School of Social and Political Science

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Idil Galip and Angus Bancroft

Rhetorics of Resilience: Defining the Appalachian Region of the U.S. through Foodways

The next FRIED online seminar will be given by Prof Ashli Stokes of University of North Carolina Charlotte. She will be talking about her work on the rhetorical meanings of Appalachian foodways, arguing that they that demonstrate a region built on rhetorics of resilience that strengthen, but also stereotypically undermine, the region.

Data as Atrocity Stories or Data as Fiction?

In this seminar, Professor Mhairi Mackenzie will ask some searching questions about research data.

Social Anthropology Seminar: Book talk: Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

This talk examines how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of urban governing in post-socialist times.

African Studies, Eurocentrism & the Africa That Was

CAS Seminar - African Studies, Eurocentrism and the Africa that Was

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Gözde Güran

CRITIQUE Virtual Author-Meets-Critics- The Last Parents on Earth: Raising Children in a World in Crisis with Elizabeth Cripps

A Virtual Author-Meets-Critics with Liz Cripps on her forthcoming book The Last Parents on Earth: Raising Children in a World in Crisis.

COP26 — the view from Bangladesh, Panama and from within the UNFCCC

As the COP26 meetings get underway in Glasgow, we welcome Naveeda Khan, Perry Maddox and Magnús Örn Agnesar Sigurðsson to discuss how they are applying anthropological lenses to policy forums, legal provisions and project implementations as they pertain to climate, land and environmental damage in Bangladesh, Panama and within the UNFCCCC.

Online workshop on interpretive research methods

We will be joined by two leading scholars, Prof. Dvora Yanow and Prof. Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, for an online workshop on methods and methodology.

Social Anthropology Seminar: The Many Faces of Peace: Rule of Law, the Justice of the Peace, and Everyday Life in Haiti

Conventionally, Haiti is seen by foreign funding agencies as a “war-torn,” or “post-conflict,” or “failed,” state that needs “help.”

PIR Book Launch: International Relations in the Middle East by Ewan Stein

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.

Digital Worker Inquiry: Data, Solidarity, and Leverage

A two-day event from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Data, Culture & Society's Digital Social Science research cluster and the Edinburgh Futures Institute.