About the Talk: This talk will focus on themes from Professor Carsten’s current research on experiences of marriage in Penang. It will also include reflections on her earlier work in a Malay village in the 1980s, and research on the interface between medical and popular understandings of blood carried out in hospital clinical pathology labs and …

30 May 2022: Janet Carsten gives talk at the Penang Institute Read More »

Janet Carsten, Eirini Papadaki, Koreen Reece, and Siobhan Magee presented papers along with University of Bayreuth scholars Tabea Haberlein, Fulera Issaka-Toure, and Najoum Alhassane, and the University of Hamburg’s Julia Pauli. Discussants for the papers were Susan Reynolds-Whyte, Ammara Maqsood, Susan McKinnon, Asha Abeyesekera, Perveez Mody, and Erdmute Alber. On the Thursday evening, there was …

5-6 May 2022: Marriage: Entanglements and Detachments Workshop in Bayreuth Read More »

Janet Carsten, Eirini Papadaki, and Siobhan Magee delivered short papers based on their chapters in AGATM’s edited book (UCL Press, 2021). The event was chaired by Maya Mayblin, with comments from Resto Cruz. Social Anthropology Research Seminar, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.   

Janet Carsten delivered a paper based on the co-written Introduction to AGATM’s forthcoming collective edited book (UCL Press, 2021).   Centre for the Study of Families and Relationships (CRFR), University of Edinburgh  The seminar can be viewed here: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/CRFR+Informal+Seminar++Marriage+in+Past%2C+Present+and+Future+Tense/1_r00zrdw1

Dimitris Glystras, Silas Michalakas, and Eirini Papadaki’s film Family Time shows the reflections and everyday lives of an Athenian married couple, their children, and their friends. This discussion  over Zoom (with Eirini Papadaki, Silas Michalakas, Janet Carsten, and Siobhan Magee) focused on the challenges and opportunities involved in making a film about intimate lives.   

The presentations drew together projects from our AGATM  research on marriage in Botswana, Virginia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Greece, as well as a further project in Pakistan. Panelists suggested how, rather than merely responding to political change, marriage creates social change. 

Janet Carsten delivered a paper on marriage in Penang, entitled ‘Marriage and Self-fashioning in Penang, Malaysia: Transformations of the Intimate and the Political’.

The AGATM team plus Ammara Maqsood (UCL) and Sidharthan Maunaguru (NUS) delivered papers drawn from their work on marriage focussing on issues of temporality and ethics.  Participants included: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh) Hsiao-Chiao Chiu (University of Edinburgh) Lynn Jamieson (University of Edinburgh) Venetia Kantsa (University of the Aegean) Susan McKinnon (University of Virginia) Siobhan Magee (University of Edinburgh) Ammara Maqsood (UCL) Sidharthan Maunaguru (National …

5-6 September 2019: Workshop – Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense: Biography, Intimacy, and Transformation Read More »

This exhibition was held at Edinburgh Central Library. A catalogue can be viewed here https://anthropology-of-weddings.org.uk