26 Feb
Events
Upcoming Events
26 Feb
Blackness and the Psychiatric: Reflections on Madness, Historiography, and Ethnography
Friday 26 February 2021, 3pm
Teams
1 Mar
Re-Imagining Reproductive Health and Rights in India
Monday 1 March, 4.30pm
Teams
2 Mar
Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures
Tuesday 2 March 2021, 4pm
YouTube
3 Mar
Can Sacred Landscapes Heal? Reflections on Territorial Cults, Spirit Possession and Pilgrimage in Tibet and the Himalayas
Wednesday 3 March 2021, 11am
Online on Teams
3 Mar
Burning Bridges: Redevelopment and Temporal Uncertainty in Loyalist Sandy Row, Belfast
Wednesday 3 March 2021, 3.30pm
Teams
4 Mar
The social origins of childhood obesity
Thursday 4 March, 4pm
Zoom
5 Mar
Anthropology, Fiction, and Decolonization: Chinua Achebe and the ‘Image of Africa’
Friday 5 March 2021, 3pm
Teams
8 Mar
Reproducible Research Oxford event: Science as Amateur Software Development
2pm, Monday 8 March 2021
8 Mar
Cancer Risk versus Fertility Desires
Monday 8 March, 4.30pm
Teams
9 Mar
Almost Heaven (2017. C. Salter)
Tuesday 9 March 2021, 3.30pm
Online
9 Mar
Ravens, crows, and co. - A new model taxon for investigating the evolution of prosociality
Tuesday 9 March 2021, 4pm
YouTube
10 Mar
A life between shells: things, places and landscapes of Diola people - Guinea Bissau
Wednesday 10 March 2021, 3.30pm
Teams
11 Mar
Post-COVID-19 futures: The need for a paradigm shift in economics
Thursday 11 March, 4pm
Zoom
11 Mar
The law and ethics of selling citizenship
Thursday 11 March 2021, 4pm
Zoom
12 Mar
Curating NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney
Friday 12 March 2021, 12pm
Teams
12 Mar
Carcinogenic residues of global biomedicine in Senegal
Friday 12 March 2021, 3pm
Teams
7 May
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2021: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Ethnography & Empathy in the 21st Century
Friday 7 May 2021, 5:00pm
Fitzhugh Auditorium, Exeter College Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street, Oxford
Past Events
4 Nov
UBVO Workshop: Food, Activity, and Mental Health in the Year of Coronavirus
Wednesday 4 November 2020, 2pm-4pm
Zoom
3 Nov
Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system
Tuesday 3 November 2020, 4pm
YouTube
3 Nov
Trust Me, I’m Sick (2020. Directed by S. Stewart)
Tuesday 3 November 2020, 3.30pm
Online
30 Oct
The Secret Life of Social Norms: From Nations to Neurons
Friday 30 October 2020, 3pm
Teams
30 Oct
On Correspondence
Friday 30 October 2020, 12pm
Teams
29 Oct
Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon
Thursday 29 October 2020, 4pm
Zoom
29 Oct
Race, Ethnicity and Migration: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and Global South
Thursday 29 October 2020, 4pm
Zoom
28 Oct
Environmental stressors and their effects on the menstrual cycle
28 October 2020, 3.30pm
YouTube
28 Oct
Unpacking the divination industry in Hong Kong
Wednesday 28 October 2020, 3.30pm
Teams
27 Oct
The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution
Tuesday 27 October 2020, 4pm
YouTube
23 Oct
Devoted Actors and the Spiritual Dimensions of Human Conflict
Friday 23 October 2020, 3pm
Teams
22 Oct
The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences
Thursday 22 October 2020, 4pm
Zoom
21 Oct
Tall men, broad women, difficult childbirth, and helpless babies have stronger evolutionary explanations than the oppressive myths to which science and pop culture cling
21 October 2020, 3.30pm
YouTube
21 Oct
Humans visiting gods; gods visiting gods: Chinese pilgrimage culture
Wednesday 21 October 2020, 11am
Online on Teams
20 Oct
Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective
Tuesday 20 October 2020, 4pm
YouTube
16 Oct
Why Divination? Cultural Attractors and Strategic Interaction
Friday 16 October 2020, 3pm
Teams
16 Oct
Contingency, Futurity, and Ethics: Photographic ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh
Friday 16 October 2020, 12pm
Teams
15 Oct
Intersections and Dissonances between Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies
Thursday 15 October 2020, 4pm
Zoom
15 Oct
The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States
Thursday 15 October 2020, 4pm
Zoom
14 Oct
What it means to be quantified – exploring grading in German secondary schools
Wednesday 14 October 2020, 3.30pm
Teams
13 Oct
The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates
Tuesday 13 October 2020, 11am
YouTube
6 Oct
Survival of the Friendliest: convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans
Tuesday 6 October 2020, 4.00pm
YouTube
30 Jun
A Pan-African Perspective: Chimpanzee behavioural diversity across their range
Tuesday 23 June 2020, 4.00pm
YouTube
23 Jun
In Praise of Folly: Play as a Window into Primate Cognition
Tuesday 23 June 2020, 4.00pm
YouTube