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 Spring 2025
Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting and architecture
Jan 14 Chris Knight (UCL) When Eve Laughed: the origins of language
Jan 21 Camilla Power (UCL) Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’
Jan 28 Annemieke Milks (Reading) Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt
Feb 4 Chris Knight (UCL) On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong
Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth and Hossein Sadri (Coventry) Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth
Feb 18 Erica Lagalisse in conversation with Chris Knight On anarchist anthropology
Feb 25 Ingrid Lewis BaMbendjele Polyphony practice: Learn to sing in polyphonic chorus, a dark Moon workshop
Mar 4 International Women’s Week special lecture Christine Binnie Bodypaint and the evolution of Neonaturist practice
Mar 11 Paulina Michnowska (Newcastle) Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo
Mar 18 Kit Opie (Bristol) Primate mating systems and the evolution of language
Mar 25 Ivan Tacey (Plymouth) Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent
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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