Centre for Anthropology of Health

(Previously Anthropology of Health Research Group)

The Centre for Anthropology of Health bridges biological and social anthropology, community medicine, evolutionary medicine, social epidemiology and public health. We work on local, regional and international scales. We aim to advance the interdisciplinary anthropological study of health, to critically debate local and international health issues, and to support impact and outreach activities.

Contact Research Co-ordinator: Dr Loretta Lou

Staff members

Anthropology of Health Seminars 2024/25

Some of our Evolutionary Anthropology seminars are open to the public alongside our university community. Some are also live streamed through Zoom. For further information about individual seminars or the whole series, please contact Senior Research Administrator, Kate Payne (kate.payne@durham.ac.uk).

Building locations and directions are available through Google Maps.

Please also note that our other Research Groups will be presenting their own seminar series' during this period. You can find details on their Research Group pages: Evolutionary Anthropology (EARG) and Social Anthropology (SARG).

MICHAELMAS TERM 2024

This period has now ended and seminar dates have all passed. See Epiphany Term 2025 dates below for upcoming events.

EPIPHANY TERM 2025

Wednesday 15 January, 13.00 - 14.30 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

• SARG & AHRG Joint-seminar
• Chris Courtney (Durham University)
• From Miasmatic Mists to Air-Conditioning Disease: Worrying About Humidity in Chinese History
• Abstract to follow

Wednesday 22 January, 13.00 - 14.30 (D104, Dawson Building)

• William Tantam (University of Bristol)
• Virtual abuse, infinite harm: Conceptualising trauma with survivors of online-facilitated child sexual abuse
• Abstract to follow

Wednesday 5 February, 13.00 - 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

• SARG & AHRG Joint-seminar
  • Why and how we speak with the dead: an interdisciplinary dialogue on spiritualist practices in China and the UK
• Adam Reed (University of St Andrews)
  • Living Images: Spiritualism and the equivocations of mediumship
• Luis Junquiera (University of Cambridge)
  • Divine Influence or Mental Power? Redefining Ritual Healing in Republican China (1912-1949)

Wednesday 12 February, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre) 

• DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (DATA THEME)
• Tom Neumark
• Title TBA

Wednesday 19 February, 13.00 - 14.30 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

• Looking for biosolidarity: The struggle for community-making among eco-anxious climate activists in Britain
• Bridget Bradley (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 26 February, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre) 

• DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (DATA THEME)
• Alberto Acerbi (Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento)
• Title TBA

Wednesday 5 March, 13.00 - 14.30 (D104, Dawson Building)

• PhD students seminar
• Off-the-boat 

Wednesday 19 March, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

• DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR
• Tom Widger – Inaugural Professorial Lecture
• Title TBA