LSE Anthropology Friday Seminars Spring Term 2025
Vortrag
Open seminars at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Friday Seminar schedule for the Spring Term. The weekly research seminar on
anthropological theory has been the venue for cutting-edge, intensive
debate on current research in the discipline since
Malinowski’s time at the LSE.
These seminars are open to the public on a first come, first served basis.
Friday, 11am – 1pm
Old Anthropology Library, LSE Old Building, Houghton Street
https://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/events
Spring Term Schedule 2025
9 May 2025
Dislocations of Kinship, Times of Care: “Forced-Marriage” in the UK
Perveez Mody, Cambridge University
16 May 2025
Do We Not Expire? On Cold-chain Logistics and the Bio-governance of Life in
Post-socialist China
Orlando Zhu, LSE
30 May 2025
Horizons of Touch
Serena Dankwa, University of Basel
6 June 2025
Money, Money, Money: Otrygghet (insecurity) and Opportunity in a Swedish Suburb
Ruben Andersson, Oxford University
13 June 2025
‘A Blatant Betrayal’? Dissecting British Narratives of ‘Islamo-Leftism’
and Queerness
Jonathan Galton, UCL
20 June 2025
Stepping into the Same River Twice: Dementia Care as Imaginative Work in Southern
China
Fred Lai, LSE
Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Raven Cretney
Vortrag
Online Lecture
Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Raven Cretney
10th July 2025
In September 2023, we launched an online ‘Disability & Climate: In conversation with…’ series for people that are interested in reflecting on and/or sharing experiences around disability and the climate crisis. This is part of the Sensing Climate project, led by the University of Exeter. You can read more about the project and tune into past events online: https://sensing-climate.com/events
We’re delighted to be joined on Thursday 10th July, 8.30–10am BST (7.30–9pm in New Zealand) by Raven Cretney, Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Raven’s research focuses on collective action and policy change relating to post-disaster and environmental issues. Her work spans several topics, including managed retreat and climate adaptation, the role of community scale action and leadership in catalysing environmental change, and the evolution of activism and social movements. In our session, Raven will discuss opportunities for disability-led climate adaptation, the possibilities for learning from past events and the need for careful navigation of crisis politics in building solidarity across and within communities. Read more about the session online: https://sensing-climate.com/events/raven-cretney Access the sign up form online: https://forms.office.com/e/fVr6ESpM4h
If the sign-up forms are not accessible to you, please do email (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests in joining instead. We will then send round a Zoom sign-in link about a week before each event.
“Shifting states and their histories in institutional care”
Panel
Hybrid Lecture
CfP for a panel on “Shifting states and their histories in institutional care”
Anthrostate conference “Shifting States”
22–24 October, 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
✨No registration fee, in-person only. (EASA network on Anthropologies of the State conference)
If the panel abstract below resonates with your research and you would like to join a bunch of friendly people, please send your abstract to Kristine Krause k.krause@uva.nl
The final panel including abstracts need to be submitted 11 April, so we would like have your abstract the latest 9th April.
Junior and PhD researchers particularly welcome.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Shifting states and their histories in institutional care
The anthropology of the state has long argued that states do not exist as coherent units out there but are articulated in practices, spaces and effects. One of the key spaces in which states have effects on their citizens are care institutions. They respond to crucial needs of humans; for instance as places where sicknesses are treated and frail bodies are taken care of. They can also curate major transitions such as birth and death. Care institutions such as hospitals or nursing homes are places defined by particular and persistent forms of interaction. These forms – where and how things are done, when and by whom – have often coagulated over time. They are backed up by legitimations which are not easy to question, because they are part of other non-tangible societal institutions, such as gendered division of labour, kinship and family ideologies which are specific to historically grown care and health regimes. These regimes as part of state governance can bear traces of pasts such as colonial rule, political regimes shifts or specific biopolitical projects of care and control. Institutional care can also be provided by non-state actors on behalf of the state including non-profit, religious or charity organisations but also commercial or even corporatized actors. The reasons why these actors perform or have taken over these tasks, have again their own histories often related to shifts in ways of governance of welfare state regimes.
This panel brings together papers that explore how shifting states and their histories come back resurface, or take unexpected forms within the spaces and practices of institutional care. The papers examine how historical legacies shape and haunt caregiving interactions, institutional routines, and the narratives and positionalities of those involved in these care settings. In asking how these pasts are articulated, linger on or are represented in care institutions this panel understands history not as something waiting to be discovered in the background, but as actively brought up, mobilized and presented in the field or articulated by the ethnographer. The past then becomes “history” through practices of actors in the field or through the analytical work of the ethnographer who identifies history as an absent presence in the studied situation or practice. The paper in this panel interrogate the constitutive moments where history appears, or is brought up in institutional care settings, asking, which positionings, generational memories and narratives become articulated therein.
Organized by the ReloCare Team & friends from the University of Amsterdam
(Mariusz Sapieha, Matouš Jelínek, Veronika Prieler, Shahana Siddiqui , Yuan Yan and Kristine Krause)
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