03 Oct 2017 to 05 Dec 2017
All seminars take place on Tuesdays at 1pm in 239 Gaskell Building
‘Beauty and Captivation: Fuyuge gab and Gell’s anthropological theory of art’
Eric Hirsch (Brunel)
Week 2: 3 October
‘Tea trade from China to West Africa’
Ute Roschenthaler (Frankfurt)
Week 3: 10 October
‘Crisis as resource: entrepreneurship and motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali’
Will Rollason (Brunel)
Week 4: 17 October
'The Saint, the City, and The Forest: Messianic Landscapes in Northern Angola'
Ramon Sarro (Oxford)
Week 5: 24 October
'Hope in the Market: Reconciling Self-Interest and Altruism among Millennials'
Jessica Chelekis (Brunel)
Week 6: 31 October
Elizabeth Kirtsoglou (Durham) Title: TBC
Week 8: 14 November
‘Matters of classification: nature naturalised and denaturalised in contemporary taxidermy’
Petra Kalshoven (Manchester)
Week 9: 21 November
‘Frightened to Death, Frightened to Life: “Magical” Fright and Human-Animal Relations in Southeastern Bolivia’
Veronika Groke
Week 10: 28 November
'Too cute to cuddle? "Witnessing publics" and interspecies relations on the social media-scape of orangutan conservation'
Liana Chua (Brunel)
Week 11: 5 December