We are please to announce the publication of Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method edited by Nigel Rapport & Huon Wardle, Routledge, 2024. Abstract In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now. This book offers … Read more
CCS Conference 2024: Constructing Other Worlds: Ethnography and Animation (19-21 April 2024) Organizer: Dr Huon Wardle (University of St Andrews) Held at the University of St Andrews This workshop explores ethnography and animation as processes of imaginative and technical worldmaking. The workshop concerns what can be learnt by placing the constructive practices of animation and … Read more
Porous Becomings Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres Editor(s): Andreas Bandak (University of Copenhagen) and Daniel M. Knight (University of St Andrews) Subjects: Anthropology, Philosophy of Science, Science and Technology Studies Duke University Press, 2024 One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930-2019) broke free from disciplinary dogmas. His … Read more
2023 Key Publications by St Andrews CCS Staff Fumanti, M. 2023. Religion and Transnational Citizenship in the African Diaspora. London: Routledge. Gay y Blasco, P. and M. Fotta. (eds.). 2023. Romani chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resistance. Oxford: Berghahn. Henig, D. and D.M. Knight. 2023. Polycrisis: Prompts … Read more
Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Inaugural Anthropology of Time Network (ATN) Lecture In collaboration with the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St Andrews Friday 6th October 2-4pm, School 5 Lecture Theatre and Online Dr Chloe Ahmann (Cornell University) Watch the lecture in full: ASA Anthropology of Time Network (theasa.org) or at Time Bomb: … Read more
Anthropology’s Philosophy Organizer: Prof Nigel Rapport (University of St Andrews) Held at the University of St Andrews Social Anthropology has been characterised as ‘the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities’ (Eric Wolf). It has been argued that only as a fundamentally non-specialist ‘interdisciplinary discipline’ (Gregory Bateson), ‘born omniform’ (Clifford … Read more
Life on the Edge: Ecologies, Emptiness, Endings, Extremes Organizers: Dr Daniel M. Knight (University of St Andrews) and Dr Dace Dzenovska (Oxford University) Held at The Burn, Glenesk, Scotland The Edge has long been used in environmentalism, geo-politics, and existentialist philosophy as a trope to elucidate a world in transition where one order (social, political, economic, … Read more
We are delighted to welcome Professor Moten Nielsen to the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies on a three-year fellowship (2022-25). Prof Nielsen is research professor and head of the Research Center for Social Urban Modelling (SUMO) at the National Museum of Denmark.