Radical Anthropology talks 2024:

Language, art, music and culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, culminating in a symbolic explosion or ‘human revolution’ whose echoes can still be heard in myths and cultural traditions from around the world. These talks are a general introduction to social and biological anthropology, ranging over fields as diverse as hunter-gatherer studies, mythology, primatology, archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world together with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology.

Radical Anthropology Seminars Autumn 2024

Gender, we-ness, wild service – what made us human?

Sept 24 Chris Knight (UCL) Did matriarchy ever exist?

Oct 1 Chris Knight and Camilla Power (UCL) The sex-strike theory of human origins

Oct 8 Chris Knight (UCL) The Science of Mythology: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ and other tales

Oct 15 Volker Sommer (UCL Emeritus) The Evolution of We-Ness

Oct 22 Haya (School of Occupation and Apartheid Studies) Students in revolt: Palestine solidarity organising on campus and the fight against empire

Oct 29 Chris Knight   Decoding Fairytales: Into the Forest with Red Riding Hood

Nov 5 Harry Jenkinson  (R2R) Wild Service – And the Human Right to Roam

Nov 12 Denise Arnold  (UCL) Sea shells, women’s blood and an Andean bioclimatology of water

Nov 19 Chris Stringer (NHM) Human evolution: some recent discoveries and their implications

Nov 26 Tamas David-Barrett (Oxford) Gendered Species: A natural history of patriarchy

Dec 3  Jerome Lewis and Chris Knight (UCL) Modern metaphors from political resistance movements applied to human evolution

Dec 10 Chris Knight A Xmas Fairytale: the Shoes that were danced to pieces

All talks are Tues 6:30-8:00pm LIVE in Daryll Forde Seminar Room and on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)

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Wild Service–the Human Right to Roam

On Tues Nov 5, 6:30pm at UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW, Harry Jenkinson will present the concept of Wild Service: a philosophy of reciprocity with our fellow species, made possible through increased human access to nature. Humans are a nomadic species. For over 95% of our history, we have lived as nomadic […]

Decoding Fairytales: Into the Forest with Red Riding Hood

Sadly we have to postpone the Polyphony Singing workshop with Ingrid Lewis, which we will reschedule next term. Instead we are going to head into the Forest with Chris Knight, and Red Riding Hood, Decoding Fairytales . This will be a LIVE workshop session. Please come on time by 6;30pm to the Daryll Forde Seminar […]

Students in revolt

On Tues Oct 22, 6:30pm (London time) we have a session run by the SOAS Gaza Solidarity Camp LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM ‘Students in Revolt: Palestine solidarity organising on campus and the fight against empire’ Rayan, Haya and others will be speaking live in the Daryll Forde room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthro dept, 14 […]

The Evolution of We-ness

Volker Sommer is Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at UCL. He will be speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, on Oct 15, 6:30pm. Please come early before doors close! To join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak Volker explores the evolution of social behaviour through field-studies of primates in Asia and Africa. Volker […]

The Science of Mythology: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ and other tales

Sadly we have to postpone our talk with David-Barrett on ‘Gendered Species’. On Tues Oct 8, 6:30pm (London time), Chris Knight will be speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, from 6pm for start 6:30pm. Please come early before doors close! To join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak. This is his classic […]

The sex-strike theory of human origins

On Tuesday Oct 1, 6:30pm (London time) Chris Knight and Camilla Power will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology Dept, 2nd Floor, Daryll Forde Seminar Room (please get there on time before doors close!). You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak. The first Word was spoken by a woman. It was ‘No’. […]

Did matriarchy ever exist?

Radical Anthropology Seminars return on Tues Sept 24, 6:30pm in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room at UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations, discusses myths of matriarchy, which are found all over the world. Is there any truth in the idea […]

Remember who you are; Kinship in an age of crisis

NB This talk is ZOOM only, Tues May 21, 6:30pm (London time) Morna Finnegan specialises in the anthropology of gender, the body and kinship. She investigates the female reproductive body as model of the person as porous and multiple. Morna writes: “”In his paper ‘When individuals do not stop at the skin’, Alan Barnard reiterates […]

Did matriarchy ever exist?

On Tues May 14, 6:30pm (London time), Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture, is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak) Chris discusses […]

The sensory ecology of deception in human societies

On May 7, 6:30pm London time, evolutionary anthropologist Will Buckner looks at the role of deception and mimicry from hunting, to ritual and shamanic practice. He is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Will writes: “Humans […]

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