2020 events

The coughing body: etiquettes, techniques, sonographies and spaces

Wednesday 15 July 2020

Nik Brown and Sarah Nettleton discuss the coughing body, building on an in-depth qualitative study of three UK lung infection clinics treating people with cystic fibrosis.

Tobacco use in the context of ART adherence: insights from qualitative research in Uganda

Wednesday 1 July 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) bears the highest burden of HIV infection globally. Smoking cessation is important for people living with HIV (PLWH) because tobacco use increases the risk of opportunistic infections. Chief amongst these is TB: high HIV prevalence in SSA has opened the door to TB, which is now the most frequent cause of death among PLWH. Smoking rates are higher amongst PLWH than in general populations and standard smoking cessation interventions are not effective.

Ozhope Collective, racial capitalocene and the oil debate in Malawi

Wednesday 24 June 2020

Emmanuel Ngwira's talk will focus on an art project titled “Row” by a Malawian art group called Ozhope Collective.

From Coal to Brexit: on cultural-economic loss and the heating of identity politics in precarious Doncaster

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Catherine Thorleifsson will explore the local set of conditions central to the rise of UKIP and Brexit vote in the white-majority, working-class town of Doncaster.

From Blue Skies to Black Swans: Emergency R&D for Ebola, Zika and Coronavirus Diagnostics

Wednesday 3 June 2020

A new paradigm of emergency R&D is transforming global health.

The pure and the polluted: language politics in post-Apartheid South Africa

Wednesday 27 May 2020

Dr Gardner outlines how the structure of racial domination in South Africa’s language politics have continued into the twenty-first century.

Society to the rescue? Rethinking responses to crime and violence in Mexico

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Dr Slack draws on the findings of the large team project, made up of anthropologists and sociologists, that he completed in 2019 on responses to crime-related violence in Mexico.

CANCELLED More-than-human, less-than-human

Thursday 12 March 2020

How in the contemporary moment are notions of human exceptionalism and the natural being challenged and reinforced?

Historical denial and right-wing politics in contemporary Japan

Wednesday 19 February 2020

This talk, based on a work-in-progress, explores the social, political, and cultural contexts for the successful re-emergence of the nationalist right in Japan over the past quarter-century.

The political repression of Muslim civil society on UK university campuses

Wednesday 12 February 2020

Drawing on findings from a multi-site ethnography, this paper demonstrates how the introduction of the Prevent duty has undermined Muslim civil society participation in UK universities.

Infrastructures of Plutocratic London

Wednesday 22 January 2020

Caroline Knowles PhD walks through the infrastructure that makes London a plutocratic city