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Bangladeshi women's experiences of infant feeding in Tower Hamlets |
This Fertility and Reproduction Seminar by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Public Health Team looks at why so many Bangladeshi women in the borough are mix feeding with breast and bottle (3 Nov 2014) |
Christine McCourt, Juliet Rayment |
13 Apr 2015 |
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Breastpump technology and 'natural' motherly milk in Enlightenment France |
In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Margaret Carlyle (Cambridge) discusses developments in breastpump technology in 18th-century France (27 October 2014) |
Margaret Carlyle |
13 Apr 2015 |
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Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England |
In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Leah Astbury (Cambridge) discusses the increase of maternal breastfeeding in 17th-century England (20 October 2014) |
Leah Astbury |
13 Apr 2015 |
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Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes |
In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Bronwen Gillespie (Sussex) examines the the use of Sprinkles, a multiple-micronutrient product recommended by the state, in Peru (13 October 2014) |
Bronwen Gillespie |
13 Apr 2015 |
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Keynote: Evolutionary Ecology of Present-Day Obesity Production |
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Australasian Society for Human Biology Annual Meeting, Adelaide. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
16 Feb 2015 |
206 |
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UNU Lecture-Systems Change and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
16 Feb 2015 |
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Keynote: Nutritional States and Welfare Regimes |
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
16 Feb 2015 |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture- Evolution of Human Nutrition |
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
16 Feb 2015 |
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Can there be an anthropology of Hinduism? |
A discussion of the anthropology of Hinduism and the difficulties of categorizing religion. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by David Gellner of Oxford (5 December 2014) |
David Gellner |
29 Jan 2015 |
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Cleaning up and moving on |
A discussion of Kazakhstan's 'nuclear renaissance' and the transformation of the region from nuclear test site to wasteland to a centre for civilian research. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Catherine Alexander of Durham (28 November 2014) |
Catherine Alexander |
29 Jan 2015 |
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Biosecurity practices in labs and museums: sentinels, simulation, stockpiling |
A discussion of the relationship between the anthropology of biosecurity and the rationality of risk as well as the anthropology of human-animal relationships. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Frédéric Keck, Musée de quai Branly (21 November 2014) |
Frédéric Keck |
29 Jan 2015 |
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Ways of speaking, ways of knowing |
A discussion of the ethnolinguistic identity of the Inugguit based on 12 months of fieldwork in NW Greenland. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephen Leonard of the University of Oxford (14 November 2014) |
Stephen Leonard |
29 Jan 2015 |
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On forms of mental discipline and understanding of national psyche in contemporary Serbia |
An ethnography of mental hygiene and neuro-security in contemporary Serbia. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Maja Petrović-Šteger of the ISRF and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (31 October 2014) |
Maja Petrović-Šteger |
29 Jan 2015 |
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Martyrs, militants and emotions |
A discussion of Albanian radicalisation in Kosovo begore 1999. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers of the University of Bournemouth (17 October 2014). |
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers |
29 Jan 2015 |
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Anthropology, Childhood, and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity and Karolinska Institutet Workshop: Developmental Frameworks of Childhood Obesity. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
17 Dec 2014 |
216 |
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A Neandertal Perspective on Human Origins |
Professor Svante Paabo, Director of the Department of Genetics at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany delivers the ASC Annual Lecture. |
Svante Paabo |
01 Dec 2014 |
217 |
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From Museums to the Historic Environment |
Dan Hicks, Pitt Rivers Museum, gives a talk on object based research at the Pitt Rivers Museum |
Dan Hicks |
21 Oct 2014 |
218 |
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Converting academic research into education activities |
Andrew McLellan, Pitt Rivers Musuem, gives a talk on how the Pitt Rivers Museum has been using academic research to create new educational activities |
Andrew McLellnan |
21 Oct 2014 |
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Water, human evolution and diet |
This public lecture on the role of water in human evolution took place at Somerset House in London as part of its 'Month of Water'. 17 June 2014. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
02 Oct 2014 |
220 |
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Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion |
Professor Birgit Meyer delivered the 2014 Marett Memorial Lecture on the interplay of religious things and bodily sensations. Introduced by James Grant. 2 May 2014 |
Birgit Meyer |
02 Oct 2014 |
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Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell |
This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014 |
Rosie Kay, Karin Eli |
02 Oct 2014 |
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Models, muddles and metaphors |
This seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014 |
Elizabeth Ewart, Stanley Ulijaszek |
02 Oct 2014 |
223 |
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Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency |
This seminar, on the theme of Art and Creativity, explores the anthropology of artistic and imaginative processes, a field that is interdisciplinary by nature. 23 May 2014. |
Caroline Potter, Ramon Sarró, Zuzanna Olszewska, Clare Harris |
02 Oct 2014 |
224 |
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Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle |
This Anthropology seminar, on the theme of Diasporas and Migration, presents emerging findings from a collaborative ethnography in a 'super-diverse' South London area. 30 May 2014 |
Mette Berg, Ben Gidley, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Ramon Sarró |
02 Oct 2014 |
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Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared |
Professor Verkijika G. Fanso of Yaounde University in Cameroon compares two photo archives both taken around the same time, which are now held in Cambridge and South Africa |
Verkijika Fanso |
29 Apr 2014 |
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Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes |
A special lecture in Oxford by Professor Verkijika G. Fanso from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon |
Verkijika Fanso |
29 Apr 2014 |
227 |
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Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch |
Anthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Iain Morley, Mette Berg |
29 Apr 2014 |
228 |
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'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery |
Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology |
Elizabeth Povinelli |
29 Apr 2014 |
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Inequality, insecurity and obesity |
A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
29 Apr 2014 |
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Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity |
Emily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed. |
Emily Henderson |
29 Apr 2014 |
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Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK |
Anthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan |
Emma Coleman-Jones, Mara Yamauchi |
29 Apr 2014 |
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Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay |
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (of ODID, Oxford)'s anthropology departmental seminar focuses on the transmission of diverse goods in a commodity chain that was formed in the 1980s. |
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado |
29 Apr 2014 |
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Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia |
Rebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar. |
Rebecca Empson |
29 Apr 2014 |
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Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present |
Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar. |
Simon Cohn |
29 Apr 2014 |
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The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon |
This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford) |
Morgan Clarke |
28 Apr 2014 |
236 |
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Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity |
Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College, Illinois) discusses the impact of Christianity on the research and careers of Victor and Edith Turner, looking in particular at their work in Rhodesia. An anthropology departmental seminar. |
Timothy Larsen |
28 Apr 2014 |
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Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon |
An anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE. |
Harry Walker |
28 Apr 2014 |
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The end of history? What follows the demographic transition? |
An overview of the demographic transition, and the demographic regime, since its development in the 1940s. An anthropological departmental seminar by Chris Wilson of ISCA (Oxford) |
Chris Wilson |
28 Apr 2014 |
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The better angels of our nature: A history of violence and humanity |
Steven Pinker gives a compelling account of the unacknowledged worldwide decline of violence in the 2014 Haldane Lecture |
Steven Pinker |
06 Mar 2014 |
240 |
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The public policy of migration |
In this Migration Studies lecture, Sarah Spencer (COMPAS, University of Oxford) examines the place of research in policy making by focusing on the role of social scientists and how they can stay in control of their research (6 December 2013) |
Sarah Spencer |
04 Feb 2014 |
241 |
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The sociology of migration |
In this lecture for the MSc in Migration Studies, Professor Michael Keith (Director of COMPAS, University of Oxford) discusses how ideas travel as well as people. The lecture was delivered 12 November 2013. |
Michael Keith |
04 Feb 2014 |
242 |
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Political ecology of disease |
This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
03 Feb 2014 |
243 |
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Disease transitions |
This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was presented on 13 November 2013. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
03 Feb 2014 |
244 |
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Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers |
Angela Davis of the University of Warwick discusses the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice amongst British mothers between 1940 and 1990 (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 14 October 2013) |
Angela Davis |
03 Feb 2014 |
245 |
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Contextualising the 'new parenting culture' |
Charlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013) |
Charlotte Faircloth |
03 Feb 2014 |
246 |
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Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia |
Elizabeth Rahman of the University of Oxford discusses the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians with whom she lived (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 4 November 2013) |
Elizabeth Rahman |
03 Feb 2014 |
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'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!' |
In this Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 18 November 2013, Robert Pralat of the University of Cambridge investigates how non-heterosexual people discuss becoming a parent with their own parents |
Robert Pralat |
03 Feb 2014 |
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'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion' |
Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford explores the negotiations between premaritally pregnant women and their parents in Japan (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 25 November 2013) |
Ekaterina Hertog |
03 Feb 2014 |
249 |
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Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles |
Adom Philogene Heron of the University of St Andrews investigates grandfatherhood in the Antilles (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 2 December 2013) |
Adom Philogene Heron |
03 Feb 2014 |
250 |
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Of untold riches and unruly homes: gender and property in neoliberal middle-class Kolkata |
In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 1 November 2012, Henrike Donner of Oxford Brookes University looks at how different kinds of property and ownership arrangements affect relationships between people among the urban middle classes of Kolkata |
Henrike Donner |
03 Feb 2014 |
251 |
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Diagnosing intolerance: knowledge practices in postsocialist Europe |
Dace Dzenovska (COMPAS, University of Oxford) focuses on the political, economic and cultural community of Latvia to investigate the public recognition of intolerance in Europe. An Anthropology departmental seminar from 25 October 2013. |
Dace Dzenovska |
03 Feb 2014 |
252 |
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Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research |
In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 8 November 2013, Dimitris Xygalatas (Aarhus and Masaryk Universities) investigates ritual behaviour, bringing it into the lab, to work out why people put themselves through such ordeals |
Dimitris Xygalatas |
03 Feb 2014 |
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New York stories: the lives of other citizens |
In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 22 November 2013, Andrew Irving of the University of Manchester investigates memories, thoughts and reminiscences about New York City. |
Andrew Irving |
03 Feb 2014 |
254 |
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The adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia: a biocultural approach |
A School of Anthropology departmental seminar from 29 November 2013 by Alexandra Alvergne of ISCA, University of Oxford |
Alexandra Alvergne |
03 Feb 2014 |
255 |
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3. Henri Hubert, Marcel Mauss and Sacrifice |
Dr Nick Allen talks to Tim Howles about his chapter 'Using Hubert and Mauss to think about Sacrifice' |
Nick Allen, Tim Howles |
27 Jan 2014 |
256 |
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Behavioural economics and eating habits |
Michèle Belot, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Michèle Belot |
09 Dec 2013 |
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Gift, sacrifice, and deadly rumours (3 May 2013) |
In this seminar, Dr Julien Bonhomme (École normale supérieure, Paris) discusses the cultural significance of rumours of deadly alms and gift giving that first appeared in Senegal in 2010. |
Julien Bonhomme |
13 Nov 2013 |
258 |
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Geology, potentiality, speculation: on the indeterminacy of natural resources (10 May 2013) |
In this seminar, Dr Gisa Weszkalnys (London School of Economics) focuses her study of the indeterminacy of natural resources on the small island state of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea. |
Gisa Weszkalnys |
13 Nov 2013 |
259 |
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Conceptualizing new age and neopagan ritual (17 May 2013) |
In this seminar, Professor Michael Houseman (l'École pratique des hautes études, Paris) presents a brief analysis of several small ceremonies to make a theoretical argument about ritual in a new age and neopagan context. |
Michael Houseman |
13 Nov 2013 |
260 |
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Brazilian serialities: imagining persons (24 May 2013) |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Joao de Pina-Cabral (University of Kent) discusses the creative use of personal names in Brazil. |
Joao de Pina-Cabral |
13 Nov 2013 |
261 |
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Dorr-e Dari (The Pearl of Dari): An Ethnography of Poetry as a Social Practice among Afghans in Iran (23 May 2013) |
This lecture formed part of the 2013 Evans-Pritchard Lecture series held at All Souls College, Oxford, in which Zuzanna Olszewska discussed 'Authentic Voices, Modern Selves: An Ethnography of Afghan Refugee Poetry and Personhood in Iran'. |
Zuzanna Olszewska |
13 Nov 2013 |
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Provocations for digital anthropology (30 May 2013) |
David Zeitlyn discusses parallels between visual and digital anthropology and the dangers of historical myopia. It is too easy to disregard earlier parallels because of the mistaken claim that everything is new and different. |
David Zeitlyn |
13 Nov 2013 |
263 |
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Looking forward looking back (18 May 2013) |
Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) argues for a pluralisation of past, present and future. There are many unconnected or only partially connected literatures on time related issues. |
David Zeitlyn |
13 Nov 2013 |
264 |
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Alternative Utopias and the Crisis of Imagination (20 June 2013) |
Professor Alexander Kiossev (University of Sofia in Bulgaria)drawing on his background in cultural studies, spoke about the ways in which 'alternative utopias' can enable creative imaginaries for the types of futures we are able to realise or create. |
Alexander Kiossev |
13 Nov 2013 |
265 |
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Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa: a legal appraisal from the Great Lakes region |
Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2013. Seminar by Dr Jeremie Gilbert (University of East London) recorded on 22 May 2013 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Jeremie Gilbert |
24 May 2013 |
266 |
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Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the Khomani San of the southern Kalahari |
Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013. Lecture by Hugh Brody (Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies, University of the Fraser Valley) recorded on 8 May 2013 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Hugh Brody |
13 May 2013 |
267 |
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Opportunities and risk: enacting socio-cultural transformation in refugee camps in Uganda |
Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2013. Seminar by Tania Kaiser (School of Oriental and African Studies) recorded on 24 April 2013 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Tania Kaiser |
13 May 2013 |
268 |
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Divine kingdoms in the western Himalayas |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (22 February 2013) by William Sax of the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, focuses on 'oracular authority and distributed agency' in the western Himalayas. |
William Sax |
18 Apr 2013 |
269 |
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Capital's new frontier |
Dr Catherine Dolan of the Saïd Business School, Oxford, discusses 'yoghurt mamas, solar sisters and the remaking of 'unusable Africa' at the bottom of the pyramid'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar from 15 February 2013. |
Catherine Dolan |
18 Apr 2013 |
270 |
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Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (8 February 2013) by Joost Fontein from the Department of Social Anthropology at Edinburgh focuses on northern Zimbabwe fieldwork and research. |
Joost Fontein |
18 Apr 2013 |
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Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana |
Carlo Severi (CNRS, Paris) presents an Anthropology Departmental Seminar (1 February 2013). |
Carlo Severi |
18 Apr 2013 |
272 |
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Re-thinking 'Untamed Thoughts' Fifty Years On |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (25 January 2013), Dr Laura Rival discusses 'Claude Lévi-Strauss and the science of the concrete'. |
Laura Rival |
18 Apr 2013 |
273 |
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Digital Heritage Technologies and Issues of Community Engagement and Cultural Restitution in 'New Style' Ethnographic Museums |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (2 November 2012) is by Professor Mike Rowlands (University College London), in collaboration with Graeme Were (Brisbane). Its theme is material anthropology. |
Mike Rowlands |
18 Apr 2013 |
274 |
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Scientists as Abstainers |
Matei Candea (University of Durham) presents 'An ethnography of inter-species trust without belief'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar (26 October 2012) with a theme of science and technology studies. |
Matei Candea |
18 Apr 2013 |
275 |
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City Dwelling and the Cultures of Migrant Urbanism |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (19 October 2012), is presented by Professor Michael Keith, the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford. |
Michael Keith |
18 Apr 2013 |
276 |
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The Biography of the Holy Ghost |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (12 October 2012), Dr Ramon Sarró explores a prophetic landscape in Lower Congo. |
Ramon Sarró |
18 Apr 2013 |
277 |
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The Ethnographic Dream |
In this seminar for the anthropology research group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (10 October 2012), Dr Katherine Swancutt discusses 'doing fieldwork among native scholars and shamans', focusing on southwest China. |
Katherine Swancutt |
18 Apr 2013 |
278 |
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Social marketing and public health with Change4Life |
Podcast looking at the way in which public health campaigns, in particular the Change4Life campaign are marketed. By Kevin Chan, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. |
Kevin Chan |
21 Jan 2013 |
279 |
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Eating NatureCulture: material feminism and maternal obesity |
Megan Warin, University of Adelaide, Australia, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Megan Waren |
05 Nov 2012 |
280 |
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Childhood obesity: what are its future health and social consequences? |
Jennifer Baker,Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Jennifer Baker |
05 Nov 2012 |
281 |
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Resilience building in trajectories towards sustainability: an examination of communal growing in the UK |
Rebecca White, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Rebecca White |
05 Nov 2012 |
282 |
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Visual political economies and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro |
Udi Butler, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Udi Butler |
05 Nov 2012 |
283 |
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Parents as gatekeepers: introduction to family therapy in obesity treatment |
Paulina Nowicka, Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Paulina Nowicka |
05 Nov 2012 |
284 |
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Lumley's Children? The Nepali Community in Britain |
The Nepali community is one of the newest minorities in the UK, but already numbers more than 100,000, with the biggest concentrations around Farnborough, Ashford, Wembley and Plumstead. |
David Gellner |
02 Oct 2012 |
285 |
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Roundtable discussion about studying migration at Oxford |
Intended for anyone considering applying to the MSc degree in Migration Studies in Oxford, this podcast presents a discussion with lecturer Mette Berg and four students: Saskia Blume, Tess Hellgren, Katyana Melic, Gustavo Rangel Guerrero. |
Mette Louise Berg |
05 Sep 2012 |
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Learning that emerges in 'Times of Trouble' |
In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brooks University) presents a few cases from Japan. 2 March 2012. |
Joy Hendry |
27 Jun 2012 |
287 |
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Collective Effervescence as Embodied Intoxication |
Philip Mellor, Professor of Religion and Social Theory at the University Leeds, presented this paper at a workshop held in Oxford by the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in February 2012. |
Philip Mellor |
27 Jun 2012 |
288 |
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Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester) looks at 'material culture and Karenni forced migrants in a Thai-Burma border camp'. 10 February 2012. |
Sandra Dudley |
27 Jun 2012 |
289 |
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Sweetness and Light |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Ann Gold (Syracuse University) examines 'ordinary pluralisms in a North Indian town'. 24 February 2012. |
Ann G Gold |
27 Jun 2012 |
290 |
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Negotiating Space, Buying Time |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) discusses 'the performance of housing politics in a Bangkok community under siege'. 2 December 2011. |
Michael Herzfeld |
27 Jun 2012 |
291 |
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What Shan ethnography can tell us about Theravada Buddhism |
Nicola Tannenbaum, Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University in the United States, discusses Theravada Buddhism for this Anthropology Departmental Seminar. 4 May 2012. |
Nicola Tannenbaum |
27 Jun 2012 |
292 |
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Conflict in the Plural |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jonathan Spencer (University of Edinburgh) examines 'eastern Sri Lanka as a complex religious field'. 18 May 2012. |
Jonathan Spencer |
27 Jun 2012 |
293 |
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Opportunistic violence and the impossibility of intimacy |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dhana Hughes (St John's College, University of Oxford) examines 'memories of revenge and denunciation in Sri Lanka's Southern Terror'. 11 May 2012. |
Dhana Hughes |
27 Jun 2012 |
294 |
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Neighbouring China in Northern Nepal |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Martin Saxer (National University of Singapore)discusses 'Hidden Valleys, New Roads and Remote Cosmopolitans' in northern Nepal. 25 May 2012. |
Martin Saxer |
27 Jun 2012 |
295 |
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Marett Memorial Lecture 2012: Anthropologists and the Bible |
In the 2012 Marett Memorial Lecture, Professor Adam Kuper of the LSE and Fellow of the British Academy reviews a century of debate surrounding the anthropology of religion. The lecture took place at Exeter College, Oxford on 27 April 2012. |
Adam Kuper |
24 May 2012 |
296 |
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Altruism in cyberspace? |
In this seminar for the International Gender Studies Centre, Elinor Bastin presents an exploration of an on-line community for women and men with bipolar disorder. 10 November 2011. |
Elinor Bastin |
24 May 2012 |
297 |
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Beyond globalisation and localisation |
In this Departmental Seminar, Holger Jebens discusses local Christianity and 'Pluralism in a Papua New Guinea village'. 18 November 2011. |
Holger Jebens |
24 May 2012 |
298 |
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The 'down side' of assisted reproductive technologies |
In this seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Soraya Tremayne (Director of the FRSG) discusses 'Third party donation and the 'happy family' rhetoric in Iran'. 17 November 2011. |
Soraya Tremayne |
24 May 2012 |
299 |
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Meat and Health |
In this Health, Environment and Development seminar, Peter Scarborough (a UL in Public Health) discusses the impact of achieving environmental sustainable diets on deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer in the UK. 18 October 2011. |
Peter Scarborough |
24 May 2012 |
300 |
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Brain microcircuits in champanzees and humans |
Stephen Chance of the Neuroanatomy and Cognition Group, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, presents insights into IQ and social cognition in chimpanzees and humans. An ICEA Seminar from 1 June 2011. |
Stephen Chance |
24 May 2012 |