School of Social and Political Science

SKAPE seminar: Materiality, policy and power in advertising markets: ad servers and header bidding

We are excited to welcome Donald MacKenzie (Sociology, University of Edinburgh) who will deliver the second talk in this year’s SKAPE seminar series.

W. E. B. Du Bois and his Strange Synthesis of Spirituality and Sociology

Seminar with Matthew W. Hughey (University of Connecticut, USA), Co-hosted by Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and Sociology at The University of Edinburgh

Hybrid Event (In person and via Zoom options available)

CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar: Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity

Translating Food Sovereignty: Knowledge, Networks, and the Ethnography of Transnational Governance

Women’s life course trajectories to a non-conjugal family: couple norm and beyond

Join this CRFR seminar for a presentation, Q&A and discussion on women living with children outside of heterosexual partners in Finland. To what extent does the couple norm reflect women’s life trajectories in contemporary Finnish society? What led to women’s departures from heterosexual marriage? To what extent is motherhood a deliberate choice for women in Finland, or are pathways to reproduction more plural?

The Maldives in Medieval Global Networks: Connections to Africa (and Other Places)

Youth and the Mystery Wall… and “Fine” as the perfected adolescent response to parents

The third event in our 22/23 Social Work Seminar Series, presented by Dr Phil Frampton, Author, Broadcaster and Social Activist.

Youth and the Mystery Wall… and “Fine” as the perfected adolescent response to parents.
Adolescent Trauma, Resilience and Collective Empowerment.

FRIED Seminar: Seeing the translocal: visual food methods and gendered cultural reproduction foodwork

The Call to Deviance: Queer Theory’s Inheritance from the Social Sciences

This paper draws on Love’s recent book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory to consider uptake of midcentury deviance studies in classic queer theory.

The geography of research places: spatial and temporal logics

A Prayer for the World: Reassessing Ethnography, Audience, and Purpose in 2022

Munro Lecture - Dr Paige West

In this Munro Lecture, Dr Paige West reflects on 10 years of 'doing anthropology differently' in collaboration with a non-governmental organization in Papua New Guinea.