School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Seminars
Talks:

Friday 7 November 2025

Meaning in the margins: understanding grassroots histories in Afghanistan
Date: 7 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Annika Schmeding (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW))
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Alice Millington (University of Oxford), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East), Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

Handsigns from Lhasa: an urban deafnography from Tibet
Date: 14 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Theresia Hofer (University of Bristol)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Alice Millington (University of Oxford), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East), Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 November 2025

Embodied cognitive evolution and the brain
Date: 21 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Robert Barton (Department of Anthropology, Durham University)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers: Alice Millington (University of Oxford), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East), Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 November 2025

Reflections on ecological habitability, with some Himalayan examples
Date: 28 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ben Campbell (University of Durham)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Alice Millington (University of Oxford), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East), Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

International Gender Studies Lecture: Anthropology and autobiography: ethnography and the social reproduction of Roma identities
Date: 5 December 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ilana Sarafian (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Alice Millington (University of Oxford), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East), Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021
Primate Conversations Hilary 2022
Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022