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PRM Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
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On Paradise: Between Hope and Memory
16 October
Our Collective Seabed: Participatory Arts-based Methods for more Equitable Global Ocean Governance
23 October
Beyond the Aestheticization of Plastic
30 October
Hope as Material Practice: The Making and Temporalities of Hope in Contemporary Myanmar
06 November
Multi-method Approaches to Historical Research: Some Reflections on Practice, Skill and Tradition
13 November
Unplugged/Replugged
20 November
Hindustan Photo Film: India's First Colour Film Factory
27 November
Figurations of Time: Artefacts, Images and Historical Experience
04 December
In our blood: deviant archaeology and the Far Right
22 May
Crab Museum: a museum about crabs, for humans
15 May
What benefits can be gained from transformative change? Reframing damage and loss in a changing climate
08 May
All eyes on good intentions: when community refusal meets fragile solidarities
01 May
Collections without a Community: Decolonial Practice and the Problem of Authority in Scientific-Instrument Collections (India-UK)
13 March
Crafting Body Virtuality through Anthropology-with-Butoh Dance
06 March
Restraining Sacredness in the Borderlands of Religion and Heritage: Waste, Worthiness, and Sacred Objects and Spaces
27 February
Animating the Future: Visual Ethnographies of the Beyond
20 February
The Shared Diegesis: Worldmaking through Ethnographic Filmmaking
13 February
Hammering with Maestro Jesús Pérez Ornelas: Mastering Un-mastery and the Meaning of Making in Santa Clara del Cobre
06 February
The Substance of Trace: Experiments in Visual Anthropology
30 January
The Lottery in Istanbul: After Borges, Against Chance
23 January
'Searching for the Beasts': Foregrounding Animality in Colonial Collections from Sri Lanka
05 December 2025
Tracing the Crisis: Museum Ethnography's Struggle with Post-Nation Britain
28 November 2025
The Humble Brick: Mosquitoes, Planetary Urbanism and the Art of Interstitial Disease Control in Dar es Salaam
21 November 2025
Shooting Dada: Inside Idi Amin's Media Machine
14 November 2025
Ordination of Curators? Piprahwa and the Recurrent Challenges for Museology
07 November 2025
Awkward Archives: Problematising 'Volk' in a Berlin Photo Collection
31 October 2025
Not All Empty Homes Are Empty: An Ethnography of Emptiness in West London
24 October 2025
The white blanket: autoethnographic notes about an anchoring object
17 October 2025
