Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process
  Roger Sansi-Roca (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Indian Village: Marx to Modi
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it
  Jarett Zignon (University of Amsterdam)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs
  Franck Duvell (COMPAS, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Chinese medical meshworks in East Africa: pots, patients and practitioners
  Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The idea of Nepal
  Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Ritual and group cohesion across space and time
  Professor Harvey Whitehouse (ICEA/CAM, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Climate, weather, culture
  Professor Steve Rayner (InSIS, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Locating the Pitt Rivers Museum
  Dr Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
  Dr Leslie Fesenmyer (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The people left behind: how and why cultural anthropologists got it wrong
  Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Ulterior Motives: Structure and Action Surrounding the Murder of Mayor Vito Lipari, 1980
  Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Corruption as Excuse: the Struggle over the Explanation for the Murder of Judge Giangiacomo Ciaccio Montalto Since 1983
  Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Before and After Omega: The Provincial Career of the Antimafia Prosecutorial Method since the Palermo Maxi-trial
  Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What Happened to The Godfather? The Legal Illegibility of Relationships and its Consequences
  Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Women in India's Waste Economy
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitsha, South Africa
  Michelle Pentecost (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil
  Professor Elizabeth B. Silva (Professor of Sociology, The Open University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Crowdsourced: cartographic citizenship, digital legitimacy and future humanitarianism
  Dr Darryl Stellmach (University of Sydney and Médicins Sans Frontierès)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - CANCELLED: What happened to the Maoist combatants in Nepal?
  Unfortunately, this event has had to be cancelled.
  Professor Paul Jackson (School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Tying the souls and binding relationships in the Lao home: metaphor, performance and tactility
  TBA

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Listening to the news audience - what's missing from obesity news?
  Catriona Bonfiglioni (University of Technology, Sydney)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
  Dr Elizabeth Ewart (University of Oxford), Dr Wolde Tadesse (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Astor Visiting Lecture: Words and Deeds
  Professor Michael Jackson (Harvard Divinity School)

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Existential Mobility, Migrant Imaginaries and Multiple Selves
  Please note the change of venue from the one previously advertised
  Professor Michael Jackson (Harvard Divinity School)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Bitter-sweet adaptation
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Illiberal Legal Imagination: Thought Experiments in China’s Developing the World
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places
  Paul Norman (University of Leeds)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Resisting moralisation in health promotion
  TBA
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - 'If God is with us, who can be against us?' Christianity, cosmopolitics and living with difference in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
  Liana Chua (Brunel)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Macaques at the margins: what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates outside the tropics
  Sarah Elton (Durham University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Thinking like a Climate? Politics and Anthropology in the Anthropocene
  Hannah Knox (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Tackling Obesity: Right from the Start
  Mary Rudolf (Bar Ilan University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Making Concessions: Power and Ecstasis in the Congolese rainforest
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Plastic foods, cooking and embodied skill in Australian obesity education
  Please note that this is an additional seminar on the Monday of Week 8.
  Megan Warin (University of Adelaide)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Not your good fatty: How fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0
  Cat Pause (Massey University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Promise of the (Foreign) Image: Post-Post-Internet Art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field)
  Rafael Schacter (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Ethnography in a grievance: enunciatory communities, law and environmental justice in Nicaragua's chronic kidney disease epidemic
  Alex Nading (Brown University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Relational anatomy: bodies, materials and persons in medical education
  Dr Elizabeth Hallam (ISCA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chess, not chequers
  This seminar has been CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Harry Rutter (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Making rights real: fertility politics and rights activism in India
  Maya Unnithan (University of Sussex)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Studying the origins of human material culture in young children
  Dr Eva Reindl (ICEA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above ‘behaviour change’ research
  Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Infrastructure and politics above and below the surface
  Andrew Barry (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How climate change as an idea travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and humanitarianism
  Dr Sara de Wit (InSIS, University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Divine text, national language, and their publics: arguing an Indonesian Qur’an
  Webb Keane (Michigan University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The taste for health
  Gabriela Morini (University of Gastronomic Science, Pollenzo)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Migration and the mapping of global danger
  This seminar has been CANCELLED
  Ruben Andersson (QEH, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Public expressions of trust and distrust in official dietary advice: What do letters reveal about lay people’s relation to the National Food Agency in Sweden?
  Karolin Bergman (Uppsala University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Electrifying Anthropology: current thinking about energy and anthropology
  This event has been cancelled due to the weather conditions
  Simone Abram (University of Durham)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Digital methods and their implications for social science
  Torben Jensen (Aalborg University, Copenhagen), Anders Munk (Aalborg University, Copenhagen)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Against ontology: experience and the Human Sciences
  Scott Lash (COMPAS, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Marett Memorial Lecture 2018: Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture
  Anne-Christine Taylor (Director of Research at the CNRS; emeritus)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Changing Views of a Changing World: A Relation to Territories, Resources and Landscape in the Context of Holocene Environmental Changes
  Dr Emmanuelle Honoré (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
  Dr Nayanikur Mathur (ISCA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Images of an Imagined World: The Complex Mythologies of the Last Hunter-Gatherers
  Dr Emmanuelle Honoré (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Why are there always Candomblés? Situated knowledges of miscegenation and syncretism in Brazil
  Dr Marcio Goldman (National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Animal as Anima: The Role of Cattle in the Worldviews of Early African Pastoralist Societies
  Dr Emmanuelle Honoré (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - The seven moral rules found all around the world
  Please note the change of venue to 64 Banbury Road
  Oliver Scott Curry (ICEA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Subsistence as Giving Some Substance: The Organization of Tasks and Social Relations amongst the Last Hunters and First Pastoralists
  Dr Emmanuelle Honoré (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Towards a Palaeosociological Approach: Relational Ontologies and the Constitution of ‘Being in Society’ in North African late Prehistory
  Dr Emmanuelle Honoré (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular
  Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Human evolution: the panin perspective
  Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Chess, not chequers
  Professor Harry Rutter (University of Bath)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Development: a brief adventure
  Professor Stephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Mechanisms of social bonding: dance and the 'Synchrony Effect'
  Bronwyn Tarr (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study Toulouse)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Discussing weight management in primary care - insights from conversation analysis of the BWel trial
  Charlotte Albury (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - On artefacts, agency and practices - a relational perspective on planning
  Monika Kurath (ETH Zurich)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Mozambique in Island Africa
  Jonathan Kingdon (WildCRU, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - CANCELLED: Function of fat. What are the determinants and does it matter?
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Marijana Todorčević (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution
  Frederick Keck (Musée du quai Branly)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ultra-Processed foods, big food and the corporate capture of nutrition
  This is an additional seminar series (please note the location)
  Gyorgy Scrinis (University of Melbourne)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022
• 16:00 - A different view of recent human origins
  Eleanor Scerri (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Revealing later life vulnerabilities through the study of food practices
  With apologies, this seminar was cancelled at the last minute due to illness
  Wendy Wills (UNiversity of Hertfordshire)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa
  Dr Michelle Pentecost (King's College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Pliocene diversity: does behavioural evolution parallel biological evolution?
  David R. Braun (The George Washington University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta
  Dr David Pratten (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations
  Anna Nekaris (MSc Primate Conservation and Oxford Brookes University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Psychosocial inequality, insecurity and overweight/obesity in a Danish Youth Cohort
  Per Høgh Poulsen (Department of Occupational Medicine, Herning Hospital, Denmark)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Care and community in contemporary Italy: exploring networks and digital-visual practices
  Dr Shireen Walton (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Stone-tool-using monkeys in coastal habitats: a new model system for palaeoanthropology
  Amanda Tan (University of Durham)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Assessing the reformulation efforts of soft drink companies in the UK
  Lauren Bandy (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - ‘Don’t Bury the Famine Dead’: how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998
  Jok Madut Jok (SUNY Upstate Medical University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses
  Maria Ferreira de Silva (Universities of Porto, Portugal, and Cardiff. Paleo Primate Project Gorongosa, Mozambique)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Genomics of common obesity
  Prof Cecilia Lindgren (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India
  Dr Bhawani Buswala (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Are your genes to blame when your jeans don’t fit?
  This seminar has been CANCELLED
  Dr Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Forensic Anthropology and its role in identifying the missing in humanitarian and criminal contexts
  Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant (Cranfield Forensic Institute)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Quantum computing and simulation: a responsible perspective
  Philip Inglesant (University of Oxford )

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
  Sarah Bourke (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Adding cosmo to geo: climate change as a new matrix of animation
  Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Model cases: canonical research objects in the social sciences
  Monika Krause (London School of Economics)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Energy balance behaviours: the role of emotions and emotion regulatio
  Cristiana Duarte (University of Leeds)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The socio-genesis of a guild of “digital technologies” justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals?
  Didier Bigo (King's College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Why is time always (never) running out in climate policy? The role of modelling in masking policy inaction
  Oliver Geden (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Bug burgers, lab meat and plant blood: what implications for food and farming?
  Alexandra Sexton (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Body in the archive. Embodied encounters with human remains in the museum
  Gemma Angel (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Making and Un-making precarious homes among women activists in Spain
  Please note the change of title from the one previously advertised.
  Ana Gutierrez Garza (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How do we fix the food waste problem?
  Claire Kneller (Head of Food, WRAP Global)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Adaptive radiation and evolution of Neotropical primates
  Thomas Puschel Rouliez (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Representing pain in medieval Japan: the scrolls of afflictions
  Benedetto Lomi (University of Bristol)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Function of fat. What are the determinants and does it matter?
  Marijana Todorčević (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Knowing cancer in India
  Carlo Caduff (King's College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on cancer
  Frédéric Thomas (CNRS, Montpellier)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The social life of childhood obesity in Poland
  Zofia Boni (SOAS Food Studies Centre; Department of Anthropology, University of Poznań)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Disaggregating the commodity crisis: towards an ethnography of maritime commerce at the port of Lobito (Angola)
  Jon Schubert (University of Brunel)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Monday 18 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Critical appraisal of assumptions in model-based scientific assessment
  Jeroen van der Sluijs (University of Utracht)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - 'Materialities of eating disorders' and 'Materialities of anorexia'
  Dr Karin Eli (University of Warwick), Dr Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Marett Memorial Lecture of 2019: African red - African blue: ethnography, history and comparison
  Professor Richard Fawdon (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, SOAS University of London)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Primates and Popcorn: Screening of 'Jane'
  N/A
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Materialities of food education: practice, research and policy
  Barny Haughton (Square Food Foundation, Bristol)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Anthropology Departmental Seminar: Title to be announced
  Nicholas Thomas (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Are we asking questions that can be addressed scientifically?
  Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Rights-based approaches to the regulation of food marketing’ and ‘What’s in the fridge? The everyday materiality of health and wellbeing’
  Amandine Garde (University of Liverpool), Tess Bird (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022
• 17:00 - The Mediterranean Atlas
  Dr Alice Elliot (Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - To lead by obeying: how cocoa growers' struggle for radical democracy became institutionalized
  Thomas Grisaffi (University of Reading)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Hominin hips: the old and the new
  Ashley Hammond (Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator of Biological Anthropology, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lecture 2019: Mind and Spirit: How the Way People Think about Thinking Affects the Way People Experience God
  This lecture has been CANCELLED
  Tanya Marie Luhrmann (oward H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor of Anthropology and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychology, Stanford University)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Total Peace (sulh-i kull): A Mughal Solution to a Biblical Problem
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
• 18:00 - Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2019: Playing the Numbers Game in the UK’s Public Expenditure World: Where Goodhart's Law Meets Douglas's Law
  Christopher Hood (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scattered Kinship
  Dr Alice Elliot (Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Social cognition
  Robert Seyfarth (Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022
• 15:15 - Bodies of ice: Mount Everest as a mortuary landscape
  Jonathan Westaway (University of Central Lancashire)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Caliph’s Body: A Relic of Peace (sulh)
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
• 17:00 - Classical formulae containing qinghao in pre-modern Chinese formularies: a data mining study
  Xin Sun (Beijing University of Chinese Medicine)

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Beautiful Futures
  Dr Alice Elliot (Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Infrastructures of desire: Eros and urbanism in Nigeria's capital
  Rudi Gaudio (Purchase College, SUNY)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Intraspecific behavioural variation in chimpanzees
  Crickette Sanz (Associate Professor of Physical Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, Co-director of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - In God’s Name: The First Oath of Peace (sulh) in Islam
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Gender of the Crossing
  Dr Alice Elliot (Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Taxes as a route to independence from the state: rejecting a fiscal model of reciprocity in peri-urban Bolivia
  Miranda Johannson
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 25 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Film screening of 'Ishaare - Gestures and Signs in Mumbai' (directed by Annelies Kusters, 2015, 75 mins)
  N/A

Wednesday 11 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - RAI Ninth Annual Student Conference. Anthropology: Past, Present and Future
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Primates and Popcorn: a film screening of Virunga (von Einsiedel, 2014)
  TBA
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Can wearable sensors and machine learning enhance our understanding of lifestyle health behaviours?
  Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lecture 2019. Mind and Spirit: How the Way People Think about Thinking Affects the Way People Experience God
  Tanya Marie Luhrmann (Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor of Anthropology and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychology, Stanford University)

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Imanishi and the legacy of Japanese primatology
  Film screening
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - The evolution of ineffective and harmful medical treatments
  Micheal De Barra (Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University)
• 17:00 - Interaction in the Living Translation of Chinese Medicine
  Sonya Pritzker (University of Alabama)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Nutrient timing and human health
  James Betts (University of Bath)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Human Crop: Tangled Tales and Racial Fictions from the Global Trade in Human Hair
  Emma Tarlo (Goldsmiths, University of London)
• 15:15 - Ethnography inside out: notes for an anthropology of nefarious systems
  Ruben Andersson (QEH, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Large-scale gorilla society
  Robin Morrison (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Evolutionary approaches to health inequalities
  Rebecca Sear (Evolutionary Demography Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
• 17:00 - Peace and conflict as group norms: understanding factionalism and polarisation
  Professor Winnifred Louis (School of Psychology, University of Queensland)

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Rebel Lives: Photographs from the Lord’s Resistance Army Commanders
  Kristof Titeca (University of Antwerp)
• 15:15 - The axial age, global history, and anthropology
  Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Do baboons make mistakes and how could you tell in the real world?
  Shirley Strum (UC San Diego)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Anti-kitsch, or How to Make a Socialist Doily: The Politics of Amateur Art in Communist Czechoslovakia
  Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford)
• 15:15 - Geographies of anticipatory socialisation: rehearsing diplomacy in the interstate margins
  Fiona McConnell (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024
• 17:30 - Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2019: Social Change, Human Biology and Shifting Biocultural Perspectives in the Andes
  Professor Thomas Leatherman (Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, USA)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Coffee for conservation: promotion of organic and wildlife friendly practices among farmers at Cigapanti, Java, to protect local biodiversity
  Marco Campera (Oxford Brookes University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - The natural history of human ageing: Cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health among Bolivian forager-horticulturalists
  This seminar was originally advertised with a different title
  Jonathan Stieglietz (Institute of Advanced Studies, Toulouse University, France)
• 17:00 - Notes on the History of the Standardization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Terminology in the English Language
  Xiao Ye (Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, China)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Into the Abyss: Image Excess in the Slide Library
  Annebella Pollen (University of Brighton)
• 15:15 - Multisensory anthropology: prospects and impediments
  David Howes (Concordia)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The ingenuity of wild chimpanzees: how to find mineral supplements in the Budongo Forest, Uganda
  Vernon Reynolds (Oxford Emeritus)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Tinder, #metoo, and cyberharassment: Evolutionary and behavioural perspectives on unsolicited sexual images
  Sarah Johns (School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent)

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Animals’ matter: Commodification and singularization of “animal substances” in South Korea
  Julien Dugnoille (University of Exeter)
• 15:15 - Aspiring for elsewhere: education, migration and mobility in rural Chattisgarh
  Peggy Froerer (Brunel)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Isotope-based reconstructions of early hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa CANCELLED
  CANCELLED - this event has been cancelled
  Tina Lüdecke (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Halving premature deaths
  CANCELLED - This talk has been cancelled and will be rearranged
  Sir Professor Richard Peto
• 16:00 - Analysis and Analogy in Chinese Medicine: Making Sense of TCM Theory for Beginners
  CANCELLED. This event has now been cancelled.
  Nigel Wiseman (Chang Gung University, Taiwan )

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Making the National Museum of Qatar: Creating a National Museum for a Local Audience under Global Scrutiny
  Rachel Teskey (Principal Consultant, Barker Langham Cultural Planners)
• 15:15 - What a diary can proffer. A light touch on a serious subject?
  CANCELLED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED
  Pamela Reynolds (JHU Emerita)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Let's get lost! A GIS study on chimpanzee travelling patterns at Kibale forest, Uganda
  New location: the Maplethorpe Seminar Room, St Hugh's College
  Paco Bertolani (Freelance primate conservation specialist)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Evolutionary public health – from theory to cohort studies and randomised trials
  CANCELLED - This talk has been cancelled and will be rearranged
  Jonathan Wells (University College London)

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Rethinking Digital Anthropology
  Haidy Geismar (University College London)
• 15:15 - Granting the future? The temporality of cash transfers in the South African countryside
  Bernard Dubbeld
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Monday 9 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Western Amazonian episthemologies on healing and knowledge production
  Dr Pedro Favaron (University of Montreal)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Discovery of Animal Cultures and its Multifarious Implications across Biology, Psychology, Anthropology and Conservation
  Andrew Whiten (University of St Andrews)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - TCM in Modern Local Pharmacopoeias Published Between the Years 1960-1980 in China
  Georges Métailié (French National Centre for Scientific Research / Alexandre Koyré Center, France)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Height, weight and prostate cancer
  Aurora Perez-Cornago (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Re-inheriting the revolutionary past: museums, archives and social repair in Vietnam
  Graeme Were (University of Bristol)
• 15:15 - Towards an epistemology of international development
  David Ludwig (Wageningen University & Research)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Isotope-based reconstructions of Early Hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa
  Tina Lüdecke (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Is obesity a choice?
  Dr Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Blow-up in Bissau: the curator’s cut
  Ramon Sarró (Oxford)
• 15:15 - Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboon
  Alecia Carter (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Evolution of the primate vocal tract: the known, the unknown and the unknowable
  Thomas O'Mahoney (Anglia Ruskin University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Revitalizing Traditional Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges
  Taiping Fan (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Coffee, pure and simple: Rejection of milk and sugar by Brazilian specialty coffee consumers
  Sabine Parrish (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - From an East African savanna to a Victorian parlour: the journey of ivory on 19th century caravans
  Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers Museum)
• 15:15 - How do mammals respond to changing environments? Perspectives from movement ecology
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children
  Theo Toppe (Leipzig University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - An eco-bio-socio-political approach to anaemia in Peru
  Doreen Montag (Queen Mary University of London)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Wisdom Begins With Wonder’: evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human engagements with water and light
  Veronica Strang (University of Durham)
• 15:15 - Pluralising science in the Anthropocene: the role of ethnobiology
  Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes
  Kimberley Hockings (University of Exeter)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Ethnic Qiang Medicines: Disputed Significance and Industrial Aspirations
  Please note the change of time
  Manuel Campinas (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - New perspectives on weight and metabolic changes in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Attempted portraits: photography and the limits of visibility in Evans-Pritchard’s ethnography
  Dr Chris Morton (University of Oxford)
• 15:15 - Cancelled, to be rescheduled: Climate change as a driver of hominin evolution
  This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
  René Bobe (Oxford & Gorongosa National Park)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Primate Classic Conversations: Konrad Lorenz, pioneer ethologist
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Various Discussants
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mauryan Times: From Splendid Isolation to Modernity
  Harry Falk (Professor Emeritus in Indology, Freie Universität Berlin)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Framing obesity as a problem
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Anthropology, Animism and Animation: reflections on life, death and Christianity
  Jon Mitchell (University of Sussex)
• 15:15 - Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations
  Simon Pooley (Birbeck, University of London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Darwin's Manufactory Hypothesis Revisited
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Laura Van Holstein (University of Cambridge)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Comparative Study of Tianhui Medical Manuscripts and 'Huangdi Neijing'
  This event has been cancelled.
  Man Gu (China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences)
• 17:00 - The Post-Mauryan War for Indianity
  Harry Falk (Professor Emeritus in Indology, Freie Universität Berlin)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - CANCELLED UBVO Workshop: Materialities of Obesity and Eating Disorders - New Policy Directions?
  This event has been cancelled
  Various Speakers
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The photographic representation of struggle and the struggle for photographic representation: an introduction to ‘Direct Action Photography’
  Taous Dahmani (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne / Maison Francaise d’Oxford)
• 15:15 - The origins of Amazonian landscapes
  Please note that this seminar is different from the one previously advertised.
  José Iriarte (University of Exeter)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Gorongosa Research Day
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Various Speakers
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Kushan Rule and the Pitfalls of International Trade
  Harry Falk (Professor Emeritus in Indology, Freie Universität Berlin)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Visual materiality of corporate science: asbestos, tobacco, pharma, and food
  Tess Bird (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022
• 13:00 - Sustainability on stage: FoodTech and the spectacle of innovation
  Tanja Schneider (University of St Gallen, Switzerland)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - CANCELLED: Remembering Turkana: photo-elicitation and material histories in northwestern Kenya
  This lecture has been cancelled because the speaker is unable to travel.
  Samuel Derbyshire (St John's College/Pitt Rivers Museum)
• 15:15 - CANCELLED: Plants crossing borders: between local communities and international law: how ontologies help plant data to cross borders
  This lecture has been cancelled.
  Sabrina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 7 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Voicing Affect
  POSTPONED The Evans-Pritchard Lectures for 2020 will now take place in 2021
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (Middle East and North Africa Research Group, University of Ghent)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Thursday 14 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Voicing the Self
  POSTPONED The Evans-Pritchard Lectures for 2020 will now take place in 2021
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (Middle East and North Africa Research Group, University of Ghent)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Claiming Voice
  POSTPONED The Evans-Pritchard Lectures for 2020 will now take place in 2021
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (Middle East and North Africa Research Group, University of Ghent)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 22 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Viral Thought: Epidemics in History and Covid 19
  Contact kate.atherton@anthro.ox.ac.uk to register interest and receive the link
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Public Voice
  POSTPONED The Evans-Pritchard Lectures for 2020 will now take place in 2021
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (Middle East and North Africa Research Group, University of Ghent)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 29 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Emptiness as a Social Formation and as an Analytic
  Please contact kate.atherton@anthro.ox.ac.uk to receive the link
  Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Why Divination? Cultural Attractors and Strategic Interaction
  Joining instructions: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/why-divination-cultural-attractors-and-strategic-interaction
  Pascal Boyer ((Washington University in St. Louis))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Devoted Actors and the Spiritual Dimensions of Human Conflict
  Teams joining link will be available here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/devoted-actors-and-the-spiritual-dimensions-of-human-conflict
  Scott Atran (CNRS Paris; Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The Secret Life of Social Norms: From Nations to Neurons
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-secret-life-of-social-norms-from-nations-to-neurons
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Understanding Unbelief: Across disciplines and across cultures
  The Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/understanding-unbelief-across-disciplines-and-across-cultures
  Jonathan Lanman ((Queen's University Belfast))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - We Who Do Not Die: Outbreak Narrative's Limits and the Political Category of Survivor
  The Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/we-who-do-not-die-outbreak-narratives-limits-and-political-category-survivor
  Adia Benton ((Northwestern University))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country? Lessons from Jamaica
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/can-black-lives-matter-in-a-black-country-lessons-from-jamaica
  Deborah Thomas ((University of Pennsylvania))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: the anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek, co-hosted with the African Studies Centre
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/colonial-encounters-acholiland-and-oxford-anthropology-fkgirling-and-okot-pbitek-co-host
  Tim Allen ((LSE))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The Globally Familiar: Mediating masculinities in Delhi, India
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-globally-familiar-mediating-masculinities-in-delhi-india
  Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan ((Goldsmiths London))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Developing a praxis of decoloniality at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/developing-a-praxis-of-decoloniality-at-the-pitt-rivers-museum
  Dr Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Active Grandparent Hypothesis: Physical activity and aging in humans versus other primates
  See this webpage for YouTube joining link https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-active-grandparent-hypothesis-physical-activity-and-aging-in-humans-versus-other-primates
  Daniel Lieberman
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Talking sugar in South Africa
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/talking-sugar-in-south-africa
  Hannah Graff (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Global Reckonings in Torture
  Visit this webpage for Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/global-reckonings-torture
  Laurence Ralph (University of Princeton)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Gibbons of Asia
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/gibbons-of-asia
  Susan Cheyne
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The role of popular culture in creating new norms for wellness
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-role-of-popular-culture-in-creating-new-norms-for-wellness
  Karen Watson (Imperial College London)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Moving Still: Bicycles in Ranchhod Oza’s Photographs of 1950s Stone Town (Zanzibar)
  Visit this website for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/moving-still-bicycles-in-ranchhod-ozas-photographs-of-1950s-stone-town-zanzibar
  Pamila Gupta (University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Contextualizing the Chimpanzee Niche: How savanna mosaic chimpanzee ecology can offer to insights into human evolution & beyond
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/contextualizing-the-chimpanzee-niche-how-savanna-mosaic-chimpanzee-ecology-can-offer-to-insigh
  Erin Wessling
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Preconception interventions: the future of obesity prevention strategies?
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/preconception-interventions-the-future-of-obesity-prevention-strategies
  Michelle Pentecost (Kings College London)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Revisiting a West African Ethnographic Archive: Colonial Legacies, Decolonial Affordances
  Visit this website page for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/revisiting-west-african-ethnographic-archive-colonial-legacies-decolonial-affordances
  Paul Basu (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Paleobiology, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the Earliest Australopithecus: New insights from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia
  Please visit this webpage for YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-paleobiology-paleoecology-and-biogeography-of-the-earliest-australopithecus-new-insights-f
  I Yohannes Haile-Selassie
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - From the pandemic to the pan: A cross-continental overview of changes in consumers cooking and food practices during COVID-19
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/from-the-pandemic-to-the-pan-a-cross-continental-overview-of-changes-in-consumers-cooking-and
  Fiona Lavelle (Queen's University Belfast)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Decolonising Primatology
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/decolonising-primatology
  Jo Stechell (University of Durham)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Making Up for a Missed Encounter? Why cultural primatologists and cultural anthropologists didn't get to talk
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/making-up-for-a-missed-encounter-why-cultural-primatologists-and-cultural-anthropologists-didn
  Nicolas Langlitz
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Changes in physical activity and eating habits during the pandemic: A Brazilian view
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/changes-in-physical-activity-and-eating-habits-during-the-pandemic-a-brazilian-view
  Carol Ferreira (University of São Paulo), Bruno Gualano (University of São Paulo)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Blackness and the Psychiatric: Reflections on Madness, Historiography, and Ethnography
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/blackness-and-psychiatric-reflections-madness-historiography-and-ethnography
  Nancy Hunt (University of Florida)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/meaning-and-context-in-great-ape-gestures
  Kirsty Graham
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The social origins of childhood obesity
  Please visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-social-origins-of-childhood-obesity
  Erik Hemmingsson (Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Cancelled: Anthropology, Fiction, and Decolonization: Chinua Achebe and the ‘Image of Africa’
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Ravens, crows, and co. - A new model taxon for investigating the evolution of prosociality
  Visit this webpage for the YouTube joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/ravens-crows-and-co.-a-new-model-taxon-for-investigating-the-evolution-of-prosociality
  Lisa Horn
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Post-COVID-19 futures: The need for a paradigm shift in economics
  Visit this webpage for the Zoom joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/post-covid-19-futures-the-need-for-a-paradigm-shift-in-economics
  John Komlos (University of Munich)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Carcinogenic residues of global biomedicine in Senegal
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/carcinogenic-residues-of-global-biomedicine-in-senegal
  Noémi Tousignant (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amidst Disinformation in Colombia
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Are Asian Societies Better Prepared for Pandemics?
  Dr Frédéric Keck (EHESS: Paris)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Voicing Affect (Evans Pritchard Lectures 2021: Lecture 1)
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - It’s Only a Matter of Time: Eviction, Uncertainty, and Temporal Disorientation in an Urban Travellers’ Camp
  Dr Anthony Howarth (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Voicing the Self (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021: Lecture 2)
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Regeneration and its Hazards: A Commentary on Our Times
  Professor Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Claiming Voice (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021: Lecture 3)
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Countenance: On Facing the Indeterminate Certitudes of a Serious Illness
  Dr Anthony Stavrianakis (CNRS: Paris)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Public Voice (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021: Lecture 4)
  Dr Marlene Schäfers (University of Cambridge)
  Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Travelling with Sugar
  Amy Moran-Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Marett Memorial Lecture of 2021: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Ethnography & Empathy in the 21st Century
  Postponed from May 2021.
  Dr Christopher (Kit) Davis (Emeritus, SOAS University of London)

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Fossil apes and human evolution
  Sergio Almécija (American Museum of Natural History)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sensing Sugaropolis: Geographies of sugar in Greenock, Scotland
  Marisa Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Magnifying the man about town: orature and print personhood in 1920s Lagos
  Prof Karin Barber (LSE)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Reinventing the framework for leave-taking: an example using wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)
  Lucy Baehren
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sugarproof
  Michael Goran (University of Southern California)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Black skins/white languages: artmaking in Western languages by Kurdish migrant women artists
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Exploration and interpretation of East Africa's plant fossil record with emphasis on the Miocene
  TBA
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sugar-Coated: Sugar tax and media discourses in the context of policymaking
  Esther González-Padilla (Lund University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The architecture of language: an exploration in 3D
  Dr Alex PIllen (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Kinda baboons at Kasanka National Park: past, present and future
  Jason Kamilar
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Cultural Contexts of Health: Global Lessons and Policy Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic
  David Napier (UCL), Ted Fischer (Vanderbilt University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - ISCA Anthropology Departmental Seminar
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Bringing primate technological landscapes to life using computer simulation
  Katarina Almeida-Warren
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Change and stability in eating practices: Evidence from four Nordic countries
  Lotte Holm (University of Copenhagen)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - ISCA Departmental Seminar
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The shape of human evolution
  Carol Ward
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - First results of the SWEET EU project: Sweeteners and the incidence of obesity and related health outcomes in 5 European cohorts
  Edith Feskens (Wageningen University)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The past in the present: archives of longing among the Batek of Malaysia
  Dr Alice Rudge (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Did hominins impact carnivore diversity in the African Plio-Pleistocene, and if so how and why?
  Lars Werdelin
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Anthropology for policy
  Rachel Bruce (Cabinet Office Her Majesties Government, UK)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The International Gender Studies Lecture 2021: Language of resistance
  Dr Giulia de Togni (University of Edinburgh)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A regional view on climate action and carbon removal in Latin America
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Dynamics of large-scale ecological restoration: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
  Robert Pringle (Princeton University)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Holding the Frame/Playing the Game: Transference as Political Potentiality
  William Mazzarella (University of Chicago)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - A multi-level approach to Gorongosa baboons' landscapes of fear
  Philippa Hammond (University of Oxford)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:00 - Food and digital media: a more-than-human approach
  Please note that this seminar is at 8pm UK time, rather than the usual time of 4pm
  Deborah Lupton (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Anthropology of Parliaments: Riffs and Rhythms in Political Work
  Professor Emma Crewe (SOAS)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Community empowerment for the conservation of Critically Endangered Primates in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire: The role of transdisciplinary research
  Inza Koné
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Curating good choice: Digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating
  Jeremy Brice (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Diversity in an Era of Global Anthropocene Effects: An Anthropological Perspective
  Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Experiencing the natural world: Synthesizing art and science
  Elodie Freymann (University of Oxford)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience
  Thao Dam (University of Gastronomic Science, Pollenzo)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Visual Evidence of State Achievements in Egypt
  Dr Chihab El Khachab (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Cross-border collaboration for research and conservation of critically endangered primates
  Andie Ang
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries
  Anna McReady (University of Reading)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - When Politics and Parasites Meet: Malaria as (Un)conscious Strategy in Palawan, the Philippines
  Dalia Iskander (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Faunal evolution and environmental change through time in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania
  CANCELLED
  Nancy Stevens
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - UBVO Seminar Week 6
  Please note that this seminar is at 5pm UK time instead of the usual 4pm
  Shima Barakat (University of Cambridge)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Colombia, Citizens, and Anthropologists
  Myriam Jimeno (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - From social networks to social learning in wild vervet monkeys
  Charlotte Canteloup
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Long covid: how changing my world view led to my recovery
  Paul Garner (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Empty House: On the Debt of Migration in Rural Kyrgyzstan
  Madeleine Reeves (Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Competitive dynamics in a frugivore primate guild
  Michelle Brown
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2022

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Sovereignty Unmasked: Science & Technology Studies, the Pandemic, and Political Theory
  This is a hybrid event
  Professor Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - CANCELLED: A new era of nutritional research; Insights from the ZOE Covid and PREDICT studies integrating AI, novel technologies, citizen science and remote clinical trials
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Sarah Berry (Kings College London)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2022

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Intergroup Relations in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
  Liran Samuni (Harvard University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The Mākereti Papakura Inaugural Lecture
  Places are limited so please arrive early
  Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Waikato)

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Words to sow: Language, violence, and peacemaking in Ukraine
  Deborah Jones (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024
• 17:30 - Launch event: Viral Theory, e-flux journal Issue #130
  Sria Chatterjee (Paul Mellon Centre), Stephan Guttinger (University of Exeter), Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Contemporary colonial frontier making: Thinking from the operational digital enclosure in Northwest China
  Darren Byler (Simon Fraser)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Viral Politics book launch
  Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford), Vanessa Lim (Weimar Klassik Stiftung), Dr Frédéric Keck (EHESS: Paris), Lyle Fearnley (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Miguel Vatter (Deakin University)
• 15:15 - Gifting luck: The generativity of kin and action among Gbaya gold miners
  Rosalie Allain (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Bioeconomies and mobile life: Migration in Libya and the Mediterranean
  Dr Marthe Achtnich (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'If each comes halfway’ in doing Tamang women’s life histories
  Kathryn S. March (Cornell University)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - The contribution of Amerindian ethnology to the project of an “Anthropology of Life”
  Perig Pitrou ((CNRS/Collège de France))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2022 by Stanley Ulijaszek: Nutritional Anthropology
  This lecture has been cancelled and will now take place in Hilary Term 2023.
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Race-thinking and the Half-life of Atlantic Slavery
  This lecture has been cancelled
  Paul Gilroy

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Bureaucracy, archives and secrecy: An anthropological approach
  Eva Muzzopappa (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Living in tide: the climate of the urban sea
  Nikhil Anand (UPenn)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Entomological legacies of the armed conflict in Colombia
  Lina Pinto-García (Universidad de los Andes)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Crude sonics: field recordings from an extractive zone
  Zsuzsanna Ihar (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - How to stitch ethnography
  Tania Perez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Bananapocalypse: externalities in the making of plantation capitalism in a global Mindanao
  Alyssa Paredes (University of Michigan)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2022 by Stanley Ulijaszek: Nutritional Anthropology
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Intimate rites: ancestors and queer kinship in Zimbabwe
  Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The rise and fall of generation now'
  Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - 'Evangelical Gitanos are a Good Catch': Masculinity, Authority, and Flirting in Spain
  Antonio Montanez Jimenez (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Finding One's Place at University: The Case of Dalit Students in South Asia
  Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Bielefeld University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Genealogies of Extractivist Entanglement in Bolivia
  Mark Goodale (Lausanne)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The King of the Arena: Sport, Spectacle and Celebrity in Senegal
  Julien Bonhomme (EHESS, College de France)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Extracting Vitalities: Indigenous Women and Reproductive Health
  Maria Laura Prates (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Exploring Macro-evolutionary Trends in Human and Primate Evolution
  Thomas Püschel (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - National Showing Off and Telling Off: Ethnology, Anthropology and the Humboldt Forum
  Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Diagnostic Divide: Molecular Psychiatry, PTSD, and Ethical Dilemmas in Disaster Mental Health Response in Japan
  Ben Epstein (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2024