Kenneth Kirkwood Lecture Day 2019
Saturday 16 March 2019 10.00 am to 4.30 pm
Constructs of time are central to all cultures. Yet there are both subtle and dramatic differences between them in how time is conceptualized. At the 2019 Kenneth Kirkwood Lecture Day four anthropologists will explore some notions of time in different societies.
The Past in the Present: Concepts of Time in an Amazonian Cosmos – Dr Marcus Colchester
Marcus Colchester is an anthropologist and is founder and current Senior Policy Advisor of the international human rights organisation Forest Peoples Programme. He has worked extensively over four decades with forest peoples in the Amazon and with other forest communities worldwide.
Taking Time in the North – Concepts of Time amongst the Inuit of the Canadian High Arctic – Professor Hugh Brody
Hugh Brody is an anthropologist, writer and renowned film maker. He is an Honorary Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kent.
Marking Time in Japan: Examples of Ingenious Flexibility – Professor Joy Hendry
Joy Hendry, Professor Emerita in Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, has carried out anthropological field studies in Japan for over 40 years. She recently received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan in recognition of her work.
In the Old Days: Time in Atholl, Highland Scotland – Professor Peter Gow
Peter Gow is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Room - entrance via South Door (link to directions and map).
Friends and guests welcome.
For details and postal bookings see flyer.
Enquiries: Shahin Bekhradnia: shahinbekhradnia@hotmail.com
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