The Moral Economy of Infrastructures in Everest Tourism
As social media posts from the slopes of Mount Everest become almost commonplace Dr Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester) focuses on di...
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20 of 263 episodesPentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations
Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. Through the emerging body of queer Nigerian literature, Professor...
Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work
Dr. Vonnak reflects on how socio historical events impact the definition, preservation, and sometimes neglect of cultural heritage. She draw...
Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy
Michael Degani analyzes the styles of work and conflict amongst electrical contractors who congregate across the street from a power utility...
Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation
Philippe Descola, one of Anthropology's most influential figures, invites us to go beyond the traditional boundaries of nature and culture a...
Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe
Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (Pembroke Co...
Nutritional Anthropology
Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection Stanley Ulijaszek Emer...
How to Stitch Ethnography
Feminist anthropologist Tania Perez-Bustos discusses how immersion in the act of embroidery affects the body and enables collective reflecti...
The Rise and Fall of Generations
Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them? Tim Ingold discusses his new work ‘The Rise...
Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea
How do fishers and scientists read the uncertain terrain of the city in the sea? What stories does the urban sea hold for the futures of the...
Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone
Zsuzsanna Ihar leads us through field recordings captured in the marginal settlements of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. She traces sounds that...
China in the global reproduction migration order
Peidong Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) presented this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies G...
Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science
This Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar was presented by Professor Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University) on 16 January 2019
Intimate geopolitics: migration, marriage of citizenship across Chinese borders
This COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar was presented by Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester) on 21 January 20...
The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma
Professor Jonathan Wells (University College London) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on...
Grandparenting migration: reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders
Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on...
Investment migration and social reproduction: the case of recent patterns of migration from China
Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University, Tokyo) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group...
Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoint on a huge global health problem
Hal Drakesmith (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seri...
Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations
Sean Wang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction...
Stunting does not equal malnutrition: evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health
An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar delivered by Professor Barry Bogin (Loughborough University) on 13 February 2019