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Departmental Seminars
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IGS Lecture 2026: Gender and Humanitarianism in the Palestinian Territories
16 October
Milk and the Politics of Loss
30 October
Walekele: Matrescence, Labour, and Critiques of Care
06 November
Beyond the Group: Intergroup Relationships and Multilevel Sociality in Primates
13 November
Social Categorisation and Between-group Aggression in Primates
20 November
Leverhulme Lecture: The Life of Rocks: An Anthropological Approach to Research in Astrobiology
27 November
The Judicial Life of Truth: Homosexuality, Confession, and Denial in Cameroon’s courts
04 December
Synthetic Geographies and the Political Economy of Generative AI
05 June
Anthropology after AI (and vice versa)
29 May
Englishing Ishwar with AKM, RC and AI
22 May
Made in Palestine: Re-packaging Apartheid as "Smart" Cities
15 May
Intelligent artifice? Notes on work in progress
08 May
Why We Can (And Should) Abolish AI: Understanding Technology Corporations as Political Actors
01 May
'Victory to All Those Who Drink Rice Beer!': An Anthropologist Traces the Footsteps of the Indian Aboriginal Leader Jaipal Singh
13 March
Max Gluckman and the Manchester School: A Dialectic Between Different Intellectual and Political Worlds
06 March
M. N. Srinivas, Oxford and the Development of Modern Indian Anthropology, 1945-55
27 February
Maria Czaplicka. A Path of One's Own? Possibility and Precarity in Early Oxford Anthropology
20 February
Radcliffe-Brown: Journeys through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955
13 February
'Some Observations on Capt. R. S. Rattray': Legacies of a Government Anthropologist in Mampong and Kumasi
06 February
'The First Black Dean in British Academia': Fernando Henriques and Postwar UK Anthropology
30 January
The 'Sometime Chieftainess' of North Oxford: Mākareti's 'Insider' Anthropology
23 January
International Gender Studies Lecture: Anthropology and autobiography: ethnography and the social reproduction of Roma identities
05 December 2025
Reflections on ecological habitability, with some Himalayan examples
28 November 2025
Embodied cognitive evolution and the brain
21 November 2025
Handsigns from Lhasa: an urban deafnography from Tibet
14 November 2025
Meaning in the margins: understanding grassroots histories in Afghanistan
07 November 2025
Leaving, staying, and in-between. The anxiety of border crossing in and around Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)
31 October 2025
Unbuilding: high-rise landscapes in Nairobi and London
17 October 2025
