Evans-Pritchard Lectures
The Evans-Pritchard Lectures since 1999.
Michaelmas Term 1999
Dr Akira Okazaki (SOAS)
Recapturing the Shadow – Dream consciousness and power in the borderland between North and South Sudan
Michaelmas Term 2000
Dr Timothy Jenkins (Jesus College, Cambridge)
House, Family and Property in Béarn, South West France
Michaelmas Term 2001
Dr Roy Dilley (St Andrews)
Between the Mosque and the Termite Mound: An Investigation into Social and Religious Difference among Haalpulaaren, Senegal
Michaelmas Term 2002
Dr David M. Anderson (St Antony’s College)
Histories of the Hanged: Testimony from the Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-60
Michaelmas Term 2003
Dr David Zeitlyn (University of Kent)
Sample of One: Diko Madelene – A Senior Mambila Woman’s Life in the 20th Century
Michaelmas Term 2004
Dr Keith Brown (Watson Inst, Brown Univ)
The Structure of Loyalty in Revolutionary Macedonia
Michaelmas Term 2005
Dr Kai Kresse (St Andrews)
Swahili Intellectual Practice and Everyday Life: Discourses of Islam and Muslim Identity in Postcolonial Mombasa
Trinity Term 2007
Dr Anna Baldinetti (University of Perugia)
Writing the History of Modern Libya: Key Issues on Historiographies
Trinity Term 2008
Dr Richard Vokes (Univ. of Canterbury, NZ)
Secret networks and major misfortunes: an historical anthropology of "crisis" in the Great Lakes region
Trinity Term 2009
Dr Judith Scheele (All Souls College)
Smugglers and Shurafâ’: Saharan connectivity and the moral unity of the Central Sahara
Trinity Term 2010
Dr Charles Stewart (University College London)
Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
Trinity Term 2011
Dr Henrik Vigh (Copenhagen University)
Critical States and Cocaine Connections: Figuring the State of Decay in Bissau
Trinity Term 2012
Dr Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia)
Unwrapping Ancient Egypt: The Shroud, the Secret, and the Sacred
Trinity Term 2013
Dr Zuzanna Olszewska (London School of Economics and Politics)
Verses, Modern Selves: An Ethnography of Afghan Refugee Poetry and Personhood in Iran
Trinity Term 2014
Dr Philippa Steele (University of Cambridge)
Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus
Trinity Term 2015
Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (University of Oxford)
Transnational Intimacies and the Reconfiguration of Relatedness in Senegal
Trinity Term 2016
Dr Benedetta Rossi (University of Birmingham)
Slavery and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century Africa
Trinity Term 2017
Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University)
Getting Cosa Nostra: Knowledge and Criminal Justice in Southwestern Sicily
Trinity Term 2018
Dr Emmanuelle Honoré (University of Cambridge
Saharan Rock Art: An Archaeology of relational Ontologies in North African Prehistory
Trinity Term 2019
Dr Alice Elliot (Goldsmiths)
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
Trinity Term 2021 (rescheduled from Trinity Term 2020)
Dr Marlene Schäfers (University of Ghent)
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women and Affective Politics in Turkey
Trinity Term 2022
Professor Mark Fathi Massoud (University of California, Santa Cruz)
A Legal Politics of Religion: Building an Islamic Rule of Law in the Horn of Africa
Trinity Term 2023
Dr Lys Alcayna-Stevens (Marie Skłodowska–Curie Postdoctoral Fellow; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
The ‘Owners of Ebola’
Trinity Term 2024
Dr Saibu Mutaru (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)
Naming the Witch, Housing the Witch, and Living with Witchcraft: An Ethnography of Ordinary Lives in Northern Ghana's "Witch Camps"
Trinity Term 2025
Dr Clayton Goodgame (Yale University).