Public Lectures and exhibitions

stuart_hall_250x250.png Professor David Scott (Columbia University) The Provocation to Biography: Writing the Life of Stuart Hall The talk will explore what it is about the life and work of Stuart Hall ( 1932–2014 ) that "calls" on us to think biographically, how in a sense his art of life and his intellectual orientation...

Capitalism, imperialism, and the struggle for development in the 21st century. Professor Jason Hickel (ICTA-UAB) Abstract This talk demonstrates how dynamics of capital accumulation and unequal exchange in the world-system continue to actively prevent development in the global South and subject billions of people to...

14th Annual Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern Lecture (16 th May 2024) Capitalism, imperialism, and the struggle for development in the 21st century. Professor Jason Hickel (ICTA-UAB)Capitalism, imperialism, and the struggle for development in the 21st century. Professor Jason Hickel (ICTA-UAB) This talk demonstrates how...

2023 Strathern Lecture with Professor Alpa Shah (LSE) When Decolonisation is Hijacked Alpa Shah is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She is author most recently of Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas , winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Prize and a...

Inaugural Lecture by Professor David Sneath We are delighted to invite you to celebrate the Inaugural Lecture by Professor David Sneath, the Caroline Humphrey Professor of Anthropology of Inner Asia; and Director, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU). The lecture will take place in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre...

Professor Matthew Engelke (Columbia University) Sovereign Bodies 250x250-mengelkecredit_louis_engelke.jpg Throughout his work, Sir James George Frazer focused on the nexus of life and death, above all in his well-known studies of such ideas and practices as regicide and scapegoating. One of his primary interests in doing...

The Protestantism of Neoliberalism with Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of Victoria, Canada) Abstract: In an interview with the Sunday Times two years after her stunning electoral triumph, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proclaimed “Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.” This lecture...

Professor Penny Harvey (The University of Manchester) The Awkward Relations of Infrastructural Politics Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Professor II at the University of Oslo. Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Co-editor of the Routledge book series Culture, Economy...