School of Social and Political Science

The Deadbot Society: AI and the End of the Human Past

The 2020s are marked by a convergence of huge computing power with the greatest memory dump in history. The digital participation of billions – producing, exposing and sharing data and information about personal and public selves and experiences – has forged an astonishing shadow archive of us.

Infrastructure of Loss: Environmental Movement and Disaster Memorial in the Himalayas

Infrastructure of Loss: Environmental Movement and Disaster Memorial in the Himalayas

A Conversation on Lebanon

The Middle East Research Group at PIR is hosting a conversation with Dr. Wassim Mroue to discuss the implications of recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the region. The discussion will focus on the escalations since the pager attacks and the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Dr. Nida Alahmad will act as a discussant.

Making/Field/Technologies

Bad Photogrammetry: A PhD Masterclass

A workshop on creating intentionally 'bad' 3-d objects in ethnographic research.

Tahrir, Gaza, and Beyond: Revolution, Liberation, and Praxis

PIR Middle East Research Group in partnership with Al-Waleed Centre is delighted to invite you to the following event: Tahrir, Gaza, and Beyond: Revolution, Liberation, and Praxis

Ethnography, Making, and Recursive Practice (Munro Lecture)

Professor Elizabeth Chin will deliver this semester's Munro Lecture.

2024 UK General Election Series: The New Electoral Geography of the UK

This session will analyse how and why the geography of party support changed at the 2024 General Election

'Distributive labour' in South Africa: Debt, work, and welfare

The Centre of African Studies is delighted to invite you to the following seminar as part of their CAS Seminar Series 2024/2025.

My Old School: Film Screening and Discussion

In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend.

The Authority of Science in Parliamentary Debates: An Epistemic Governance Perspective

SKAPE welcomes Jukka Syväterä to deliver this presentation, drawing together the key results from his research project on the authority of science and expert knowledge in parliamentary debates over new legislation.

Recipes for Recovery: Food, Plants, and the Knowledge(s) of Maya Women in Guatemala

Through participatory methodologies, we seek to understand the way in which home gardens might allow Maya women in Guatemala to shape the health of their families, but also of the landscapes they inhabit.