| Venom, pollinators and parasites |
Anna Nekaris of Oxford Brookes University discusses 'how the poisonous slow loris may reveal the origins of social grooming amongst primates'. An ICEA seminar from 2 November 2011. |
Anna Nekaris |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Extreme climatic events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa? |
In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Sallie Burrough of Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment presents an environmental perspective from the Kalahari Desert (23/11/11). |
Sallie Burrough |
24 May, 2012 |
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| How niche construction affects inheritance systems in human evolution |
A seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology by John Odling-Smee (an Emeritus research fellow from Oxford University), 30 November 2011. |
John Odling-Smee |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Implementing a Research Culture in the NHS. Medical Anthropology at Oxford |
The conference 'Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections', held at ICSA on 23-24 June 2011, marked the first ten years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. This podcast by Olivier Bazin formed part of the first panel. |
Olivier Bazin |
10 May, 2012 |
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| The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar |
In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar on 'Managing Disasters and Misfortune', Eric Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) discusses 'The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms' (3 February 2012). |
Eric Edwards |
10 May, 2012 |
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| There is no such thing as Dian cuisine. Anthropology Departmental Seminar |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jakob Klein (SOAS) discusses 'Food and locality in twenty-first century China' (11 March 2011). |
Jakob Klein |
10 May, 2012 |
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| Don't throw the baby out with the bathos. Anthropology Departmental Seminar: |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Stephen Reyna (MPI-Halle) discussed 'regimes of truth in an anthropology of hypocrisy' (25 February 2011). |
Stephen Reyna |
10 May, 2012 |
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| On the concept of cultural transmission. Anthropology Departmental Seminar |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Roy Ellen (University of Kent) discusses 'On the concept of cultural transmission' (18 February 2011). |
Roy Ellen |
10 May, 2012 |
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| Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China. Anthropology Departmental Seminar |
In this Anthropology Departmental seminar Michael Rowlands (University College London) discusses 'Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China'. 13 May 2011. |
Michael Rowlands |
10 May, 2012 |
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| The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size |
In this Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Seminar, Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge) discusses "The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size." 15 June 2011. |
Stephen Montgomery |
10 May, 2012 |
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| The right to participate: law, equality, and the prospective impact on immigrant integration in Europe and abroad |
Thomas Huddleston discusses European integration policies and access to health care and other benefits, in light of recent MPG research. |
Thomas Huddleston |
8 May, 2012 |
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| Shifts in the Public/Private Divide as mode of inclusion and exclusion |
Sarah van Walsum discusses Dutch and EU law's approach to care work and protection of rights. |
Sarah van Walsum |
8 May, 2012 |
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| Migrants' access to goods and services in the context of international human rights law |
Aoife Nolan (Durham Law School) takes us through the relationship between migrants' rights and international human rights instruments. |
Aoife Nolan |
16 April, 2012 |
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| What is the impact of new migration on cohesion and integration? |
The government and the media regularly make the case that migration must be restricted in order to ensure community cohesion and encourage integration. |
Robert Ford, Will Somerville, Shamit Saggar |
16 April, 2012 |
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| Civic Stratification and Migrants Rights |
Lydia Morris discusses the stratification of rights as a way to explain rights given or constrained by the state, in the migration context. |
Lydia Morris |
5 March, 2012 |
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| Between welfare states and markets: the migrant-policy nexus in comparative perspective and reflections on social rights and antidiscrimination law |
Virginie Guiraudon takes an interdisciplinary look at social and human rights and anti-discrimination laws, giving a historical, legal and sociological perspective, as well as considering the European situation. |
Virginie Guiraudon |
5 March, 2012 |
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| Entitlement, belonging and outsiderness: Britain's Gypsy Travellers in the twentieth century |
Becky Taylor discusses issues of entitlement, belonging and outsiderness for Britain's Gypsy travellers in the 20th century, with a focus on housing, education and perception. |
Becky Taylor |
5 March, 2012 |
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| What does new Home Office evidence on the Migrant Journey and family migration tell us about migration in the UK? |
Jon Simmons, Director for Migration and Border analysis in the Home Office Science Directorate gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Jon Simmons |
2 February, 2012 |
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| What is migration policy for? |
Sarah Spencer, COMPAS, Oxford University, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Sarah Spencer |
13 December, 2011 |
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| Immigration and welfare chauvinism: Britain since 1800 |
Professor David Feldman, historian, describes the "welfare chauvinism" existing in Britain since the 18th century. |
David Feldman |
1 December, 2011 |
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| Identification and mobility Control: Police sciences, technology, and international cooperation in West Europe, 1900-1930 |
Dr. Ilsen About takes us through the fascinating development of technology used by police in the early 1900's to allow for the identification of criminals internationally, known as 'distant identification'. |
Ilsen About |
1 December, 2011 |
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| What are the impacts of restrictions on participation in the labour market and civic life on young migrants? COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
Part of the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Les Back |
1 December, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Beyond 'terroir' |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar Marion Demossier of the University of Bath discusses 'territorial construction, hegemonic discourses and French wine culture'. 11 November 2011. |
Marion Demossier |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Discovering Anthropological Practice through Fieldwork |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Professor Judith Okely of Hull University (and an associate of ISCA, Oxford) looks back over her anthropological career, especially her time spent working with gypsies. 4 November 2011. |
Judith Okely |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Saints of Justice, Spirits of Devastation |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Helene Basu of Münster University examines 'Sorcery, Madness and Modernity in Western India'. 28 October 2011. |
Helene Basu |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: The Oil Company, 'Partnership' and the Moralities of Giving and Receiving |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Katy Gardner of the University of Sussex examines the impact of oil companies on 'corporate community engagement' in Bangladesh. 21 October 2011. |
Katy Gardner |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Thomas Kirsch of Konstanz University, discusses the 'Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit in Africa'. 14 October 2011. |
Thomas Kirsch |
29 November, 2011 |
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| How will climate change impact on migration? |
Allan Findlay, Professor of Population Geography, School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St. Andrews, gives a talk for the COMPAS breakfast briefing series. |
Allan Findlay |
18 November, 2011 |
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| Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire and the Chinese Labour Question |
David Glover, University of Southampton, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series on 10th November 2011. |
David Glover |
18 November, 2011 |
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| No rights for the wicked; human rights and foreign national prisoners |
Retired immigration lawyer Fran Webber goes through case law pre and post the entry into force of the Human Rights Act. |
Frances Webber |
2 November, 2011 |
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| Punishment and Migration between Europe and the United States: A Gllobalized 'Less Eligibility'? |
Dario Melossi, University of Bologna, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series. |
Dario Melossi |
26 October, 2011 |
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| Introduction to the Seminar Series 'A Chrysalis for every kind of criminal? Mobility, Crime and Citizenship' |
Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, Oxford University, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series entitled' 'A Chrysalis for every kind of criminal? Mobility, Crime and Citizenship'. |
Bridget Anderson |
26 October, 2011 |
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| What does migration mean for the 'white working class' in the UK? |
Podcast on what migration means for 'White Working Class' in the UK, Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor present their research findings. |
Ben Rogaly, Becky Taylor |
12 September, 2011 |
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| The Social Brain on the Internet |
In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and in part by the time available to invest in face-to-face interaction. |
Robin Dunbar |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche |
Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indicates this was fundamentally a socio-cognitive niche. |
Andrew Whiten |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level |
I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs. |
Chris Frith |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Experiencing Language |
The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention. |
Eva Jablonka |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Signals, Honesty and the Evolution of Language |
The evolution of language is a long-standing puzzle for many reasons. One is that its very virtues as a system of communication seem to open the door to ruinous free-riding and deception. |
Kim Sterelny |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Embodiment: Taking Sociality Seriously |
A very wise person of our acquaintance once said, 'Read old books to get new ideas'. |
Louise Barrett |
22 August, 2011 |
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| Cortico-cerebellar Evolution and the Distributed Neural Basis of Cognition |
Biologists interested in cognitive evolution have focussed on the dramatic expansion of the forebrain, particularly the neocortex, in lineages such as primates. |
Robert Barton |
22 August, 2011 |
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| A New Comparative Psychology |
In their classic 1969 paper Hodos and Campbell bemoaned the absence of appropriate evolutionary theory in comparative psychology. In this talk I will argue that despite the advent of Evolutionary Psychology the situation has changed only a little today. |
Russell Gray |
22 August, 2011 |
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| The Mystery of Cumulative Culture |
Human demographic and ecological success is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture, which allows human knowledge and technology to build up and improve over time. |
Kevin Laland |
22 August, 2011 |
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| Cultural Inheritance of Cultural Learning |
It is widely acknowledged that the cumulative cultural inheritance of technological skills and social practices has played a major role in shaping the ways of life of modern humans. |
Cecilia Heyes |
22 August, 2011 |
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| Welcome and Introduction |
Introduction to the "New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution" conference. |
Cecilia Heyes |
22 August, 2011 |
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| Who are the UK's new citizens? |
This briefing presents a profile of Britain's new citizens, and what we can learn from them about the relationship between settlement, citizenship and integration. |
Ben Gidley |
16 August, 2011 |
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| Where is the UK going on migrant integration policy? A comparison to Europe and North America - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
Exactly how does the UKís policy framework measure up to other countries in Europe and North America? What has changed? |
Thomas Huddleston |
16 August, 2011 |
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| What are the key evidence gaps in Britain's migration debate, and what are the implications for policy? COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
Informed public debate and evidence-based policy-making on immigration requires clarity and transparency about what we know and don't know about migration and its impacts. |
Martin Ruhs, Scott Blinder |
16 August, 2011 |
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| What does the "Big Society" mean for migrant communities? - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
The Coalition government's policy agenda on 'the Big Society' marks a major shift in the landscape. It has been described as radically passing power from the state to citizens and civil society. |
Vaughan Jones |
16 August, 2011 |
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| Mapping Turkish International Migration Studies: Old Questions, New Challenges |
Prof Dr. Ahmet Icduygu, Migration Research Centre, Koc University, Istanbul, gives the first in a new series on Turkish Migration for COMPAS. |
Ahmet Icduygu |
8 August, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Autopathographies - How 'sick lit' shapes knowledge and the illness experience |
This presentation by Dr Rachel Hall-Clifford (Primary Health Care, Oxford) was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections. |
Rachel Hall-Clifford |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Oxford's 'Two Bodies' in Medical Anthropology |
This presentation by Dr Caroline Potter (ISCA, Oxford) focuses on how Oxford's Medicial Anthropology bridges the biological and social divide. It was delivered at the 10 Years at the Intersections conference in June 2011. |
Caroline Potter |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Healing earth and sacred clay among the Mun, SW Ethiopia |
This presentation by doctoral candidate Kate Fayers-Kerr was delivered at the Medical Anthropogy at Oxford conference, 10 Years at the Intersections, June 2011. |
Kate Fayers-Kerr |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Moving from Efficacy to Safety |
This presentation by Dr Barbara Gerke discusses 'A changing focus in the study of Asian medical systems' and was delivered at the Medical Anthropology conference 10 Years at the Intersections, June 2011. |
Barbara Gerke |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Maize, Men and New Medical Models |
This presentation by doctoral student Kristina Baines was delivered at the Medical Anthropology at Oxford conference 10 Years at the Intersections. It focuses on embodied ecological heritage and health in Southern Belize. |
Kristina Baines |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Building Partnerships - a career path in research coordination and capacity building |
This presentation by Dalia Iskander, a previous student of Anthropology at Oxford, was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections on 23 June 2011. |
Dalia Iskander |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Beyond Language - Public Health Policy and Cultural Competency |
This presentation by Hannah Graff, a previous MPhil student at Oxford, was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections on 23 June 2011. |
Hanna Graff |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections - opening comments |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology, Oxford) introduces 10 Years at the Intersections, a conference to celebrate 10 years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. The conference took place 23-24 June 2011. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Impact of Exceptional Early Cognitive Environments on Musical Development |
This presentation by Prof. Adam Ockelford was delivered at the 2011 Human Sciences Symposium on The Musical Brain held on 26 February in Oxford. It focuses on case studies of blind and autistic children. |
Adam Ockelford |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Musical Brain - Opening Presentation |
On 26 February 2011, the Human Sciences Symposium focused on the The Musical Brain and the links between music, evolution and human psychology. This podcast is the opening presentation by Dr Iain Morley on Music and its Evolutionary Context. |
Iain Morley |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Social evolution in primates and other animals |
In this lecture, Dr Susanne Shultz (Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford) examines the social evolution of primates and other animals (10 March 2011). |
Susanne Shultz |
6 June, 2011 |
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| Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour |
In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Professor Mark Thomas (University College London) discusses the origins of modern human behaviour (18 May 2011). |
Mark Thomas |
6 June, 2011 |
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| Marett Memorial Lecture 2011: Beauty and the beast |
In this year's Marett Memorial Lecture, Professor Terence S Turner (Cornell University) discusses 'Beauty and the beast: Humanity, animality and animism in the thought of an Amazonian people' (6 May 2011). |
Terence S Turner |
6 June, 2011 |
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| Predictable obesity? An ecological approach for identifying future health risk |
Dr Caroline Potter, Lecturer in Medical Anthropology for the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 5th May 2011. |
Caroline Potter |
31 May, 2011 |
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| Two Perspectives on the Longitudinal Trends in Food Consumption: The Case of Denmark 1900-2000 |
Tenna Jensen, Department of History, University of Copenhagen, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Tenna Jensen |
27 May, 2011 |
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| Systems Science and Inequalities in Obesity in England - Findings from an Agent-Based Model |
Abdulrahman El-Sayid, DPhil Student, British Heart Foundation, Oxford, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Abdulrahman El-Sayid |
27 May, 2011 |
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| The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans are Changing the US and their Homeland |
Immigrant studies contrasts between foreign-born and their progeny born where they resettle. Eckstein shows how analyses leave undocumented and unexplained differences among first generation immigrants, rooted in different pre-migration experiences. |
Susan Eckstein |
10 May, 2011 |
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| Political Organizing of Temporary Migrants in Asia |
Michele Ford explores international organizing around temporary labour migration in Southeast Asia, while Nicola Piper examines temporary contract migration in Asia, revisited from an integrated rights perspective. |
Nicola Piper, Michele Ford |
9 May, 2011 |
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| Fizzyology: genetics, metabolic effects health outcomes and politics of high sugar |
Michael Goran gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Michael Goran |
6 April, 2011 |
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| The phenomenology of binge eating in anorexia and bulimia |
Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Karin Eli |
6 April, 2011 |
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| Digital image capture in public health surveillance for physical activity and food behaviour assessment |
Paul Kelly and Aiden Doherty give a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Paul Kelly, Aiden Doherty |
6 April, 2011 |
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| Affective hunger: bread and famine in ethiopian christian spirituality |
Cressida Marcus gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Cressida Marcus |
6 April, 2011 |
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| Why do we dislike obese people? |
Kerry O'Brien, Senior lecturer, University of Manchester and Monash University, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Kerry O'Brien |
6 April, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Heritage, hiking and the eradication of miracles |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (4 February 2011), Dr Ian Reader (University of Manchester) discuss consumerism and the sanitisation of pilgrimage from Shikoku to Santiago. |
Ian Reader |
18 March, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much? |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (28 January 2011), Dr Jerome Lewis (University College London) examines the place and cultural transmission of music and sound to the Bayaka Pygmies of the Central African Republic and Congo. Includes examples. |
Jerome Lewis |
18 March, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (11 February 2011), Professor Deborah James (London School of Economics) discusses the personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness in South Africa. |
Deborah James |
18 March, 2011 |
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| The Anthropology of Production |
In this lecture for anthropologsts and archaeologists, Professor Chris Gosde, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, examines the history and theory of production across different cultures and the difference between production and ownership. |
Chris Gosden |
18 March, 2011 |
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| What are the latest trends in migration into and out of the UK? - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
Sarah Croft (Office for National Statistics) gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series on December 10th, 2010. |
Sarah Croft |
11 March, 2011 |
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| Who Needs Migrant Workers? - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson (COMPAS, University of Oxford) give a COMPAS Breakfast Briefing on 11th November 2010. |
Martin Ruhs, Bridget Anderson |
11 March, 2011 |
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| What Could be the Impact of a cap on overseas Higher Education students? - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
Ursula Kelly, University of Strathclyde delivers a COMPAS Breakfast Briefing on 8th October 2010. |
Ursula Kelly |
11 March, 2011 |
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| Neurosociety part 5: what is it with the brain these days? Closing discussion |
Steve Woolgar and Paul Woulters give the final talk for the Neuroociety conference. |
Steve Woolgar, Paul Woulters |
10 March, 2011 |
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| Neurosociety part 3: The Social value of neurological reflexivity: decisions, and habits |
Jonathan Rowson (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) gives a talk for the Neurosociety conference. |
Jonathan Rowson |
10 March, 2011 |
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| Neurosociety part 2: Who do you think you are? Managing Personhood in a Neurobiological Age |
Nikolas Rose (BIOS Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science) gives a keynote speech for the Neurosociety conference. |
Nikolas Rose |
10 March, 2011 |
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| Neurosociety part 4: Constucting and reading neuroimages |
Kelly Joyce and Patricia Pisters give talks for the Neurosociety conference on the subject of reading neuroimages, MRI scans and how they are perceived and interpreted in films and popular culture. Chaired by Paul Martin. |
Kelly Joyce, Patricia Pisters, Paul Martin |
10 March, 2011 |
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| Neurosociety part 1: Welcome and Opening Remarks |
Steve Woolgar and Tanja Schneider (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) give the opening address for the Neurosociety conference. |
Steve Woolgar, Tanja Schneider |
10 March, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Claudia's Life - Singular lives, Gypsy metonymy |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (4 June 2010), Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco (University of St Andrews) looks at the place of women and marriage in Gypsy society and in ethnographic writings. |
Paloma Gay y Blasco |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Dance culture and its dislocation |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (3 December 2010) Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland (University of Swansea) discusses the relationship between cyberspace and dance. |
Felicia Hughes-Freeland |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Neo-nationalism five years later |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (26 November 2010), Prof. Gingrich (University of Vienna) examines a return to 'indigineity' in Central Europe. |
Andre Gingrich |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: The power of felted cloth through time and space |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (19 November 2010), Dr Stephanie Bunn (University of St Andrews) examines the production and design of Eurasian felt, placing it in a domestic context. |
Stephanie Bunn |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Forms of detachment and ethical regard |
In this Anthropology dept seminar (29 October 2010), Dr James Laidlaw (University of Cambridge) focuses on forms of detachment in North India, including the role of the anthropologist as observer. |
James Laidlaw |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Kerala Muslim marriage, gender, and intimacy |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (22 October 2010), Dr Caroline Osella (SOAS, London) discusses the influence of migrant husbands on Kerala Muslim marriage and female households. |
Caroline Osella |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 6: Resilience and adaptation in complex city systems |
James Simmie (Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University) develops an evolutionary economics approach to adaptation and change in urban economies. |
James Simmie |
15 December, 2010 |
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| Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 2: Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean |
David Howard (Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. |
David Howard |
15 December, 2010 |
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| Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 3: Global migration and the future of le droit à la ville |
Michael Keith (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford) interrogates how we think about urban change and normative theory in cities experiencing high levels of international migration. |
Michael Keith |
15 December, 2010 |
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| Money, Bodies, Materialism and Virtuality |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dr David Graeber of Goldsmiths, London, examines the history of death and money and how the two can combine. |
David Graeber |
23 November, 2010 |
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| The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug, and his Grandmother: Brokers and Transnational Migration |
In this Anthropology Departmetal Seminar (February 2010) Associate Prof. Johan Lindquist (Stockholm University) discusses forced migration in Indonesia and its impact on male and female workers. |
Johan Lindquist |
23 November, 2010 |
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| Interview with Professor Byron J Good, 2010 Marett Lecturer |
Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, delivered the 2010 Marett Lecture at Exeter College, Oxford. He was first interviewed by Nick Shapiro (ISCA) about his life and work. |
Byron J Good |
23 November, 2010 |
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| Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 1: New business models for low-carbon cities |
Mark Hinnells (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) explores the impact of policy measures to deliver a low-carbon economy on the development of new business models for low-carbon cities. |
Mark Hinnells |
16 November, 2010 |
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| Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 4: Sustainable urban development to 2050 - complex transitions in the built environment of cities |
Tim Dixon (Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University) looks at 'critical success factors' that need to be in place for cities to be more sustainable by 2050. |
Tim Dixon |
16 November, 2010 |
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| Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 5: The paralyzed frog, water supply services and sustainable cities |
Rob Hope (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) gives a talk on institutional innovations and new financial models for sustainable water as part of a seminar series on the Future of Cities. |
Rob Hope |
16 November, 2010 |
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| Religion and change (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 5) |
5/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. |
David Zeitlyn |
4 November, 2010 |
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