RELIGION, THE HUMAN, AND HUMANITARIANISM 

Dr Raluca Roman, QUB,

This seminar examines what difference social anthropology can make to our understanding of the human with a particular focus on humanitarianism.

Raluca Roman is a lecturer in social anthropology at QUB. She has published extensively on the anthropology of religion, morality, humanitarianism, and migration, and has conducted fieldwork with Roma communities in Finland and Romania. Her more recent research interests include the study of artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and human enhancement technologies. She is author of Kaale belongings and Evangelical becomings: an ethnography of Finnish Roma (2025)