Past events
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Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
15:00 - 17:00 7 October 2024
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. Scholars have argued that hate crime legislation relies on the collaboration of legal institutions that are themselves shaped by histories of prejudice and fail to bring justice to survivors of identity-based violence. But what does it mean for a...
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Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (Manchester): Living the Dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East
15:00 - 17:00 14 October 2024
This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai shaman brings together diverse techniques, such as shamanic dreams, storytelling, Christian...
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Dalia Iskander (UCL): Exteriorising (Hidden) Interiority and Interiorising (Unruly) Exteriority: Miniature dioramas of home and the uncertain terrain of empathetic imagination
15:00 - 17:00 21 October 2024
Based on ethnographic research conducted over the last two years in the UK, I describe the work of artists who craft tiny dioramas of the home. These ‘miniature narratives’ tell of both artist’s own histories and comparable wider human experiences that they feel compelled to share. In doing so, they externalise interiority, creating work...
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Jon Schubert (Basel): Authoritarian Planning: Speculation, spectral infrastructure, and extractivism in Angola
15:00 - 17:00 4 November 2024
In a moment of pervasive economic crisis, when any economic rationalities that may have justified investments in big infrastructure appear increasingly like pure fantasy, what visions of resource-dependent development are driving urbanisation? And how do such urban developments index configurations of power and capital? This paper is based on a...
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Sophie Woodward (Manchester): Imagination and Gifts: The lives and temporalities of dormant gifts
15:00 - 17:00 11 November 2024
Gifts that are hidden unwanted in a cupboard could be dismissed as a relationship that has gone wrong, or a lack of understanding of a recipient’s preferences. An implicit but key aspect of keeping (and buying) gifts is imagination: of what another person would like, or what someone would think if a gift is resold. This talk develops the idea...
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