Seminars take place on Thursdays 3-5pm in room F61 Edward Wright Building unless otherwise noted.
All welcome. Refreshments provided.
Please contact the current seminar organisers, Maggie Bolton and Andrew Whitehouse, for any further details.
4th October
Martin Mills, University of Aberdeen
Paying the Lord of Death with cash: exorcism and economic change in Ladakh, north-west India
11th October
Peter Loovers, University of Aberdeen
Following the veins of the Earth: poetics and resource extraction in the Canadian Circumpolar North
18th October
Nicole Bourque, University of Glasgow
Challenging theories of pilgrimage: experience and identity on the road to Compostela
25th October
John Harries, University of Edinburgh
The absent other and the limits of immanence: Beothuk ghosts and the feeling of pastness
1st November
Tony Crook, University of St Andrews
Al Gore’s hockey-sticks, holograms and hope: plotting nature and time in a crisis
8th November
PhD Students, University of Aberdeen
3.00 – 3.40 Norman Prell: The road to Magadan: remembering the GULAG
3.40 – 4.20 Kamal Adhikari: Social history of Sunakhari (an orchid) in Nepal
4.20 – 5.00 Graeme Wilson: Chess: memory, materiality and play
15th November
PhD Students, University of Aberdeen
3.00 – 3.40 Mark Calder: Blood and the Blood: representing the Eucharistic anthropology of Palestine's Syriac Orthodox.
3.50 – 4.30 Candice Roze: Re-Thinking environmental knowledge through an anthropological approach to people’s understanding of the forest in Vanuatu
22nd November
Bill Sillar, University College London
Constructing Cuzco: Inka stonework and pottery production at the heart of Empire
29th November
Dimitrina Spencer, Oxford University
Emotional Reflexivity as relational reflection in academic work
6th December
Peter Collins, Durham University
Ghosts and hauntings: towards an anthropology of the imagination
13th December
Cristian Simonetti, University of Aberdeen
The stratification of life, mind and knowledge: from early geology to the history of ideas