School of Social and Political Science

Heritage in the Body: embodied ecologies of health in times of change

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous Maya and Garifuna communities in Belize, New York City and Los Angeles, this paper forefronts the therapeutics of sensory experience in traditional healing modalities and conceptions of the well body.

The mental health challenges and Well-being of University Staff

Current issues and challenges in child welfare – Finnish perspective

This lecture focuses on the changes in Finnish child welfare and the ongoing reform in child welfare legislation.

Women drive cars too

Care for Sale: An Ethnography of Latin American Domestic and Sex Workers

Exploring Economic Abuse: From Research to Practice

Rescheduled event - please join our Social Work Seminar to hear from speaker Jenn Glinksi from the University of Glasgow who presents her talk entitled Exploring Economic Abuse: From Research to Practice.

Screening and Discussion: Four Days in May: Kingston 2010

Join us in the final instalment of this semester's Social Anthropology seminar series. We'll screen the experimental documentary 'Four Days in May: Kingston 2010', and discuss it with one of its directors, Professor Deborah A. Thomas.

A Master Class: Abstraction, Witnessing, and Repair

Professor Deborah Thomas will give a Master Class in connection with her Munro Lecture.

Munro Lecture: Professor Deborah A. Thomas

In this Munro Lecture, Professor Deborah A. Thomas will reflect on how thinking through surrender can provide a way to envision a mode of relational sovereignty: one that is unanchored to a state, untethered to masculinist notions of revolution and human-ness, and that is instead constituted through iterative practice and grounded in decolonial love and accountability.

Scaling ‘Our Common Home’: Political ecology and subsidiarity among French Catholics

A seminar with Dr Camille Lardy (Cambridge)

Book launch: Composing Violence by Moyukh Chatterjee

Join us as we launch Moyukh Chatterjee's Composing Violence.

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