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The Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS. https://www.soas.ac.uk/about-soas/colleges-schools-and-departments/department-anthropology-and-sociology

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 Help us keep the Helen Kanitkar Library open! The Helen Kanitkar Library is a unique and vibrant hub for all our students in the Anthropology and Sociology Department. We only need £2,500 to fund the student library and keep it open throughout the year. Donate here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/h...

Helen Kanitkar Anthropology Library Appeal

The Helen Kanitkar Library is a social study space, for anthropology and sociology students. The library is staffed by a student librarian and volunteers, supervised by a member of staff, and relies o...

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

'Defending Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and Territories in Peru' - Dr César Bazán Seminario (Instituto de Defensa Legal, Peru) 📅 Tuesday 17 March, 19:00–20:30 📍 MB P G3, SOAS For further information and registration 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/defending-...

Defending Indigenous Peoples' human rights and territories in Peru

This event centres on strategies to defend Indigenous rights in the Global South, in partnership with institutions in the Global North.

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 'Creative Conversations on Vitality and Distress: A New Dialogue for Mental Health' Join CAMHRArts next week for a discussion of art, academia and mental health 📅 6.45-8pm,17 March 📍 Paul Wembley Wing of Senate House, SOAS University of London Further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/creati...

Creative Conversations on Vitality and Distress: A New Dialogue for Mental Health - CAMHRA

Rooted in longstanding calls from feminist, Indigenous, and other marginalised scholars for academia to recognise beyond‑textual ways of knowing, CAMHRArts…

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Deep Focus is coming to SOAS 💫 Deep Focus is a periodic screening event that supports artists working with moving image. 📅 7 - 9:30pm, 12 March 📍 RB01, SOAS Screening time will be 90 minutes, followed by a panel discussion. For further details and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-focus...

Deep Focus : Terrains - Navigation

Deep Focus is a periodic screening event that supports artists working with moving image.

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣Our Department Seminar continues tomorrow 'A good enough life in the digital age?' - Prof Daniel Miller (University College London) 📅 11 March, 3pm till 5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS University of London For registration, zoom link, and further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/a-good...

A good enough life in the digital age? - CAMHRA

Event Abstract Has social media made the lives of young people better or worse? Why does China see the impact…

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

☀️ SOAS Food Studies Centre Alumni Network Reunion ☀️ Join us for a day of conversation, inspiration and reconnection. See below for a packed and fascinating programme of events, and to book your ticket. Early bird sales end this Saturday! www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

SOAS Food Studies Centre Alumni Network Reunion

All alumni and friends of the Food Studies Centre are warmly invited to join us for a day of conversation, inspiration and reconnection!

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Our own Nikita Kaur Simpson will be discussing her forthcoming book Tension in roundtable format next week. 📅 6.30 - 8pm, 19 March 📍 KLT, SOAS Main Building Not to be missed! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-previ...

Book Preview: Tension by Dr Nikita Simpson

In conversation with CAMHRA Global Professorial Fellows Professor Laura Bear, Professor Richard Rechtman and Professor Veena Das

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ETHNOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING In this innovative short course, exclusively hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, an award-winning screenwriter reveals how to enrich ethnographic writing with best-in-class storytelling methods. Book now: store.soas.ac.uk/product-cata...

Ethnographic Storytelling | SOAS University of London Online Store

23–27 March 2026, 11am – 1pm.Venue: SOAS campusAn intensive course from an award-winning screenwriter, which shows how to apply the tools of storytelling t

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 Our departmental research seminar series continues tomorrow: 'Recursive Mediation and the Limits of Mental Health Knowledge' - Dr Stefan Ecks 📅 11 February, 3pm till 5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS University of London For registration and further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/recurs...

Recursive Mediation and the Limits of Mental Health Knowledge - CAMHRA

Event Abstract This talk introduces recursive mediation as a description of how being in the world actually unfolds. Drawing on…

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📣 Our departmental research seminar series continues tomorrow: "Life in the Cracks: Law, Violence, and Resistance in Haiti" - Prof Marco Motta (University of Lausanne) 📅 4 February, 3pm-5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS See here for registration and further details: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/life-i...

Life in the Cracks: Law, Violence, and Resistance in Haiti - CAMHRA

Event Abstract Drawing on ethnographic portraits of law, violence, and resistance in Haiti, this talk examines what it means to…

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our departmental research seminar series continues tomorrow! "Museums without Object: ‘Revolutionary Museums’ in Midwestern Nepal" - Stefanie Lotter (SOAS) 📅 28 January, 3-5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS University of London For registration and further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/museum...

Museums without Object: 'Revolutionary Museums' in Midwestern Nepal - CAMHRA

Event Abstract Twenty years after Nepal’s civil war, a vast memorial landscape has been developed across the remote villages of…

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join us this Wednesday for Dr Richard Irvine’s talk: “The scourge that lays waste at noon: Monks, acedia, and the anthropology of depression.” 📅 21 Jan, 3–5pm | 📍 RB01 & hybrid More info: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/the-scourge-that-lays-waste-at-noon-monks-acedia-and-the-anthropology-of-depression/

The scourge that lays waste at noon: Monks, acedia, and the anthropology of depression - CAMHRA

Event Abstract Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognise despondency as a potential…

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Is digitalisation helping or hindering food assistance? Come to this event for insights into this crucial question. 12 February, 6-8pm at SOAS, University of London. Further details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-risks-...

The risks of digitalisation: Implications for access to food in England

Join us as we explore how digitalisation policies help and hinder access to food for marginalised communities.

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What does archiving mean during genocide and erasure? Book launch event: 'Archiving Gaza in the Present': Art, Memory, Erasure' Co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter. 📍 SOAS Gallery 📅 21 January, 6 to 7.30pm For further information and registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

'Archiving Gaza in the Present': Art, Memory, Erasure

This event will mark the publication of the book 'Archiving Gaza in the Present', co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter.

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"How a university stint in Nehruvian India helped a young Somalian writer imagine alternative futures" Insightful read from Sanjay Srivastava of the SOAS Anthropology and Sociology Department: scroll.in/article/1088...

How a university stint in Nehruvian India helped a young Somalian writer imagine alternative futures

In the mid-1960s, Nuruddin Farah chose to study at the University of Panjab instead of in the US. He was nurtured by the environment of debate and discussion.

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