Lectures

Prof James W. Fernandez, University of Chicago, USA

“An Age of Irony and an Anthropology of Sincerity: Dissimulation and Disengagement in Anthropological Inquiry” February 1998.

Prof Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA

“Looking for the right path” 2011 (at “The Imagination: A universal process of knowledge?” conference).

Prof Paul Sillitoe, Durham University, UK

“Collaboration”, 2015 (at “Limits of Collaboration” conference).

Prof Paul Valentine, University of Minnesota, USA

“Futurities: Ethnography in the Register of Surprise”, 2018 (at “Orientations” conference).

Prof Emeritus Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam and African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

“Responsibility or Responsibilization: From Mafiacraft to Witchcraft to Conspiracy Thinking Today”, 2021 (at ASA conference on Responsibility in St Andrews).

Prof Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, USA

“Comparison in a Fractured World: Political Factions in Crypto-Colonial States”, 2022.