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Labouring under racism: black women and medical dispossession
13 October
Unravelling the locomotor behaviour of extinct primates through predictive modelling
14 October
From underground rap to tribute song: politics and labour migration in Nepal and the Philippines
15 October
On Paradise: Between Hope and Memory
16 October
IGS Lecture 2026: Gender and Humanitarianism in the Palestinian Territories
16 October
Exposure: drug resistance in the present continuous
20 October
New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the northeast Arabian Desert, Iraq
21 October
Our Collective Seabed: Participatory Arts-based Methods for more Equitable Global Ocean Governance
23 October
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2026
23 October
Stigma: notes on medicine’s mirror
27 October
Population connectivity and linguistic evolution in Oceania
28 October
From photos to forensics: borders and fatalities in Calais, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea
29 October
Beyond the Aestheticization of Plastic
30 October
Milk and the Politics of Loss
30 October
Cultures of cultures: microbes, fermentation and custodianship in Assam, India
03 November
PalEvo Seminar Week 4: Title and speaker TBA
04 November
Hope as Material Practice: The Making and Temporalities of Hope in Contemporary Myanmar
06 November
Walekele: Matrescence, Labour, and Critiques of Care
06 November
Social insects and distributed corporeality in Amazonia
10 November
Obstetrical implications of female pelvic breath over 5000 years
11 November
From Iranian classical music to Bad Bunny: resistance and global cultures in France, Canada and the US
12 November
Ruben Andersson on his just released book, 'Age of Security: The Rise of a Global Obsession'
12 November
Multi-method Approaches to Historical Research: Some Reflections on Practice, Skill and Tradition
13 November
Beyond the Group: Intergroup Relationships and Multilevel Sociality in Primates
13 November
Medical Anthropology Week 6: Title and speaker TBA
17 November
PalEvo Seminar Week 6: Title TBA
18 November
Unplugged/Replugged
20 November
Social Categorisation and Between-group Aggression in Primates
20 November
Small pharma chronicles: the curious tale of Indian generics
24 November
First dogs: hunter-gatherers and their canine companions
25 November
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Keeping their cool: body temperature patterns of a wild primate
17 June
Inspecting the UK immigration system
11 June
Did the Denisovans reach Wallacea and Sahul?
10 June
Synthetic Geographies and the Political Economy of Generative AI
05 June
Bart Van Es cutting through his 'The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found'
04 June
The evolution of brain development and craniofacial diversity in humans: insights from macro- and microevolutionary comparisons
03 June
How to do Ethnographic Research with Ethnote
01 June
Book launch: Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media
29 May
Anthropology after AI (and vice versa)
29 May
CANCELLED: Workshop: Food Junk and Scraps
29 May
Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media
29 May
Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness
27 May
Englishing Ishwar with AKM, RC and AI
22 May
In our blood: deviant archaeology and the Far Right
22 May
Immigration Enforcement in the Second Trump Administration: the story so far
21 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
Archiving Machinne: from punch cards to platforms
18 May
Made in Palestine: Re-packaging Apartheid as "Smart" Cities
15 May
Crab Museum: a museum about crabs, for humans
15 May
Enforcement in Action: Stories from the Front Line of UK Immigration Policy
14 May
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 3. Rulers of Many Names: Experiments with Power in Iron Age Anatolia
13 May
The evolutionary ecology of human ornamentation: a cross-cultural analysis
13 May
Intelligent artifice? Notes on work in progress
08 May
What benefits can be gained from transformative change? Reframing damage and loss in a changing climate
08 May
Narrating European Border Control: Telling the Story of Frontex
07 May
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 2. War for Power and the Power of War: Charismatic Leaders in the Iron Age Levant
06 May
A life history perspective on postnatal cortical bone restructuring in humans and chimpanzees
06 May
Reconfiguring expertise: AI, relational practice, and clinical learning in the Emergency Department
05 May
Why We Can (And Should) Abolish AI: Understanding Technology Corporations as Political Actors
01 May
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