Why do different cultures mark ‘coming of age’? Why is there so much variety between cultures? For some the advent of adulthood is celebrated by lavish parties, for others, by endurance tests and initiation ceremonies. Henrietta L. Moore gives her opinion for the BBC World Service programme The Why Factor with Mike Williams.
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BBC World Service podcast: The Why Factor
Talking Anthropology
In this interview, Henrietta L. Moore talks about the meaning of the 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists-conference theme “Uncertainty and Disquiet”, the tradition of the discipline in the UK and anthropology´s contemporary challenges.
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‘Technologies of Enchantment: Magic, World and Being’ @ Wellcome Collection
How to know the world is a problem all humans contend with. Magic, religion and science are all ways of thinking about and acting on the world. On 3 December 2011, Henrietta L. Moore helped to explore the relationship between science and faith @ the Wellcome Trust’s symposium ‘Holy Quarks’ … you can now listen to her talk online
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Great Thinkers
Professor Moore discusses the work of Margaret Mead for the BBC Four series Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words (first broadcast in August 2011).
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Humanities Matter
In this video Henrietta L. Moore discusses the importance of the humanities for individuals, societies and governments.
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Comments on ‘What’s in an event?’ for Slovenian TV
On 4 November 2011 Henrietta L. Moore was invited to speak at the symposium ‘The Event as a Privileged Medium in the Contemporary Art World’ at the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Watch her commenting on art events for TV Slovenija
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‘Still Life’ on BBC Radio 4
Listen to the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Programme in which Henrietta L. Moore discusses her new book “Still LIfe” with Laurie Taylor and Samaya Farooq.
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Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions
Watch the trailer for Henrietta L. Moore’s new book “Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions” (Polity Press)
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My Avatar, Myself
When we extend ourselves into the virtual where do we, ourselves, end? With endless new capacities to animate our intentions beyond the body, Henrietta Moore proposes this is far more than projection. This talk took place on 27 May at How the Light Gets In 2011, the philosophy and music festival at Hay on Wye. You can watch the video of the talk online.
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Who Looks Back in the Mirror?
In its focus on language and structure 20th century philosophy all but eradicated the need for the human subject. Now there are signs that the self is on its way back. But are we any closer to understanding the self, and what makes each one of us who we are? Martin Jacques uncovers at Hay Festival 2011 who philosopher / writer / broadcasters, Simon May, Barry C Smith, and Julian Baggini and cultural theorist Henrietta Moore think they really are.
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The Post-Nuclear Family Future
The family is in transition. A generation is growing up with multiple parents and a host of half siblings. Are family structures falling apart or growing into exciting new possibilities? And is family essential to human well-being, and if so why?
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The New Romantics
Should we be celebrating the end of rationality in favor of a more romantic sensibility? Or are we, in the words of J.G. Ballard, ‘re-primitivizing’ ourselves and entering an age of magic, unreason and romantic superstition?
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Strangers on a train
In this BBC Radio 4 podcast Henrietta L. Moore talks with Laurie Taylor and David Morgan about the role of acquaintances in our lives and why the people who are neither friend nor stranger are incredibly important.
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Outsourced Cultures
In the Indian call centre or ‘outsourcing’ industry, workers are trained to emulate the American or British workers which they have replaced. BBC Radio 4′s Laurie Taylor is joined by Henrietta Moore to talk to Shehzad Nadeem about the hybrid culture these Asian employees have created.
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21st Century Challenges: How Global Crises Provide the Opportunity to Transform the World
Public debate, marking the launch of LSE Global Governance; other speakers: Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, Professor David Held, Professor Mary Kaldor, Professor Danny Quah – February 2010
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BBC Radio 4 – Thinking Allowed: Moral Relativism
Listen to this discussion between Henrietta L. Moore, Laurie Taylor, Steven Lukes and Conor Gearty of the relationship of culture and morality in the debate on a universal notion of human rights.
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Individual Identity and Cultural Relativism
In this British Council interview Henrietta L. Moore discusses the potential benefits and limitations of cultural relativism. What are the potential benefits and limitations of cultural relativism? How can psychoanalytic approaches enhance and enrich understanding? What is the impact of culture and technology on individual identity?
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BBC Radio 4 – Thinking Allowed: Obesity
In this BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Programme Henrietta L. Moore discusses the cultural history of obesity with Laurie Taylor and Sander L. Gilman.
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Modern Erotics and the Quest for Intimacy
In this podcast Henrietta L. Moore, Darian Leader, Susie Orbach and Renata Salecl discuss contemporary sexualities and their uneasy relationship to love, fantasy and intimacy.
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BBC Radio 4 – Thinking Allowed: World Dress
In this BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed programme Henrietta L. Moore discusses the world domination of the western business suit with Laurie Taylor and Robert Ross.
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Personal Histories Retrospect
Seminar with Henrietta L. Moore, Meg Conkey, Ruth Tringham and Alison Wylie held on 22 October 2007 at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
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The Last Resistance – Jacqueline Rose in discussion with Henrietta L. Moore and Stephen Frosh
Jacqueline Rose (pictured) discusses her book “The Last Resistance” with Henrietta L. Moore and Stephen Frosh. “The Last Resistance” explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives and examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination.
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