On October 17th anthropologist Dr Gonzalo Iparraguirre is visiting CCS from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr Iparraguirre’s research focuses around the themes of crisis, how individuals anticipate violent and socially destructive events, and what he terms the ‘comparative study of western and indigenous temporality’.
St Andrews PhD candidate Gabriela Manley has an article in Anthropology Today journal (35/4), entitled ‘Scotland’s Post-Referenda Futures’. “In the midst of chaotic Brexit negotiations and the failing political processes of Westminster, the Scottish National Party (SNP) is preparing to call a new independence referendum, arguing that Scotland should not be taken out of Europe … Read more
Daniel M. Knight has just published an American Ethnologist Collection on “Orientations to the Future”. The papers are an outcome of the 2018 Ladislav Holy Memorial Trust and Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies conference. Contributions from Rebecca Bryant, Stef Jansen, Kristin Loftsdottir, Raluca Roman, Felix Ringel, Dace Dzenovska, Morten Nielsen and Nigel Rapport.
This book, by Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight, presents the concept of ‘orientations’ as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six main orientations – anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope, and destiny – which represent different ways in which the future may affect our present. While orientations entail planning towards and imagining the future, … Read more
Contributors will speak to particular orientation(s) to examine both the temporal dynamism and potential temporal stasis of charting new individual and collective futures.
Errollyn Wallen will explore her compositions from the point of view of both the performer and the listener.
This talk explores social identity formation which eschews boundaries, embraces impurities and celebrates openness
The conference will explore the contemporary status and uses of ‘character’.
What is the place of energy in human life? How do we make sense of the ways in which we produce, distribute and use it? And how do such actions relate to what we consider to be right or good?
Chairs: Nigel Rapport / Huon Wardle 15:00-16:00. Post-Graduate roundtable. Participants: Shuhua Chen, Pablo Herrera, Panagiotis Karapampas, Karen Lane, Simone Toji. Participants will bring themed discussion points to an open dialogue. Discussion/break. 16:30-1800. Invited Speakers roundtable. Participants: Lisette Josephides (Queens University, Belfast), Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Durham), Ron Stade (Malmö), George Tsimouris (Panteion). Participants will present further discussion … Read more