2025 | Professor Didier Fassin | | |
2024 | Professor Alex de Waal | ‘Anthropology and the Humanitarian Encounter’ | |
2023 | Professor Chirs Stringer | ‘Mostly Out of Africa: how, when and where’ | |
2022 | Professor Marcia Langton | (no lecture) | |
2021 | Professor Stephen Shennan | ‘Population and the dynamics of culture change’ | |
2020 | Professor Stephen Levinson | ‘The ‘interaction engine’: the evolution of the infrastructure for language’ | |
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2019 | Professor Chris Hann | ‘Economy and Ethics in the Cosmic Process’ | |
2018 | Professor Anna Tsing | ‘The More-than-Human Anthropocene’ | |
2017 | Professor Margaret Conkey | ‘Field Walking, Walking the Field: Anthropological Archaeology as Viewed from Deep Time’ | |
2016 | Professor Margaret Lock | ‘Moveable Environments and the Permeable Human Body’ | |
2015 | Professor Robin Dunbar | ‘Dunbar’s Number: How Constrained Is Your Social World?’ | |
2014 | Professor Tim Ingold | ‘On Human Correspondence’ | |
2013 | Professor Howard Morphy | ‘Extended Lives in Global Spaces: The Anthropology of Yolngu Pre Burial Ceremonies’ | |
2012 | Professor Alan MacFarlane | ‘Anthropology, Empire and Modernity’ | |
2011 | Professor Bruce Kapferer | ‘How Anthropologists Think: Refiguring the Exotic’ | |
2010 | Professor Johannes Fabian | ‘Cultural Anthropology and the Question of Knowledge’ | |
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2009 | Professor Ian Hodder | ‘Human – Thing Entanglement: Towards an Integrated Archaeological Perspective’ | |
2008 | Professor Maurice Godelier | ‘Community, Society, Culture: Three Keys to Understanding Today’s Conflicted Identities’ | |
2007 | Professor Adam Kuper | ‘Changing the Subject’ | |
2006 | Professor Leslie Aiello | ‘Diet, Energy and Human Evolution’ | |
2005 | Professor Peter Ucko | ‘”Forms Such as Never Were in Nature”: Forging Authenticity’ | |
2004 | Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern | ‘A Community of Critics?’ | |
2003 | Professor Emeritus Gannanath Obeyesekere | ‘Cannibal Talk: Dialogical Misunderstandings in the South Seas’ | |
2002 | Dr Jane Goodall, CBE | ‘The Scientific Study of Primates and its Impact on Contemporary World-Views’ | |
2001 | Professor John Middleton | ‘Merchants’ | |
2000 | Professor Pierre Bourdieu | ‘Participant Objectivation: Breaching the Boundary Between Anthropology and Sociology – How?’ | |
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1999 | Professor Sally Falk Moore | ‘Certanties Undone: Fifty Turbulent Years of Legal Anthropology, 1949-1999’ | |
1998 | Professor Marshall Sahlins | ‘Two or Three Things that I know about Culture’ | |
1997 | Professor Stanley Tambiah | ‘Transnational Movements, Multiculturalism and Ethnonationalism’ | |
1996 | Professor Philip Tobias | ‘The Ape-like Australopithecus after 70 Years: Was it Hominid?’ | |
1995 | Professor Jack Goody | ‘A Kernel of Doubt: Agnosticism in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspective’ | |
1994 | Professor Sidney W. Mintz | ‘Enduring Substances and Trying Theories: the Caribbean Region as Oikumenê’ | |
1993 | Professor George Stocking | ‘Reading the Palimpsest of Enquiry: “Notes and Queries” and the History of Social Anthropology | |
1992 | Professor Mary Douglas | ‘The Talking Donkey: Balam’s Story in The Book of Numbers (Chapters 22-24)’ | |
1991 | Professor Colin Renfrew | ‘Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistic Diversity: a New Synthesis?’ | |
1990 | Professor Robert Hinde | ‘A Biologist looks at Anthropology’ | |
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1989 | Professor Fredrik Barth | ‘Transmission, and the Shaping of Culture in Asia and Melanesia’ | |
1988 | Dr. Carleton Gajdusek | ‘New Plagues – Old Scourges: Epidemics of Brain Disease in Population Isolates in the Twentieth Century’ | |
1987 | Professor G. Ainsworth Harrison | ‘Social Heterogeneity and Biological Variation’ | |
1986 | Professor Lewis Binford | ‘Date, Relativism and Archaeological Science: Looking at, Thinking about and Inferring the Past’ | |
1985 | Professor Louis Dumont | ‘Are Cultures Living Beings? German Identity in Interaction’ | |
1984 | Professor Junichiro Itani | ‘The Evolution of Primate Social Structure’ | |
1983 | Professor Clifford Geertz | ‘Culture and Change: The Indonesian Case’ | |
1982 | Professor Paul T. Baker | ‘Adaptive Limits of Human Populations’ | |
1981 | Professor Fei Hsiao-Tung | ‘Some Observations on the Transformation of Rural China’ | |
1980 | Professor Sir Edmund Leach | ‘Why did Moses have a Sister’ | |
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1979 | Professor Gordon Willey | ‘Towards a Holistic View of Ancient Maya Civilizations’ | |
1978 | Professor J.S. Weiner | ‘Beyond Physical Anthropology | |
1977 | Professor M. Fortes | ‘Sacrifice, or was your Fieldwork really Necessary’ | |
1976 | Professor M.N. Srinivas | ‘The Changing Position of Indian Women’ | |
1975 | Professor G. Reichel-Dolmatoff | ‘Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: a View from the Rain-Forest’ | |
1974 | Professor J.D. Clark | ‘Africa in Prehistory: Peripheral or Paramount?’ | |
1973 | Professor K. Wachsmann | ‘Spencer to Hood: a Changing View of Non-European Music’ | |
1972 | Professor L.L. Cavalli-Sforza | ‘Human Races: Their Origin and Differentiation’ | |
1971 | Professor G.P. Murdock | ‘Anthropology’s Mythology’ | |
1970 | Professor C.D. Forde | ‘Ecology and the Social Structure’ | |
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1969 | Professor I. Schapera | ‘The Crime of Sorcery’ | |
1968 | G.H. Rivière | ‘My experience at the Musée d’Ethnologie’ | |
1967 | S.L. Washburn | ‘Behaviour and the Origin of Man’ | |
1966 | J.E.S. Thompson | ‘The Maya Central Area’ | |
1965 | Professor C. Lévi-Strauss | `The Future of Kinship Studies’ | |
1964 | Professor G.H.R. Von Koenigswald | `The Early Man’ | |
1963 | Professor E.E. Evans-Pritchard | `The Zande State’ | |
1962 | D.A.E. Garrod | `The Middle Palaeolithic of the Near East’ | |
1961 | Dr. A.E. Mourant | `Evolution, Genetics and Anthropology’ | |
1960 | Dr. S. Lothrop | `Early Migrations to Central and South America’ | |
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1959 | Professor R. Firth | `Problems and Assumptions in an Anthropological Study of Religion’ | |
1958 | Professor Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark | `Bones of Contention’ | |
1957 | Professor J.E.S. Linne | `Technical Secrets of American Indians’ | |
1956 | Professor J.B.S. Haldane | `The Argument from Animals to Men: an Examination of its validity for Anthropologists’ | |
1955 | Professor Robert Redfield | `Societies and Cultures as Natural Systems’; Professor F. Wood-Jones (no lecture due to death) | |
1954 | Professor Henri V. Vallois | `Neanderthals and Praesapiens’; Professor Ralph Linton (no lecture due to death) | |
1953 | Professor M. Ginsberg | `On the Diversity of Morals’ | |
1952 | Professor Kaj Hirkett-Smith | `The History of Ethnology in Denmark’; Sir Peter Buck `The Rangi Niroa’ (no lecture due to death) | |
1951 | Professor A.R. Radcliffe-Brown | `The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology’ | |
1950 | Dr. Julian S. Huxley | `New Bottles for New Wine: Ideology and Scientific Knowledge’ | |
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1949 | James Hornell | (no lecture due to death) | |
1948 | Professor Robert H. Lowie | `Some Aspects of Political Organization among American Aborigines’ | |
1947 | Dr. W.L.H. Duckworth | `Some Complexities of Human Structure’ | |
1946 | Miss G. Caton-Thompson | `The Aterian Industry: its Place and Significance in the Palaeolithic World’ | |
1945 | Professor A.L. Kroeber | `The Ancient Oikumene as an historic Culture Aggregate’ | |
1944 | Professor V. Gordon Childe | `Archaeological Ages as Technological Stages’ | |
1943 | Professor F.C. Bartlett | `Anthropology in Reconstruction’ | |
1942 | Sir Leonard \Woolley | `North Syria as a Cultural Link in the Ancient World’ | |
1941 | Professor Henri Breuil | `The Discovery of the Antiquity of Man’ (Lecture postponed due to World War II) | |
1940 | H.J.E. Peake | `The Study of Prehistoric Times’ | |
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1939 | Dr. R.R. Marett | `Charity and the Struggle for Existence’ | |
1938 | Professor Marcel Mauss | `Une Categorie de l’Esprit Humain: la Notion de Personnne, celle de “Moi”‘ | |
1937 | Professor H.J. Fleure | `Racial Evolution and Archaeology’ | |
1936 | Professor Edward Westermarck | `Methods in Social Anthropology’ | |
1935 | Sir Grafton Elliott Smith | `The Place of Thomas Henry Huxley in Anthropology’ | |
1934 | Sir Aurel Stein | `The Indo-European Borderlands: their Prehistory in the light of Geography and of recent Explorations’ | |
1933 | Professor J.L. Myers | `The Cretian Labyrinth: a Retrospect for Aegen Research’ | |
1932 | Professor C.G. Seligman | `Anthropological Perspective and Psychological Theory’ | |
1931 | Dr. Georg. Thilenius | `On some Biological Viewpoints in Ethnology’ | |
1930 | Professor A.H. Sayce | `The Antiquity of Civilized Man’ | |
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1929 | Erlan Nordenskiold | `The American Indian as an Inventor’ | |
1928 | Sir Arthur Keith | `The Evolution of the Human Race’ | |
1927 | Dr. Ales Hrdlicka | `The Neanderthal Phase of Man’ | |
1926 | Sir William Ridgeway | (posthumously) | |
1925 | Sir Arthus Evans | `The Early Nilogic, Libyan and Egyptian Relations with Minoan Crete’ | |
1924 | Professor R. Verneau | `La Race de Neanderthal et la Race de Grimaldi; leur Rôle dans l’Humanité’ | |
1923 | Dr. E.S. Hartland | (no lecture due to ill-health) | |
1922 | Professor Marcelin Boule | `l’Oeuvre Anthropologie du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco et les recents Progres de la Paleontologie humaine en France’ | |
1921 | Henry Balfour | `The Archer’s Bow in the Homeric Poems’ | |
1920 | A.C. Haddon | `Migrations of Culture in British New Guinea’ | |
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1919 | | None | |
1918 | | None | |
1917 | | None | |
1916 | Sir James G. Frazer | `Ancient Stories of a Great Flood’ | |
1915 | M. Emile Catailhac | (no lecture due to World War I) | |
1914 | | None | |
1913 | Professor W. J. Sollas | `Paviland Cave: an Aurignacian Station in Wales’ | |
1912 | William Gowland | `The Metals in Antiquity’ | |
1911 | Felix von Luschan | `The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia’ | |
1910 | W. Boyd Dawkins | `The Arrival of Man in Britain in the Pleistocene Age’ | |
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1909 | Professor Gustaf Retzius | `The so-called North European Races of Mankind’ | |
1908 | William Z. Ripley | `The European Population of the United States’ | |
1907 | Edward Barnett Tylor | (no lecture) | |
1906 | Professor W.M. Flinders Petrie | `Migrations’ | |
1905 | John Beddoe | `Colour and Race’ | |
1904 | Dr. J. Deniker | `Les six Races composant la Pouplation Actuelle de l’Europe’ | |
1903 | Karl Pearson | `On the Inheritance of the Mental and Moral Character’ | |
1902 | Dr. D.J. Cunningham | `Right-handedness and Lef-brainedness’ | |
1901 | Sir Francis Galton | `The Possible Movement of the Human Breed under the existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment’ | |
1900 | Lord Avebury | `Huxley, The Man and his Work’ | |
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