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Thursdays 4.30-6pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton Street
Spring 2019
10 January – Roland Littlewood (University College London)
The Problem of Healing for a Hylozoic Cult
17 January – Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge)
Living without the Dead: The Discovery of Sin
24 January – [NO SEMINAR]
31 January – Joseph Calabrese (University College London)
Psychopharmacological Purity Doctrines and the Inertia of Cruelty
7 February – Dana Walrath
Graphic Medicine and Making Medical Anthropology Public
14 February – Reading Week – no seminar
21 February – Simon Dein (Queen Mary/Goldsmiths)
The Abominations of Leviticus Revisited: Judaism and Pollution
28 February – Quinton Deeley (Kings College London)
The Power of Taboo: Anthropological and Neurocognitive Perspectives
7 March – Rebecca Lynch and Simon Cohn (LSHTM)
Leaky Bodies and Matter Out of Place
14 March – Ellie Reynolds (Kings College London)
Sacred and Profane: sex, energy and pollution in the dissolution of a North American religion-therapeutic movement
For further information please contact j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk
Autumn 2018
4 October - No seminar this evening but please note Radcliffe Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology given by Susan McKinnon at 6.30pm on Cousin Marriage, Hierarchy and Heredity at British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace – registration required
11 October - Elizabeth F.S Roberts (University of Michigan)
Bioethnography, A Method of Excess: A Case Study in Validity, Memory, and Menopause in Mexico City
18 October - Michelle Pentecost (King’s College London)
Ordinary Spaces: global health, clinical trials and the everyday in South Africa
25 October - Megan Vaughan (IAS, UCL)
Conceptualising Metabolic Disorder in Southern Africa
Cancelled: 1 November - Janelle Lamoreaux (University of Arizona)
Epigenetic Ecologies: the temporality and relationality of germ cells
8 November - Reading Week - No Seminar
Enquiries to Sahra Gibbon s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk