Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

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The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) is a leading centre for anthropological teaching and research in the UK and the world. Originally established as the only centre in the UK specialising in postgraduate teaching and research within the discipline, it continues to supervise large numbers of graduate and research students. The department came top of the Power Rankings for Anthropology in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and received a score of 5 in the 2001 equivalent exercise. Research in ISCA is particularly broad based, including not only traditional ethnographic specialisms in social anthropology, but also thematic specialisms such as visual anthropology, material anthropology and museum ethnography, medical anthropology, and cognitive and evolutionary anthropology. The Institute's links with the Pitt Rivers Museum contribute a particular strength in material culture and the anthropology of representations. In 2001, the ESRC Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) was established within within the School of Anthropology. COMPAS is now responsible for considerable research and an MPhil programme in Migration Studies.

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1	Creative Commons	Status Food and State Food: Notes on Obesity in Cuba	Giovanna Neri, Study Coordinator in Clinical Trials, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series	0:25:36	Giovanna Neri	29 Apr 2013
2		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.	0:47:23	William Sax	18 Apr 2013
3		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.	0:47:18	Catherine Dolan	18 Apr 2013
4		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	0:47:06	Joost Fontein	18 Apr 2013
5	Creative Commons	Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana	Carlo Severi (CNRS, Paris) presents an Anthropology Departmental Seminar (1 February 2013)	0:50:23	Carlo Severi	18 Apr 2013
6		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'	1:04:07	Laura Rival	18 Apr 2013
7		Synchrony and Similiarity in Human Cooperation	This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (30 November 2012) is presented by Emma Cohen of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford	1:03:56	Emma Cohen	18 Apr 2013
8		The Evolution of Human Egalitarianism	This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (9 November 2012) is by Dr Frank Marlowe (University of Cambridge, Department of Biological Anthropology) and is on the theme of evolutionary anthropology.	0:50:36	Frank Marlowe	18 Apr 2013
9		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.	1:00:04	Mike Rowlands	18 Apr 2013
10	Creative Commons	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.	0:51:22	Matei Candea	18 Apr 2013
11		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	0:53:35	Michael Keith	18 Apr 2013
12		The Biography of the Holy Ghost	In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (12 October 2012), Dr Ramon Sarró explores a prophetic landscape in Lower Congo	0:54:37	Ramon Sarró	18 Apr 2013
13		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	0:52:58	Katherine Swancutt	18 Apr 2013
14	Creative Commons	Beyond 'fat tax': What is the role and potential of food taxes?	Hannah Graff, National Heart Forum, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 22nd November 2012	0:31:52	Hannah Graff	25 Mar 2013
15	Creative Commons	Network mathematics in the social sciences: concepts, applications, and perspectives into obesity and public health	Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz,Department of Mathematics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 31st January 2013	0:50:16	Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz	25 Mar 2013
16	Creative Commons	Infant feeding at home and in the nursery in post-1945 Britain: an oral history approach	Angela Davis, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 7th February 2013	0:43:22	Angela Davis	25 Mar 2013
17	Creative Commons	Minority families and barriers to health care	Hiranthi Jayaweera, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series	0:25:30	Hiranthi Jayaweera	25 Mar 2013
18	Creative Commons	Treating obesity early in life: the common misunderstandings between parents and health care providers	Laurel Edmunds, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series	0:33:06	Laurel Edmunds	25 Mar 2013
19	Creative Commons	Children's eating habits and food preferences: determinants and consequences	Lucy Cooke, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series	0:47:03	Lucy Cooke	25 Mar 2013
20	Creative Commons	Researching migrant journeys: conceptual and methodological challenges	Roger Zetter thinks about the nature and challenges of researching migrant (specifically refugee) journeys.	0:51:47	Roger Zetter	18 Feb 2013
21	Creative Commons	Migration and multi-dimensional poverty in Moldovan communities: linking journeys and community development	Melissa Siegel looks at migration and poverty at community level in Moldova and Georgia, in relation to a 2 year research project funded by the European Commission.	0:30:25	Melissa Siegel	18 Feb 2013
22	Creative Commons	The smuggling of migrants and refugees into Europe: social and economic aspects	Thanos Maroukis talks about the social processes at play behind the migrant smuggling business. Based on his recently published book Thanos talks the audience throughout he methodology, theoretical framework and findings	0:47:42	Thanos Maroukis	18 Feb 2013
23	Creative Commons	An arbitrary outcome: political and economic regulation of mobile labour	Hannah Cross, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas term 2012: Migration Journeys on 25th October 2012	0:28:53	Hannah Cross	18 Feb 2013
24	Creative Commons	What do highly skilled French migrants in London teach us about European talent migration?	Drawing on qualitative data from an ESRC-funded project, this presentation will explore the nature and dynamics of intra-EU talent migration through a particular focus on the French highly-skilled working in London's financial and business sectors.	0:24:20	Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland	18 Feb 2013
25	Creative Commons	The injustices of high- versus low-skilled temporary labour migration programs: With evidence from Canada	Among critics of temporary labour migration programs (TLMP), it is common to describe them as exploitative, rights-violating, and unfair.	0:33:59	Patti Tamara Lenard	29 Jan 2013
26	Creative Commons	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	0:33:04	Kevin Chan	21 Jan 2013
27	Creative Commons	What is the evidence about migrant living conditions in the private rented sector and how could they be improved?	Outlining a new report for the Housing and Migration Network UK, 'Migrants and the Private Rented Sector', published in February is the first national report to explore the needs and experience of new migrants who live in the private rented sector.	0:27:29	Gill Green, Neil Coles	27 Nov 2012
28	Creative Commons	What is the latest picture from migration statistics?	Jon Simmons, Home Office, gives a talk for the COMPAS breakfast briefing series	0:36:29	Jon Simmons	09 Nov 2012
29	Creative Commons	What works in integration?	Vidhya Ramalingam, The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series	0:17:09	Vidhya Ramalingam	09 Nov 2012
30	Creative Commons	Eating NatureCulture: material feminism and maternal obesity	Megan Warin, University of Adelaide, Australia, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series	0:48:06	Megan Waren	05 Nov 2012
31	Creative Commons	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	0:40:33	Jennifer Baker	05 Nov 2012
32	Creative Commons	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	0:31:35	Rebecca White	05 Nov 2012
33	Creative Commons	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	0:38:19	Udi Butler	05 Nov 2012
34	Creative Commons	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	0:40:41	Paulina Nowicka	05 Nov 2012
35		5 SOLDIERS - The Body Is The Frontline	Embodying soldier's physicality through research and training and how this approach affected the final production and audience experience.	0:41:51	Rosie Kay	05 Nov 2012
36	Creative Commons	Migrants and the state of long term care in England: opportunities and challenges	Shereen Hussein talks about migrants and long term/social care. She looks at what is meant my international migrants and at what constitutes long term care in the labour market sector. She also looks at the relevant work force.	0:59:06	Shereen Hussein	06 Sep 2012
37		Migration and the resilience and vulnerability of place	Talk based on a UK wide study of immigration an social cohesion, done between 2005-2008. Exploring the lived lives and practices of new immigrants as well as the long term settled population and through this consider social cohesion policies in the UK.	0:54:55	Mary Hickman	06 Sep 2012
38	Creative Commons	Understanding the neighbourhood impacts of new immigration	Looking at new migration and large scale migration since the early to mid 90's, reflecting on local impacts. He looks at neighbourhood effects of immigration, and local experiences of those arriving to and those already living in a particular place.	0:56:44	David Robinson	06 Sep 2012
39	Creative Commons	Wage inequality and immigration in the US and the UK	Cinizia Rienzo discusses wage inequality and immigration in the US and the UK. She assesses if there is a relationship between the increasing number of immigrants and the increasing levels of wage inequality seen in both countries.	0:43:19	Cinizia Rienzo	06 Sep 2012
40		How does diversity affect the British neighbourhood? Can it reinforce segregation?	Looking at trust of one's own ethnic group and trust of other ethnic groups and how this is related to both contact and possible conflict in the neighbourhood setting.	0:59:14	Neli Demireva	06 Sep 2012
41	Creative Commons	Crime and immigration	Brian Bell looks at the relationship between crime and immigration in the UK. He considers the relevant literature, political motivations, and the particular group of immigrants that his research focuses on.	0:54:13	Brian Bell	06 Sep 2012
42	Creative Commons	What is the relationship between new migration and community change?	Migration is presumed to be a major driver of change at the neighborhood level. What is the evidence? This briefing explores current understanding and evidence about the neighborhood changes associated with new migration.	0:29:34	David Robinson	20 Aug 2012
43	Creative Commons	Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law	Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights.	0:47:58	Nicholas de Genoa	14 Aug 2012
44	Creative Commons	Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law	Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights.	0:47:58	Nicholas de Genoa	14 Aug 2012
45	Creative Commons	Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons	Ash Amin discusses his new book, "Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons".	0:33:48	Ash Amin	06 Aug 2012
46	Creative Commons	Homophily is not an explanation	Talja Blokland discusses notions of ethnicity, community, integration and migration, using empirical data to make a theoretical argument. She uses the notion of homophiliy - the idea that people that are similar come together	0:47:00	Talja Blokland	06 Aug 2012
47	Creative Commons	Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto	Jayani Bonnerjee looks at the connections between Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in Calcutta through the space of neighbourhood and how the memory of neighbourhood carries over into diasporas.	0:54:15	Jayani Bonnerjee	06 Aug 2012
48	Creative Commons	Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London suburbs	David Gilbert considers the relationship between faith and suburbia with focus on migration. Part of the OMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2012: Everyday multiculturalism	0:54:40	David Gilbert	06 Aug 2012
49	Creative Commons	Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground	Katharine Tyler speaks about her new book, which explores what it means to be white modern post-colonial societies, drawing on her fieldwork in semi-rural, rural and urban spaces in Leicestershire.	0:44:59	Katharine Tyler	06 Aug 2012
50	Creative Commons	New Geographies of Migration and Multiculture: Degrees of Intimacy between English Villagers and Eastern European Migrants in Rural Worcestershire	Analysing the relationship between whiteness and Englishness, looking at processes of social inclusion and exclusion in the countryside, the migration of Eastern European workers to the countryside and rural discourses of community and multi-culture	0:35:39	Helen Moore	06 Aug 2012
51	Creative Commons	Crossing the Threshold: Identity, Integration and Multiculturalism in British and German Muslim Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods	Sarah Hackett explores the idea of the neighbourhood as a site where citizenship is practiced and negotiated, with particular focus on historical developments and settlements in Newcastle, UK and Bremen, Germany.	0:46:26	Sarah Hackett	06 Aug 2012
52		Negotiating urban citizenship: British Muslim encounters with new migrants	Deborah Phillips explores the 'neighbourhood' as a site where citizenship is practices and negotiated. She focuses particularly on the experiences of British Muslims in Bradford in their encounters with new migrants.	0:42:27	Deborah Phillips	06 Aug 2012
53		Experiences at the sharp end: Practitioners' perspectives on inclusion and exclusion (Panel Discussion)	Four experts discuss their practical experiences of migrants' access to services and exclusion from services. Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series: Migrants and welfare states: inclusion or exclusion?	1:06:11	Fizza Qureshi, Ruthanna Barnett, Bill Bolloten, Nick Clark	06 Aug 2012
54	Creative Commons	Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire, and the Chinese Labour Question	Professor Glover outlined the moral panic around aliens and Chinese labour in the 1906 election, relating the debate to the 1905 Aliens Act and to Chinese indentured layout to South Africa.	0:47:58	David Glover	06 Aug 2012
55	Creative Commons	Gender and interventions in integration	Eleonore Kofman discusses gender's role in relation to integration discourses, policies and practices. Part of the Interrogating Integration: Discourses, Policies and Everyday Practices (COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010) Series	0:31:59	Eleonore Kofman	06 Aug 2012
56	Creative Commons	The national integration paradigm: where are we now?	Adrian Favell discusses his book 'Philosophies of Integration', taking a theoretical and philosophical approach to integration.	0:42:51	Adrian Favell	06 Aug 2012
57	Creative Commons	When is an asylum seeker not an asylum seeker? The representation of immigration in the UK press 1996-2005	Paul Baker talks about how asylums seekers and refugees were presented in the national press and the variations in discourses over time and across types of press.	0:48:32	Paul Baker	06 Aug 2012
58	Creative Commons	UK Immigration Policy and the Political Functions of Research	Talk looking at the ways in which public administration and policy makers make use of academic research immigration policy making, looking at the British Home Office, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the European Commission	0:49:57	Christina Boswell	06 Aug 2012
59	Creative Commons	Immigration and Political Trust in Europe	Lauren McLaren looks at immigration and political trust, with focus on recent research data. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series	0:47:35	Lauren McLaren	06 Aug 2012
60	Creative Commons	Numbers and Needs - the urban and the rural: Immigrant settlement in Shropshire and Tower Hamlets	Anne Kershen discusses the comparisons between immigrant settlements in Shropshire and London's Tower Hamlets, exploring different issues of the migrant experience arising in the two areas.	0:58:44	Anne Kershen	06 Aug 2012
61	Creative Commons	Between strategic nostalgia and banal nomadism: Arab diaspora watching satellite and digital television across Europe	Myria Georgiou talks about uses of transnational television among Arab speaking populations in Europe to explore questions around citizenship.	0:42:27	Myria Georgiou	06 Aug 2012
62	Creative Commons	The politics of migration in the UK: Catering to a public of (at least) two minds	Scott Blinder discusses the portrayal of the British public's opinion on migration, and the reality behind it. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series	0:53:16	Scott Blinder	06 Aug 2012
63	Creative Commons	'Integration' as Illiberal Exceptionalism in Migration Law: The Role of the European Union	Sergio Carrera examines how the process of Europeanization, the development of the European Union, has played a role in migration law and on the meaning and mechanisms of integration	1:00:55	Sergio Carrera	06 Aug 2012
64	Creative Commons	Immigrant Integration and Human Rights: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border	Discussion on the problematic of discussing integration in a context of security enforcement policies in the US and neoliberal policies, with a focus on immigrants in the US/Mexico border region and in the US as a whole.	0:41:30	Neil Harvey	06 Aug 2012
65	Creative Commons	What is the role of schooling in the integration and settlement process of new Polish migrants to the UK?	The EU Enlargement of 2004 entailed an intensive large-scale migration wave from Eastern European countries to the UK, in particular from Poland.	0:26:56	Pauline Trevena	16 Jul 2012
66	Creative Commons	Migration policy and skills policy: substitutes or complements?	There is a very significant tension at the heart of UK immigration policy. Basic economic intuition, as well as considerable empirical evidence, suggests that skilled immigrants will benefit the economy.	0:25:02	Jonathan Portes	09 Jul 2012
67		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.	0:50:04	Joy Hendry	27 Jun 2012
68		Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions	In this seminar held by the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR), Assoc. Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) discusses 'the new discourse on epidemics in 17th-18th century China'. 7 March 2012.	0:52:20	Marta Hanson	27 Jun 2012
69	Creative Commons	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.	0:42:22	Philip Mellor	27 Jun 2012
70		Reflections on geneticisation	In this Medical Anthropology Research Seminar, Professor Paul Martin (University of Nottingham) examines 'social science and the making of biofutures'. 6 February 2012.	0:55:19	Paul Martin	27 Jun 2012
71	Creative Commons	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	1:01:32	Sandra Dudley	27 Jun 2012
72		Sweetness and Light	In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Ann Gold (Syracuse University) examines 'ordinary pluralisms in a North Indian town'. 24 February 2012	0:49:52	Ann G Gold	27 Jun 2012
73		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.	0:52:06	Michael Herzfeld	27 Jun 2012
74		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.	0:55:11	Nicola Tannenbaum	27 Jun 2012
75		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.	0:57:06	Jonathan Spencer	27 Jun 2012
76	Creative Commons	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.	0:38:14	Dhana Hughes	27 Jun 2012
77	Creative Commons	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.	0:45:03	Martin Saxer	27 Jun 2012
78		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.	0:48:46	Adam Kuper	24 May 2012
79	Creative Commons	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	0:58:26	Elinor Bastin	24 May 2012
80		Beyond globalisation and localisation	In this Departmental Seminar, Holger Jebens discusses local Christianity and 'Pluralism in a Papua New Guinea village'. 18 November 2011.	0:45:01	Holger Jebens	24 May 2012
81	Creative Commons	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.	0:48:11	Soraya Tremayne	24 May 2012
82	Creative Commons	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	0:43:32	Peter Scarborough	24 May 2012
83	Creative Commons	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.	0:48:39	Stephen Chance	24 May 2012
84	Creative Commons	Venom, pollinators and parasites	Anna Nekaris of Oxford Brookes University discusses 'how the poisonous slow loris may reveal the origins of social grooming amongst primates'. An ICEA seminar from 2 November 2011.	0:51:40	Anna Nekaris	24 May 2012
85	Creative Commons	Extreme climatic events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa?	In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Sallie Burrough of Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment presents an environmental perspective from the Kalahari Desert (23/11/11)	0:35:53	Sallie Burrough	24 May 2012
86	Creative Commons	How niche construction affects inheritance systems in human evolution	A seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology by John Odling-Smee (an Emeritus research fellow from Oxford University), 30 November 2011	0:48:57	John Odling-Smee	24 May 2012
87		Implementing a Research Culture in the NHS. Medical Anthropology at Oxford	The conference 'Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections', held at ICSA on 23-24 June 2011, marked the first ten years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. This podcast by Olivier Bazin formed part of the first panel.	0:52:05	Olivier Bazin	10 May 2012
88		The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar	In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar on 'Managing Disasters and Misfortune', Eric Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) discusses 'The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms' (3 February 2012).	0:54:46	Eric Edwards	10 May 2012
89		There is no such thing as Dian cuisine. Anthropology Departmental Seminar	In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jakob Klein (SOAS) discusses 'Food and locality in twenty-first century China' (11 March 2011).	0:49:59	Jakob Klein	10 May 2012
90		Don't throw the baby out with the bathos. Anthropology Departmental Seminar:	In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Stephen Reyna (MPI-Halle) discussed 'regimes of truth in an anthropology of hypocrisy' (25 February 2011).	0:37:57	Stephen Reyna	10 May 2012
91		On the concept of cultural transmission. Anthropology Departmental Seminar	In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Roy Ellen (University of Kent) discusses 'On the concept of cultural transmission' (18 February 2011).	1:17:08	Roy Ellen	10 May 2012
92		Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China. Anthropology Departmental Seminar	In this Anthropology Departmental seminar Michael Rowlands (University College London) discusses 'Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China'. 13 May 2011.	1:05:21	Michael Rowlands	10 May 2012
93	Creative Commons	The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size	In this Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Seminar, Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge) discusses "The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size." 15 June 2011.	0:51:44	Stephen Montgomery	10 May 2012
94	Creative Commons	The right to participate: law, equality, and the prospective impact on immigrant integration in Europe and abroad	Thomas Huddleston discusses European integration policies and access to health care and other benefits, in light of recent MPG research.	0:54:08	Thomas Huddleston	08 May 2012
95	Creative Commons	Shifts in the Public/Private Divide as mode of inclusion and exclusion	Sarah van Walsum discusses Dutch and EU law's approach to care work and protection of rights.	0:55:22	Sarah van Walsum	08 May 2012
96	Creative Commons	Migrants' access to goods and services in the context of international human rights law	Aoife Nolan (Durham Law School) takes us through the relationship between migrants' rights and international human rights instruments.	0:43:37	Aoife Nolan	16 Apr 2012
97	Creative Commons	What is the impact of new migration on cohesion and integration?	The government and the media regularly make the case that migration must be restricted in order to ensure community cohesion and encourage integration.	0:21:44	Robert Ford, Will Somerville, Shamit Saggar	16 Apr 2012
98	Creative Commons	Civic Stratification and Migrants Rights	Lydia Morris discusses the stratification of rights as a way to explain rights given or constrained by the state, in the migration context.	0:55:57	Lydia Morris	05 Mar 2012
99	Creative Commons	Between welfare states and markets: the migrant-policy nexus in comparative perspective and reflections on social rights and antidiscrimination law	Virginie Guiraudon takes an interdisciplinary look at social and human rights and anti-discrimination laws, giving a historical, legal and sociological perspective, as well as considering the European situation.	0:53:57	Virginie Guiraudon	05 Mar 2012
100	Creative Commons	Entitlement, belonging and outsiderness: Britain's Gypsy Travellers in the twentieth century	Becky Taylor discusses issues of entitlement, belonging and outsiderness for Britain's Gypsy travellers in the 20th century, with a focus on housing, education and perception.	0:47:35	Becky Taylor	05 Mar 2012

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1	Creative Commons	The Social Brain on the Internet	In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and in part by the time available to invest in face-to-face interaction.	0:43:44	Robin Dunbar	23 Aug 2011
2	Creative Commons	Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche	Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indicates this was fundamentally a socio-cognitive niche.	0:50:29	Andrew Whiten	23 Aug 2011
3	Creative Commons	Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level	I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs.	0:38:25	Chris Frith	23 Aug 2011
4	Creative Commons	Experiencing Language	The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention.	0:43:42	Eva Jablonka	23 Aug 2011
5	Creative Commons	Signals, Honesty and the Evolution of Language	The evolution of language is a long-standing puzzle for many reasons. One is that its very virtues as a system of communication seem to open the door to ruinous free-riding and deception.	0:49:10	Kim Sterelny	23 Aug 2011
6	Creative Commons	Embodiment: Taking Sociality Seriously	A very wise person of our acquaintance once said, 'Read old books to get new ideas'.	0:43:14	Louise Barrett	22 Aug 2011
7	Creative Commons	Cortico-cerebellar Evolution and the Distributed Neural Basis of Cognition	Biologists interested in cognitive evolution have focussed on the dramatic expansion of the forebrain, particularly the neocortex, in lineages such as primates.	0:45:08	Robert Barton	22 Aug 2011
8		A New Comparative Psychology	In their classic 1969 paper Hodos and Campbell bemoaned the absence of appropriate evolutionary theory in comparative psychology. In this talk I will argue that despite the advent of Evolutionary Psychology the situation has changed only a little today.	0:46:02	Russell Gray	22 Aug 2011
9	Creative Commons	The Mystery of Cumulative Culture	Human demographic and ecological success is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture, which allows human knowledge and technology to build up and improve over time.	0:54:14	Kevin Laland	22 Aug 2011
10	Creative Commons	Cultural Inheritance of Cultural Learning	It is widely acknowledged that the cumulative cultural inheritance of technological skills and social practices has played a major role in shaping the ways of life of modern humans.	0:54:38	Cecilia Heyes	22 Aug 2011
11	Creative Commons	Welcome and Introduction	Introduction to the "New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution" conference.	0:04:03	Cecilia Heyes	22 Aug 2011
12		Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 6: Resilience and adaptation in complex city systems	James Simmie (Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University) develops an evolutionary economics approach to adaptation and change in urban economies.	0:43:20	James Simmie	15 Dec 2010
13	Creative Commons	Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 2: Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean	David Howard (University Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice.	0:45:34	David Howard	15 Dec 2010
14		Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 3: Global migration and the future of le droit à la ville	Michael Keith (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford) interrogates how we think about urban change and normative theory in cities experiencing high levels of international migration.	0:49:53	Michael Keith	15 Dec 2010
15		Interview with Professor Byron J Good, 2010 Marett Lecturer	Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, delivered the 2010 Marett Lecture at Exeter College, Oxford. He was first interviewed by Nick Shapiro (ISCA) about his life and work.	0:31:40	Byron J Good	23 Nov 2010
16	Creative Commons	Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 1: New business models for low-carbon cities	Mark Hinnells (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) explores the impact of policy measures to deliver a low-carbon economy on the development of new business models for low-carbon cities.	0:52:14	Mark Hinnells	16 Nov 2010
17		Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 4: Sustainable urban development to 2050 - complex transitions in the built environment of cities	Tim Dixon (Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University) looks at 'critical success factors' that need to be in place for cities to be more sustainable by 2050.	0:42:01	Tim Dixon	16 Nov 2010
18		Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 5: The paralyzed frog, water supply services and sustainable cities	Rob Hope (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) gives a talk on institutional innovations and new financial models for sustainable water as part of a seminar series on the Future of Cities.	0:41:16	Rob Hope	16 Nov 2010