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Anthropology

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)
Anthropology

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)
Anthropology

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.
Anthropology

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.
Anthropology

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)
Anthropology

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)
Anthropology

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.
Anthropology

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.
Anthropology

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)
Anthropology

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.
Asian Studies Centre

The Traffic in Hierarchy: Precedence and Power in Burmese Social Life

Dr Ward Keeler speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar.
Keble College

Rethinking Easter Island’s Mysterious Past

Professor Terry Hunt, University of Oregon, gives the ASC Annual Lecture on Easter Island.
Anthropology

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
Anthropology

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
Anthropology

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
Anthropology

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)
Anthropology

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
Anthropology

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
Anthropology

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
Anthropology

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

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