 'decarbonise' the European economy. Consequently, a battery...

  8. The Crocus City Hall terrorist attack: regional, political and security implications

    The Crocus City Hall terrorist attack: regional, political and security implications

    In collaboration with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

    While no clear evidence has yet been presented for who did it and why, it is clear that the attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow will have serious repercussions...

  9. Oqlanmagan --- The Unexonerated

    Oqlanmagan --- The Unexonerated

    Film screening and Q&A session

    In the 1990s, Uzbekistan's first president Islam Karimov arrested tens of thousands of practising Muslims, imams, and citizens engaged in Islamic study...

  10. A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    This reading, hosted by the School of English and Centre for Energy Ethics, will showcase the creative writing submissions from selected undergraduate students...

  11. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    The Pandemic Workplace: What US Employment Contracts Revealed about Social Contracts during the Pandemic

    On 5th April, please join us for our final seminar of the academic year, with Professor Ilana Gershon from Rice University. Professor Gershon is currently...

  12. Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship

    Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship

    A talk by Italian academic Dr. Nicola Casarini

    We are excited to present "Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship", a talk by Italian academic Dr. Nicola Casarini. Dr. Casarini...

  13. Solidaritee -- Speakers Event

    Solidaritee -- Speakers Event

    The role of language in seeking asylum

    RASA, NGN and Solidaritee are hosting a panel event with Dr Natasha Saunders, Dina Nayeri, Dr David Herd and Dr Uri Horesh on the role of language in seeking...

  14. Institute of Intellectual History --- Tom Pye (UCL)

    Institute of Intellectual History --- Tom Pye (UCL)

    The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain

    All welcome

  15. Defining Refugees: International Norms, National Interests, and the Politics of Refugee Status

    Defining Refugees: International Norms, National Interests, and the Politics of Refugee Status

    Guest Speaker - Dr. Deenesh Sohoni

    Deenesh Sohoni is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Studies program at William & Mary. His research examines...

  16. Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    The World Commission on Dams and the making of global guidelines for the planning and construction of large dams

    Hosted by Christopher Schulz Large dams are back on the global development agenda. Researchers have counted thousands of dam projects that are currently planned...

  17. The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    Featuring Tim Wilson

    Over little more than a decade, the so-called 'Lone Wolf' attacker has emerged as a central security threat. Such lone actors are usually seen as a...

  18. Perceptions of Illegitimate Violence in Intercultural Wars in German East Africa (circa 1884 to 1914)

    Perceptions of Illegitimate Violence in Intercultural Wars in German East Africa (circa 1884 to 1914)

    ISWS Spring Seminar with Professor Tanja Bührer, University of Salzburg

    Tanja Bührer's lecture explores what was considered legitimate and illegitimate violence in intercultural wars in the colonial realm during the fin de...

  19. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    "The First TikTok War": Digital-Visual Storytelling and the Shaping of Narratives from Ukraine

    Please join us for this week's Social Anthropology Departmental seminar, with Dr Elena Liber, Lecturer in Digital Anthropology at University College...

  20. Status reversal and its discontents

    Status reversal and its discontents

    Michael Hechter, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

    The recent rise of reactionary politics in modern democracies across the globe has been attributed to a variety of causes, including deindustrialisation,...