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Conversations in Atlantic TheorySamuele Collu on Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive RepetitionDr. Samuele Collu is an Assistant Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at McGill University. His research examines the entanglement between psychic life, therapeutic practices, and digital devices. He is currently completing Dreams I Scroll Through, an experimental ethnography immersing the reader in a (mildly psychedelic) social media binge-scroll. Collu is also working on a project titled “Force and Form,” which focuses on learning, trauma, and internal alchemy practices in Montréal.The topic for today's conversation is his first book, Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition, came out with Duke University Press this year (2026). Writte...
2026-04-2152 min
Talking CultureLearning Between BoundariesIn academia, like in so many industries currently, day to day work is done online. What does this mean for our learning and teaching when we are separated from professors, students, and peers by our screens? And what does it mean that those same screens that separate us also bring us together? Host Alejandra Melian talks with Drs. Setrag Manoukian and Samuele Collu as well as colleague Segolene Guinard about what the Zoom classroom has meant for education.
2021-02-2559 minTalking CultureCOVID Conversations: Samuele ColluAs part of Talking Culture’s mini-series on the topic of COVID-19, host Alejandra Melian-Morse talks with Dr. Samuele Collu, who will be joining McGill’s anthropology department as Assistant Professor in the fall. They discuss the implications of the current crisis for the discipline of anthropology and beyond, as well as what Dr. Collu calls the zoomification of our everyday lives.
2020-06-1141 min
CKUT PodcastsThinking Anthropologically with COVID: Samuele ColluIn the first episode of Talking Culture’s mini-series, on the topic of COVID-19, host Alejandra Melian-Morse talks with Dr. Samuele Collu, who will be joining McGill’s anthropology department as Assistant Professor in the fall. They discuss the implications of the current crisis for the discipline of anthropology and beyond, as well as what Dr. Collu calls the zoomification of our everyday lives.
2020-05-2541 min