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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · 21h

Check out this review of our own Sanjay Srivastava's 'Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-national Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home':

"The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities."

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · 4d

The SOAS Food Forum continues this Monday with Professor Hanna Garth (Princeton University):

‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’

📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November
📍 Room R301

See the full line-up of talks below 👇

SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · 13d

How do alliances survive in times of polarised politics?

Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis.

Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives | State Politics & Policy Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives

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Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · 15d

Very special, small exhibition 👇 plus follow SOAS’s Dept of Anthropology and Sociology for events, new books, research funding…

SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · 21d

Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people.

“Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London.

Free entry.

Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta

🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo

soas.ac.uk

SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · 21d

Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people.

“Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London.

Free entry.

Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta

🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo

soas.ac.uk

richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · Oct 10

Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young

YouTube video by SOAS University of London

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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · Oct 6

Today we started the installation of Learning from South Omo at @soasgallery.bsky.social. Opens 14 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Oct 5

Bhrigupati Singh and Neil Armstrong. I hope you can join.

SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · Oct 2

📌What does it mean to ‘return’?

Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.

📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar

🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social

SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · Sep 29

📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live!

This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).

Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.

Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Sep 27

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... If interested in physics, time, space, threat of war, ethics…. then have a listen 👇

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Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Sep 26

This is an amazing line up for our @soasanthro.bsky.social dept research seminar series, Wed 3-5pm, organised by Bhrigu Singh and Neil Armstrong.

richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · Sep 24

Learning from South Omo - exhibition at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, Addis Ababa youtu.be/00fuNry4sV8?... @soasuni.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social

Learning from South Omo: Exhibition at Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, July 2025

YouTube video by SOAS University of London

youtu.be

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Sep 22

This is about how #Txlege departs from common perception. Bipartisan lawmaking thrives but is under threat. Prof Taylor-Robinson (a pol sci) and I (an anthropologist) offer a unique take. @scottbraddock.bsky.social won’t be surprised, cos his knowledge runs very deep, but others might be. Free👇

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 21

#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly -

Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7

- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson

#FirstView

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 21

#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly -

Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7

- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson

#FirstView

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Sep 20

Are we losing the capacity to collaborate in political world? Probably. But not so in academic world. See here for three new articles about research collaborations in Texas, Ethiopia and Brazil: www.emmacrewe.com

EMMA CREWE

www.emmacrewe.com

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Sep 20

Lewis Goodall is doing here what journalists should, asking us (and esp politicians) to think about what’s coming down the track. This is now urgent: the regulation of AI podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Special Report: Will the AI revolution end politics as we know it?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 19/09/2025 · 1h

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Study of Parliament Group @studyofparl.bsky.social · Sep 18

A huge thank you to Professor Sir John Curtice for delivering last night’s Michael Ryle Lecture on the theme of “Can Britain’s Two Party System Survive?” 👏

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Sep 12

Being a university dept manager is fun when you feel appreciated. My reply to a brilliant but risky idea 👇

Kevin Cooper @kevinc55.bsky.social · Sep 9

Amnesty International UK Vigil for Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza – speech by Wael Al-Dahdouh on Wednesday 10th September 2025 at 5.30 (Wael will be speaking at 6pm for ten minutes) WHERE: Richmond House (opposite Downing St), Whitehall, London
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Vigil for Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza – featuring speech by Wael Al-Dahdouh

Over 240 candles will be lit - each one honouring a Palestinian journalist killed in the Gaza genocide

www.amnesty.org.uk

SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · Sep 3

The NACCH 2025 International Academic Conference on Newah Cultural Heritage convenes 6 Sept (online) & 13–14 Sept (in person). With 31 papers from 18 countries, scholars, community leaders and activists will examine continuity, change & global significance of Newah culture. More info here: nacch.org

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Jul 31

Exciting job as a Programme Manager working for the wonderful Marloes Janson (in SOAS anthro dept) on a fab new research programme about the nexus between religion and sport in 4 African countries. Should have experience of partnerships in Africa: vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734

Project Manager at SOAS

Apply now for Project Manager, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS

vacancies.soas.ac.uk

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · Jul 31

Award-winning screenwriter and story
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.

James Moran @jamesjmoran.bsky.social · Jul 23

This September, I'll be running a short course on creative ethnographic writing at SOAS. We'll learn narrative techniques from HBO dramas, international cinema and Russian literature! Sign up & details: academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/new-short-... @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · Jul 14

We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · Jun 30

Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here:

drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...

Deadline is 21 July.

2_ Fully Funded PhDs SOAS ENG.pdf

drive.google.com

Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social · May 25

SOAS colleague Yair Wallach gives us hope and reliable accounts in an increasingly bleak world. Follow him, if you don’t already, and you’ll see what I mean.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · May 23

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

We, members of the academic and administrative staff in institutions of higher
education in Israel, call on you to act immediately to mobilize the full weight of
Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza.
Israeli higher education institutions play a central role in the struggle against the
judicial overhaul. It is precisely against this backdrop that their silence in the face of
the killing, starvation, and destruction in Gaza, and in the face of the complete
elimination of the educational system there, its people, and its structures, is so striking.
Since Israel violated the ceasefire on March 18, almost 3,000 people have been killed in
Gaza. The vast majority of them were civilians. Since the start of the war, at least
53,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including at least 15,000 children and at least 41
Israeli hostages. At the same time, many international bodies are warning of acute
starvation – the result of intentional and openly declared Israeli government policy – as
well as of the rendering of Gaza into an area unfit for human habitation. Israel
continues to bomb hospitals, schools, and other institutions. Among the war’s declared
goals, as defined in the orders for the current military operation “Gideon’s Chariots,” is
the “concentration and displacement of the population.” This is a horrifying litany of
war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing.
As academics, we recognize our own role in these crimes. It is human societies, not
governments, that commit crimes against humanity. Some do so by means of direct
violence. Others do so by sanctioning the crimes and justifying them, before and after
the fact, and by keeping quiet and silencing voices in the halls of learning. It is this
bond of silence that allows clearly evident crimes to continue unabated without
penetrating the barriers of recognition.
We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · May 23

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

Stephen Holden Bates @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social · May 22

📢📢📢 CfP: What is a Parliament?

Interdisciplinary workshop on 19th September 2025 in London.

Full details below.

Kindly sponsored by Birkbeck, the University of Birmingham and @psa-parliaments.bsky.social

Please apply and/or spread the word!

Call for Papers: What is a Parliament?
Are parliaments institutions, organisations, corporations or something else? Does it make sense to ask the question Who is Parliament? or should parliaments always be considered a thing or set of relations of some kind?
This interdisciplinary one-day workshop will consider such questions from all points of view, from the metaphysical to the political, historical, legal and anthropological, as well as how our different understandings of parliaments affect the way we study, critique and run them.
We welcome papers operating at all levels of abstraction and those concerned with concrete cases. Our aim is for the workshop to include scholars working in different academic disciplines, from different intellectual traditions, and who are at all career stages from PhD onwards.
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words to Stephen Holden Bates (s.r.bates@bham.ac.uk) by 4th July 2025.
The workshop will be held on Friday 19th September in Birkbeck’s Keynes Library (46 Gordon Square, London). It is being co-convened by Stephen Holden Bates (University of Birmingham), Paul Seaward (History of Parliament Trust) and Ben Worthy (Birkbeck, University of London) and co-sponsored by the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, the Department of Political Science & International Studies at the University of Birmingham and PSA Parliaments.
The workshop will be free, and refreshments and lunch will be provided. Early career researchers who have a paper accepted will be able to apply for funding from PSA Parliaments to cover some or all travel expenses on a case-by-case basis.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · May 19

From @ihabhassan.bsky.social (on X). Red are zones marked for evacuation. 2+ m people are supposed to fit into the green zones.
It sends shivers down my spine.

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