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Lys Alcayna-Stevens
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Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk | Environmental Justice | Epidemic Economies | Degrowth | Care | DR Congo
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Please join us this Term for an incredible line-up of speakers, as we re-launch the Oxford Medical Anthropology seminar series…
Join us for the MedAnth seminar today to hear Samantha Vanderslott talk about her new book on pro-vaccine activism: ‘Pro-vax: The other side of vaccination’
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Alex Nading kicked off our MedAnth Seminar series last week with a brilliant talk on reproductive labours and ‘Planetary Health as Atmospheric Cultivation: Lessons from Nicaragua’s sugarcane zone’
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Please join us this Term for an incredible line-up of speakers, as we re-launch the Oxford Medical Anthropology seminar series…
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Come work with our wonderful and dynamic Medical Anthropology teaching team @oxford-anthro.bsky.social ! Deadline 23 September for an October start my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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We'll be at London Anthropology Day to chat about our department & programmes, including our undergrad courses in #HumanSciences and Archaeology & Anthropology.
Plus, Dr Lys Alcayna-Stevens will lecture on 'Pandemics and People'. Join us there!
More info: londonanthropologyday.co.uk/programme/
2025 Programme - London Anthropology Day
London Anthropology Day A university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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March 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social on Friday for our final Department Seminar of the Term! We will be joined by Iza Kavedžija, presenting her paper ‘Embodying Emptiness: Enskillment and the artistic imagination in Japan’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/embody...
March 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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📣 Out now! 'Intrepid Women'
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Intrepid Women
Due for publication 8th March 2025 Introducing the extraordinary women who broke through the proverbial glass ceiling to carry out revolutionary field research in distant parts of the world ‘unsuitabl...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social on Friday for our weekly Department Seminar - we’ll be joined by Katrien Pype, presenting her paper ‘The Post-Global City: South-South geographies and political affects in Kinshasa's emerging tech scene’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/from-l...
March 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...
February 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Really looking forward to screening ‘Kongo’ (2019) by Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav at tomorrow’s @oxford-anthro.bsky.social film session with @chihab.bsky.social!
February 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The first launch of #PlantationWorlds at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social, with Thomas Cousins, @lysalcayna.bsky.social and @chihab.bsky.social!

28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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📣 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...
February 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social tomorrow for our second Department Seminar of the Term to hear Sandra Calkins talk on ‘The Undergrowth: Plotting human-plant futures from Uganda’
January 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social tomorrow at our first Department Seminar of the Term at 2pm, for what promises to be a fascinating talk by Dr Emilie Glazer on ‘The Politics of Rain: Political violence and the potential for new life in the Palestine Anthropocene’
January 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM