The Centre established a series of special lectures commemorating pioneers in the anthropological study of women: Dr Audrey Richards, Dr Phyllis Kaberry, and Dr Barbara E. Ward.
A book giving biographical essays on these anthropologists, together with their bibliographies, and the first six lectures, entitled Persons and Powers of Women (ed. Shirley Ardener) is available (see book list). All the other Commemorative Lectures have been, or in the case of recent lectures are being, published separately in academic journals.
| 2008 |
Professor Bridget O’Laughlin |
Missing Men Again: Gender, AIDS and Migration in Southern Africa |
| 2007 |
Dr Mukulika Banerjee |
Whose Democracy? Anthropological Perspectives from India |
| 2006 |
Professor Helena Wulff |
Fiction and Ethnographic Sensibility: Irish Relations in the writing of Eilis Ni Dhuibhne |
| 2005 |
Dr Fiona Bowie |
Negotiating Gender and Culture: Trans-national Families in a shrinking world |
| 2004 |
Professor Elizabeth Sinn |
Women at Work: Brothel Keepers in 19th Century Hong Kong |
| 2003 |
Professor Karin Barber |
How Texts Transcend Gender in African Oral and Popular Cultures |
| 2002 |
Dr Nancy Lindisfarne |
Starting from Below: Fieldwork, Gender and Imperialism Now |
| 2001 |
Professor Parminder Bhachu |
Dangerous Designs: Diaspora Asian Women Creating New Cultural and Commercial Economies |
| 2000 |
Dr Sandy Touissant |
Interpreting Cultural Narratives: ethnography, biography and the paradox of memory |
| 1999 |
Dr Melissa Leach |
New Shapes to Shift: wars, parks and the hunting persona |
| 1998 |
Dr Maria Jaschok |
A Mosque of one's Own: Chinese women, Islam and sexual equality |
| 1997 |
Professor Wendy James |
Placing the Unborn: on the social construction of life |
| 1996 |
Professor Henrietta Moore |
Symbolism, Sex and Psychoanalysis |
| 1995 |
Professor Signe Howell |
Many Contexts, Many Meanings? Gendered values among the Northern Lio of Indonesia |
| 1993 |
Professor Elizabeth Tonkin |
Queen and Quean: managing and imagining gender in West Africa |
| 1992 |
Professor Kirsten Hastrup |
Hunger and the Hardness of Facts: a reassessment of Audrey Richards' contribution |
| 1991 |
Professor Elizabeth Croll |
Imaging Heaven: collective and gendered dreams in China |
| 1990 |
Professor Judith Okely |
Defiant Moments: gender, resistance and individuals |
| 1989 |
Professor Pat Caplan |
Engendered Knowledge: the politics of ethnography |
| 1988 |
Dr Aline Wong |
Sex Roles, Lifecycle Stages, Social Networks and Community Development in Singapore |
| 1987 |
E M Chilver |
Women Cultivators, cows and cash crops in Cameroon |
| 1986 |
Dr Caroline Humphrey |
Women and Ideology in Hierarchical Societies in East Asia |
| 1985 |
Professor Jean La Fontaine |
The Persons of Women |
| 1984 |
Dr Caroline Ifeka |
The Mystical and Political Powers of Queen Mothers, Kings and Commoners in Nso, Cameroon |
