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Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Seminars, Conferences & Events

Departmental seminars, conferences & events
Departmental Centre seminars, conferences & events

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2012

January

11/01/12
  • The Masks of Mer, 2010, 60 mins
  • Michael Eaton

  • In this documentary director Michael Eaton traces the story of Alfred Haddon's largely neglected 1898 film footage shot in the Torres Strait islands of a sacred initiation.  Although less than a minute long, this rare footage is the world's first example of anthropological cinema.  The filmmaker will be present to discuss his film.

13/01/12
18/01/12
  • Nanook of the North, 1922, 55 min
  • Robert Flaherty

  • This classic film focuses on an ‘Eskimo’ hunter and his family as they struggle for survival against the harsh forces of nature in the Canadian artic. This was Flaherty’s first film and has been widely acclaimed as the first full length documentary film.

18/01/12
18/01/12
18/01/12
20/01/12
25/01/12
  • Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom], 1929, 103 min
  • Dziga Vertov

  • The highly innovative film presents urban life in the Soviet Union following their inhabitants from dawn to dusk as they work and play. The film is also a playful reflection on the powers of filmic representation as it follows the work of the cameraman throughout the city.  

25/01/12
25/01/12
25/01/12
25/01/12
27/01/12

February

01/02/12
  • The Hunters, 1957, 72 min
  • John Marshall

  • This is an early classic anthropological film, which follows four men on a hunt of a giraffe by over a five-day period in the Kalahari Desert in southwest Africa.

01/02/12
01/02/12
01/02/12
03/02/12
08/02/12
  • Moi, un noir, 1957, 80 min
  • Jean Rouch

  • The film, set in Abidjan, Ivory Coast depicts the lives of casual labor over the course of one week. The characters model themselves on fantasy characters- gangsters and FBI agents- from Hollywood films - living on dreams denied to them in their working class realities.

08/02/12
08/02/12
08/02/12
10/02/12
18/02/12
22/02/12
  • Dead Birds, 1963, 83 min
  • Robert Gardner

  • Gardner stayed with the Dani of New Guinea for six months to film one of his best-known works, an essay on the theme of violence and death that details the intense ritual warfare conducted by the Dani and their neighboring tribes.

22/02/12
22/02/12
22/02/12
24/02/12
  • Food and City Systems
  • Michael Duff, Associate Consultant in Strategy, Design and Sustainability, Happold Consulting, and Guest Lecturer, UCL Sustainable Urbanism M.Sc. and LSE Cities Programme
29/02/12
  • To Live with Herds, 1971, 69 min.
  • David MacDougall

  • Set within a traditional homestead during a harsh dry season, this film explores the effects of nation building in pre-Amin Uganda amongst the semi-nomadic pastoral Jie people

29/02/12
29/02/12

March

02/03/12
06/03/12
07/03/12
  • Masai Women, 1974, 52 mins.
  • Chris Curling and Melissa Llewlyn-Davies

  • The film details a series of events in women's lives, from their circumcision ceremonies which mark their transition from girlhood to womanhood, to the moment when they proudly watch their sons make the transition to elderhood in the eunoto ceremony.

07/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
09/03/12
13/03/12
  • TBC
  • Adam Forbes

  • Please note change of date.

14/03/12
  • Cannibal Tours, 1987, 70 min
  • Dennis O’Rourke

  • With dry humor and a great deal of irony this film follows western tourists as they journey up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.  It focuses on the complex relationships and mutual dependencies between the tourists and the indigenous people

14/03/12
14/03/12
14/03/12
14/03/12
15/03/12
  • Women Only Peace and Reconciliation Discussion
  • Ms. Quhramaana Kakar (Gender adviser to the Afghan High Peace Council)
  • Afghan Advocacy Initiative (AAI) is pleased to inform you that we will be holding a women only discussion event on peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan on Thursday 15th March (to commemorate International Women’s Day). The aim of this event is to create an opportunity for Afghan and non-Afghan women to voice their opinions about the peace and reconciliation process and discuss ideas on how to establish a platform to advocate for greater woman participation in the process.
16/03/12
21/03/12
  • Imagining Indians, 1992, 60 mins.
  • Victor Masayeva

  • Using examples drawn from popular media representations this film explores how Native Americans respond to the misappropriation of American Indian culture, spiritualism, ceremony and religion.

21/03/12
21/03/12
  • ICT4D – in whose interests?
  • Tim Unwin, CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, and Emeritus Professor/UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London

  • Public event. No registration required.

23/03/12

May

29/05/12
31/05/12

June

07/06/12
07/06/12
11/06/12
12/06/12
12/06/12
13/06/12
14/06/12
14/06/12
  • Anthropology of International Humanitarianism
  • Professor Tim Allen (LSE) and Dr Rosalind Eyben (IDS, Sussex)

  • Panel discussion on International Humanitarianism chaired by Dr Emma Crewe featuring Professor Tim Allen (LSE) and Dr Rosalind Eyben (IDS, Sussex).

October

03/10/12
09/10/12
09/10/12
10/10/12
10/10/12
10/10/12
12/10/12
16/10/12
17/10/12
17/10/12
17/10/12
19/10/12
23/10/12
24/10/12
24/10/12
24/10/12
26/10/12
29/10/12
30/10/12
31/10/12
31/10/12

November

02/11/12
13/11/12
14/11/12
14/11/12
16/11/12
20/11/12
21/11/12
21/11/12
21/11/12
22/11/12
23/11/12
28/11/12
28/11/12
28/11/12
30/11/12

December

04/12/12
05/12/12
05/12/12
05/12/12
06/12/12
07/12/12
12/12/12
12/12/12
14/12/12