Events
Events
Current Events
Sociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2024
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
14th January 2025 | 3PM SGT
Sociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12
Samar Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, lrvine. Her book, War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, was published by Stanfard University Press in November 2024. She is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and has published in a variety of public outlets on topics ranging from the international Criminal Court to the militarization of U.S policy in Africa.
Past Events
The 7th ACSAS International Conference
South Asia in Asia: Challenges and Possibilities
22-23 November 2024
AS7, Shaw Foundation Building
Sociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2024
Cultivating Landlessness in Brazil: Temporalities of transformation in the Landless Workers Movement
29th August 2024 | 3PM SGT
Department Seminar Room AS1 #02-12
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn is Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alex’s research explores social movements and the prefigurative potential of artistic practice, prompting the theorization of the production of knowledge, temporality and utopia, and social and aesthetic dimensions of form. He is the co-author of "Taking Form, Making Worlds” (University of Texas Press, 2022) and "Pathways to Utopia: Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil” (forthcoming with Indiana University Press).
Sociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2024
The Map in the Machine and the Global Transformation of the Auto Industry
4th September 2024 | 4PM SGT
Sociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12
Luis Felipe Alvarez León is Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. His work focuses on the political economy of geospatial data, media, and technologies. Among other projects, he is currently researching the geographies of electric and autonomous vehicles, and the changing political economy of the new satellite ecosystem. He is the author of The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism (University of California Press, 2024).
Sociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2024
Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam
15th August 2024 | 3PM SGT
Sociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12
Minh T.N. Nguyen is Professor of Social Anthropology at Bielefeld University. Her research focuses on labour and work, care and welfare, migration and mobility in Vietnam, China and Southeast Asia and more generally in the Global South. She is the author of Vietnam’s Socialist Servants: Domesticity, Gender, Class and Identity (Routledge, 2014) and Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labour, Value and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her works are also published by journals such as American Ethnologist, Development and Change, Economy and Society, Economic Anthropology, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Anthropology Masterclass
Anthropology – and why the world needs more of it
Dr Tom-Ozden-Schilling is a Presidential Young Professor with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. His research includes the study of technology and expertise, for example, in the context of environmental conflicts and venture capitalism. His teaching includes anthropological theories and issues in science and technology.
Sociology Masterclass
Putting Sociology to work
Dr Emily Chua is an anthropologist working at the intersections of digital technology, media, capital and authoritarian state politics in Singapore and China. She has written ethnographies of newsmaking in the ‘post-truth’ contemporary, election rallies as ‘post-political’ performances, and most recently, the way our remakings of economics, finance and money are in turn remaking us.
Socio X Anthro-Duction - a Taster Class for Students by Students Karimi Zara Nayab Ahmed (Sociology, 2023) & Lok Yee Ling (Sociology, 2023)
Come immerse yourself in a fun and interactive Sociology & Anthropology class. Better still, as it is a class run by students, for students like you! Zara Ahmed and Lok Yee Ling are graduating this year – but not before sharing their passion for Sociology and Anthropology. Get a taste of what they have learnt – and feel so passionate about. Hear their experiences as students. Who knows what tips you might take away from this one of a kind Soci X Anthro-Duction.