Category: Blog
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Conceptual tools from anthropology for thinking about early reactions to Covid-19
On Tuesday May 30, 6:30pm London time, we are ZOOM only, please sign in here for ZOOM ID. Mark Jamieson, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at University of East London, will examine anthropological approaches to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Mimetic performance, cognitive evolution, and mixed creatures
NB this talk on May 23, 18:30 BST (London time) is ZOOM only. You will need to register on eventbrite here for the ZOOM ID. Recent developments in research on the possible role of mimetic communication in cognitive evolution – as a necessary precursor to spoken language – are used in conjunction with various other…
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Reading Reindeer Shoulder Blade: Engaging with Environmental Uncertainty in Northeast Siberia
Please note this talk by Olga Ulturgasheva is ZOOM only on Tues May 16, 6:30pm The latest environmental calamities such as extreme wildfires in Siberia, California and Australia highlighted limitations of and hindrances to human capacity for rescue, survival and adaptation to different scales of exposure to technogenic catastrophes and the effects of climate change. The…
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Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence
The Radical Anthropology talk on Tues May 9 is LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM with Peter Sutoris of York University. Education has never played as critical a role in determining humanity’s future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind’s unprecedented control over the natural environment. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project…
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My life as a primate: tracing the turns in anthropology
Volker Sommer will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM on Tues May 2, 6:30pm (BST) He reflects on his experiences as a naturalist who spent decades in the forests of Asia and Africa exploring the ecology and behaviour of wild monkeys and apes. This journey took him from an upbringing in a rural community in post-war…
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Navigating history in anthropology: modern witches and expanded historicities
The historical turn in the 1980s demonstrated how historical dimensions are integral to anthropological research. However, presenting a viable historical context does not necessarily take into account the varieties of historical experiences. Modern witches in the UK have long been grappling with claims about the past through a range of historical registers – empirical, mythic,…
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Lunarchy: Decolonising time
For Marx, all forms of economics could be reduced to “an economics of time”. To restore a sustainable rhythm to our planet, our lifeways and economy, we need to decolonise time. In the first part of this talk, Camilla Power sketches a history of capitalism as robbery: ever tighter control of time yielding greater economic…
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BITCH: on the female of the species
On Tues Mar 28, 6:30pm, we are back LIVE @UCLAnthropology to welcome Lucy Cooke, author of BITCH: a revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal. This is a hilarious and brilliant expose of the ways patriarchy prevents us being scientific about female strategies in evolution. Lucy will guide us through the sheer diversity…
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An Australian Aboriginal Sacred myth
On Tuesday March 21 we are ZOOM only at 6:30pm. Please sign into eventbrite for ZOOM ID Chris Knight will recount and interpret the intensely dramatic story of The Wawilak Sisters and the Rainbow Snake, told by the Yolngu people of North-East Arnhem Land, explaining why it is the most widely discussed myth in all…
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Anthropology, activism and local environmental knowledge
Tues March 14, 6:30pm we have a panel discussion LIVE @UCLAnthropology LIVE and on ZOOM How can we live well in our urban, suburban and rural environments facing the climate future? We explore ways that anthropology might inform, foster, and support climate & environmental activism through connection to local knowledge, or TEK (traditional ecological knowledge),…