Events
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Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"
15:00 - 17:00 5 October 2026
What might it mean to think of anthropology through lateness, as a way of staying with forms of thought that remain difficult, unresolved, excessive, or somehow out of time with the conventions through which knowledge becomes recognisable? Taking Edward Said’s writing on late style as its point of departure, this lecture brings lateness into...
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Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) "Between Thought and Expression, Lies a Lifetime: The Inner Lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease"
15:00 - 17:00 12 October 2026
Abstract: “Between thought and expression” sang Lou Reed “lies a lifetime”: a lyric that evokes the strange distance between people’s internalised realms of being and their public expression in the wider social world. Perhaps, nowhere is this disjuncture more apparent than in terms of Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a neurodegenerative condition...
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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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