Events
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Gaudenz Metzger (University of Manchester). Life in Limbo: Hospice care, photography, and the performance of the everyday
15:00 - 17:00 24 November 2025
Modern Western societies have struggled to find appropriate ways of dealing with the existential situation of dying and death. Under the influence of biomedicine, rationalisation, and secularisation, death has increasingly been framed as a medical problem, stripping it of its social and spiritual dimensions. Frequently observed effects of the medicalisation...
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Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid
15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse the impact that precarity has on masculinities among housing activists involved in the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform of People Affected by Mortgages)...
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Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy
15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
This talk will present my forthcoming book, which interrogates the historical formations and contemporary reconfigurations of the Tunisian public sphere. While profoundly delimited under the French Protectorate (1861–1956), the nationalist single-party regime of Habib Bourguiba (1956–1987), and the authoritarian police state of Zine El Abidine...
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Angela Giattino (University of Oxford). Identity Politics That Make You Laugh: On Shipilay, a new ‘eironym’ from Urban Peruvian Amazonia
15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
Ethnonyms are a serious matter. As historical, seemingly immutable markers of allegiance to an ethnicity which is often regarded as sacred, they carry profound significance. Yet, in contemporary urban Peruvian Amazonia, young and educated members of the Indigenous ethnic group known as Shipibo have coined a humorous ethnonym —Shipilay— to refer...
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