Radical Anthropology Group

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

    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 Ingrid Lewis   BaMbendjele Polyphony practice: Learn to sing in polyphonic chorus, a dark Moon workshop

    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 Camilla Power (UCL) Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’

    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)

    please check out our Vimeo channel for any talks you missed https://vimeo.com/user33365184

    Gendered Species: A Natural History of Patriarchy

    On Tues Oct 8, 6:30pm (London time), Tamas David-Barrett 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. Gendered Species: A Natural History of Patriarchy offers a reframing of our species’ current debate about […]

    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 […]

    The supply chain capitalism of AI

    On April 30, 6:30pm, Ana Valdivia, Lecturer in AI, govt & policy at the Oxford Internet Institute will speak LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthro Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW. Everybody welcome and you can join on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Ana writes: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]

    Shifts in kinship from matrilaterality to patrilaterality in a Miskitu village

    On Tues April 23, 6:30pm LOndon time, Mark Jamieson, Senior Lecturer at University of East London, will speak LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Drawing on many decades of fieldwork […]

    Gender and ritual power among African hunter-gatherers

    On Tues April 16, at 6:30pm, Camilla Power, for many years Senior Lecturer at University of East London and Research Fellow at University College London, is speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology, in the Daryll Forde Room (2nd Floor). You can also join on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Camilla explores the relation of sex and […]

    Trust, digitality and the hunter-gatherer cradle of language

    On Tuesday March 19, 6:30pm London time, Chris Knight will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, Dept of Anthropology, UCL, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW (please use the Archaeology Institute entrance, Gordon Square). You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Chris writes: “For […]

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