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Varieties of life forms and the return of animism

Tuesday 26 February from 15:00 until 17:00
Arts C333
Anthropology Department Seminar Series, Spring Term 2019
Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

Varieties of life forms and the return of animism.

Film Screening ‘Those who jump'

Wednesday 27 February from 15:30 until 17:00
TBC
SCMR Migration Seminar Series

Film Screening 'Those who jump' (2016) Mount Gurugu overlooks the Spanish enclave of Melilla on northern Africa's Mediterranean coast.

The global water quality challenge and realising the SDGs

Wednesday 27 February from 18:00 until 19:00
Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex BN1 9PX
Sussex Lectures
Joseph Alcamo, Professor of Environmental Systems Science, School of Global Studies

New scientific results are revealing growing hazards to water quality around the world, in particular, in poorer countries.

Special Research Café Session Prep for the SCSR / Conflict Research Society Conference

Thursday 28 February from 13:00 until 14:00
Ashdown House AH-G4
SCSR Research Café
Judith Verweijen and Jan Selby

Please join us to share and discuss helpful tips and advice on putting together a paper proposal for the SCSR / Conflict Research Society conference.

‘People were dying like flies’: the politics of cholera, crisis and citizenship in urban Zimbabwe

Thursday 28 February from 16:00 until 18:00
Global Studies Resource Centre, Arts C
Sussex Africa Centre events – Spring term 2019
Dr Simukai Chigudu, University of Oxford, Department for International Development

Everyone welcome!

Mining Affected Communities from Odisha to Zambia

Friday 1 March from 14:00 until 17:00
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Room 108/109
Centre for World Environmental History (CWEH) Events, Spring 2019
Samarendra Das and Suravee Nayak

Politicised Pollution, Land Grab, Mine Workers in Disputes

Being a Migrant Academic in Japan

Tuesday 5 March from 12:00 until 13:30
Room 106, Ashdown House
ESW Open Seminar Series
Professor Robert W. Aspinall, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Professor Aspinall describes strategies adopted by foreign academics working within the Japanese university system and discusses ethnographic studies.

Past Struggles, Present Realities, Future Victories? Social movement learning and knowledge production

Tuesday 5 March from 13:00 until 14:30
Room 333, Arts C
ESW Open Seminar Series
Dr Aziz Choudry, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Dr Choudry looks at how activists can learn from each other about state security practices, interests they protect and resistance to being spied on.

Movement in the Right Direction: An Ethnography of a Human Rights Report

Tuesday 5 March from 15:00 until 17:00
Arts C333
Anthropology Department Seminar Series, Spring Term 2019
Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies

Movement in the Right Direction: An Ethnography of a Human Rights Report.

Geography Research Seminars: Beyond the Fringe

Wednesday 6 March from 13:00 until 15:00
Global Studies Resource Centre, Arts C, University of Sussex
Hilary Geoghegan, University of Reading

Chair: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly All welcome. Coffee/tea and cake is provided.