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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice

How body size is used in research and discourse on health, bringing together theory from anthropology, sociology, public health and more. With llya Gutin, University of Texas at Austin
Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
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Concealed Prosperity: Why People and Territorial Deities Need Treasures (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

This talk explores the intricate cosmology of territorial deities in Tibet and related concepts of land, prosperity, and fecundity, as well as sociality and socio-political organisation
A Good Science Read

A Good Science Read: How humans changed the landscape and ourselves

Professor Peter Burge joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens and The Species that Changed Itself or How prosperity reshaped humanity by Edwin Gale.
Anthropology

Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work

Dr. Vonnak reflects on how socio historical events impact the definition, preservation, and sometimes neglect of cultural heritage. She draws from her extensive field work in Ukraine over the past eight years.
Anthropology

Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy

Michael Degani analyzes the styles of work and conflict amongst electrical contractors who congregate across the street from a power utility office in urban Tanzania.
Anthropology

Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation

Philippe Descola, one of Anthropology's most influential figures, invites us to go beyond the traditional boundaries of nature and culture and redefine our understanding of humanity's relationship with the world around us.
Anthropology

Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe

Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans
Anthropology

Nutritional Anthropology

Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection
Anthropology

How to Stitch Ethnography

Feminist anthropologist Tania Perez-Bustos discusses how immersion in the act of embroidery affects the body and enables collective reflection and listening.
Anthropology

The Rise and Fall of Generations

Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them?
Pivot Points: Moments That Shape Us
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9 - Theodor Borrmann

Our new chair of General Meeting talks about the openness of Wolfson, as well his journey changing academic disciplines for his DPhil
The Migration Oxford Podcast

Politics of Emigration

In this episode of The Migration Oxford Podcast, we are discussing the politics of emigration. All countries are countries of immigration and of emigration, yet the politics of emigration are often less obsessed over as attitudes toward immigration.
How Epidemics End
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Cristiana Bastos and the Human End of Epidemics

Professor Cristiana Bastos (Lisbon) and Professor Erica Charters discuss how anthropology and ethnology measure the end of epidemics, including HIV/AIDS, and the difference between illness and disease.
Disobedient Buildings
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How has COVID-19 influenced domestic life?

The Disobedient Buildings team reflect on both the positive and negative implications of spending more time in the home and within the community during Covid-19 lockdowns across their field sites.
Disobedient Buildings
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Does home ownership increase inequality?

The Disobedient Buildings team examine the relationships between the privatization of housing and rising inequality in London, Bucharest and Oslo.
Disobedient Buildings
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What does welfare mean today?

The Disobedient Buildings team explore the continuities and differences in the welfare systems in the UK, Romania and Norway .
Disobedient Buildings
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Are local authorities meeting the needs of diverse communities?

Anna Ulrikke Andersen interviews researcher Tom Davies about socially driven building design in post-Second World War Oslo and the challenges inhabitants of those buildings face today.
Disobedient Buildings
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Have people lost their sense of civic duty?

Gabriela Nicolescu interviews architecture lecturer Ilinca Păun-Constantinescu about the loss of community and the demise of civic duty in post-socialist Bucharest.
Disobedient Buildings
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Will the State look after you?

Inge daniels talks to Jacky Peacock from Advice to Renters on the housing challenges faced by vulnerable people in London.
Disobedient Buildings
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Can participatory design reach ‘forgotten people’ in Oslo?

Anna Ulrikke Andersen interviews the founders of MakersHub Oslo to discuss the value of participatory design in architectural practice.

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