- Biological Anthropology
- Medical Anthropology
- Material, Visual and Digital Culture
- Social Anthropology
- West Africa Seminar
Biological Anthropology Seminars
Tuesdays 4.30-6.00pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Building,
14 Taviton St, Off Gordon Sq
Autumn Term 2009
October 6
Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel - University of Kent
Human Population History: A Microevolutionary Analysis of Craniometric Variation
October 13
Andrew Fowler - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Hunting, meat-eating and self-medication in wild bonobos
October 20
Bill Adams - University of Cambridge
The Political Ecology of Human-Elephant Conflict in Laikipia, Kenya
October 27
Judith Masters - University of Fort Hare
Grasping at straws: the colonisation of Madagascar by lemurs
November 3
Chris Stringer - Natural History Museum
Out of Africa Revisited
November 10
Reading week
November 17
Martina Tyrrell - University of Reading
Bears in the living room: Trophy hunting and the transformation of human-animal relations
November 24
Alexandra Alvergne - UCL Anthropology
Paternal care of offspring in humans: some ultimate and proximate factors
December 1
Allison Stanley - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Reproductive decision making in patients taking anti-retroviral therapy for HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
December 8
Peter Kjaergaard - University of Uambridge
Damning Darwin: European Creationism in the 21st Century
CONTACT: Brian Villmoare
Medical Anthropology Seminars
Autumn Term 2009
8 October - Departmental Seminar (Daryll Forde, 4:30 PM)
ROLAND LITTLEWOOD, University College London
Did Christianity Cause Schizophrenia? Psychosis, Psychology and Self-reference
15 October - Departmental Seminar (Daryll Forde, 4:30 PM)
URSULA READ, University College London
Powerful "Dinars": Migration Experiences of Young Men with Mental Illness in Rural Ghana
22 October - Migration and Health (Stevenson Theatre, British Museum, 4 PM)
DAVID EL KABIR, OBE Wytham Hall
Pragmatic Approaches to the Problems of the Homeless
Respondent: THEODORE ZELDIN, President Oxford Muse Foundation
Discussants:
ROLAND LITTLEWOOD, University College London
SUSHRUT JADHEV, UCL and Camden and Islington Foundation Trust
PHILIP TIMMS, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
29 October - Departmental Seminar (Daryll Forde, 4:30 PM)
REBECCA EMPSON, University College London
Assembling Bodies and Juxtaposing Objects in a Museum Exhibit
5 November- Migration and Religion (Stevenson Theatre, British Museum, 4 PM)
EHSAN MASOOD, Author, British Council's British Muslims: Media Guide
in conversation with WENDY KRISTIANSEN, Editor, Le Monde diplomatique
The Second Generation: Muslim, British, Asian
Respondents:
YUSEF DESAI, Forward Thinking
BARONESS KISHWER FALKNER, Chancellor, The University of Northampton
HUDA JAWAD, Forward Thinking
LAURA ZAHRA MCDONALD, University of Birmingham
19 November 2009 - Departmental Seminar (Daryll Forde, 4:30 PM)
SIENNA CRAIG, Dartmouth College
Impacts of Labour Migration and Social Change on Health Seeking Behaviour: Preliminary Notes from Mustang, Nepal to New York City
26 November 2009 - Departmental Seminar (Daryll Forde, 4:30 PM)
MIKE ROWSON, UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Blurred boundaries: health worker migration and the case for sustained international redistribution in health care
3 December - Migration, Climate Change, and Indigenous Rights (Stevenson Theatre, British Museum, 4 PM)
MARY MAY SIMON, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Saving the Canadian Arctic: An Inuit Agenda
Respondent: ERNEST MESSIAH Head of Health, Commonwealth Secretariat
Enquiries to:
David Napier
Department of Anthropology UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: +44 20 7679 8647
Fax: +44 20 7679 8632
Email: d.napier
ucl.ac.uk
Research Seminars in Material, Visual and Digital Culture
Mondays 4.30-6.00 pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room (2nd floor)
14 Taviton Street
Autumn Term 2009
5 October
Michael Rowlands (UCL)
Of Substances, Palaces and Museums: The Visible and the Invisible in the Constitution of Cameroon
12 October
Ilana Gershon (Indiana)
Heartbreak in a Neoliberal Age: Deactivating the Facebook Self
19 October
Richard Harper (Microsoft)
The moral intention of a glance: the background to and design of a new mobile phone application
26 October
Rosie Thomas (Westminster)
On Booted Females Flogging Gangsters
2 November
Magda Craciun (UCL)
The Truth in the Fake: a case of existential anthropology.
16 November
Anita Herle (Cambridge)
Assembling Bodies: Exploring the Technologies that Make Bodies Visible
23 November
Kathleen Richardson (UCL)
Challenging Sociality? Human-like Robots and Autism
30 November
Faisal Devji (Oxford)
Staging Terrorism in Mumbai
7 December
Lane DeNicola (UCL)
The Ethnography of Geomedia
Enquiries to:
Daniel Miller
Chris Pinney
Department of Anthropology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Social Anthropology Seminars
Wednesdays 11.00am-1.00pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room
2nd Floor, Anthropology Building
14 Taviton Street
Autumn Term 2009
Wed October 7th
BRIAN MORRIS (Goldsmiths)
Animals and the Ancestors.
Wed October 14th
RITA ASTUTI (LSE)
Death and the Ancestors.
Wed October 21st
EVAN KILLICK (Destin - LSE)
The Debts that Bind Us: A comparison of Amazonian debt-peonage and British and North American mortgage practices.
Wed October 28th
MORNA FINNEGAN (Edinburgh)
The Politics of Eros: Ritual Play and Gender Egalitarianism among Central African Hunter-Gatherers.
Wed November 4th
ALAN BARNARD (Edinburgh)
The Social Anthropology of Human Origins: A theory of three revolutions.
November 11th
Reading week
Wed November 18th
SANDY ROBERTSON (Edinburgh)
How can Lukoho be his own grandfather?
Wed November 25th
RICARDO LEIZAOLA (Goldsmiths)
Knowledge among equals: contesting authority about herbal knowledge in Caracas.
Wed December 2nd
SERGIO VARELA (UCL)
Mandinga and the “closed body” in Afro-Brazilian capoeira
Wed December 9th
JEROME LEWIS (UCL)
Where knowledge costs but goods are free.
December 16th
Reading week
Enquiries to:
Jerome Lewis
Michael Stewart
Department of Anthropology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
West Africa Seminar
Fridays at 4.30 pm in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room,
UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton St
Autumn Term 2009
October 9
Paul Richards (Wageningen/UCL)
West African agrarian futures
October 16
Chris Willott (UCL/Bath)
Merit, patronage and factionalism: promotion strategies used by academic staff in a Nigerian university.
October 23
Fiona Sheales (Sainsbury Centre UEA)
Processing the Alien: Exploring Anglo/Asante Encounters in Kumase during 1817
October 30
Anne Schumann (SOAS)
Popular music in Cote d'Ivoire (provisional title)
November 6
TBC
November 13
Reading Week
November 20
Lynne Brydon (Birmingham)
Lost in Translation: the sky, the earth and the devil among Ghana's Ewe
November 27
Dmitry Bondarev/Abba Tijani (Maiduguri/SOAS)
Tarjumo - a specialised language of the Kanuri Muslim Scholars: between written commentary and oral translation
December 4
Sarah O'Neill (Goldsmiths)
Torn between 'custom' and the law. The Futanke's (Sedentary Fulani) response to FGC sensitisation programmes in Fouta Toro, Senegal.
December 11
Mats Utas (Nordiska Afrikan Institut/Uppsala)
Urban walks Freetown style/Film
title tbc
Enquiries to:
Dr Barrie Sharpe
Department of Anthropology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: +44 20 7679 8649
Fax: +44 20 7380 8632
Email: b.sharpe
ucl.ac.uk
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