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May 2021

The anthropology of resistance

Tue, 19/05/2020 – 18:30 | Rebecca Sear | Dispelling The Myth Of The Nuclear Family: What Is The ‘Traditional’ Human Family?

Tue, 26/05/2020 – 18:30 | Felix Padel | Studying Radically Up: Towards An Anthropology Of Intelligence Agencies

Wed, 21/04/2021 – 18:30 | Chris Knight | The Origins Of Language

Wed, 05/05/2021 – 18:30 | Morna Finnegan | The Politics Of Eros: How Hunter-Gatherer Women Assert Solidarity And Power


February 2020

Spring term 2020: Myths, both scientific and magical

Tue, 14/01/2020 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Why Patriarchy? The Origins Of Gender Inequality

Tue, 21/01/2020 – 18:45 | Camilla Power | Laughing At The Gods: Bushman Trickster Tales

Tue, 28/01/2020 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | How To Lose An Argument With Noam Chomsky

Tue, 04/02/2020 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | The Emergence Of Language In Our Species

Tue, 11/02/2020 – 18:45 | Mark Jamieson | Competition And Prestige Among 1950’s New York Teenage Vocal Groups

Tue, 18/02/2020 – 18:45 | Ivan Tacey | Floods, Blood And Thunder: The Politics Of The Rainbow Snake

Tue, 25/02/2020 – 18:45 | Alicia Colson | Dulling Our Senses: Neoliberalism And The Archaeological Imagination

Tue, 03/03/2020 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | An Arapaho Myth: The Wives Of The Sun And Moon

Tue, 10/03/2020 – 18:45 | Rebecca Sear | Dispelling The Myth Of The Nuclear Family

Tue, 17/03/2020 – 18:45 | Volker Sommer | My Life As A Primate. Tracing The Turns Of Anthropology

Tue, 24/03/2020 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | An Amazonian Myth: What Went Wrong When Patriarchy Arrived

Tue, 31/03/2020 – 19:45 | Thea Skaanes | Power Objects: Women’s Spirits As Generators Of Time Among The Hadza


October 2019

An Introduction to Human Origins

Tue, 05/12/2017 – 18:45 | Chris Stringer | Human Evolution: Where are We Now?

Tue, 18/12/2018 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | A Christmas Fairy Tale: The Shoes that Were Danced to Pieces

Tue, 24/09/2019 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Evolution, Revolution and Human Origins

Tue, 01/10/2019 – 19:45 | Daiara Tukano | Existence as Resistance: An Indigenous Voice from Brazil

Tue, 08/10/2019 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Sleeping Beauty and Other Tales. Introducing the Science of Mythology

Tue, 15/10/2019 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Why Menstruation Matters.

Tue, 22/10/2019 – 19:45 | Alyssa Crittenden | Continuity and Change Among a Community of East African Hunter-Gatherers.

Tue, 29/10/2019 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of Intellectuals 50 Years On.

Tue, 05/11/2019 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | ‘Woman’s Biggest Husband is the Moon’. an Example of Women’s Solidarity and Power in a Hunter-Gatherer Society.

Tue, 12/11/2019 – 18:45 | Ian Watts | Red Ochre and the Emergence of Homo Sapiens

Tue, 26/11/2019 – 18:45 | Ingrid Lewis | ‘Spirits of the Rainforest. Self-Government Through Polyphonic Singing’

Tue, 03/12/2019 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | How Language Evolved from Music.

Tue, 10/12/2019 – 18:45 | Camilla Power | Women, Cosmetics and the Origins of Art


January 2019

An Intensive Study of Mythology

Tue, 22/01/2019 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | How Collective Childcare Works in Practice

Tue, 29/01/2019 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Rule by the Moon in Human Origins and Evolution

Tue, 05/02/2019 – 18:45 | Elena Fejdiova | Sharing Like Sisters: Ritual, Egalitarianism and the Morality of Cosmetic Exchange

Tue, 12/02/2019 – 18:45 | Mark Dyble | Kinship and Human Origins

Tue, 19/02/2019 – 18:45 | Camilla Power | Gender and Ritual Power Among African Hunter-Gatherers

Tue, 26/02/2019 – 18:45 | Cathryn Townsend | Emerging Patriarchy in the Mythology of a Previously Egalitarian Society

Tue, 05/03/2019 – 18:45 | Volker Sommer | Against Nature? Homosexuality and Evolution

Tue, 12/03/2019 – 18:45 | Mark Jamieson | Sorcery and Spirit Owners on the Mosquito Coast, Nicaragua

Tue, 19/03/2019 – 18:45 | Chris Low | Massage and Bushman Shamanism

Tue, 26/03/2019 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | A Plains Indian Myth: When Women Lost Their Power

Tue, 02/04/2019 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | An Amazonian Myth: The Woman Who Was Torn in Two

Tue, 09/04/2019 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Myths of the Origins of Fire

Tue, 16/04/2019 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Dragon: Making Sense of a Worldwide Myth


October 2018

An Introduction to Human Origins

Tue, 28/11/2017 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | From Music to Language: A Bayaka Perspective

Tue, 12/12/2017 – 18:45 | Ingrid Lewis | Spirits of the Forest: Self-Government Through Polyphonic Singing

Thu, 12/04/2018 – 19:45 | | Human Evolution: Where Are We Now?

Tue, 02/10/2018 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Sex Strike Theory of Human Origins

Tue, 09/10/2018 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Sleeping Beauty and Other Tales: The Science of Mythology of Magical Myths

Tue, 16/10/2018 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Why Menstruation Matters

Tue, 23/10/2018 – 19:45 | Rebekah Pluekhahn | Music, Morality and the Creation of Value in Mongolia

Sat, 27/10/2018 – 15:00 | Jonathan Chadwick | Saturday Afternoon Play-Reading Workshop: ‘The Story of Go’

Tue, 30/10/2018 – 18:45 | Rajko Muršič | Everyday Communism in Slovenian Underground Music Venues

Tue, 06/11/2018 – 18:45 | Guilherme Orlandini Heurich | Two Songs for Red Girl: Music and Language in Eastern Amazonia

Tue, 13/11/2018 – 18:45 | Camilla Power | Ice Age Art

Tue, 20/11/2018 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | ‘Woman’s Biggest Husband is the Moon’


May 2018

Religion, sex, family

Tue, 24/04/2018 – 19:45 | Volker Sommer | The Cultured Chimpanzee: Bridging the Animal-Human Divide

Tue, 01/05/2018 – 19:45 | Marisa Carnesky | Menstruating Together in Theatres and Tents and Other Unlikely Locations

Tue, 08/05/2018 – 19:45 | Shivani Kaul | No More ‘Full Moon Faces’: The Anthropology of Appearance and Social Change Among Young Women in Matrilineal Bhutan

Tue, 15/05/2018 – 19:45 | Jonathan Benthall | Returning to Religion: Why a Secular Age is Haunted by Faith

Tue, 22/05/2018 – 19:45 | Helena Tuzinska | Anthropology as Necessary Unlearning in Refugee Camps, Courts and Schools

Tue, 29/05/2018 – 19:45 | Martin Holbraad | How Revolutions Create Worlds: An Anthropologist Reflects on the Cuban Revolution

Tue, 05/06/2018 – 19:45 | Morna Finnegan | The Politics of Eros: How Hunter-Gatherer Women Assert Solidarity and Power

Tue, 12/06/2018 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Did Gender Egalitarianism Make Us Human?

Tue, 19/06/2018 – 19:45 | Fabio Silva | On Earth as It is in Heaven: An Introduction to Archaeoastronomy

Tue, 26/06/2018 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Velimir Khlebnikov: Prophet and Poet of the Russian Revolution

Tue, 03/07/2018 – 19:45 | Alan Cohen | Doctors of the Dreaming: How the Shamans of ‘primitive’ Communism Offer Us a Key to the Communism of the Future


October 2017

Autumn 2017: An Introduction to Human Origins

Fri, 12/05/2017 – 19:45 | | Human Evolution: Where Are We Now?

Tue, 26/09/2017 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Revolution Which Made Us Human

Tue, 03/10/2017 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ and Other Tales: The Deep Structure of Magical Myths

Tue, 10/10/2017 – 19:45 | Mark Jamieson | Mother Scorpion: Sex and Gender Among the Miskitu of Nicaragua

Tue, 17/10/2017 – 19:45 | Kathleen Bryson | Sexuality in Humans and Other Great Apes.

Tue, 24/10/2017 – 19:45 | Thea Skanes | Ritual Life Among the Hadza: The Dancing Dead and Animal Kindred Spirits

Tue, 31/10/2017 – 18:45 | Fabio Silva | Between Heaven and Earth: The Skyscapes of Iberian Megaliths

Tue, 07/11/2017 – 18:45 | Dasa Bombjakova | The Importance of Ridicule in an African Egalitarian Society

Tue, 14/11/2017 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | The Sex-Strike Theory of Human Origins

Sat, 18/11/2017 – 18:30 | Camilla Power | Chris Knight is 75! the Russian Revolution is 100! Rag Social Evening

Tue, 21/11/2017 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | Woman’s Biggest Husband is the Moon

Tue, 12/12/2017 – 18:45 | | Spirits Of The Forest: Self-Government Through Polyphonic Singing

Tue, 19/12/2017 – 18:45 | Morna Finnegan | Communism in Motion: How Hunter Gatherers Make Egalitarianism Work


May 2017

Summer 2017: Language, art, music and culture

Tue, 25/04/2017 – 19:45 | Martin Cradick | Forest Voices: The Baka Rainforest Pople and Their Fight for Cultural Survival

Tue, 02/05/2017 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Selfish Genes, Sociobiology and the Emergence of Modern Darwinism

Tue, 09/05/2017 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics

Tue, 16/05/2017 – 19:45 | Gary Lupyan | How Words Shape Human Cognition

Tue, 23/05/2017 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Wild Voices: Mimicry, Reversal, Metaphor and the Emergence of Language

Tue, 30/05/2017 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Early Human Kinship Was Matrilineal

Tue, 06/06/2017 – 19:45 | Lionel Sims | Katabasis: Stonehenge and Avebury Lying Machines for Trial by Underworld

Tue, 13/06/2017 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | African Women: Customary Traditions of Rebellion and Revolution

Tue, 20/06/2017 – 19:45 | Nurit Bird-David | Size Matters!: The Scalability of Modern Hunter-Gatherer Animism

Tue, 27/06/2017 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Jack and the Beanstalk: Its Place in World Mythology

Tue, 04/07/2017 – 19:45 | Tamara Turner | The Musical Precipitation of Spirits, Saints, and Selves: Ritual, Music, and Trance in Algerian Popular Islam

Tue, 11/07/2017 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Annual General Meeting


January 2017

An Intensive Study of Mythology

Tue, 17/01/2017 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | The Master, Claude Lévi-Strauss, on How to Decode Myths and Fairy Tales

Tue, 24/01/2017 – 18:45 | David Papineau | Team Reasoning: How People Think in Groups

Tue, 31/01/2017 – 18:45 | Bruce Rimell | On Vision and Being Human. Exploring the Menstrual, Neurological and Symbolic Origins of Religious Experience

Tue, 07/02/2017 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | An Australian Aboriginal Foundation Myth: The Two Wawilak Sisters

Tue, 14/02/2017 – 18:45 | Alicia Colson | The First Americans: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives

Tue, 21/02/2017 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | How Marriage Became Permanent. a Myth from the Plains Indians

Tue, 28/02/2017 – 18:45 | Volker Sommer | In Praise of Lying: Self Deception Can be a Matter of Survival

Tue, 07/03/2017 – 18:45 | Camilla Power | Book Launch: ‘Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology’

Tue, 14/03/2017 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | How Womankind Got Torn in Two. a Myth from the Amazon

Tue, 21/03/2017 – 18:45 | Julien d’Huy | Tracing the Palaeolithic Origins of World Mythology

Tue, 28/03/2017 – 19:45 | Lauren Gawne | The Role of Gesture in Traditional Narratives

Tue, 04/04/2017 – 19:45 | Mark Jamieson | How Narco-Trafficking Constitutes a Coastal Nicaraguan Society

Tue, 11/04/2017 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Reconstructing the World’s First Cosmology

Sun, 01/10/2017 – 19:45 | | Did Matriarchy Ever Exist?


January 2017

Anthropology and Resistance

Tue, 10/01/2017 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Did Matriarchy Ever Exist?

Tue, 16/04/2019 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Dragon: Making Sense of a World Wide Myth

Tue, 23/04/2019 – 20:00 | Daiara Tukano | Existence as Resistance: An Indigenous Vision from Brazil

Tue, 07/05/2019 – 20:00 | Camilla Power | Lunarchy in the Kingdom of England

Tue, 14/05/2019 – 20:00 | Chris Knight | How Anthropology Might Inspire Anti-Capitalist and Extinction Rebellion Activism

Tue, 21/05/2019 – 20:00 | Joe Cain | Galton, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Anglo-Saxon Nativism

Tue, 28/05/2019 – 20:00 | Alice Rudge | Dangerous Laughter: Egalitarianism and the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia

Tue, 04/06/2019 – 20:00 | Stephen Lyon | God, Climate Change and Farmers in Rural Punjab, Pakistan

Tue, 11/06/2019 – 20:00 | Monica Janowski | Dragons in the Waters of Borneo: Power, Protection and Threat

Tue, 18/06/2019 – 20:00 | Chris Knight | Christianity in Anthropological Perspective

Tue, 25/06/2019 – 20:00 | Anthony Auerbach | The Origins of Radical Anthropology

Tue, 02/07/2019 – 20:00 | Robyn Spencer | From Harlem to Hanoi: Recovering Black Radical Anti-Imperialism During the Era of Global ‘68.

Tue, 09/07/2019 – 20:00 | Yasmine Musharbash | Contemporary Monsters in Central Australia


September 2016

Autumn 2016: An Introduction to human origins

Tue, 20/09/2016 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Echoes of the Dreamtime: Decoding Myths and Fairy Tales

Tue, 27/09/2016 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | The Origins of Art and Menstrual Art Today

Tue, 04/10/2016 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Prehistory of Sex

Tue, 11/10/2016 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Human Revolution

Tue, 18/10/2016 – 19:45 | Jerome Lewis | An Ancient African Egalitarian Civilization

Tue, 25/10/2016 – 19:45 | Jerome Lewis | ‘Woman‘S Biggest Husband is the Moon’: Hunting and Gender Among the Bayaka

Tue, 01/11/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Chomsky, Darwin and Tom Wolfe: The Mystery of Language Origins

Tue, 08/11/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | The Cognitive Revolution: How Computers Changed the Way We Think

Tue, 15/11/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Stringer | Current Controversies in the Field of Human Evolution

Tue, 22/11/2016 – 18:45 | Marek Kohn | Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics (Book Launch)

Tue, 29/11/2016 – 18:45 | Ingrid Lewis | Learn to Sing in Polyphonic Chorus: A Dark Moon Workshop

Tue, 06/12/2016 – 18:45 | Matthew Doyle | ‘We are All Originarios’: Political Conflict and Indigenous Identity in Bolivia.

Tue, 13/12/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | A Christmas Fairy Tale: ‘The Shoes that Were Danced to Pieces.’


April 2016

Summer 2016: Economics, Politics and Science

Tue, 12/04/2016 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Rejecting the Illusion of Economic Growth: Can Lunarchy Work?

Tue, 19/04/2016 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Vietnam, Student Resistance and the Politics of Noam Chomsky.

Tue, 26/04/2016 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | What Makes People Weird? Menstrual Taboos Among Scientists in Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic (Weird) Societies

Tue, 03/05/2016 – 19:45 | Christopher Opie | Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?

Tue, 10/05/2016 – 19:45 | Mark Thomas | Modelling the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour, the Origins of Farming, and Adaptation to Changes in Diet

Tue, 17/05/2016 – 19:45 | Elena Fejdiova | We Were Like Sisters: Collective Ritual Practices Among Women Sharing Direct Sales Cosmetics.

Tue, 24/05/2016 – 19:45 | Roger Blench | The Masquerade and the Mobile Phone: How Do Local Religious Traditions Survive and Adapt in an Era of Globalised Technology?

Tue, 31/05/2016 – 19:45 | Dave Robinson | The Cosmic Vagina: Discovery, Death and the Purification of Life Among the Maori.

Tue, 07/06/2016 – 19:45 | Lionel Sims | Through the Dark Vale: Interpreting the Stonehenge Palisade by Interdisciplinary Convergence.

Tue, 14/06/2016 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Falstaff: Lunarchy in the Kingdom of England.

Tue, 21/06/2016 – 19:45 | Morag Feeney-Beaton | A Gift from the Heavens: The Cosmology Within Spinning and Weaving

Tue, 28/06/2016 – 19:45 | Anthony Auerbach | Enlightenment at Night: Metaphor and Knowledge After the Scientific Revolution.


January 2016

Spring 2016 Mythology as a window into other worlds

Tue, 12/01/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Decoding Chomsky’s Linguistic Theories: Science and Revolutionary Politics

Tue, 19/01/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Myths of Aboriginal Australia: Rainbow Snakes and Song-Lines

Tue, 02/02/2016 – 18:45 | Hilary Callan | Biological and Social Anthropology: A Stormy Relationship

Tue, 09/02/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Low | Stories, Myths and Ways of Knowing Among Kalahari Hunters and Herders

Tue, 16/02/2016 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | An Amazonian Myth: The Hunter Monmanéki and His Wives

Tue, 23/02/2016 – 18:45 | Martin Richards | Archaeogenetics and Modern Human Dispersals

Tue, 01/03/2016 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | A Special World of Time: Lived Myths of the Bayaka Pygmies of Central Africa

Tue, 08/03/2016 – 18:45 | Marisa Carnesky | The Incredible Bleeding Woman, a Cabaret Performance

Tue, 15/03/2016 – 18:45 | RAG workshop | A Greek Comedy: Lysistrata and the Sex-Strike

Tue, 22/03/2016 – 18:45 | Camilla Power | Lysistrata Decoded


September 2015

Autumn 2015: An Introduction to human origins

Tue, 22/09/2015 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Introducing Radical Anthropology

Tue, 29/09/2015 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Structural Analysis of a Fairytale

Tue, 06/10/2015 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The ‘Sex-Strike’ Theory of Human Origins

Tue, 13/10/2015 – 19:45 | David Graeber | Palaeolithic Politics – and Why It Still Matters

Tue, 20/10/2015 – 19:45 | Mark Jamieson | Baseball, Sorcery and Husband Stealing Among a Matrilineal (Miskitu) People of Nicaragua

Tue, 27/10/2015 – 18:45 | Sergey Gavrilets | On the Evolutionary Origins of the Human Egalitarian Syndrome

Tue, 03/11/2015 – 18:45 | Chris Stringer | The Origins and Evolution of Homo Sapiens

Tue, 10/11/2015 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Language

Tue, 17/11/2015 – 18:45 | Fabio Silva | A Tomb with a View? Megaliths, Skyscape and Folklore in Western Iberia

Tue, 24/11/2015 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | ‘Women’s Biggest Husband is the Moon’: Gender Egalitarianism Among the Bayaka Hunter-Gatherers (Congo Basin)

Tue, 01/12/2015 – 18:45 | Volker Sommer | Are Apes Persons? Demanding Rights for Our Next of Kin

Tue, 08/12/2015 – 18:45 | Ingrid Lewis | Spirits of the Forest: A Workshop on African Hunter-Gather Polyphonic Singing

Tue, 15/12/2015 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | A Christmas Fairy Tale: ‘The Shoes that Were Danced to Pieces’


May 2015

Summer 2015

Tue, 21/04/2015 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Tue, 28/04/2015 – 19:45 | Colette Berbesque | Behind Every Good Man: Women’s Production and Reproduction Among the Hadza Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania

Tue, 05/05/2015 – 19:45 | Gabriel Levy | Capitalism, Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of Global Warming

Tue, 12/05/2015 – 19:45 | Paula Sheppard | Does Father Absence Affect Children Growing Up?

Tue, 19/05/2015 – 19:45 | Marcus Coates | “Becoming Animal and Becoming Human”. a Live Show by

Tue, 26/05/2015 – 19:45 | Jeff Miley | The Revolution in Rojava: Strengths and Challenges

Tue, 02/06/2015 – 19:45 | Dave Robinson | The Coming of the Dread: The Rastafari-Maori of New Zealand’s East Coast

Tue, 09/06/2015 – 19:45 | Lionel Sims | A Basque Magdalenian Cave Interpreted in the Light of the Sex-Strike Theory of Human Origins

Tue, 16/06/2015 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | A Key Myth from Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Mythologiques: “The Hunter Monmanéki and His Wives”

Tue, 23/06/2015 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Film Showing: ‘The Moon Inside You‘

Tue, 30/06/2015 – 19:45 | Anthony Auerbach | Revolution, Repetition and the Cult of Death: The Burials and Empty Tombs of Rosa Luxemburg

Tue, 07/07/2015 – 19:45 | Camilla Power | Annual General Meeting of the Radical Anthropology Group


January 2015

Spring 2015

Tue, 13/01/2015 – 18:45 | Lesley Newson | Conservatism and How to Fight It: Lessons from Evolutionary Theory

Tue, 20/01/2015 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | The Evolutionary Emergence of Language

Tue, 27/01/2015 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Human Origins: Why Menstruation Matters

Tue, 03/02/2015 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | Noam Chomsky and the Human Revolution

Tue, 10/02/2015 – 18:45 | Chris Low | Telling the Story of the Kalahari First People

Tue, 17/02/2015 – 18:45 | James Woodburn | My Recent Stay Among the Hadza of Tanzania

Tue, 24/02/2015 – 18:45 | Mark Jamieson | Gift Exchange or Barter? the Origins and Functions of Money

Tue, 03/03/2015 – 18:45 | Nicola Clayton | Mental Time Travel in Crows and Humans

Tue, 10/03/2015 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | An Aboriginal Australian Myth: ‘The Rainbow Snake’

Tue, 17/03/2015 – 18:45 | Camilla Power | Can We Reconstruct the World’s First Religion?

Tue, 24/03/2015 – 18:45 | John Gowlett | Fire and Human Evolution

Tue, 31/03/2015 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | A Plains Indian Myth: ‘The Wives of the Sun and Moon’


September 2014

Autumn 2014

Tue, 23/09/2014 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | What Does It Mean to be Human? an Introduction to Anthropology

Tue, 30/09/2014 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Claude Lévi -­‐ Strauss: The Science of Myths and Fairy Tales

Tue, 07/10/2014 – 19:45 | Chris Knight | Did Women Once Rule the World? a New Look at the Myth of Matriarchy

Tue, 14/10/2014 – 19:45 | Louise Raw | ‘Bad Girls’ Who Changed the World : Gender, Class, Sexuality & the Matchwomen’s Strike

Tue, 21/10/2014 – 19:45 | Fabio Silva | The Stars and the Stones: An Introduction to Archaeoastrony

Tue, 28/10/2014 – 18:45 | William Dixon | The Problem of Economics, Homo Economicus and Human Science

Tue, 04/11/2014 – 18:45 | Chris Stringer | Out of Africa or Multiregional Evolution for Modern Humans – Why is There Still a Debate?

Tue, 11/11/2014 – 18:45 | Robert Fraser | The Golden Bough: Yesterday and Today

Tue, 18/11/2014 – 18:45 | Mwenza Blell | British Pakistani Women and the Menopause

Tue, 25/11/2014 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | ‘Woman’s Biggest Husband is the Moon’: How Hunter‐Gatherers Maintain Social Equality

Tue, 02/12/2014 – 18:45 | Jerome Lewis | How Language Evolved from Singing

Tue, 09/12/2014 – 18:45 | Ingrid Lewis | Spirits of the Forest: A Workshop on African Polyphonic Singing

Tue, 16/12/2014 – 18:45 | Chris Knight | a Christmas Fairy Tale: ‘The Shoes that Were Danced to Pieces’