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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 509 | The Marett Memorial Lecture 2018. Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture | The Marett Memorial Lecture for 2018 (27 April) was given by Professor Anne-Christine Taylor (emeritus; Director of Research at the CNRS) on the Amazonian 'Individualism' of the Jivaroan people of Ecuador and Peru | Anne-Christine Taylor | 31 Jul 2018 | |
| 508 | The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field) | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Rafael Schacter (University College London) on 1 December 2017 | Rafael Schacter | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 507 | The concept of culture in cultural evolution | The Keynote speech by Tim Lewens (Professor of Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) for the Cultural Evolution Workshop held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, on 28 February 2017 | Tim Lewens | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 506 | Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Elizabeth Ewart and Wolde Tadesse (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) on 13 October 2017 | Elizabeth Ewart, Wolde Tadesse | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 505 | Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Michael Jackson (Emeritus Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School), 20 October 2017 | Michael Jackson | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 504 | Words and Deeds - the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017 | Michael Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, delivered the Astor Visiting Lecture at Oxford on 19 October 2017. Introduced by Ramon Sarró (Oxford). | Michael Jackson | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 503 | Ebola: A biosocial journey | The inaugural Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture delivered in Oxford on 3 November 2017 by Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Melissa Parker | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 502 | Creative Commons | Resisting moralisation in health promotion | A seminar by Rebecca Brown (University of Oxford) | Rebecca Brown | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 501 | Creative Commons | Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0 | A seminar by Cat Pausé (Massey University, New Zealand) | Cat Pausé | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 500 | Creative Commons | Anorexia, care and comfort | A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Anna Lavis | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 499 | Bitter-sweet adaptation | A seminar by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) | Stanley Ulijaszek | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 498 | Creative Commons | Macaques at the margins | Professor Sarah Elton (Durham) discusses 'what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates outside the tropics', a UBVO seminar 16 November 2017 | Sarah Elton | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 497 | Creative Commons | The discursive regulation of 'too fat' and 'too thin' bodies | A presentation by Helen Malson (University of the West of England) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Helen Malson | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 496 | Creative Commons | Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010 | A presentation by Natalie Boero (College of Social Sciences, San Jose, California) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Natalie Boero | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 495 | Creative Commons | Completing contemporary discourses of obesity | A presentation by Helene Shugart (University of Utah) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Helene Shugart | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 494 | Creative Commons | Analytic approaches to media representations | A presentation by David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | David Zeitlyn | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 493 | Creative Commons | Text mining techniques | A presentation by John McNaught (Deputy Director of the National Centre for Text Mining) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | John McNaught | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 492 | Creative Commons | Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media | A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Anna Lavis | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 491 | Creative Commons | Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places | Paul Norman (University of Leeds) presented this UBVO seminar on 2 November 2017 | Paul Norman | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 490 | Creative Commons | Constructing the archetypal anorectic trends in media representations of eating disordered celebrities | A presentation by Paula Saukko (Loughborough University) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017 | Paula Saukko | 13 Mar 2018 |
| 489 | Polyrational approaches to obesity | In this talk, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek considers whether obesity is a polyrational problem | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 488 | Physical activity and the built environment | A presentation given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Fribourg Obesity Research Conference in Switzerland in 2017 | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 487 | Creative Commons | Models of Obesity - A Book Launch | To mark its publication of Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy in September 2017, author Stanley Ulijaszek discusses the book's themes and purpose | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 486 | Creative Commons | Listening to the News Audience - What's Missing from Obesity News? | A seminar by Catriona Bonfiglioli, a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia | Catriona Bonfiglioli | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 485 | Creative Commons | Childhood Obesity in Portugal | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek interviews Professor Cristina Padez as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) 'Instruments and Institutions' interviews series | Stanley Ulijaszek, Cristina Padez | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 484 | What is Nutritional Anthropology? | A talk by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 483 | Obesity and Consumption | A lecture presented by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. | Stanley Ulijaszek | 28 Feb 2018 | |
| 482 | Creative Commons | Possible Futures - Robert Foley | A talk by Robert Foley (University of Cambridge) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | Robert Foley | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 481 | Creative Commons | Possible Futures - Rebecca Sear | A talk by Rebecca Sear (Dept. of Population Health) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | Rebecca Sear | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 480 | Creative Commons | Possible Futures - Peter Walsh | A talk by Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | Peter Walsh | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 479 | Creative Commons | Possible Futures - Charlotte Roberts | A talk by Charlotte Roberts (University of Durham) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | Charlotte Roberts | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 478 | Creative Commons | Possible Futures | Alexandra Alvergne and Nicholas Márquez-Grant introduce Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | Alexandra Alvergne, Nicholas Márquez-Grant | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 477 | Creative Commons | Ebola Emergence is Predictable | This talk was given by Dr Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine on 3 November 2016/ | Peter Walsh | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 476 | Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitisha, South Africa | Michelle Pentecost (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) gave this talk on 18 May 2017 as part of the Unity for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series | Michelle Pentecost | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 475 | Food and eating | A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity | Stanley Ulijaszek | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 474 | Energy balance models of obesity | A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity | Stanley Ulijaszek | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 473 | Global transformation of diet | A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity | Stanley Ulijaszek | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 472 | Obesity governance through measurement | A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity | Stanley Ulijaszek | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 471 | Genetics of obesity | A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity | Stanley Ulijaszek | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 470 | Limitations of obesity models | A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity | Stanley Ulijaszek | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 469 | Obesogenic environments | A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity | Stanley Ulijaszek | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 468 | Bariatric surgery's intersubjective embodiments | Heather Howard gave this talk on 11 May 2017 as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series | Heather Howard | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 467 | A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jarrett Zigon (University of Virginia) on 2 December 2016. | Jarrett Zigon | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 466 | The Indian Village: Marx to Modi | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Ed Simpson (SOAS) discusses the issues raised by the re-study of an Indian village. 25 November 2016. | Ed Simpson | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 465 | The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Roger Sansi-Roca (Goldsmiths, University of London) on 18 November 2016. | Roger Sansi-Roca | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 464 | A Brilliant Jewel: Celibacy and its Malcontents in the Brazilian Catholic Church | In this Departmental Seminar, Maya Mayblin (University of Edinburgh) discusses the relatively late and most challenged rule in the Brazilian Catholic Church - celibacy. 4 November 2016. | Maya Mayblin | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 463 | Formalization as Development: Accounting for the Proliferation of Village Savings Associations | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Maia Green (University of Manchester) discusses village savings associations and small-scale credit in Sub-Saharan Africa. 28 October 2016. | Maia Green | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 462 | ‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani | The opening Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2017 given by Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) on 1 May. The theme of the series was: 'Getting Cosa Nostra: Knowledge and Criminal Justice in Southwestern Sicily'. | Naor Ben-Yehoyada | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 461 | Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK | The 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture was given in Oxford on 24 May by Prof. Pat Caplan of Goldsmiths, London. | Pat Caplan | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 460 | The concept of culture in cultural evolution | In his keynote speech for the Cultural Evolution Workshop (held in the Pitt Rivers Museum on 28 February 2017), Prof. Tim Lewens of Cambridge examines the concept of culture in cultural evolution. | Tim Lewens | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 459 | Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous? | Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017. | Paul Harris | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 458 | Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space | A seminar of the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions. Dr Ann R. David (University of Roehampton) focuses on Tamil worshippers in the UK to discuss the role of ritual in religion and dance. 18 January 2017. | Ann R. David | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 457 | Climate, weather, culture | In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Steve Rayner examines the blossoming of anthropological attention to climate change over the last ten years. 17 February 2017. | Steve Rayner | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 456 | The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs | In this Departmental Seminar, Dr Franck Düvell (COMPAS) focuses on the great migration of 2015 when it is estimated that 12 million people were newly displaced. 20 January 2017. | Franck Düvell | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 455 | Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil | Prof. Elizabeth B. Silva (The Open University) discusses the role of staged events in remembering the establishment of dictatorship in Brazil in 1964. 19 May 2017. | Elizabeth B. Silva | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 454 | Women in India’s waste economy | In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Barbara Harriss-Whiten draws on anthropology, economics and politics to examine the role of women in Indian society. 12 May 2017. | Barbara Harriss-White | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 453 | The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique | Greg Carr, the President of the Gorongosa Restoration Project in Mozambique, gives an overview of how the Gorongosa National Park has evolved since Mozambique's civil conflict ended in 1992. 5 May 2017. | Greg Carr | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 452 | The obesity epidemic and how bodies come to be through the pedagogies of digital health | Emma Rich gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 16th February 2017. | Emma Rich | 28 Feb 2017 | |
| 451 | Inequality, Obesity and Oxford: how to reduce car dependence | Danny Dorling gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 2nd February 2017. | Danny Dorling | 28 Feb 2017 | |
| 450 | Creative Commons | Social Mobility: Can family policy make a difference? | Naomi Eisenstadt gives a talk for the UBVO seminar seires on 1st December 2016. Please note, there were technical difficulties during the recording of this episode so it will stop at 12:34. We apologise for this. | Naomi Eisenstadt | 28 Feb 2017 |
| 449 | Creative Commons | Epigenetics: Environment, embodiment and equality | Rebecca Richmond gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 13th October 2016. | Rebecca Richmond | 28 Feb 2017 |
| 448 | Familial homeostasis and negotiations of children's eating and physical activity: An analysis of intergenerational conversations in low income US families | Paulina Nowicka gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on November 17th 2016, | Paulina Nowicka | 18 Jan 2017 | |
| 447 | Creative Commons | The influence of school on eating disorders in girls - evidence from Sweden and the UK | Helen Bould gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th October 2016. | Helen Bould | 18 Jan 2017 |
| 446 | Creative Commons | The Great Gatsby curve in 3D: Inequality of outcomes, inequality of opportunities, and social mobility across countries | Gaston Yalonetzky gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 10th November 2016. | Gaston Yalonetzky | 18 Jan 2017 |
| 445 | Advancing a model of inequalities, stress, and obesity | Emily Henderson, Durham University, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Emily Henderson | 22 Jun 2016 | |
| 444 | Exploring the city's 'sutures' | Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016) | Filip De Boeck | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 443 | Plantain island sirens | Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016) | Jennifer Diggins | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 442 | Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last? | Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) examines indigenous knowledge and specific projects across the world, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand (13 May 2016) | Joy Hendry | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 441 | The charm of 'things': ethnography and performance | Marta Rosa Jardim (UNIFESP, Brazil) examines the role of sculptures of Hindu gods in Mozambique and the influence of art history on her anthropological research (20 May 2016) | Marta Rosa Jardim | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 440 | The certainty of futures lost | Lucy Lowe (Edinburgh) discusses motherhood, Caesarean sections and migration in 'Little Mogadishu', Mairobi (3 Fecember 2015) | Lucy Lowe | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 439 | The fragility of conviction | Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)'s seminar is based on 'walking with the Tablighi Jammat in Kyrgyzstan (12 February 2016) | Mathijs Pelkmans | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 438 | Profane relations: the irony of offensive jokes in India | Andrew Sanchez (Kent) discusses why a multi-ethnic workforce in eastern India exchanges jokes about each other's religion and cultures as a form of irony (19 February 2016) | Andrew Sanchez | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 437 | Brown adipose tissue, energy balance, and obesity - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | Michael Symonds, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series. | Michael Symonds | 14 Jun 2016 | |
| 436 | Bariatric surgery in childhood and adolescence - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | Claude Marcus, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews. | Claude Marcus | 14 Jun 2016 | |
| 435 | Familial interventions for childhood obesity - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | Paulina Nowicka, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series. | Paulina Nowicka | 14 Jun 2016 | |
| 434 | UK Food Network Responsibility Deal - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | Susan Jebb, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series. | Susan Jebb | 14 Jun 2016 | |
| 433 | The Body Mass Index in Obesity Reporting - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | Philip James, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series. | Philip James | 14 Jun 2016 | |
| 432 | Sugar, Metabolisms, and Taxation - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | Michael Goran, University of Southern California, gives an interview for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series. | Michael Goran | 14 Jun 2016 | |
| 431 | Obesity, responsibility and ethics | Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Julian Savuelscu | 14 Jun 2016 | |
| 430 | Creative Commons | The developmental origins of health and disease: adaptation reconsidered | Ian Rickard (Durham) places the origins of the science of health and disease within a framework of evolutionary theory and a medical anthropology perspective (18 January 2016) | Ian Rickard | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 429 | Creative Commons | Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond | Emma Pomeroy (Cambridge) places obstructed labour within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 15 February 2016. | Emma Pomeroy | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 428 | Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases | Cristina Giuliani (Bologna) places inflammaging, and genetics, within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 1 February 2016. | Cristina Giuliani | 08 Jun 2016 | |
| 427 | Creative Commons | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome | Charlotte K. Russell (Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Durham) looks at how evolutionary anthropology and cross-cultural perspectives can have a huge impact on specific healthcare issues such as SIDS (22 February 2016) | Charlotte K. Russell | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 426 | The dawn of Darwinian critical care medicine | James G. Morgan (Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Leeds General Infirmary) discusses how an evolutionary approach can help one understand medicine, such as adaptive defence mechanisms in the body (8 February 2016) | James G. Morgan | 08 Jun 2016 | |
| 425 | Creative Commons | Maternal capital and offspring development | Jonathan Wells (UCL Institute of Child Health) presents an intergenerational perspective on the development origins of health and disease. A medical anthropology seminar given on 29 February 2016. | Jonathan Wells | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 424 | Creative Commons | Tracing the origins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic | Nuno Fario (Oxford) investigates the development of HIV since the discovery of its first, and diverse, genomes in 1959 and 1960. A medical anthropology seminar given on 7 March 2016. | Nuno Faria | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 423 | Governing Plastic Biology: Biopolitics in Epigenetic Times. | Maurizio Meloni, University of Sheffield, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Maurizio Meloni | 02 Jun 2016 | |
| 422 | Agrarian change, climate stress and shifting class relations in the Nepal-Bihar borderlands | A special lecture by Dr Fraser Sugden, a Kathmandu-based social scientist at the International Water Management Institute (19 May 2016) | Fraser Sugden | 01 Jun 2016 | |
| 421 | Marett Memorial Lecture 2016: The Creole world between inequality and difference | Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo) delivered 2016's Marett Memorial Lecture on 29 April at Exeter College. The lecture examined controversies over Creole identity which are related to fundamental questions in anthropology. | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | 01 Jun 2016 | |
| 420 | Creative Commons | The dynamics in the details: An ethnography of food aid, weights and measures in South Sudan. | Darryl Stellmach, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Darryl Stellmach | 18 May 2016 |
| 419 | Creative Commons | Paying attention to the journey | In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ginny Mounce (Oxford) discusses couples' experiences of investigating and starting infertility treatments, 19 October 2015 | Ginny Mounce | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 418 | Creative Commons | Does 21st-century technology change the experience of early pregnancy and miscarriage? | In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ingrid Gramme (Oxford) discusses how our basic understanding of pregnancy and miscarriage has changed enormously over the last eighty years, 9 November 2015 | Ingrid Gramme | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 417 | Birds in heaven: social positioning of lost babies and their mothers in Qatar | In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Susie Kilshaw (UCL), discusses the impact of pregnancy and loss on mothers and fathers, and other family members, in Qatar, 2 November 2015 | Susie Kilshaw | 14 Mar 2016 | |
| 416 | Creative Commons | Microbes and other spirits | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, César Enrique Giraldo Herrera (Oxford) discusses the role of hallucinogenics in interpreting reality and the role of visions in Lowland South America, 23 October 2015 (the opening few seconds are missing) | César Enrique Giraldo Herrera | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 415 | Creative Commons | Revisiting uncertainty: provisional electricity infrastructure and livelihoods in an African city | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Idalina Baptista (Oxford), discusses the governance of electricity in urban sub-Saharan Africa, drawing on a case study focused on Maputo, Mozambique, 13 November 2015 | Idalina Baptista | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 414 | Creative Commons | Negotiating enemy lines | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Lauren Greenwood (University of Sussex) discusses the complexities of collaboration with the British military, 29 May 2015 | Lauren Greenwood | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 413 | Medical and psychological issues in the treatment of recurrent miscarriage | In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar, Raj Rai (Imperial College and St Mary's Hospital) discusses the role of clinical trials and ways of addressing the potential exploitation of vulnerable couples, 26 October 2015 | Raj Rai | 14 Mar 2016 | |
| 412 | Creative Commons | Crossing religious borders: Jewish Cabo Verdeans | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Alma Gottlieb (Illinois) discusses the blend of religious traditions that have developed on the Cape Verde islands, particularly early Jewish settlers, 6 November 2015 | Alma Gottlieb | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 411 | 'Fat knowledge', epigenetics and the enchantment of relational biology | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar presented by Megan Warin (Adelaide) on the ways in which obesity is understood, embodied and enacted, 16 October 2015 | Megan Warin | 14 Mar 2016 | |
| 410 | Evolutionary origins of technological behaviour: a primate archaeology approach to chimpanzees | An Anthropology Departmental seminar presented by Susana Carvalha (Oxford) on the archaeological sites of non-humans, 27 November 2015 | Susana Carvalho | 14 Mar 2016 |
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