The Anthropology Seminar Series
The Department of Anthropology's Seminar Series is a regular opportunity to engage with a variety of scholars from around the world. Currently hosted online, the Seminar Series takes place on Thursdays, 3-5pm, unless otherwise specified. The calendar is below.
For further details about any of the sessions, please click the links in the sidebar to the subpages related to Abstracts and Archives.
| Thursday 11th March |
Making Differences in Berlin: Ethnographies, Museums and Heritage Developments Professor Sharon MacDonald (University of Aberdeen) |
| Thursday 25th March |
The Greek way from Albanophobia to Islamophobia in the era of refugee "crisis": "Radical alterity" and other racist stories Dr Giorgos Tsimouris (Panteion University, Athens) |
| Thursday 29th April |
The Melancholy of Bones: Forensic Exhumation as Elegiac Transformative Experience Dr Alexa Hagerty (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge) |
| Thursday 6th May |
Pious Demons and Sinful Christians: Mimesis, Historicity and the Demonization of Protestantism in Ethiopian Orthodox Exorcism Dr Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) |
| Thursday 13th May |
TITLE TBA Dr Patrick O'Hare (University of St Andrews) - POSTPONED. |
| Thursday 20th May |
Why is the drug trade not violent? Coca, Cocaine, and the embedded economy in the Chapare, Bolivia Dr Thomas Grisaffi |
| Thursday 27th May |
Living Through Others: Personhood, Ubuntu and Witchcraft in African Philosophical Thought Dr Martin Mills (University of Aberdeen) |
| Thursday 3rd June |
Returning to nature at the frontiers: Postmining narratives in Svalbard Dr Cecilie Ødegaard (University of Bergen) |