School of Social and Political Science

Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability

Book Launch (In-person & Zoom)

UoE Catto Scholarship Application Information Session

UoE Catto Scholarship Application Information Session

CRITIQUE Virtual Book Launch: Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care with Mihaela Mihai

With this interdisciplinary book, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do societies remember histories of systemic violence? Who is excluded from such histories' cast of characters? And what are the political costs of selective remembering in the present?

The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality

CAS Seminar - The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality

Publishing a Trade Book Workshop

In this workshop, we will hear from, and discuss with, editors, agents and authors of books targeted at a general audience.

Machine Anthropology

Can anthropological theories be combined with machine learning methods? Do recent advances within text mining allow for the realization of Levi-Strauss’ dream of a computational structuralism?

Times of Revolution, Objects of Sacrifice: The Photographic Afterlives of Kurdish Martyrs

The Contemporary Middle East Series, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise on the Middle East to share their experience and work in a series of public lectures.

The series is convened by the Middle East Research Group within the Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Gabriela Loureiro

EVENT CANCELLED  - What do we know about perpetrators of domestic abuse against older adults? Emerging findings from a rapid project

While we have made significant advances in research, policy and legislation relating to domestic abuse in recent decades, most of these efforts have focused on responding to the problem and improving the rights and services offered to victims.

Distinguished Scholar series: Reading group on Robert Vitalis’ Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt US Energy Policy

As part of the PIR's Distinguished Scholar series, join us for a reading group session focusing on Robert Vitalis’ book- Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt US Energy Policy

Methodological Reflections on a Mixed Method Re-Study of Dining Out

In this seminar Professor Alan Warde will discuss the methodological issues of a re-study after 20 years of dining out.

Iconocracy: The Sovereignty of a Statue and the Dominion of a Crown

This paper will draw on fieldwork on a ritual tradition in rural Guangdong to bring studies of Chinese deity cults into engagement with political philosophy and with anthropological theories of human-object assemblages.