ETHNOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING
In this innovative short course, exclusively hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, an award-winning screenwriter reveals how to enrich ethnographic writing with best-in-class storytelling methods.
Book now:
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James Moran is a phenomenal teacher, never heard anything but super positive feedback. For academics, practitioners and those of us who are both. Treat yourself 👇
An article about doing collective ethnography in Brazil with three amazing friends+colleagues (Andrea Cornwall, Cristiane Bernardes, and Telma Hoyler), was mentioned in an useful new Research Digest: www.interpretivemethods.com/research-dig...
Have you every wondered why Japanese toilets play a recording of flushing water?
Read our own Fabio Gygi's piece on the Otohime device on the Object Impression series!
pghrev.com/otohime/
We just finished our annual Study of Parliament Group Annual Conference for scholars and parly officials - incredible speakers, topics ranging from Assisted Dying Bill to belonging/alienation in parliaments, & terrific conversations (studyofparliamentgroup.org/programme/).
Tomorrow marks the start of our annual weekend and we are very much looking forward to welcoming members to Exeter College, Oxford.
For those members joining us remotely, the Zoom links are now in your inboxes.
The programme is available on our website: studyofparliamentgroup.org/programme/
Part of a collaboration between the Mursi, South Omo Theatre Company, Addis Ababa University, and SOAS, University of London. Check out the Learning from South Omo exhibition in the SOAS Gallery, of the same project:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@emmacrewe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social
Logo of "State Politics & Policy Quarterly" next to a stylized map of the United States.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of State Politics & Policy Quarterly -
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/489WCvG
- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
#SPPQ25
Members of the CAMHRA team will share information about building a strong application during the ‘CAMHRA Doctoral Scholarships Webinar’ on Wednesday December 03rd 2025 at 2 pm GMT (London time). Registration is here: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📣 CAMHRA is offering 5 fully funded PhD #scholarships for researchers looking to conduct anthropological research in the broad field of #mentalhealth @SOAS.
📅 Apply by 5th January.
Find out more here ▶️ bit.ly/camhra
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."
Read in full here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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 👇
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...
Very special, small exhibition 👇 plus follow SOAS’s Dept of Anthropology and Sociology for events, new books, research funding…
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
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
Bhrigupati Singh and Neil Armstrong. I hope you can join.
📌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
📣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.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... If interested in physics, time, space, threat of war, ethics…. then have a listen 👇
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.
Learning from South Omo - exhibition at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, Addis Ababa youtu.be/00fuNry4sV8?... @soasuni.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social
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👇
Logo of "State Politics & Policy Quarterly" next to a stylized map of US states.
#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
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
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...
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?” 👏
Being a university dept manager is fun when you feel appreciated. My reply to a brilliant but risky idea 👇
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...
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