Week Plan of Action

Oh yeah, and since I wrote about all of the exciting "Cambridge" things I want to do, I thought I'd share with you what an exciting week this is going to be!

Today: I had a lecture on Political Economy of Development, where we discussed the anthropology of poverty and the effect of development and aid on the poor and the world economy. It was actually really exciting, I was almost on the edge of my seat (no sarcasm, really). Later this afternoon I have a seminar for the Anthropology of Law, which should be decently cool. After dinner I'm partaking in a psychology experiment (an easy £5). After that I'm going to a talk that is given by our college Master, Sir Richard Dearlove, who's the former head of MI6, about the Contemporary Terrorist Threat (AWESOME!)

Tuesday: Two lectures - Globalisation and then the State and Non-State. I'll have two supervisions, one of which is on a paper I wrote about inner emotions and public display and the second I wrote about political modalities - sovereignty and governmentality (too complicated to explain!) Then I have a "blind date" which is for charity, you can do it to meet that special someone or just to meet someone new, and I'm going for the latter (Gareth was rather shocked when I told him I had a blind date though, and that was kind of worth it in of itself!)

Wednesday: Lecture on Political Modalities, Supervision on the problem with the classification of "refugee", and then that evening I'm going to the Union to see Mozzam Begg talk about his experience as a Guantanamo Bay detainee, where he was wrongly held for 4 years!

Thursday: Lectures on Ethnography of Legal Culture and then Consciousness and Unconsciousness, and a seminar about the Anthropology of Europe. Then that evening I'm going to see a film called "The Price of Prawns" about shrimp farming in Honduras and how it is harmful both ecologically and culturally. It's being shown by the director and the producer, so that should be interesting. That day at some point I'm going to go to a careers fair for charity and non-government work.

Friday: Just two lectures so far, Belief and Rationality and then Cognitive Anthropology.

For the weekend, all I have planned at the moment is I'm attending a rally that is against the University having investments in the arms trade.

Exciting times for now--we'll see how it all works out. Expect an update at the end of the week.
-Emily