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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · May 15

A great way to spend a sunny day of work, with great colleagues in a beautiful city. #anthropology

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · May 15

Social Anthropology Away Day 2025 ✨

Discussing our values, contemporary anthropology and what we love about our work in Edinburgh on the sun-kissed roof of the National Museum of Scotland.

#anthropology #edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 26

Edinburgh friends, don't miss Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab's seminar on 'Woman Life Freedom' this Friday!
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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 26

Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab will present the final Social Anthropology Seminar of the semester:

“Woman Life Freedom: Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism”

Chaired by the inimitable Dr. Lucy Lowe.

Join us!!! Friday 28th March, 3-5pm CMB seminar room 1.

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Seminar poster for Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab's paper.

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 20

#poetry 💜 #anthropology

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 20

We pinch ourselves, poet and anthropologist Grace Zhou has joined us in Edinburgh! Read her speculative poetics of repair in the beautiful poetry chapbook "Soil Called a Country" where she asks what it means to make a home as an immigrant in a settler colonial nation.

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 19

Cannot wait to hear the brilliant Dr. Atreyee Sen present her paper this Friday. Join us @critiquecentre.bsky.social ; @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social !

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 19

“Unpacking a sacking: Moral outrage and female workplace precarity in peri-urban India” by Dr. Atreyee Sen

We look forward to welcome Dr. Sen to the Anthropology Seminar to discuss thee dynamics of moral surveillance of digitally literate, young professional women in India. Join us!

Poster for Atreyee Sen's Seminar at the University of Edinburgh

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 14

Magnus Course embracing the idea of failure in his beautiful account of the figures of the witch, the clown and the usurper.

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 14

In case you've missed it, Magnus Course's gorgeous new book 'Three Ways to Fail' is now available from @pennpress.bsky.social:

www.pennpress.org/978151282656...

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How do we learn what failure looks like? How do we learn how to live with it? What does it mean to fail one another? And how do we live well when everything falls apart?

Book cover of 'Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile' by Magnus Course

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Meryl Kenny @merylkenny.bsky.social · Mar 13

Incredible scenes, yet again

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EXCLUSIVE vice-chancellor accepts four-figure pay rise despite £140m in planned cuts

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you are in Edinburgh, don't miss Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil's talk Moday 17th March 1pm on "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging". Details here: llc.ed.ac.uk/gulf-migrant...

Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Mar 13

🎙️📚"After the phenomenal success of cassette songs, and letter songs, we also had phone songs, in which very interestingly there are also representations of female migrants."

A conversation with Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil on 'The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala'.

Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil on the cultural archives of Gulf migration in Kerala: Southasia Review of Books podcast #19

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia.

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 13

My colleague Maya Mayblin's beautiful book 'Vote of Faith' is now out, find it here: www.fordhampress.com/978153150909...

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 13

Maya Mayblin's latest book, Vote of Faith, is a richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil. Focused on the lives and loves of Catholic priests in the profane world of party politics, she asks: what does desire reveal about the nature of power?
#Anthropology #AnthroSky

Book cover of Maya Mayblin's book "Vote of Faith".

Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you!!

Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 7

Published during the 2024 uprisings in Bangladesh, I was distracted when A Screen in the Crowd came out, narrating earlier moments of protest, digitally enabled crowds, and the large public screen.

Then Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas won the Aruna Vasudev Award for Best Book on Asia! 🎉

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Pooyan Tamimi Arab 🟥 @pooyan1983.bsky.social · Mar 4

Spread the love 🙏

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PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture

In this position you explore Iran's Secular Shift, examining how atheism, non-religion, and calls for mosque-state separation are expressed in visual culture.

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 7

We could not be prouder of our former Social Anthropology PhD student Dr. Amarasuriya, who was appointed Sri Lanka’s first woman prime minister in 24 years. She was sworn in on 24 September 2024. Her intelligence, integrity, and empathy, have since marked her tenure. #AnthroSky #Anthropology

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Dec 18

In “The Living Film Archive”, I write about the way fine arts moving image works draw on the film society movement’s social and aesthetic forms in contemporary art in Bangladesh. In Aditi Chandra and Sanjukta Sunderason “Living Archives” Forum of Third Text, here: www.thirdtext.org/livingarchiv...

Third Text

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