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Special Lectures and Events
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The Marett Memorial Lecture 2026
23 October
The M. N. Srinivas Lecture 2027, hosted in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute
05 March 2027
Inaugural Lecture of the Chair of Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls College, Professor Alpa Shah
07 May 2027
Evans Pritchard Lectures 2027: Lecture 1. Music / Forgiveness
14 May 2027
Evans Pritchard Lectures 2027: Lecture 2. Streets / Memory
21 May 2027
Evans Pritchard Lectures 2027: Lecture 3. Screens / Appearance
28 May 2027
Evans Pritchard Lectures 2027: Lecture 4. Film Doubt (with Bremen Donovan)
04 June 2027
Book launch: Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media
29 May
CANCELLED: Workshop: Food Junk and Scraps
29 May
Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media
29 May
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 4 (Warriors, Traders, and Shepherds of the People) and Lecture 5 (Fragments Recomposed)
20 May
Fourth Annual PalEvo-PalMeso Lecture: Neandertal genomes and human evolutionary history
20 May
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 3. Rulers of Many Names: Experiments with Power in Iron Age Anatolia
13 May
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 2. War for Power and the Power of War: Charismatic Leaders in the Iron Age Levant
06 May
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 1. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age: Making Sense of a Fragmenting World
29 April
Celebrate with Shirley Ardener her 100th birthday!
01 April
Book Launch: "Immunity on Trial" by Miriam Driessen
13 March
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World with Harvey Whitehouse
26 February
On Being Singular in a Plural Society: Self-Construction, Affects, and Identities
09 December 2025
Divination as provocation: notes for a tactful definition. Problems with definitions and problems with belief and cognition in the study of religion
29 October 2025
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2025
24 October 2025
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 4 - Genealogy as time travel
27 May 2025
Malinowski Memorial Lecture 2025: When ethnography becomes history
22 May 2025
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 3 - The properties of Christianity: from ritual to law
20 May 2025
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 2 - The ancestors of Christianity
13 May 2025
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 1- Descent revisited: kinship theory from the Palestinian refugee camp
06 May 2025
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2024
25 October 2024
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - "Witches" and the Humanitarian World: NGOs, Churches, and the State
14 May 2024
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Witchcraft, Shrines, and Tindaanship
07 May 2024
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Witchcraft, "Witch Camps", and Social Life in Northern Ghana
30 April 2024
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2023: Catastrophe and More-than-Human Worlds
13 October 2023
