Events
For further details about events contact departmental administrator Ms Lisa Neilson or else Prof. Nigel Rapport.
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE, May-June 2013
Freedoms and Liberties in Anthropological Perspective
ANNUAL CONFERENCE, June 2012
SYMPOSIUM, 25th November 2011
Dr Richard Hamilton (University of Notre Dame, Fremantle) will speak on:
'Evolutionary Psychology as Moral Science'
This is a defence of the thesis that ‘ethical formation’—the process whereby a human being becomes an independent practical reasoner, and also someone responsive to moral norms—can be fruitfully understood as a form of biological development.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE, September 2011
The Imagination: A universal process of knowledge?
CONFERENCE, 2nd-3rd September 2011 (Telc, Czech Republic)
Dr Huon Wardle delivers keynote address on cosmopolitanism, social ontology and subjectivity at the 2nd Joint Biennial Conference of the Czech and Slovak Anthropology Associations
Of Cosmopolitanism and Cosmologies
SYMPOSIUM, 4th May 2011
Dr Gustavo San Roman (Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews) and Professor Nigel Rapport will debate:
'The meaning of "Humanism" and its role in contemporary social thought and social policy'
SYMPOSIUM, 23rd March 2011
Professor Aleksandar Boškovic (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade) will speak on:
'Liberalism and anthropology: Convergences and divergences'
The complicated relationship between anthropologists' insistence on the study of societies (through research on "social structure", "cultural patterns", or similar phenomena) will be put in the context of its development in three geographically, politically and culturally very different national traditions. Using examples from Norway, Brazil, and former Yugoslavia, Aleksander Boskovic asks whether a more individualistic approach could help understand patterns that shaped the development of anthropology in these countries, and how a more thorough understanding of these traditions could be gained.
SYMPOSIUM, 29th November 2010
Moushumi Bhowmik (Ethnomusicologist) will speak on:
'Songs of Absence and Presence: The History and Politics of the Migrating Music of Bengal'
Migration posits two or more obvious locations—the left land and the land of arrival. Keeping the history and politics of migration in and from Bengal as the backdrop, and illustrating with songs recorded mainly on field trips in India, Bangladesh and London, Moushumi Bhowmik introduces us to the diverse and complex nature of the migrating music of Bengal, especially in the context of migrations to the United Kingdom.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE, March 2010
SYMPOSIUM, 9th February 2010
'Meet the Informant': Liria de la Cruz in conversation with Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco
The Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies is pleased to offer an opportunity to explore the relationship between anthropologist and long-term informant. Liria de la Cruz has worked with Dr Gay y Blasco since 1992; collaboration in the field has extended to a current project of co-authoring an autobiographical ethnography. Come and discuss with them what anthropology looks like from the informant’s point of view. How might the boundaries between informant and anthropologist, between authors and their subjects, be broken down?
SYMPOSIUM, 9th October 2009
'Meet the Author': Mohsin Hamid
The Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies is pleased to present the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, shortlisted for the Booker-Man Prize. Come and discuss his writing with him and the experiences that lie behind it, and explore the relationship between global culture, politics, religion and violence, and literature.
INAUGURAL CONFERENCE, September 2009
SYMPOSIUM, 19th May 2009
'"Atonement" and its Discontents': Dr Hideko Mitsui
The Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies is pleased to offer an opportunity to discuss with Dr Mitsui her recent research on cosmopolitanism in Japan in the context of the culture of the Second World War. Specifically she traces the biographies of two historical figures from wartime Japan who have been remembered as traitors or heroes at different historical time periods in post-war Japan. She interrogates the shifting interpretive frames that informed the specific modes of remembering their biographies, demonstrating the processes through which the figure of a cosmopolitan becomes visible and recognisable in a given society, and how people attribute different meanings to biography as exemplar of a 'good life'.
