History and Anthropology

Alternate Tuesdays, 17.00-19.00 during term time.
NB  During Easter Term the group will meet at King's College

 

Programme 2011-12

For further information please click on the individual event title.

Easter Term 2012

Our Words, and Theirs: A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft, Today
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2012
Carlo Ginzburg (History, University of Pisa). NB: Venue King's College Wine Room
Violence, Christianization and Monarchy in Medieval Hungary
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Nora Berend (History, University of Cambridge). NB Venue King's College Wine Room
Working at Crime: The Professional Gang in the Eighteenth Century
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Douglas Hay (History, University of York). NB Venue King's College Wine Room
 

Lent Term 2012

History--as it hasn't yet happened
Tuesday, 14 Feb 2012
Professor Caroline Humphrey (Anthropology, Cambridge).
Breaking Hospitality Apart: Bad Hosts, Bad Guests, and the Problem of Sovereignty
Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012
Prof Andrew Shryock (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
 

Michaelmas Term 2011

Forms of Law and Social Forms in Béarn, South West France
Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011
Revd Dr Timothy Jenkins (Cambridge, Anthropology/Theology)
Aspects of Non-state Law: Early Yemen and Perpetual Peace
Tuesday, 1 Nov 2011
Dr Paul Dresch (Oxford, Anthropology). To access the readings, contact A Piliavsky
Lex and the City: Roman Law, Local Law and the Case of Dionysia (P.Oxy. II.237, c. 186CE)
Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011
Dr Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, History/Classics)