Perspectives in Anthropology welcomes you to explore our new Lecture Series where you can discover a wide range of topics, each with a unique perspective and interpretation. We hope that these lectures will reflect the values of good anthropological research and inspire your own critical thinking and imagination.
If you can’t view the lectures here on our website, you may still be able to watch some of them on our YouTube Channel. Simply go to our Lecture Series channel page and the video will be available for viewing. Please remember to subscribe to our channel.
We are also hosting conference lectures that will bring together scholars on specific themes. It is our hope to provide the work of prominent scholars who will contribute their knowledge and perspectives. Lively conversation, debate, and collaboration are the hallmarks of these events.
Forums:
Focus Lectures – Scholars lecturing on interesting issues.
New Voices – New and interesting scholars.
ThoughtStreams – Controversial topics and contemporary issues.
Focus Lectures:
Professor James Ceaser
Hillsdale College Lecture Series, Nov 2016
Overview History of the American Party System
Brian Lehrer, Kurt Bardella, Darrell Issa,
Senator Olympia Snowe, Jehmu Greene,
Angela Nagle, and Suzanne Nossel, Panelists
Guggenheim Museum – March 2019
Culture and Its Discontents: Contemporary Culture Wars
Professor Raghuram Rajan
University of Chicago: Harper Lectures – April 2020
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Economy
Kate Meagher, Umair Javed, Gerard McCarthy,
Rachel Moussie, Vanessa van den Boogaard, and Max Gallien
International Center for Tax and Development – April 2020
COVID-19 and the Informal Economy: Responses, Relief and Research
Dr. Amesh Adalja
Johns-Hopkins University – February 2020
Coronavirus Lecture
Bell Hooks
City College of New York – 2006
Cultural Criticism and Transformation
Edward Said
Media Education Foundation – 1998
The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
Virginia Garrard-Burnett
College of Saint Benedict – April 2015
Pentecostalism in Latin America
Jared Diamond
TED Talks – February 2003
Why Societies Collapse
David Lobell
Stanford University – December 2011
Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation
David Kessler
Stanford University – June 2011
How the Food Industry Is Impacting Global Health
Emma L. Briant
Georgetown University – April 2018
SCL & Cambridge Analytica: Peering inside the propaganda machine
Daniel Sheehan
University of California, Santa Cruz – April 2019
The Mueller Report – Implications for Impeachmet
Sir Max Hastings
U.S. Army Military History Institute (USAMHI)
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy
Kim Iversen
Podcast
What do all of these regime change wars have in common?
Dr. John A. Nagl
Chester W. Nimitz Lecture Series – March 2015
Modern War in Theory and Practice
Dr. Gwen Adshead
Gresham College – February 2015
The Nature of Human Violence
Terrence McKenna
1994
The Internet is the cure for TV
Patricia Rose
Brown University, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
How Structural Racism Works
Huguette LaBelle
April 2014
Corruption: Key Challenges for Local, National and International Institution
Sosin Thayyaba
November 2017
Anthropology Optional 2018
David Feldman
March 2016
Crystal Clear: Flint Water Crisis
Noam Chomsky
February 2014
How to ruin an Economy: some simple ways
Malcolm Gladwell
New Yorker Magazine Festival
School Shootings
Susan Athey
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Introduction to Bitcoin
Deltan Dallagnol
Yale University Latin American Series
Corruption as a Business Model: Petrobras and Politics in Brazil
Mary L. Gray
2011 Indiana University
Ethnography as a critical dimension in media and technology studies
Ghia Nodia
2016 Lipset Lecture
The Crisis of Postnationalism
Edward Simpson
SOAS Depart of Anthropology, University of London
“What is the role of chance in Anthropology?”
Edward Said
Media Education Foundation
On Orientalism
Kevin Kruse
Miller Center Foundation
How Corporate America Invented Religion
Paul Jay
Real News
Capitalism and the Divine Right of Billionaires
Richard Wolff
On Contact w/Chris Hedges
Capitalism in Crisis
Alexander Betts
TED Talks
Why Brexit Happened – And what to do next?
Natasha Ezrow
University of Essex – TED Talks
Authoritarian Breakdown: How Dictators Fall
David Archer
University of Chicago, 2009
Oil and Gas
Monica de Bolle
Crossroads Archives
Brazil’s Economic Meltdown
Elizabeth Grossman
Real Truth About Health Conference, 2014
Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Adrei Zlate
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, USA
International Financial Spillovers to Emerging Market Economies
Monica de Bolle
Brazil Institute Global Fellow – Wilson Center, April 2015
Will New Economic Measures Revive Brazil’s Economy?
Ghassan Hage
University of Melbourne, March 2009
Key Thinkers: Ghassan Hage on Pierre Bourdieu
David Harvey
University of Pennsylvania, 2011
The End of Capitalism
Alan MacFarlane
University of Cambridge, 2006
Economic Anthropology
Marilyn Strathern
University of Cambridge, 2014
Future for Anthropological Relations
Nicholas Harriman
La Trobe University, 2012
Anthropology & Symbols – Leví-Strauss – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4
New Voices:
Laura Doydon, MD
Department of Surgery-Mt. Sinai Hospital, 2013
Medical Anthropology and the Surgeon
Neil Turner
Professor of Anthropology, 2011
Foucault and Geertz: Theorectical Considerations
ThoughtStreams:
The Rise of China – KJ Vids – Video Series
Women’s March on Washington DC 2017 – Interview with Organizers
Redesigning Education: Shaping Learning Systems around the Globe
Future of Anthropology in Schools of Education – Columbia University, 2013
Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway
Human Trafficking – 21st Century Slavery_ Faridoun Hemani at TEDx SugarLand
Nobel Laureate Smashes the Global Warming Hoax
Understanding the Arguments for Universal Health Care
Noam Chomsky
The Purpose of Education
The Concept of “Race”
A Forensic Anthropological Perspective
on Human Variation, 2011
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