Category: People

Ana Lopes gained her first degree in Anthropology at the University of East London. She completed a Masters degree at UCL, and a Ph.D at UEL on action research in the sex industry. She was one of the founders of the International Union of Sex Workers. She is currently teaching anthropology at UEL.

Bruce Parry has lived with tribal people the world over and has much to share. In his talks, Bruce reveals what it is like to live with people who exist in a world without leaders, shaman or even competition. He shows us the tools such people use to maintain societal balance, and most significantly, how…

David Papineau works as Professor of the Philosophy of Science at King’s College London and also Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York. He was elected President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science for 1993-5, of the Mind Association for 2009-10 and of the Aristotelian Society for 2013-4. He has…

Estelle Orrelle has a background in history and Near Eastern Archaeology and has taken part in many prehistoric excavations in Israel. Her Ph.D. dissertation (now being completed at the University of East London) focuses on the iconography of the earliest figurines to appear after the end of the Ice Ages in the Neolithic of the…

Yasmine Musharbash is Senior Lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. She has been conducting participant observation-based research in central Australia since the mid-1990s. Her work is broadly concerned with everyday relations, and she has explored this by focussing on embodiments and the emotions (studying grief, boredom, sleep, the…

Professor Rajko Muršič is a specialist in urban anthropology and especially the anthropology of popular music. His fieldwork has been conducted in Slovenia, Poland, Macedonia and Japan. He is a member of Sensotra, a European Research Council-funded project at the University of Eastern Finland.

Bruce Rimell is an artist, born in Swindon, but now living in Shipley. He has said of the mythological influences on his work: ‘I’ve been reading mythology since I was a kid and it has become the ruling passion of my life, contributing a great deal of inspiration to my art. For me, the technical…

Martin Richards studies variation in gene frequencies to reconstruct the routes taken by our distant palaeolithic ancestors as they dispersed out of Africa to settle in Asia and Europe between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago. With Hans-Jürgen Bandelt and Vincent Macaulay, he co-edited ‘Mitochondrial DNA and the Evolution of Homo Sapiens’ (Springer-Verlag, 2006).

Milan Rai is a longstanding anti-war activist and writer. He is the author of several books including Chomsky’s Politics (Verso, 1995), the only monograph on the subject, and 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War (Pluto, 2006). He has been co-editor of Peace News since 2007.

Kate Prendergast gained her Ph.D in Archaeology at the University of Oxford. She has published in British Archaeological Reports, Archaeopress, 3rd Stone and Science & Spirit magazine. Her research interests include explorations of prehistoric and indigenous cosmologies and the role of ritual in social continuity and change. She currently works as a Researcher in African…