Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (UCLA) "The Momentinho and the March: Temporalities of Struggle in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement"
Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork with Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST), this talk presents material from the recently published Pathways to Utopia (Indiana University Press, 2025). Against accounts that locate political change in spectacular moments of rupture, the talk argues that transformation in the MST, one of th..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Tom Lintner University of Manchester
Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an Evangelical Rio: Pleasure, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom"
This talk begins from an unlikely scene: a sex costume party hosted by an evangelical pastor in a woman’s home in Rio de Janeiro, where lingerie is prayed over as a tool of marital protection. Drawing on ethnographic research in Rio’s subúrbios, women’s evangelical networks and digital spaces, I examine how conservative evangelical proj..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Mark Wittek CEU Network Ecologies of Cultural Production: Evidence from Jazz and Science Scholars have studied the social organization of scientific and cultural fields extensively through a network-analytical lens. Several of these accounts stress that the formation of networks depends on contextual characteristics, such as institutional, hi..
Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) "Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan"
As oceans rise worldwide, many governments are intensifying efforts to defend the towns and cities bordering them. Advocates of coastal infrastructure often argue that the best way to protect those places from unruly waters is separating sea and society through complex new systems of seawalls, dikes, and canals. However, after Japan’s triple..