- About
- Conveners
- Past events
About
A fortnightly seminar series meant to provoke a conversation between anthropologists and historians, and to challenge in the process discipline-specific habits of thought and intuitions. Speakers will include sociologically minded historians and historically geared anthropologists. Papers will be pre-circulated and seminars will be devoted largely to discussion.
Conveners
Conveners
Dr Anastasia Piliavsky (Department of Social Anthropology)
Dr Alice Taylor (Faculty of History)
Past events
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Forms of Law and Social Forms in Béarn, South West France 18 Oct 2011 4:00pm - 5:30pm, King's College, Rylands Seminar Room Revd Dr Timothy Jenkins (Cambridge, Anthropology/Theology) |
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Aspects of Non-state Law: Early Yemen and Perpetual Peace 1 Nov 2011 4:00pm - 5:30pm, King's College, Rylands Seminar Room Dr Paul Dresch (Oxford, Anthropology). To access the readings, contact A Piliavsky |
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Lex and the City: Roman Law, Local Law and the Case of Dionysia (P.Oxy. II.237, c. 186CE) 15 Nov 2011 4:00pm - 5:30pm, King's College, Rylands Seminar Room Dr Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, History/Classics) |
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How Do We Weigh the Similarities and Differences Between Neo-Pentecostalism and Salafist Islam in Contemporary West Africa? 31 Jan 2012 5:00pm - 6:30pm, CRASSH Professor John Peel (Anthropology, SOAS). |
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History–as it hasn’t yet happened 14 Feb 2012 5:00pm - 6:30pm, CRASSH Professor Caroline Humphrey (Anthropology, Cambridge). |
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Breaking Hospitality Apart: Bad Hosts, Bad Guests, and the Problem of Sovereignty 28 Feb 2012 5:00pm - 6:30pm, CRASSH Prof Andrew Shryock (Anthropology, University of Michigan) |
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Our Words, and Theirs: A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft, Today 24 Apr 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, King's College Wine Room Carlo Ginzburg (History, University of Pisa). NB: Venue King's College Wine Room |
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Violence, Christianization and Monarchy in Medieval Hungary 8 May 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, King's College Wine Room Nora Berend (History, University of Cambridge). NB Venue King's College Wine Room |
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Working at Crime: The Professional Gang in the Eighteenth Century 22 May 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, King's College Wine Room Douglas Hay (History, University of York). NB Venue King's College Wine Room |
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The Gibeonite Gambit: Ḥarrānians, Karaites, and Khaybarī Jews on the Margins of Medieval Islamic Society 5 Jun 2012 5:00pm - 5:00pm, King's College, Wine Room Fred Astren (History/Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University) |
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Making a scene: the problem of embarrassability in rough and tumble times 16 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Prof Bill Miller (History/Law, Michigan) |
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What did early medieval people mean when they said they had slaves? 30 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Alice Rio (History, KCL) |
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History, Anthropology and Memory 13 Nov 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Prof Alan Macfarlane (Anthropology, King's College, Cambridge) |
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Conversion in Eastern India 29 Jan 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Piers Vitebsky (Anthropology, University of Cambridge) |
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From Dissent to Dissidence: The Genesis & Development of Reformist Islamic Groups in Northern Nigeria 26 Feb 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Prof Murray Last (History/Anthropology, UCL) |
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The Return of Khulekanu Khumalo, Zombie Captive: Identity, Law, and the Paradoxes of Personhood in the Postcolony 14 Mar 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Prof Jean Comaroff (Anthropology, Harvard University). NB: The group will meet on Thursday for this session* |
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The Cult of Saints: History, Anthropology and Anthropological History 30 Apr 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Professor Robert Bartlett (St Andrew's) NB Venue CRASSH SG2 |
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Changed to 5 June. On the Culture of Material Value and … 21 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, King's College, Wine Room NB This session has been changed to Wednesday 5th June |
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Stranger Kings in General: The Cosmo-logics of Power 4 Jun 2013 3:00pm - 5:00pm, King's College, Wine Room 3.00pm* Marshall Sahlins (Anthropology, Chicago) NB Session at 3.00pm |
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On the Culture of Material Value and the Cosmography of Riches’ and ‘Difference 5 Jun 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, King's College, Wine Room Marshall Sahlins (Anthropology, Chicago). NB the group will meet on Wednesday in this occasion. |
