School of Social and Political Science

Young People Making a Life in the New Era of Fintech

Young people are experiencing their transition to adulthood in an era of rising inequality, unprecedented new risks and the ubiquitous saturation but ever-evolving role of digital technologies in their lives.

Co-producing research as an ethical minefield for Early-Career Academics?

Please join us for the first seminar on ethical challenges in co-production for Early-Career Academics (ECAs) in CAHSS

Ladies First: Architecture, Anxiety, and Moviegoing in India

In this talk, Dr. Tupur Chattopadhyay will introduce the key themes and arguments from her forthcoming book, Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India (NYU Press, 2025).

STIS Showcase

The Burden of Persuasion: Intimate Partner Violence, Gender, Testimony

A seminar on intimate partner violence, the politics of truth-telling, and ethnographic theory

South Africa, Apartheid, and Lessons for the World (Panel Discussion)

“Apartheid” – from the Afrikaans for ‘separateness’ – was the name given to the regime of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 until democratic rule thirty years ago. Apartheid governed far more than what neighbourhoods or jobs you could have—it reached into the inner confines of domestic lives and structured spectacular violence. Yet the racial segregation of South African apartheid was not sui generis.

Mad Knowledge as Methodology: Countering Sanism and Creating Change through Mad Studies

This seminar will entail an exploration of the field of Mad Studies.

Political and Legal Anthropology working group

IPEG annual book prize lecture: Doing Political Economy 'for' the Global South? or 'from' the Global South?

Sushmita Pati, winner of the 2023 IPEG Annual Book Prize for her book Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi (Cambridge University Press) be delivering this hybrid keynote session.

Inaugural lecture: Professor Richard Baxstrom

Resurrecting that which was oblivious to me: anthropology, the negative, and the now

Countering Reproductive Genocide in Gaza: Palestinian Women’s Testimonies

This talk 'centres the stories of Palestinian women surviving the ongoing genocide in Gaza to understand the matrix of settler colonial violence and its gendered effects'

South Asia in Writing

South Asia in Writing workshop, organised by the Centre for South Asian Studies and Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology