📢 My book will be launched in SOAS on 6 February. Register below to join in person or online. SOAS Development Studies SOAS Department Of Anthropology SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

My ⁦Oxford Brookes⁩ colleague ⁦Marius Turda⁩ in The Lancet, on eugenics, disability, and dignity. ⁦Think Human⁩ thelancet.com/journals/lance…

DC: Mateusz Morawiecki, former prime minister of Poland, stands outside DC Trump rally at Capital One Arena, attempting to convince National Guard of who he is by showing them his Wikipedia page.

Check out this new book Routledge Books, with chapters on the construction of the Polish hostile environment at the border (Chapter 2) and on the migration and racialisation of Polish Roma (Chapter 5) by CMR authors 1/3 doi.org/10.4324/978100…

One week left for those researching histories & current dynamics of migration & race-making in the East of Europe to submit proposals on racialisation and the intersections of migration processes with colonial/imperial histories and their afterlives. More: bit.ly/3NG8Ime

What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding? cfr.org/backgrounder/w…

Only until tomorrow we are awaiting your proposals on racialisation and the intersections of migration processes with colonial/imperial histories and their afterlives. More: bit.ly/3NG8Ime

Departmental PhD Showcase Event this Wednesday. Speakers include Kiara Wickremsinghe, Pauline Harlay and Flora Hastings. 5 February, 3.15 - 5pm, B104. All welcome.

Looking forward to this with Cassandra Hartblay Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon and @KrivonosDaria - Bodies in Focus: Body Matters creeca.wisc.edu/event/bodies-i…

Happy Fat Thursday! 🎉 Today, Poles all over the world are going to celebrate Tłusty Czwartek, or Fat Thursday, by indulging in everything sweet and scrumptious, especially traditional doughnuts (pączki) and angel wings (faworki). 🍩

Slava Ukraini!

CMDS are delighted to be hosting Wendy Pearlman to speak about her wonderful book 'The Home I Worked to Make: Voice from the Syrian Diaspora.' This is not to be missed. Next Monday, 10 March, MBR201, SOAS. All welcome. paolo novak SOAS Department Of Anthropology SOAS Development Studies

Michael Burawoy in conversation with Michaela Benson thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/march…

CAMHRA Public Launch: Inaugural Lecture by Dr Bhrigupati Singh ‘What can and cannot be quantified: Thoughts for a new alliance of anthropology and mental health’ Opening remarks by Prof. Laura Hammond (Deputy Vice-Chancellor) 28 April, 5:30–8:30pm eventbrite.com/e/camhra-inaug…

Great to see this new roundtable with colleagues published in European History Quarterly Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

New publication by our colleague, Bolaji Balogun, and others discussing the “Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production” - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Rethinking the world without the US Europe must support the reform of IMF and World Bank in order to move away from the current censitary system and give countries like Brazil, India and South Africa their rightful place lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87 bbc.in/4kgVU3C

An experienced Project Manager needed for an ERC project SOAS Department Of Anthropology on sport and religion in Africa - vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734