| Possible Futures - Peter Walsh |
A talk by Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. |
Peter Walsh |
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| Possible Futures - Charlotte Roberts |
A talk by Charlotte Roberts (University of Durham) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. |
Charlotte Roberts |
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| Possible Futures |
Alexandra Alvergne and Nicholas Márquez-Grant introduce Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. |
Alexandra Alvergne, Nicholas Márquez-Grant |
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| Ebola Emergence is Predictable |
This talk was given by Dr Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine on 3 November 2016/ |
Peter Walsh |
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| A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jarrett Zigon (University of Virginia) on 2 December 2016. |
Jarrett Zigon |
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| The Indian Village: Marx to Modi |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Ed Simpson (SOAS) discusses the issues raised by the re-study of an Indian village. 25 November 2016. |
Ed Simpson |
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| The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Roger Sansi-Roca (Goldsmiths, University of London) on 18 November 2016. |
Roger Sansi-Roca |
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| A Brilliant Jewel: Celibacy and its Malcontents in the Brazilian Catholic Church |
In this Departmental Seminar, Maya Mayblin (University of Edinburgh) discusses the relatively late and most challenged rule in the Brazilian Catholic Church - celibacy. 4 November 2016. |
Maya Mayblin |
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| Formalization as Development: Accounting for the Proliferation of Village Savings Associations |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Maia Green (University of Manchester) discusses village savings associations and small-scale credit in Sub-Saharan Africa. 28 October 2016. |
Maia Green |
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| ‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani |
The opening Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2017 given by Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) on 1 May. The theme of the series was: 'Getting Cosa Nostra: Knowledge and Criminal Justice in Southwestern Sicily'. |
Naor Ben-Yehoyada |
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| Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK |
The 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture was given in Oxford on 24 May by Prof. Pat Caplan of Goldsmiths, London. |
Pat Caplan |
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| The concept of culture in cultural evolution |
In his keynote speech for the Cultural Evolution Workshop (held in the Pitt Rivers Museum on 28 February 2017), Prof. Tim Lewens of Cambridge examines the concept of culture in cultural evolution. |
Tim Lewens |
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| Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous? |
Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017. |
Paul Harris |
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| Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space |
A seminar of the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions. Dr Ann R. David (University of Roehampton) focuses on Tamil worshippers in the UK to discuss the role of ritual in religion and dance. 18 January 2017. |
Ann R. David |
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| Climate, weather, culture |
In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Steve Rayner examines the blossoming of anthropological attention to climate change over the last ten years. 17 February 2017. |
Steve Rayner |
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| The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs |
In this Departmental Seminar, Dr Franck Düvell (COMPAS) focuses on the great migration of 2015 when it is estimated that 12 million people were newly displaced. 20 January 2017. |
Franck Düvell |
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| Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil |
Prof. Elizabeth B. Silva (The Open University) discusses the role of staged events in remembering the establishment of dictatorship in Brazil in 1964. 19 May 2017. |
Elizabeth B. Silva |
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| Women in India’s waste economy |
In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Barbara Harriss-Whiten draws on anthropology, economics and politics to examine the role of women in Indian society. 12 May 2017. |
Barbara Harriss-White |
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| The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique |
Greg Carr, the President of the Gorongosa Restoration Project in Mozambique, gives an overview of how the Gorongosa National Park has evolved since Mozambique's civil conflict ended in 1992. 5 May 2017. |
Greg Carr |
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| Exploring the city's 'sutures' |
Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016) |
Filip De Boeck |
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| Plantain island sirens |
Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016) |
Jennifer Diggins |
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| Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last? |
Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) examines indigenous knowledge and specific projects across the world, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand (13 May 2016) |
Joy Hendry |
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| The charm of 'things': ethnography and performance |
Marta Rosa Jardim (UNIFESP, Brazil) examines the role of sculptures of Hindu gods in Mozambique and the influence of art history on her anthropological research (20 May 2016) |
Marta Rosa Jardim |
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| The certainty of futures lost |
Lucy Lowe (Edinburgh) discusses motherhood, Caesarean sections and migration in 'Little Mogadishu', Mairobi (3 Fecember 2015) |
Lucy Lowe |
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| The fragility of conviction |
Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)'s seminar is based on 'walking with the Tablighi Jammat in Kyrgyzstan (12 February 2016) |
Mathijs Pelkmans |
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| Profane relations: the irony of offensive jokes in India |
Andrew Sanchez (Kent) discusses why a multi-ethnic workforce in eastern India exchanges jokes about each other's religion and cultures as a form of irony (19 February 2016) |
Andrew Sanchez |
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| The developmental origins of health and disease: adaptation reconsidered |
Ian Rickard (Durham) places the origins of the science of health and disease within a framework of evolutionary theory and a medical anthropology perspective (18 January 2016) |
Ian Rickard |
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| Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond |
Emma Pomeroy (Cambridge) places obstructed labour within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 15 February 2016. |
Emma Pomeroy |
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| Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases |
Cristina Giuliani (Bologna) places inflammaging, and genetics, within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 1 February 2016. |
Cristina Giuliani |
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| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
Charlotte K. Russell (Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Durham) looks at how evolutionary anthropology and cross-cultural perspectives can have a huge impact on specific healthcare issues such as SIDS (22 February 2016) |
Charlotte K. Russell |
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| The dawn of Darwinian critical care medicine |
James G. Morgan (Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Leeds General Infirmary) discusses how an evolutionary approach can help one understand medicine, such as adaptive defence mechanisms in the body (8 February 2016) |
James G. Morgan |
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| Maternal capital and offspring development |
Jonathan Wells (UCL Institute of Child Health) presents an intergenerational perspective on the development origins of health and disease. A medical anthropology seminar given on 29 February 2016. |
Jonathan Wells |
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| Tracing the origins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic |
Nuno Fario (Oxford) investigates the development of HIV since the discovery of its first, and diverse, genomes in 1959 and 1960. A medical anthropology seminar given on 7 March 2016. |
Nuno Faria |
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| Agrarian change, climate stress and shifting class relations in the Nepal-Bihar borderlands |
A special lecture by Dr Fraser Sugden, a Kathmandu-based social scientist at the International Water Management Institute (19 May 2016) |
Fraser Sugden |
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| Marett Memorial Lecture 2016: The Creole world between inequality and difference |
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo) delivered 2016's Marett Memorial Lecture on 29 April at Exeter College. The lecture examined controversies over Creole identity which are related to fundamental questions in anthropology. |
Thomas Hylland Eriksen |
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| Paying attention to the journey |
In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ginny Mounce (Oxford) discusses couples' experiences of investigating and starting infertility treatments, 19 October 2015 |
Ginny Mounce |
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| Does 21st-century technology change the experience of early pregnancy and miscarriage? |
In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ingrid Gramme (Oxford) discusses how our basic understanding of pregnancy and miscarriage has changed enormously over the last eighty years, 9 November 2015 |
Ingrid Gramme |
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| Birds in heaven: social positioning of lost babies and their mothers in Qatar |
In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Susie Kilshaw (UCL), discusses the impact of pregnancy and loss on mothers and fathers, and other family members, in Qatar, 2 November 2015 |
Susie Kilshaw |
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| Microbes and other spirits |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, César Enrique Giraldo Herrera (Oxford) discusses the role of hallucinogenics in interpreting reality and the role of visions in Lowland South America, 23 October 2015 (the opening few seconds are missing) |
César Enrique Giraldo Herrera |
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| Revisiting uncertainty: provisional electricity infrastructure and livelihoods in an African city |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Idalina Baptista (Oxford), discusses the governance of electricity in urban sub-Saharan Africa, drawing on a case study focused on Maputo, Mozambique, 13 November 2015 |
Idalina Baptista |
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| Negotiating enemy lines |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Lauren Greenwood (University of Sussex) discusses the complexities of collaboration with the British military, 29 May 2015 |
Lauren Greenwood |
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| Medical and psychological issues in the treatment of recurrent miscarriage |
In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar, Raj Rai (Imperial College and St Mary's Hospital) discusses the role of clinical trials and ways of addressing the potential exploitation of vulnerable couples, 26 October 2015 |
Raj Rai |
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| Crossing religious borders: Jewish Cabo Verdeans |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Alma Gottlieb (Illinois) discusses the blend of religious traditions that have developed on the Cape Verde islands, particularly early Jewish settlers, 6 November 2015 |
Alma Gottlieb |
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| 'Fat knowledge', epigenetics and the enchantment of relational biology |
An Anthropology Departmental Seminar presented by Megan Warin (Adelaide) on the ways in which obesity is understood, embodied and enacted, 16 October 2015 |
Megan Warin |
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| Evolutionary origins of technological behaviour: a primate archaeology approach to chimpanzees |
An Anthropology Departmental seminar presented by Susana Carvalha (Oxford) on the archaeological sites of non-humans, 27 November 2015 |
Susana Carvalho |
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| The 'Unfortunate Mesopotamian Foetus' |
Pregnancy loss and miscarriage in the ancient Near East - a Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, 30 November 2015 given by Marie-Françoise Besnier (University of Cambridge) |
Marie-Françoise Besnier |
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| The Limits of collaboration: attempting a reciprocal Gypsy/Roman life story |
In this Anthropology departmental seminar, Paloma Gay y Blasco (St Andrews) evaluates a twenty-year collaborative project she has undertaken with her Gypsy informer (15 May 2015) |
Paloma Gay y Blasco |
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| Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2015: The Societalization of Social Problems |
Professor Jeffrey C. Alexander (Yale University) delivered the Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture on 3 June 2014 at Oxford. The lecture was 'The societalization of social problems: recent social crises and the civil sphere' |
Jeffrey Alexander |
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| Stacking Ontologies: Mundane Technoscience in the Silk Mill |
Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester) discusses different ways to think about technoscience beyond its core institutions (13 March 2015) |
Dimitris Papdopoulos |
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| Obsessed by Love: Erotic Magic, Delirious Love and Female Power in Mozambique |
Christian Groes-Green (Roskilde University Copenhagen) discusses the nature of being in love and how this is seen and discussed in Mozambique and written about in other African nations (6 March 2015) |
Christian Groes-Green |
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