PAST XENIA EVENTS
JUNE 2023 | TALK | RE-SHAPING HERITAGE IN MIGRATION: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, MUSEUMS AND CHILDREN IN LONDON – ORLY ORBACH (BRITISH MUSEUM)
MAY 2023 | TALK | ABSURD MONSTERS CAN BE PROPOSED AT ANYONE’S DOORSTEPS: THE HEGEMONY OF DEVELOPMENT IN MALTA – MARC MORELL (RIGASSTRĀDIŅA UNIVERSITĀTE)
MARCH 2023 | TALK | COSMOLOGICAL AND GENDER-BODILY RESISTANCE TO AN EMERGENT RACIAL CAPITALISM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WEST AFRICA AND COLONIAL LOUISIANA – VANJA HAMZIĆ (SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
FEBRUARY 2023 | TALK | ‘INTERNAL MIGRATION’ (SO-CALLED): SERBIAN REFUGEES FROM KOSOVO TO SERBIA – MARIJA GRUJIĆ (GRAZ UNIVERSITY)
JANUARY 2023 | TALK | DEFIANT DISCOURSE: SPEECH AND ACTION IN GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM – TAMAR KATRIEL (HAIFA UNIVERSITY)
JUNE 2021 | TALK | ON FOOD AND TOURING: TOURING MUSICIANS’ ENCOUNTERS WITH RITUALS OF FOOD AND HOSPITALITY ON THE ROAD – LUKE PYENSON (FRANKIE COSMOS MUSIC BAND, SOAS MA GRADUATE)
MAY 2021 | PANEL | PRESSING CONVERSATIONS: JERUSALEM, WITH HAIM BRESHEETH, CHRISTIANE DABDOUB-NASSER, AMRA HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ, LISA HAYEK, MAZIN QUMSIYEH AND TOM SELWYN
MAY 2021 | CONFERENCE | THE KHIDR DIALOGUES: LEAPS OF FAITH, RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS & SHARED SACRED LANDSCAPES, ORGANISED BY SAFET HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ (MORE INFO ON SHAREDSACRED.COM)
APRIL 2021 | TALK | ON THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM STUDIES – GEOFF DEVITO AND CHARLIE URBANOWICZ
MARCH 2021 | TALK | NO FRIENDS BUT THE MOUNTAINS – SHORSH SALEH (LONDON, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM)
MARCH 2021 | PANEL | AN INTERFAITH PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, WITH SAFET HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ, TOM SELWYN, MARLENE SCHÄFERS, REZA MASOUDI, SAMI EVERETT AND SAMUEL TETTNER (CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL 2021/SHARED SACRED/XENIA PANEL)
FEBRUARY 2021 | TALK | THRESHOLD MATTERS: A DISCUSSION ON ETHNOGRAPHERS, HOME VISITS AND THE RIDDLES OF HOSPITALITY – SARA BONFANTI (TRENTO UNIVERSITY),
JANUARY 2021 | BOOK LAUNCH TALK | A MOON WILL RISE – CHRISTIANE DABDOUB-NASSER (BETHLEHEM NOVELIST, EC EMERITA)
DECEMBER 2020 | TALK | HUMAN FIBRE IN MOTION: RELIGIOUS, COMMERCIAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENTS FROM THE GLOBAL TRADE IN HUMAN HAIR – EMMA TARLO (GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON),
NOVEMBER 2020 | TALK: THE JOURNEY TO ESTABLISHING A MIGRATION MUSEUM FOR THE UK – EMILY MILLER (MIGRATION MUSEUM, LONDON)
OCTOBER 2020 | PANEL: ENCOUNTERS AND BORDER CROSSINGS: TOWARDS A POST-LOCKDOWN ANTHROPOLOGY, WITH SAFET HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ (‘ENCOUNTER OVER TIME’), TOM SELWYN (‘ENCOUNTER OVER BORDERS’), GEOFF DEVITO (‘ENCOUNTER OVER DINNER’), LINDA COVENTON (‘ENCOUNTER OVER SPORTS’), JULIE SCOTT (‘ENCOUNTER ACROSS SPECIES’).
OCTOBER 2020 | BOOK LAUNCH TALK: ALL THAT MOVES / TODO LO QUE SE MUEVE – VALERIA MATA (METROPOLITAN AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY – UAM, MEXICO)
SEPTEMBER 2020 | TALK: LONELY AT HOME: ON THE PROTRACTED SOCIAL ISOLATION IN BOSNIA – SAFET HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE),
AUGUST 2020 | TALK ON HOSPITALITY | RAOUL BIANCHI (MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY)Type your paragraph here.
Past Xenia Series Seminars
Valeria Mata
Todo lo que se mueve
All That Moves
Booklaunch
Xenia 2: 28 October 2020
Xenia 3: 19 November 2020
The Xenia Series
Seminars in the Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage
Xenia 1: 17 September 2020
Dr Safet HadziMuhamedovic
Research Associate in Inter-Faith Relations
Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme
Faculty of Divinity | University of Cambridge
NOVEMBER 2023 | TALK | THE URBAN RITUAL: RITUAL AND COUNTER-RITUAL DURING MOHARRAM IN MUMBAI – REZA MASOUDI NEJAD (SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) – HYBRID EVENT (ONLINE & SOAS)
OCTOBER 2023 | TALK | LIFE AFTER – TOM SELWYN (SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) – HYBRID EVENT (ONLINE & SOAS)
Emily Miller:
Migration Museum, London