Language, art, music and culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, culminating in a symbolic explosion or ‘human revolution’ whose echoes can still be heard in myths and cultural traditions from around the world. These talks are a general introduction to social and biological anthropology, ranging over fields as diverse as hunter-gatherer studies, mythology, primatology, archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world together with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology.

Radical Anthropology talks will be back Tuesday evenings from Jan 13, 6:30pm start LIVE in Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW (unless otherwise indicated) and ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak. If you are coming LIVE please arrive between 6:10-6.25 to get through the doors.

Please check out our Vimeo channel for any talks you missed https://vimeo.com/user33365184

Jan 13 Chris Knight An Australian Myth: the Moon and the Origins of Death

Jan 20 Stephen Kapos, Hugh Brody A Holocaust survivor and an anthropologist oppose all genocides

Jan 27 Stefanie Lotter ‘Dignity without Danger’: Chhaupadi menstrual seclusion

Feb 3 Morna Finnegan, Ingrid Lewis Corporeal morality is the antidote to war

Feb 10 Chris Knight The Rainbow Snake and the Wawilak Sisters

Feb 17 Ingrid Lewis Sing polyphony for the Lunar New Year

Feb 24 Ian Watts How women drove the evolution of symbolic culture: the last half million years

Mar 3 Cedric Boeckx How sapiens made history

Mar 10 Chris Knight, Jerome Lewis The revolutionary origins of language

Mar 17 Thea Skaanes

Mar 24 Shivani Kaul

Mar 31 Anne Monk, Jacob Seagrave Young Engels and the politics of the encounter