Anthropology

The Oxford Anthropology Podcast brings together talks by internationally renowned scholars and cutting edge researchers. Their lectures explore a wide range of human experience and feature case studies from around the world.

We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.

Anticipating Future Complexity: Are Systems Such as Cities Getting More Complex?

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Complexity and Systemic Risk: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2010

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Cities are getting more complex as their residents acquire more and more ways in which they can interact with one another.

New technologies enable individuals to repackage their time and space in countless different combinations, and the flexibility afforded by such innovations makes possible many new ways in which individuals might react to this complexity. Behavioural change is considerably greater in the modern city than the medieval. Delivered by Professor Mike Batty: Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.

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Complexity and Systemic Risk: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2010

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Department: Oxford Martin School

Date Added: 17/02/2010

Duration: 01:05:00

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Between armageddon and utpoia; conflict prevention, justice and reconciliation after mass atrocity.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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Seminar delivered on Monday 8 February 2010 by Dr. Rama Mani, Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, and Project Director, Ending Mass Atrocities - Echoes in the South.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 16/02/2010

Duration: 00:33:55

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Punishment in Transition: Re-thinking the Role of Punishment and Sentencing for Transitional Justice

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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Seminar delivered on Monday 1st February 2010 by Ralph Henham, Professor of Criminal Justice, Nottingham Trent University.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 16/02/2010

Duration: 00:46:33

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Why people get fat: an integral approach

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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Mike Rayner and Stanley Uljiaszek give a talk about the causes of obesity on 7th November 2007.

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 12/02/2010

Duration: 00:39:48

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Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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Nicholas Timpson, of the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, gives a talk on Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children on the 9th November 2009.

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 12/02/2010

Duration: 00:55:52

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Networks and Obesity

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Director of UBVO, University of Oxford, gives a talk on networks and obesity.

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 12/02/2010

Duration: 00:41:00

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Cervical Cancer in Africa

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Cancer in the Developing World

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This podcast features interviews with three of the delegates at the conference on cervical cancer in Africa. They share their views about the problem of cervical cancer in Africa and discuss what the international community can do to help.

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Cancer in the Developing World

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Princess Nikky Onyeri

Rengaswamy Sankaranarayan

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Department: Department of Oncology

Date Added: 12/02/2010

Duration: 00:23:40

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General Philosophy

A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise of the 8-week General Philosophy course, delivered to first year undergraduates. These lectures aim to provide a thorough introduction to many philosophical topics and to get students and others interested in thinking about key areas of philosophy. Taking a chronological view of the history of philosophy, each lecture is split into 3 or 4 sections which outline a particular philosophical problem and how different philosophers have attempted to resolve the issue. Individuals interested in the 'big' questions about life such as how we perceive the world, who we are in the world and whether we are free to act will find this series informative, comprehensive and accessible.

The ageing society and its implications

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Entrepreneurship

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This Oxford at Said seminar was dedicated to the topic of Ageing. Three distinguished academics from Oxford University discuss the social, biological and ethical implications for an ageing society.

For the foreseeable future, population ageing is irreversible and will fundamentally affect all areas of life from the workplace to the family. Sarah Harper outlines the most important social consequences of population ageing and discuss potential policy implications. Lynne Cox explains current research strategies to find the genetic drivers of ageing which might eventually help us to slow the ageing process and Julian Savulescu finishes the seminar by discussing his manifesto on 'Why we need a war on ageing' arguing that mankind has a moral obligation to strive for a longer and better life.