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What Makes Us Human? Like many anthropologists, this is the question that provokes my anthropological imagination. Assumed capacities of the mind; language, intentionality, theory of mind and empathy have to date informed normative definitions of what makes humans exceptionally human.
05 May 2021
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Zoom - all welcome. Please register to attend.
Please join us for the talk by Prof Tom Boellstorff (University of California Irvine) hosted by our Social Anthropology Research Group on 12 May, 3 pm (UK time). Prof Boellstorff will present his fascinating new book project 'The Intellivision System: Video Game History and the Future of Platforms'.
12 May 2021
Online via Zoom
Please join us for the 2021 Robert H Layton Lecture by Prof Clarence C Gravlee: Racism and Health Inequities: Integrating the Social and Biological Sciences
19 May 2021
Zoom
Please join us for Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou's seminar on the subject of 'Anticipatory nostalgia and nomadic temporality: chronocracy in the crypto-colony'
26 May 2021
Join us for Dr Paolo Heywood's inaugural lecture.
02 June 2021
Thursday 23rd September, 2021, 12:00 - 14:00
23 September 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Why and how do we learn?
09 February 2022
In this lecture I consider the ways in which everyday physical activities such as walking, particularly as part of a social group, are enjoyed and valued, as well as the pleasures and benefits of academic collaboration.
23 February 2022
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This lecture focuses on a paper which reflects critically and more generally about the ways in which the anthropology of energy, climate change, and mobility must resist a tendency to conceive of research questions, frame research projects, and develop scholarly interventions that mirror the underlying urgencies that define energy and climate processes.
17 March 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
D110 / Zoom
You are warmly invited to our Department Seminar next week on Wednesday 3 May at 3pm in Lecture Room D110, in which Tom Yarrow will present his Professorial Inaugural lectur
03 May 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
D110 and Zoom