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Leverhulme Lecture: The Life of Rocks: An Anthropological Approach to Research in Astrobiology
27 November 2026
Side-effects and the production of treatment unsustainability
01 December 2026
The evolution of non-reproductive sex
02 December 2026
Figurations of Time: Artefacts, Images and Historical Experience
04 December 2026
The Judicial Life of Truth: Homosexuality, Confession, and Denial in Cameroon’s courts
04 December 2026
Judith Scheele on her 2025 book, 'Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara'
25 January 2027
Jonathan Parry on his magnum opus, 'Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town'
04 March 2027
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
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The evolutionary ecology of human ornamentation: a cross-cultural analysis
13 May 2026
Intelligent artifice? Notes on work in progress
08 May 2026
What benefits can be gained from transformative change? Reframing damage and loss in a changing climate
08 May 2026
Narrating European Border Control: Telling the Story of Frontex
07 May 2026
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 2. War for Power and the Power of War: Charismatic Leaders in the Iron Age Levant
06 May 2026
A life history perspective on postnatal cortical bone restructuring in humans and chimpanzees
06 May 2026
Reconfiguring expertise: AI, relational practice, and clinical learning in the Emergency Department
05 May 2026
Why We Can (And Should) Abolish AI: Understanding Technology Corporations as Political Actors
01 May 2026
All eyes on good intentions: when community refusal meets fragile solidarities
01 May 2026
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 1. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age: Making Sense of a Fragmenting World
29 April 2026
Change and continuity during the Holocene Later Stone Age in South Africa: a stone tool perspective
29 April 2026
Celebrate with Shirley Ardener her 100th birthday!
01 April 2026
Book Launch: "Immunity on Trial" by Miriam Driessen
13 March 2026
'Victory to All Those Who Drink Rice Beer!': An Anthropologist Traces the Footsteps of the Indian Aboriginal Leader Jaipal Singh
13 March 2026
Collections without a Community: Decolonial Practice and the Problem of Authority in Scientific-Instrument Collections (India-UK)
13 March 2026
Exploring ape hearing capabilities for precursors to human language
11 March 2026
Caring for data/Data as care: precarity, hope and affect in African cancer worlds
10 March 2026
Modelling Emotion: Algorithmic and Anthropological Approaches to Affect
09 March 2026
Max Gluckman and the Manchester School: A Dialectic Between Different Intellectual and Political Worlds
06 March 2026
Crafting Body Virtuality through Anthropology-with-Butoh Dance
06 March 2026
Jonny Steinberg on why some books fail
05 March 2026
Housing, childcare, and employment: How cumulative discrimination compounds inequality
05 March 2026
To every thing there is a season: seasonality in Mesolithic Europe through sequential stable isotope analysis of dentine
04 March 2026
Provincialising birth cohorts and the biosocial
03 March 2026
M. N. Srinivas, Oxford and the Development of Modern Indian Anthropology, 1945-55
27 February 2026
Restraining Sacredness in the Borderlands of Religion and Heritage: Waste, Worthiness, and Sacred Objects and Spaces
27 February 2026
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World with Harvey Whitehouse
26 February 2026
Recent research on the Middle Stone Age of West Africa
25 February 2026
CANCELLED: Viral citizens: the politics of evidence and mistrust in epidemic preparedness
24 February 2026
Beyond the label: repairing data work, rethinking AI
23 February 2026
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