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Anthropology

'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery

Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology
Anthropology

Inequality, insecurity and obesity

A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford
Anthropology

Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity

Emily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed.
Anthropology

Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK

Anthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan
Anthropology

Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (of ODID, Oxford)'s anthropology departmental seminar focuses on the transmission of diverse goods in a commodity chain that was formed in the 1980s.
Anthropology

Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia

Rebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar.
Anthropology

Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present

Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar.
Anthropology

The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon

This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford)
Anthropology

Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity

Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College, Illinois) discusses the impact of Christianity on the research and careers of Victor and Edith Turner, looking in particular at their work in Rhodesia. An anthropology departmental seminar.
Anthropology

Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon

An anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE.
Changing Character of War

Planning Future War

The Director of CCW outlines the future of armed conflict and how we should be preparing for it.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The intimacies of the celebrity chef industry: affects, effects and the mediation of eating

Emma-Jayne Abbots University of Wales, Trinity St David, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Liminal living: eating disordered embodiment and the reconfiguring of social being

Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Department of Social Policy 2013-14 Centenary Lectures

A brief history of randomised controlled trails in education (over the last 100 years)

Professor Carole Torgerson, Durham University, gives a talk as part of the Centenary seminar series in Michaelmas Term 2013, celebrating 100 years of social enquiry at Oxford University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention.
Department of Social Policy 2013-14 Centenary Lectures

Using social science research to influence policy: the case of the family justice system

Ceridwen Roberts, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, gives a talk as part of the Centenary seminar series in Michaelmas Term 2013, celebrating 100 years of social enquiry at Oxford University's Department of Social Policy and Invervention.
Department of Social Policy 2013-14 Centenary Lectures

Barnett House: a hundred years of research policy and practice

George Smith, Teresa Smith, Liz Peretz, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, gave a lecture as part of the Centenary seminar series in Michaelmas Term 2013.
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Little paid and Overworked: Marriage prospects of low income Japanese men

Dr Ekaterina Hertog, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
MSc Migration Studies

The public policy of migration

In this Migration Studies lecture, Sarah Spencer (COMPAS, University of Oxford) examines the place of research in policy making by focusing on the role of social scientists and how they can stay in control of their research (6 December 2013)
MSc Migration Studies

The sociology of migration

In this lecture for the MSc in Migration Studies, Professor Michael Keith (Director of COMPAS, University of Oxford) discusses how ideas travel as well as people. The lecture was delivered 12 November 2013.
Anthropology

Political ecology of disease

This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013

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