Events
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Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) "Mobile Quilombos: The Making of Black Territories in the White City"
15:00 - 17:00 19 October 2026
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of “mobile quilombos” through an analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious occupations of public space, exploring how the circulation of axé produces forms of territory, embodiment, and collective life. I develop a framework linking axé, body-territory, and quilombo to examine how religious communities...
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Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester) "Filmic Relationality: Towards an Ethnographic Ecocinema"
15:00 - 17:00 26 October 2026
Abstract: Rooted in ecocriticism and ecomedia studies, the field of ecocinema counts by now a significant volume of scholarship analysing works as diverse as Hollywood catastrophic movies, environmentalist documentaries and experimental slow cinema. In this presentation I cross the main ideas from this literature with anthropology’s recent turn...
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Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition to Misrecognition: Indigeneity, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphic Temptation"
15:00 - 17:00 9 November 2026
Abstract: What happens when a social anthropologist conducts a sustained dialectical exchange with an AI system on a topic he knows intimately through decades of ethnographic fieldwork? This paper presents an experiment in which I repeatedly challenge my AI interlocutor, Mirror-Mirror, to explain and justify its representations of Emberá indigeneity...
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Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) "Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe"
15:00 - 17:00 16 November 2026
Abstract: In this seminar, I will give an account of my return to my field notebooks and library materials on Antakya, Turkey, after the city’s complete destruction with the earthquakes of 6 and 20 February, 2023. How do fieldnotes read after catastrophe? What temporal framework and narrative structure might one adopt when the context for one’s...
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Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics
15:00 - 17:00 23 November 2026
Engaging critically with recent interdisciplinary arguments linking repressed economic shame to anger and resentment among right-wing voters, in this paper I draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Thanet, a seaside area in South East England that has witnessed the growth of right-wing sentiments, to ask whether what I call an "emotional logic"...
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