Radical Anthropology seminars

Anthropology asks one big question: What does it mean to be human?

Language, art, music and culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, culminating in a symbolic explosion or 鈥榟uman revolution鈥� whose echoes can still be heard in myths and cultural traditions from around the world. These talks are a general introduction to social and biological anthropology, ranging over fields as diverse as hunter-gatherer studies, mythology, primatology, archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world together with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology.

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Autumn 2024

Gender, we-ness, wild service 鈥� what made us human?

Tuesdays 6:30-8:15pm | Daryll Forde Seminar Room | Department of Anthropology | ZOOM ID: 384 186 2174 | P补蝉蝉飞辞谤诲:听Wawilak

Sep 24
Chris Knight (果冻影院)
Did matriarchy ever exist?

Oct 1
Chris Knight and Camilla Power (果冻影院)
The sex-strike theory of human origins
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Oct 8
Tamas David-Barrett 听(Oxford)
Gendered Species: A natural history of patriarchy

Oct 15
Volker Sommer (果冻影院 Emeritus)
The Evolution of We-Ness

Oct 22
Haya (School of Occupation and Apartheid Studies)
Students in revolt: Palestine solidarity organising on campus and the fight against empire

Oct 29
Ingrid Lewis
BaMbendjele Polyphony practice: Learn to sing in polyphonic chorus, a dark Moon workshop

Nov 5
Harry Jenkinson (R2R)
Wild Service - and the Human Right to Roam

Nov 12
Denise Arnold 听(果冻影院)
Sea shells, women鈥檚 blood and an Andean bioclimatology of water

Nov 19
Chris Stringer (NHM)
Human evolution: some recent discoveries and their implications

Nov 26
Camilla Power (果冻影院)
Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the 鈥楬uman Revolution鈥�

Dec 3
Jerome Lewis and Chris Knight (果冻影院)
Modern metaphors from political resistancemovements applied to human evolution

Dec 10
Chris Knight
A Xmas Fairytale: the Shoes that were danced to pieces

Spring 2024

Tuesdays 6:30-8:15pm | Daryll Forde Seminar Room | Department of Anthropology | ZOOM ID: 384 186 2174 | P补蝉蝉飞辞谤诲:听Wawilak

9 January - Camilla Power
'Egalitarianism made us human: why Graeber and Wengrow get it wrong'

16 January - Chris Knight
'The story of the Bird-Nester: an introduction to the science of mythology'

23 January - Chris Knight
'The Australian Aboriginal Rainbow Snake'

30 January - Jerome Lewis
''Woman鈥檚 biggest husband is the Moon': BaYaka hunter-gatherer gender relations'

6 February - Deniz Salali
'Raising Tomorrow: BaYaka hunter-gatherer childhoods and global perspectives on child development'

13 February - Chris Knight and Helena Tu啪inska
''The Three Enchanted Princes': Ritual syntax and the Interpretation of fairytales'

20 February - Angus McNelly with Matthew Doyle, discussant
'Now We Are in Power: The politics of passive revolution in 21st Century Bolivia'

27 February - Ivan Tacey
'Batek Shamanism: healers, warriors and cosmopolitical diplomats'

5 March - Cedric Boeckx
'Hunter-gatherers of words'

12 March - Shakti Lamba
'Building well together: a study of human cooperation'

19 March - Morna Finnegan
'Remember who you are: kinship in an age of crisis'

Autumn 2023

What it means to be human 鈥� evolution, action, resistance

Tuesdays 6.30 - 8.15pm | Daryll Forde Seminar Room & Zoom听| Hybrid

10 October - Kirsty Graham (St Andrews University)
"The expressive chimpanzees of Fongoli"

17 October - Toyin Agbetu (果冻影院)
"A Return to Action: A discussion revisiting the values of Action Anthropology"

24 October -听Camilla Power and Ian Watts (果冻影院)
"On the 鈥楬uman Revolution鈥�"

31 October -听Chris Knight (果冻影院)
"The science of mythology: 'The Sleeping Beauty' and other tales"

7 November -听Natalia Buitron (University of Cambridge) and Hans Steinmuller (LSE)
"Egalitarianism is hierarchy, autonomy is mutuality"

14 November -听Freya Hope (University of Oxford)
"鈥楾his land is our land鈥�: Exploring New Travellers鈥� alternative worldmaking and activism"

21 November - Chris Stringer (NHM)
"Human evolution: some recent discoveries and their implications"

28 November -听Chris Knight (果冻影院)
"Oppenheimer and Chomsky: How war research shaped modern science"

5 December -听Jerome Lewis, Chris Knight (果冻影院)
"When Eve laughed: The origins of language"

12 December -听Chris Knight (果冻影院)
"A Xmas Fairytale: the Shoes that were danced to pieces"

Spring 2023

17 Jan听Decoding the Dragon in world mythology.听Chris Knight

24 Jan听Egalitarian civilisations. Jerome Lewis

31 Jan听River of milk: road of ashes - the Milky Way in archaeoastronomy and myth. John Grigsby

7 Feb听The music returns to Kai-as. Sian Sullivan

14 Feb听How to run a brothel: a thought experiment on kinship, sex and economics. Chris Knight

21 Feb听The hunter Monman茅ki and his wives. Chris Knight

28 Feb听Social norms underlying collective intelligence in hunter-gatherers. Vivek Venkataraman (ZOOM only)

7 Mar听IWD special lecture Matchwoman or vampire? Strikes, sisterhood and the Victorian fear of female sexuality. Louise Raw

14 Mar听Anthropology, activism and local environmental knowledge. Panel with Raj Puri, Paul Powlesland, Richard Jones, Pauline von Hellermann

21 Mar听Navigating history in anthropology: modern witches and expanded historicities. Helen Cornish

28 Mar听BITCH: On the female of the species. Lucy Cooke

These talks are held between 6.30 and 8.30 live in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 果冻影院 and also on Zoom. To guarantee a place, please book your ticket in good time, at least one day in advance of your selected talk, . If you are attending virtually, we will email you the Zoom ID and passcode on the morning of the event.

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