Public Lectures and exhibitions

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...

Pedagogies of Context: Theorising Freedom of Expression at the European Court of Human Rights Risking Speech warmly invite you to a lecture by Jessica Greenberg, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Risking Speech is a 5 year project entitled 'Situating Free Speech:European Parrhesia in...

Professor Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins University) Anthropological Recuperations: Intellectual and Social In honour of the 95th anniversary of the inauguration of the Frazer Lecture in 1921, after the Great War, taking inspiration from Mauss’s Essay on the Gift written in the same period, drawing from themes in my recent...