Please join us on Monday, 20 November from 1-3pm via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Ushehwedu Kufakurinani on Transnational Intimacy: A Life of Love, Gender and Family, chaired by Professor Kate Ferris. Dr. Kufakurinani is a lecturer in international Development at the University of Sussex and also a research fellow in the project “Everyday Dictatorship” under Kate Ferris. He is currently working on “Queuing as everyday experience during hyper-scarcity” under the same project.

To register for this event please go to: https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/.

Please join us on Monday, 6 November from 1-3pm online via Microsoft Teams for a conversation with Faizah Zakaria on her new book The Camphor Tree and the Elephant, chaired by Nicole CuUjieng Aboitiz. Professor Zakaria is a historian of Southeast Asia, focusing on the environment and religion in the maritime region. She completed her PhD in History at Yale University in Dec 2017. Her current research focuses on conversions, sacred landscapes, indigenous forest communities and more-than-human relationships in Southeast Asia.

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant addresses the following questions: What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements?

To register for this event please go to:
https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/