Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

This week's departmental seminar is the last of the term: Synthetic Geographies and the Political Economy of Generative AI Prof. Mark Graham @oii.ox.ac.uk  📆 Fri 5 Jun, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Rd https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/synthetic-geographies-and-political-economy-generative-ai

This week's departmental seminar: Anthropology after AI (and vice versa) Fri 29 May | 3pm | 64 Banbury Road Prof Morten Axel Pedersen brings together anthropology, data science + tech governance. Change from the seminar originally advertised. www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/anthro...

Don't miss Professor Peter D. McDonald (Professor of English and Related Literature and Fellow of @sthughscollege.bsky.social  ) for this Friday's seminar 'Englishing Ishwar with AKM, RC and AI'. 📆 Fri 22 May, 3pm https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/englishing-ishwar-with-akm-rc-and-ai

Don't miss 'Made in Palestine: Re-packaging Apartheid as “Smart” Cities' with Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social (Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities @cam.ac.uk ) 📆 15 May, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Road https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/made-in-palestine-re-packaging-apartheid-as-smart-cities

How might generative AI affect your teaching and research? Join 'Intelligent artifice? Notes on work in progress' on 8 May for tips on maintaining your educational values & research integrity when adopting AI: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/intelligent-artifice-notes-on-work-in-progress

SEMINAR, 1 MAY: Why We Can (And Should) Abolish AI: Understanding Technology Corporations as Political Actors Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social  ‪@stjohnsox.bsky.social  https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/why-we-can-and-should-abolish-ai-understanding-technology-corporations-as-political-actors

‘Victory to All Those Who Drink Rice Beer!’: An Anthropologist Traces the Footsteps of the Indian Aboriginal Leader Jaipal Singh Don't miss Alpa Shah @oxford-anthro.bsky.social presenting our final Hilary term seminar. 📆 Fri 13 March, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Road www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/victor...

Hidden Histories of Oxford Anthropology series continues this week with an insight into 'Max Gluckman and the Manchester School: A Dialectic Between Different Intellectual and Political Worlds'. 📆 Fri 6 March, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Road More: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/max-gl...

M. N. Srinivas (1916-99) became 20th-century India’s most distinguished social anthropologist. Friday's seminar will highlight his life from DPhil student @ox.ac.uk to his contribution developing modern Indian anthropology. 📆 27 Feb, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Road www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/m.-n.-...

Mark #AnthroDay by exploring some of the recent news from our School - including new staff, a new journal and new visitors ⬇️ Plus read key insights from recent publications by our academics. Find out more: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/latest-news-0

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955), a founder of modern social anthropology and former Professor of Anthropology University of Oxford , is the topic of discussion in Friday's seminar 'Radcliffe-Brown: Journeys through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955.' with Dr Isak Niehaus. ➡️ https://ow.ly/E8C350Y84Ai

Who was Robert Sutherland Rattray (1881-1938)? Join this Friday's seminar with Prof Paul Basu & William Nsuiban Gmayi @oxford-anthro.bsky.social reflecting on the anthropologist famous for his research on the Asante in 1920s. 📆 Fri 06 Feb, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Road www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/some-o...

Don't miss ‘The First Black Dean in British Academia’: Fernando Henriques and Postwar UK Anthropology, with guest speaker Prof Jeremy Macclancy (Wolfson College Oxford this Friday. 📆 Fri 30 Jan, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Road https://ow.ly/qo6m50Y0FBn

Don't miss this Friday's seminar 'International Gender Studies Lecture: Anthropology and autobiography: ethnography and the social reproduction of Roma identities' with Ilana Sarafian (LSE) 📆 Fri 5 Dec, 3pm 📍64 Banbury Road and online www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/intern...

Don't miss 'Meaning in the margins: understanding grassroots histories in Afghanistan', this Friday's seminar with @annikaschmeding.bsky.social(Senior Researcher @knaw-nl.bsky.social) 📆 Fri 7 Nov, 3pm 📍St Antony's College Find out more: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/meanin...

Where is home, and what makes it so? This Friday, join guest speaker Giovanna Bacchiddu (Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) for 'Leaving, staying, and in-between. The anxiety of border crossing in and around Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)'. www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/aller-...

We've thrilled to be joined by Professor Laura Bear (Department of Anthropology at LSE) this Friday for The Marett Memorial Lecture 2025 'On Whiteness: kinship, care and the racialisation of welfare'. 🗓️ Fri 24 Oct, 5pm 📍Fitzhugh Auditorium @exeter.ox.ac.uk www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ma...

Get set for a brand new term of #Anthropology seminars! This Friday we launch the series with Dr Connie Smith @manchester.ac.uk for 'Unbuilding: high-rise landscapes in Nairobi and London'. 📆 17 Oct, 3pm 📍 Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College More info: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/unbuil...

Are you a prospective undergrad interested in the overlap between the biological & social sciences? Discover the #HumanSciences course @ox.ac.uk at our next #OxOpenDay on Fri 19 Sept! www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/human-scienc... #OxHumSci

‘I cannot say enough – it has been one of the best decisions or my best academic experiences to date. If you’re thinking about applying, I’d 100% say go for it!’ Find out why one of our recent students recommends Human Sciences so highly⬇️ More info: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u... #OxHumSci

'You get to really understand the beauty of what it means to be human.' Our Human Sciences degree studies humans from multiple interconnecting perspectives. It's a fascinating and varied course - more: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u... #OxHumSci

'Human Sciences is valuable because it trains you to look at a problem from different angles.’ Our Human Sciences students consider real-world challenges from diverse biological, social & cultural perspectives. Hear more ⬇ Course info: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u... #OxHumSci

Don't miss How are spatial geometries of (translocal) power, care and ageing changing in Ugandan housing estates? with Andrew Byerley (Senior Lecturer @stockholm-uni.bsky.social ) to close our Seminar Series convened by the Disobedient Buildings team. 📅 30 May 🔗 www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/how-ar...

Spotlight on Disobedient Buildings continues with guest speaker Simone Abram (Prof in Anthropology @durham-university.bsky.social ) for 'Disobedient tenants? Twenty years of urban re/degeneration in public housing'. 📅 Fri 23 May, 2pm 📍 64 Banbury Road More info www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/disobe...

Don't miss this Friday's seminar 'Hostile Environments: How is mould mobilised amidst Birmingham’s Housing Crisis?' with guest speaker Nikita Simpson @soasuni.bsky.social 📅 Fri 16 May, 2pm 📍 64 Banbury Road 🔗 www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events

This Friday’s seminar spotlight is on food insecurity in Senegal. We welcome guest speaker Dr @branwyn.bsky.social (Assistant Professor @uva.nl) for ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. 🔗 www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...

📣 Next in our weekly Seminar Series: 'Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological description as scaffold or mosaic' Join us and our speaker Professor David Zeitlyn (Professor of Social Anthropology) at 2pm on Friday 21 Feb! More info: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/tradin...

We're looking forward to our next Departmental Seminar with Dr Mike Degani @cambridgeuni.bsky.social 'Benedictine Hydropower: A mode of rural electrification in #Tanzania' 📅 2pm, 7 Feb 📍 In-person - 64 Banbury Road More information: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/benedi...

Up next in our Departmental Seminar Series ⬇️ We look forward to welcoming Sandra Calkins from @utwente.bsky.social Topic: 'The Undergrowth: Plotting human-plant futures from #Uganda' 📅 2pm, 31 January 📍 In-person - 64 Banbury Road Find out more: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-un...

📣 Many of our MSc and MPhil course application deadlines are in early January 2025 – they’re coming up fast! Make sure you’re prepared and check the date for your specific course on the @ox.ac.uk website. Watch our video for more guidance: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/msc-and-mphi...