Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Seminars

Our Collective Seabed: Participatory Arts-based Methods for more Equitable Global Ocean Governance

23 October 2026

The Marett Memorial Lecture 2026

23 October 2026

Stigma: notes on medicine’s mirror

27 October 2026

Population connectivity and linguistic evolution in Oceania

28 October 2026

From Possession to Co-habitation

28 October 2026

From photos to forensics: borders and fatalities in Calais, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea

29 October 2026

Beyond the Aestheticization of Plastic

30 October 2026

Milk and the Politics of Loss

30 October 2026

Collective Relays: An Anthropology of How Things Hold Together While Moving Apart

02 November 2026

Cultures of cultures: microbes, fermentation and custodianship in Assam, India

03 November 2026

Mesolithic Osteoarchaeology: Documentary screening

04 November 2026

Living Emptiness: Place, Power and Meaning-Making from the Baltic to the Russian Far East

05 November 2026

Hope as Material Practice: The Making and Temporalities of Hope in Contemporary Myanmar

06 November 2026

Walekele: Matrescence, Labour, and Critiques of Care

06 November 2026

Social insects and distributed corporeality in Amazonia

10 November 2026

Obstetrical implications of female pelvic breath over 5000 years

11 November 2026

Spirits in the Material World: Variations on Cosmic Materialism in Afro-Cuban Spirit Practices

11 November 2026

From Iranian classical music to Bad Bunny: resistance and global cultures in France, Canada and the US

12 November 2026

Ruben Andersson on his just released book, 'Age of Security: The Rise of a Global Obsession'

12 November 2026

Multi-method Approaches to Historical Research: Some Reflections on Practice, Skill and Tradition

13 November 2026

Beyond the Group: Intergroup Relationships and Multilevel Sociality in Primates

13 November 2026

Medical Anthropology Week 6: Title and speaker TBA

17 November 2026

Trabecular and cortical bone: behavioural signals across primates, fossil hominins and farm animals

18 November 2026

Unplugged/Replugged

20 November 2026

Social Categorisation and Between-group Aggression in Primates

20 November 2026

Small pharma chronicles: the curious tale of Indian generics

24 November 2026

First dogs: hunter-gatherers and their canine companions

25 November 2026

Is a “Contagious Corpse Fatigue” (chuan shi lao 傳尸勞) a Matter of Spirit Possession? An Inquiry into Malarial Convulsions

25 November 2026

David Lan on his journey from writing the anthropological classic 'Guns and Rain' to becoming artistic director of The Young Vic Theatre, and about his memoir, 'As if By Chance'

26 November 2026

Hindustan Photo Film: India's First Colour Film Factory

27 November 2026

Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Seminars

Our Collective Seabed: Participatory Arts-based Methods for more Equitable Global Ocean Governance

The Marett Memorial Lecture 2026

Stigma: notes on medicine’s mirror

Population connectivity and linguistic evolution in Oceania

From Possession to Co-habitation

From photos to forensics: borders and fatalities in Calais, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea

Beyond the Aestheticization of Plastic

Milk and the Politics of Loss

Collective Relays: An Anthropology of How Things Hold Together While Moving Apart

Cultures of cultures: microbes, fermentation and custodianship in Assam, India

Mesolithic Osteoarchaeology: Documentary screening

Living Emptiness: Place, Power and Meaning-Making from the Baltic to the Russian Far East

Hope as Material Practice: The Making and Temporalities of Hope in Contemporary Myanmar

Walekele: Matrescence, Labour, and Critiques of Care

Social insects and distributed corporeality in Amazonia

Obstetrical implications of female pelvic breath over 5000 years

Spirits in the Material World: Variations on Cosmic Materialism in Afro-Cuban Spirit Practices

From Iranian classical music to Bad Bunny: resistance and global cultures in France, Canada and the US

Ruben Andersson on his just released book, 'Age of Security: The Rise of a Global Obsession'

Multi-method Approaches to Historical Research: Some Reflections on Practice, Skill and Tradition

Beyond the Group: Intergroup Relationships and Multilevel Sociality in Primates

Medical Anthropology Week 6: Title and speaker TBA

Trabecular and cortical bone: behavioural signals across primates, fossil hominins and farm animals

Unplugged/Replugged

Social Categorisation and Between-group Aggression in Primates

Small pharma chronicles: the curious tale of Indian generics

First dogs: hunter-gatherers and their canine companions

Is a “Contagious Corpse Fatigue” (chuan shi lao 傳尸勞) a Matter of Spirit Possession? An Inquiry into Malarial Convulsions

David Lan on his journey from writing the anthropological classic 'Guns and Rain' to becoming artistic director of The Young Vic Theatre, and about his memoir, 'As if By Chance'

Hindustan Photo Film: India's First Colour Film Factory

New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the northeast Arabian Desert, Iraq

Exposure: drug resistance in the present continuous

IGS Lecture 2026: Gender and Humanitarianism in the Palestinian Territories

On Paradise: Between Hope and Memory

From underground rap to tribute song: politics and labour migration in Nepal and the Philippines

The Porosity of Things: Daoist Spirit “Possession” in the Thirteenth Century

Unravelling the locomotor behaviour of extinct primates through predictive modelling

Labouring under racism: black women and medical dispossession

Keeping their cool: body temperature patterns of a wild primate

Inspecting the UK immigration system

Did the Denisovans reach Wallacea and Sahul?

Synthetic Geographies and the Political Economy of Generative AI

Bart Van Es cutting through his 'The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found'

The evolution of brain development and craniofacial diversity in humans: insights from macro- and microevolutionary comparisons

How to do Ethnographic Research with Ethnote

Book launch: Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media

Anthropology after AI (and vice versa)

CANCELLED: Workshop: Food Junk and Scraps

Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media

Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness

Englishing Ishwar with AKM, RC and AI

In our blood: deviant archaeology and the Far Right

Immigration Enforcement in the Second Trump Administration: the story so far

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 4 (Warriors, Traders, and Shepherds of the People) and Lecture 5 (Fragments Recomposed)

Fourth Annual PalEvo-PalMeso Lecture: Neandertal genomes and human evolutionary history

Archiving Machinne: from punch cards to platforms

Made in Palestine: Re-packaging Apartheid as "Smart" Cities

Crab Museum: a museum about crabs, for humans

Enforcement in Action: Stories from the Front Line of UK Immigration Policy

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 3. Rulers of Many Names: Experiments with Power in Iron Age Anatolia