Past events
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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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Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’
15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of Christians partake of it regularly. In this presentation, I examine this phenomenon while also tracing the circulation and uses of another sacred substance—holy...
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CLACS Film screening: 'Madan Saras'
17:00 - 18:30 25 March 2026
Film screening organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in affiliation with the SPLAS Cine-club and with the support of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. Wed 25 March, 17:00, Samuel Alexander Theatre. After the screening, there will be a Q&A with Lu Childs (Co-Executive Producer), who will join online. The...
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