The Social Anthropology Seminar Series at the University of Kent is a long-running tradition that provides a forum for presentation and discussion of timely, exciting and innovative ideas in social anthropological research. The seminars include a mix of external and internal speakers from social anthropology and related disciplines.
This term, our seminar series is online and will take place on Tuesdays from 13:00-14:30, via Microsoft Teams. All are welcome to attend.
- 20th Oct – Dr Layla Zagul (University of Kent)
Exploitation and Fairtrade in Costa Rica’s banana industry
- 27th Oct – Dr Anna Waldstein (University of Kent))
Deportability and spirituality in a hostile environment: Intersubjective effects
- 3rd Nov – Online chat
An informal chat about social anthropology research at Kent
- 10th Nov – Dr Olga Demetriou (University of Durham)
Refugeehood beyond the humanitarian moment
- 17th Nov – Introduction to Funders
Register separately here.
- 24th Nov – Dr Christos Lynteris (University of St. Andrews)
Mahamari: Plague and colonial medical interpretations of rat epizootics before bacteriology in British India
- 1st Dec – Dr Andrew Dean (University of Kent)
The Devil: Creation’s first marketer
- 8th Dec – Dr Anna Piestrzynska (University of Kent)
Language shift and the TEK conglomeration that constitutes medicinal plant knowledge in Tilantongo, Mexico