{"id":17128,"date":"2026-02-08T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/?page_id=17128"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:08:49","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\t\tAll Events & Workshops\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\t\tAll Events & Workshops\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\t\tEvents\t<\/h2>\n\t
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/form>\n\t\t\t\t\"Dana\n
\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2026\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tCollaboration without Fluency: Grammars of Action & Refusal\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t27th April 2026 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Dana E. Powell (she\/hers) is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities and Director of the Center for Humanities Innovation and Social Engagement at Taipei Medical University (Taiwan). She completed her MA and PhD in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she was a founding contributor to the UNC Social Movements Working Group. Powell has been a Faculty Fellow in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2019-2020) and in the College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University (2021-2022). She is author of Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (Duke Press, 2018) and numerous articles and chapters in environmental anthropology. Powell’s research lies at the intersection of environmental health and justice, gender, political ecology, and Indigenous sovereignty, in contexts of extractivist development and socio-ecological vulnerability. Her work in Navajo Nation, eastern North Carolina, and Taiwan foregrounds collaborative and community-aligned qualitative research that uplifts mentorship, advocacy, and social justice. At Taipei Medical University, she works with graduate students in medical humanities, global health, and Indigenous studies to bring transnational and ethnographic analytics into medical and social science education.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"22aprilseminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tJoint Seminar\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tLegalizing the Indigenous Slot? state, law, and the politics of conflict over ‘indigeneity’ in India\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t22th April 2026 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tAS8 #06-46\t<\/h5>\n\t

What happens when multiple communities demand and claim to be indigenous? What challenges and contestations are associated with legally defining ‘Indigenous’ or who is ‘Indigenous’? In India, certificates in the form of caste and tribe, among others, are used to authenticate belonging and claims to affirmative action programs. Today, this has taken a new form with increasing attempts to legalize indigenous status and extend a similar form of certificates to identify indigenous communities. In this paper, I approach the question of indigeneity through the lens of certifications, examining the conflicts and contestations in a context where multiple ethnic groups, including both tribal and non-tribal groups, assert competing claims to indigenous status. Certifications involve the attempt to legalize indigenous identity, and this is entangled with the process of rationalizing identities and identifications through the formalization of indigenous identity. These attempts to legalize indigeneity provoke tensions and conflict among groups competing for recognition, rights, and resources. The paper focuses on northeast India, where there is now a growing push for the legalization of indigeneity through the enactment of laws, and how the attempt to formalize indigeneity is entangled with broader issues of citizenship, identity politics, and state bordering projects. In this light, the paper will examine the specific way in which indigeneity or who is indigenous is being coded and how the attempts to legally define and identify ‘Indigenous’ inform us of the interaction between state, law, and politics in ways that (re)produce tensions over the indigenous ‘slot’.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"19Mar2026Seminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2026\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tWriting Social Theory in Arabic: Alternatives or Entanglements?\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t19th March 2026 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Dietrich Jung is a Professor in Middle East and Islamic Studies at University of Southern Denmark and an Adjunct Professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. His main fields of research have been wars and conflicts in the Middle East, the political and cultural history of Turkey, and modern Muslim subjectivities. His most recent book publication is Islamic Modernities in World Society. The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"12Feb2026Seminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2026\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tAutodynamic Processes – Acceleration, Alienation, Metaphysical Bangs\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t5th March 2026 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Isenberg is an Associate Professor of sociology and Director of the doctoral programme at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. He previously had positions at University of Copenhagen and Linnaeus University. His main areas of interest include contemporary and classical social theory, cultural sociology, social psychology, sociology of knowledge. Presently he is working on a book with the preliminary title Thinking with Simmel. The Sociology of Movement, Differentiation, Interaction.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"12Feb2026Seminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2026\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tPost-divorce parenthood in Algeria and Malaysia: Initial Observations\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t12th February 2026 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\tYazid Ben Hounet, (PhD 2006, EHESS; HDR, 2020, University of Paris) is a CNRS researcher, member of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale (Paris) and Associate Professor at Comenius University (Bratislava). He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Algeria, Sudan and Morocco.
\nHis past and present research lies at the intersection of legal and political anthropology. He has also conducted research in the field of kinship and parenthood studies. His last authored book: Crime and Compensation in North Africa. A Social Anthropology Essay(Palgrave, 2021) \/ Crimes
\net compensations en Afrique du Nord (Barzakh, Alger, 2021).\n\t\t\t\t\"29Jan2026seminar\"\n
\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2026\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tDislocations of Queerness in Post-Liberal Times\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t29th January 2026 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Andreas Streinzer is a tenure track professor in economic anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research explores how economic practices, governance, and social reproduction intersect with questions of queerness, inequality, and crisis. His work examines how queer and trans lives are shaped by shifting political and economic orders, focusing on themes such as dislocation, kinship, and resilience. With extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Europe, particularly in Greece, he investigates debt, austerity, and solidarity economies. Streinzer’s interdisciplinary approach bridges economic and queer anthropology, offering critical insights into governance, extraction, and the politics of everyday life.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"28Jan2026seminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tJoint Seminar\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tEating and Being Eaten
\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t28th January 2026 | 4PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tAS8 #04-04\t<\/h5>\n\t

In this talk, Dr Chao will draw on her recently published book, Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger (Duke University Press, 2025) to examine how Indigenous Marind communities experience, conceptualize, and critique the condition of hunger in lowland West Papua-a place where industrial plantation expansion and settler-colonial violence are radically reconfiguring food-based ecologies, socialities, and identities. Instead of seeing hunger as an individual, biophysical state defined purely in nutritional, quantitative, or human terms, Dr Chao will uncover how hunger traverses variably situated humans, animals, plants, institutions, infrastructures, spirits, and sorcerers. When approached through the lens of Indigenous Marind philosophies, practices, and protocols, hunger reveals itself to be a multiple, more-than-human, and morally imbued modality of being-one whose effects are no less culturally crafted or contested than food and eating. In centering Indigenous theories of hunger, the talk invites us to rethink the relationship between the environment, food, and nourishment in an age of self-consuming capitalist growth.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"22Jan2026seminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2026\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tInterdisciplinarity in Transition: The Formation and Transformation of the Committee on Human Development, 1930s-1950s\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t22nd January 2026 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Liping Wang is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Peking University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include comparative historical sociology, sociology of education and social theory. She has published articles in American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of World History, among others. Her book The Imperial Creation of Ethnicity: Chinese Politics and the Ethnic Turn in Inner Mongolian Politics, 1900-1930 was published by Brill in 2022.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"\u00a9\n

\n\t\t\tCelebration\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tCelebrating 60 Years of Sociology and Anthropology\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t21st November 2025 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tNUSS Guild House\t<\/h5>\n\t

On Friday, 21 November 2025, our Department marked a meaningful milestone as students, alumni, faculty members, and staff came together to celebrate its 60th Anniversary. Six decades of hard work and dedication!<\/p>\n

Click on the following links for event page<\/a> and post-event summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"29Oct2025Seminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tJoint Seminar\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tEmancipated Minor Utopias, Permaculture, and Pedagogies of Hope – Decolonizing Timor-Leste’s School Curriculum
\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t29th October 2025 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tAS8 #06-46\t<\/h5>\n\t

Thomas Stodulka is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of M\u00fcnster. His research and teaching lie at the intersections of psychological anthropology, a\ufb00ect and emotion studies, inequality and marginalization, permaculture, and multimodal and engaged ethnography. He has conducted long-term \ufb01eldwork in Indonesia and Timor-Leste and co-developed international research projects on social belonging, stigma, mental health, interdisciplinary methodologies, coming of age, and ecological sustainability and decolonial learning.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"5Sep2025Seminar\"\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2025\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tReimagining Development:
Bold Directions Towards a Thriving World
\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t5th September 2025 | 4PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Peter Sutoris is Associate Professor in Climate and Development at the Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, having been formerly affiliated with Department of Education, University of York and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS University of London. He holds a BA in History from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Anthropology of Education from Cambridge University, where he was a Gates Scholar. He is the author of Visions of Development (OUP, 2016), (MIT Press, 2022) and Reimagining Development (OUP, 2025, with Uma Pradhan).<\/p>\n

His current research focuses on imagination of the future, participatory visioning methods, and activist pedagogies of change.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"13\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2025\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tFactors contributing to childlessness among older men in rural China: A life course analysis of narrative life stories within a structural context\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t13th March 2025 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Wenqian Xu is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Health Sciences at Lund University. He holds a PhD in Ageing and Social Change from Link\u00f6ping University (2021). From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a full-time consultant on healthy ageing at the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Currently, he is leading a research project on Ageing without Children, funded by the Swedish Research Council. His research interests include ageism, age-friendly environments, childless ageing, and social gerontechnology.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Artboard\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2025\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tWar-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t14th January 2025 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Screenshot\n

\n\t\t\tThe 7th ACSAS International Conference\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tSouth Asia in Asia: Challenges and Possibilities\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t22-23 November 2024\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tAS7, Shaw Foundation Building\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\"Screenshot\n
\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2024\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tCultivating Landlessness in Brazil: Temporalities of transformation in the Landless Workers Movement\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t29th August 2024 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tDepartment Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

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).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Screenshot\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2024\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Map in the Machine and the Global Transformation of the Auto Industry\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t4th September 2024 | 4PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

Luis Felipe Alvarez Le\u00f3n 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).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Screenshot\n

\n\t\t\tSociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2024\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tTransnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\t15th August 2024 | 3PM SGT\t<\/h5>\n
\n\t\t\tSociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12\t<\/h5>\n\t

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<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"image\n

\n\t\t\tAnthropology Masterclass\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tAnthropology – and why the world needs more of it\t<\/h3>\n\t

Dr Tom-Ozden-Schilling is a Presidential Young Professor with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.\u00a0\u00a0His research includes the study of technology and\u00a0expertise, for example, in the context of environmental conflicts and venture capitalism.\u00a0\u00a0His teaching includes anthropological theories and issues in science and technology.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"image\n

\n\t\t\tSociology Masterclass\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\t\tPutting Sociology to work\t<\/h3>\n\t

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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Group\n

\n\t\t\tSocio X Anthro-Duction – a Taster Class for Students by Students Karimi Zara Nayab Ahmed (Sociology, 2023) & Lok Yee Ling (Sociology, 2023)\t<\/h3>\n\t

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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView Current Events\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All Events & Workshops All Events & Workshops Events Sociology & Anthropology Seminar Series 2026 Collaboration without Fluency: Grammars of Action & Refusal 27th April 2026 | 3PM SGT Sociology Seminar Room AS1 #02-12 Dana E. Powell (she\/hers) is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities and Director of the Center for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17128"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33845,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17128\/revisions\/33845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}