Impact and Engagement

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We're always looking for new ways to get our research out into the world.

Oracles, Omens & Answers

Discover how people have sought answers to life's big questions throughout history in this exhibition at the Weston Library.

6 December 2024 - 27 April 2025

Co-curated by Professor David Zeitlyn and Dr Michelle Aroney

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Migration Sounds: Amplified in the Pitt Rivers Museum

Sound installation and panel discussion exploring the diverse sounds of migration.

6 - 8 November 2024

A partnership between COMPAS and Cities and Memory

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Oxford Reads Kafka

A University-wide celebration of the literary works and enduring global legacy of Franz Kafka with contributions from Professor Eben Kirksey on Kafka and disability. Taking place in June 2024.

The Oxford Anthropology Podcast

Explore a wide range of human experience and research from around the world.

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Disobedient Buildings Podcast

Explore the everyday lived experiences of inhabitants of ageing blocks of flats in three different European welfare states: the UK, Romania and Norway.

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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world.

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The Migration Oxford Podcast

Exploring why and how people move.

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2024 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford out now

Volume XVI

Highlights include Some Reflections on Mysticism by E.E. Evans-Pritchard; the article was originally delivered as a lecture in 1970 by pre-eminent Oxford Social Anthropologist Evans-Pritchard and is presented here with a new introduction from Kit Lee, and Marcus Banks: An Annotated Bibliography by Chihab El Khachab which maps out the intellectual contributions to anthropology of Marcus Banks, Professor of Visual Anthropology and former Head of School (2012-2016) at SAME who died suddenly in 2020. This edition also features the second article in JASO occasional series Anthropology in Translation, a dedicated space for engaging with current anthropological scholarship originally written in languages other than English. The article, Cover-up is better than exposure: scandals, flexible norms, prostitution or sexual dissidence in Morocco, was written by Mériam Cheikh and translated by David Zeitlyn.

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