In June, Dr. Neha Vora, Professor of Anthropology in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, gave the last talk of VAS’s summer lecture series 2026. In her fascinating talk, she explored the interconnections between multispecies communities, migration, and homemaking using an unusual and inspiring methodology: observing and analysing “cat walks". The starting point for her work was the idea that states in gene