Professor Harvey Whitehouse
Presentations
2009 |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Keynote Lecture, 10th Anniversary Annual Inter-University Graduate Conference, ‘Culture, Cognition, and Construction’, London School of Economics, 23/5/2009. |
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‘Whence and Whither Social Anthropology’
International Colloquium to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Fyssen Foundation, Grand Amphitheatre du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 16/5/2009. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Lecture followed by extended discussion with the media at the Møller Centre, University of Cambridge, 16/4/2009. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
The Wiegand Lecture, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Canada, 6/4/2009. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
EvoS Lecture, Binghamton University, New York, 3/4/2009. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
SPA/SAR Joint Biennial Conference Asilomar, California, 28/3/2009. |
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‘Explaining ‘Cargo Cults’’
Public Lecture, St Martin’s Community Centre, Camden Town, London, 3/3/2009. |
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‘Testing the Modes Theory Using Ethnography’
Research Seminar, Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 23/2/2009. |
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‘Why Do Religions Differ’
Public Lecture, Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 23/2/2009. |
2008 |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and Soc for Anthropology of Religion Invited Session on ‘Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science’, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 20/11/2008. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, Collaborative Research Centre SFB 619, ‘Ritual Dynamics’ International Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, 1/10/2008. |
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‘Explaining Relgion’
Integrating the Humanities and the Sciences Conference, Peter Wall Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 27/9/2008. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Public Lecture (with honorarium¬), Green College, University of British Colombia, Canada, 22/9/2008. |
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‘Testing the Theory of Modes of Religiosity’
Invited Lecture (with honorarium) The Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, 13/9/2008. |
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‘Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion: The strange case of cargo cults’
Invited Lecture (with honorarium), The Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, 11/9/2008. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Keynote Lecture, Eighth Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Brno, Czech Republic, 10/9/2008. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity: A cognitive explanation’
Invited Lecture (with honorarium), The Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, 10/9/2008. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Keynote Lecture, Religion and Cognition in Context Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, 1/6/2008. |
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‘Explaining religion’
A filmed lecture by invitation only, Waynflete Symposium on Anthropology (with special guest Sir David Attenborough), Magdalen College, Oxford, 3/5/2008. |
2007 |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and Society for Anthropology of Religion Invited Session on ‘Cognitive Theory of Religion’; 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 1/12/2007. |
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‘Overview of EXREL Project’
Public Lecture, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 17/9/2007. |
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‘Religious Life at Çatalhöyük’
Second Site Seminar in the Project on Spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of civilization: Çatalhöyük as a case study, Çatalhöyük, Turkey, 3/8/2007. |
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‘A Cognitive Theory of Religious Innovation and Transmission’
International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Vienna, Austria, 24/7/2007. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Public Lecture, James Martin 21st Century School, Philosophy Faculty Centre, University of Oxford, 11/6/2007. |
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‘Evolution and Religion’
Culture and Cognition Seminar, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, 30/5/2007. |
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‘Cognitive Evolution and Religion; Cognition and Religious Evolution’ Inaugural Address’
Evolution of Religion Conference, Oahu, Hawaii, 3/1/2007. |
2006 |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Departmental Seminar, School of Psychology, University of Oxford, 21/11/2006. |
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‘Evolutionary Psychology and the Anthropology of Religion’’
Public Lecture, The British Academy, London, 28/4/2006. |
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‘Religious Universals and Religious Variation’
International Workshop on Religion and Cognition, Centre for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Groningen, Netherlands, 6/4/2006. |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Public Lecture of The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program and The Culture and Cognition Program Colloquium on Evolution and Culture, University of Michigan, 17/3/2006. |
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‘Darwin and the Scientific Study of Religion’
Darwin Day Lecture, Walton Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, 9/2/2006. |
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‘The Role of Emotion in the Transmission of Rituals’
Public Lecture, Religion und Emotion Interdisziplinäres Forschungskolloquium, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, 3/2/2006. |
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‘Closing Remarks’
Cognitive Development and Cultural Transmission Workshop, London School of Economics, 7/1/2006. |
2005 |
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‘Mind, Brain, and Religion’
Oxford Centre for the Study of the Mind, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, 28/11/2005. |
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‘Cognition and Religious Transmission’
Public Lecture, Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Collège de France, Paris, 13/10/2005. |
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‘The Evolution and History of Religion’
Marett Lecture, University of Oxford, 16/9/2005. |
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‘Memory and Religion’
Memory Day, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, 19/5/2005. |
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‘Re-Appraising the Modes Theory: some qualifications and extensions’
Nineteenth World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, 30/3/2005. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity in the Graeco-Roman World: A Response to "Imagistic Modes of Religiosity in the Graeco-Roman World’
Nineteenth World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, 29/3/2005. |
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‘The Evolution and History of Religion’
The Matthew Vassar Lecture, Vassar College, New York, 21/2/2005. |
2004 |
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‘The Evolution and History of Religion: Theorizing Religious Transmission’
Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Religion, San Antonio, 22/11/2004. |
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‘Cognition and Culture’
Inaugural Lecture, Larmor Lecture Theatre, Queen’s University Belfast, 1/6/2004. |
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‘Rituals and Cognition’
Forskerskolen Religion/ Identitet/ Kultur Det Teologiske Fakultet, Aarhus Universitet, convened in Sandbjerg, Southern Jutland, Denmark, 1/4/2004. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity’
Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 30/3/2004. |
2003 |
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‘Ritual Form and Ritual Frequency’
Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, 21/11/2003. |
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‘Ritual, Transmission, and Memory’’
Guest Lecture, Washington University in St. Louis, 28/10/2003. |
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‘The Ritual Form Hypothesis and the Theory of Modes of Religiosity’
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Norfolk, Virginia, 24/10/2003. |
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‘Opening Remarks’ and ‘Closing Remarks’’
British Academy and Emory University Conference on ‘the Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity’, Emory Conference Center, 14/8/2003. |
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‘Ritual, Trauma and Memory’
Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Programme, QUB, 27/2/2003. |
2002 |
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‘The Imagistic Mode: a response to the panel’
Annual Meeting of the SBL, panel on ‘Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World’, Toronto, 24/11/2002. |
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‘A Response to the Panel’
Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Religion, panel on ‘Cognition and Culture: implications of the ‘modes of religiosity’ theory for the study of religion’, Toronto, 23/11/2002. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity: the evidence from Archaeology and Historiography’’
British Academy Networks Conference on Modes of Religiosity, University of Vermont, Burlington, 1/8/2002. |
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‘Ritual, Emotion, and Memory: the case of high-arousal, low-frequency rites’
International Seminar on the Anthropology of Memory, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France, Paris, France, 11/6/2002. |
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‘Ritual, Emotion, and Cognition’
Staff Seminar, School of Anthropological Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast, 7/5/2002. |
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‘Transmission of Religious Concepts’
Minds and Gods: the cognitive science of religion, International Conference sponsored by the University of Michigan, Culture and Cognition Program, and the John Templeton Foundation, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 29/3/2002. |
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‘Ritual Unity: building nationalism in Papua New Guinea’
For God and Country, Spring Symposium of the Center for the Study of Religious, Virginia Wesleyan College, USA, 26/3/2002. |
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‘Explaining the Social Morphology of Religion’
CNRS seminar, Paris, France, 15/3/2002. |
2001 |
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‘Concluding Remarks’
British Academy Networks Conference on Modes of Religiosity, King’s College, Cambridge, 20/12/2001. |
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‘Ritual, Emotion, and Memory’
specialist seminar for anthropologists, King’s College Cambridge, 22/11/2001. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity’
Public Lecture, King’s College Cambridge, 21/11/2001. |
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‘Memory and Motivation in Religion: some causes and consequences of alternative modalities of transmission’
Departmental Seminar, Departmental Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 31/10/2001. |
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‘The Role of Emotion in the Transmission of Religious Rituals: assessing the evidence for two cognitive hypotheses’
CNRS-CREDO workshop on ‘Emotion, Memorization, and Knowledge Transmission', Marseille, France, 14/9/2001. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity’
Joseph Lister Award Lecture, British Association Festival of Science, Glasgow, 6/9/2001. |
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‘Cognition and Ritual’
International Culture and Cognition Program, University of Michigan, 13/5/2001. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity’
Public Lecture (televised), University of Vermont, USA, 16/4/2001. |
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‘Memetics and the Epidemiology of Representations’
Inaugural Lecture for the AHRB Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour, University College London, 16/2/2001. |
2000 |
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‘Explaining Religion’
Keynote Lecture, Festival Seminar in Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1/12/2000. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity’
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Houston, USA, 18/10/2000. |
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‘The Effects of Transmissive Frequency on Memory for Ritual Actions and Exegesis’
Quinquennial Congress of the International association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, 31/7/2000. |
1999 |
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‘Religious Reflexivity and Transmissive Frequency’
Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15/9/1999. |
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‘Situating Human Nature’
Human Nature in Question, British Association Annual Festival of Science, Sheffield, 13/9/1999. |
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‘Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Ritual’
Research Seminar on Anthropological Theory, London School of Economics, 11/6/1999. |
1998 |
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‘Modes of Religiosity in the European Reformation and the Missionization of Melanesia’
Words and Things in the Anthropology of Christianity, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, 24/9/1998. |
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‘Epidemiological Approaches to Ritual’
International Conference on Biological and Cognitive Perspectives on the Transmission of Culture, School of Anthropological Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast, 17/9/1998. |
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‘The Organization and Transmission of Cosmology in Melanesia and Amazonia’
Departmental Seminar, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 6/2/1998. |
1997 |
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‘Mind, Evolution, and Cultural Transmission’
Nouvelle Approches de la Tradition, Ministere de la Recherche, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, CNRS, Paris, France, 15/12/1997. |
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‘Transmissive Modalities and Network-Formation in the Paliau Movement, Papua New Guinea’
5th Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Frankfurt, Germany, 4/9/1997. |
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‘Arguments and Icons’
Nouvelle Approches de la Tradition, Ministere de la Recherche, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, CNRS, Paris, France, 21/5/1997. |
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‘Christianity and “Cargo Cults” in Melanesia’
Words and Things: workshop on the anthropology of Christianity, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, 16/5/1997. |
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‘Modes of Religiosity and Political Evolution in Melanesia’
Departmental Seminar, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, 28/2/1997. |
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‘From Mission to Movement’
Departmental Seminar, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews, 27/2/1997. |
1996 |
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‘The Role of Missionization in Changing Patterns of Cognition and Political Association in Papua New Guinea’
Third Conference of the European Society of Oceanists, Copenhagen, Denmark, 13/12/1996. |
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‘Jungles and Computers: neuronal group selection and the epidemiology of representations’
Public Lecture, Western Michigan University, USA, 15/2/1996. |
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‘The Pomio Kivung of East New Britain Province, PNG’
25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology, Oceania, Hawaii, USA, 7/2/1996. |
1995 |
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‘Neuronal Group Selection and the Epidemiology of Representations’
ESRC Research Seminar on Memory and Social Transmission, Queen's University of Belfast, 16/5/1995. |
1993 |
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‘Modes of Ritual Action’
Workshop: Cognition and Interaction in Ritual Performance, King's College, Cambridge, 6/12/1993. |
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‘Some thoughts on the relationship between cognition, emotion, and politics in Melanesian religion’
Departmental Seminar, Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, 22/11/1993. |
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‘The Role of Terror in Melanesian Religion’
Departmental Seminar, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Queen's University of Belfast, 26/10/1993. |
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‘Nationalism and the Indigenous Movements of Papua New Guinea’
Spring Conference of the Anthropological Association of Ireland, Queen's University of Belfast, 7/5/1993. |
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‘Religions of Fear, and Religions of Routine’
Departmental Seminar, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, 5/3/1993. |
1992 |
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‘The Politics of Revelation: the Pomio Kivung and the Taro Cult as alternative politico-religious regimes’
First European Colloquium on Pacific Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 17/12/1992. |
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‘Seeking the Spirit of Authority: the role of attribution in possession and inspired leadership’
21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology, Oceania, New Orleans, USA, 19/2/1992. |
1991 |
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‘From Possession to Apotheosis’
International Conference in Honour of Sir Raymond Firth, London School of Economics, 19/12/1991. |
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‘Memory, Religion, and Change: two extreme cases from Papua New Guinea’
Intercollegiate Research Seminar in Anthropology, Dept. of Anthropology, London School of Economics, 25/10/1991. |
