2026-03-05
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My name is Michael Scott and I am the head of the anthropology department here at the LSE.
It's my great pleasure to introduce this inaugural lecture.
part of a school-wide series of recognizing our faculty who have recently been promoted or appointed to full professorship.
These lectures mark a significant milestone in an academic's career and afford us the opportunity to highlight and enjoy the successes of our community.
Tonight, we celebrate the promotion of our colleague, Hans Steinmuller,
Professor of Anthropology and we're delighted to host family,
friends and colleagues who are with us here in person or online.
On behalf of the LSE and the Department of Anthropology, I extend a warm welcome to all.
Professor Steinmuller joined our faculty in 2010 as an assistant professor shortly after completing his PhD and has been a central figure in our department ever
since.
One of the most distinctive theorists in our discipline,
he is in constructive dialogue not only with anthropologists but also with archaeologists,
historians, philosophers and political theorists.
His work is grounded in long-term fieldwork,
totaling some three years of participant observation in rural central China and in the Wa state of eastern Myanmar,
one of the most complex and least studied political territories in Southeast Asia.
Out of these two very different field sites,