Simpkins Lee Theatre (Lady Margaret Hall), OX2 6QA
Professor Harvey Whitehouse (SAME, University of Oxford)
This year's Heron-Allen Lecture will be delivered by Harvey Whitehouse, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College.
Professor Whitehouse's lecture, on "Human Nature, Society, and the Future of Humanity", will explore how humankind's evolved psychology predisposes us to conform, to believe, and to belong. The lecture will offer a sweeping account of how our evolved biases have shaped humanity’s past and imperil its future. Taking us deep into New Guinea tribes, Libyan militias, ancient archaeology sites, and child psychology labs, Professor Whitehouse argues that the tools we once used to manage our evolved predispositions are breaking down. But it isn’t too late to fix them...
