Past events
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Laurie Denyer Willis (Edinburgh): Instructing Settler Families in Canada: The Imperial Order Daughters of The Empire and the Toronto Preventorium as a eugenic experimental site
15:00 - 17:00 23 September 2024
Based on archival research and family-interviews, I consider the “Preventorium” as an early institution for making and instructing white settlers in Canada in the early to mid-1900s. Preventoriums were institutions run by The Imperial Order Daughters of The Empire (IODE). They housed white children taken from their families due to possible...
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Mike Degani (Cambridge): Nun of the River: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania
15:00 - 17:00 30 September 2024
This talk examines the significance of hydroelectric mini-grids owned and operated by Catholic sisterhoods in rural Tanzania, situating them within a broader context of energy transition and environmental justice. The Tanzanian state is betting that mini-grids can effectively supplement the national grid’s limited reach; since 2010 it has invested...
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Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
15:00 - 17:00 7 October 2024
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. Scholars have argued that hate crime legislation relies on the collaboration of legal institutions that are themselves shaped by histories of prejudice and fail to bring justice to survivors of identity-based violence. But what does it mean for a...
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Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (Manchester): Living the Dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East
15:00 - 17:00 14 October 2024
This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai shaman brings together diverse techniques, such as shamanic dreams, storytelling, Christian...
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Dalia Iskander (UCL): Exteriorising (Hidden) Interiority and Interiorising (Unruly) Exteriority: Miniature dioramas of home and the uncertain terrain of empathetic imagination
15:00 - 17:00 21 October 2024
Based on ethnographic research conducted over the last two years in the UK, I describe the work of artists who craft tiny dioramas of the home. These ‘miniature narratives’ tell of both artist’s own histories and comparable wider human experiences that they feel compelled to share. In doing so, they externalise interiority, creating work...
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