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K-Peritia (funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme - COST)
The RAI is pleased to announce that K-Peritia, a project funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme (COST), will be based at the institute for the next four years. The project’s objectives revolve around cultural expertise and include the development of a network which will bring together scholars (particularly those at the outset of their careers) who have preliminary experience as experts in court, members of the legal professions who are interested in cultural expertise, senior scholars with experience of expert witnessing, and representatives of key international organisations, NGOs and capacity-building institutions. The RAI is particularly pleased to have this opportunity to work with this COST programme, not just because of the project’s contemporary relevance but also because it dovetails so well with initiatives that we have been developing on Cultural Expertise and Forensic Expert Social Anthropology. The COST action is led by Professor Livia Holden. More details may be found here. K-Peritia will open with a plenary conference at Pembroke College in Oxford from the 3rd to the 6th January 2024.
Wellcome Medal 2022
It is our pleasure to announce that the Wellcome Medal for 2022 is awarded to Bharat Jayram Venkat for his monograph At the Limits of Cure. This is a deeply researched, elegantly written and very cleverly constructed contemplation of the (in)curability of tuberculosis over the course of more than a century. The aim is to unsettle our idea of cure by construing it less as a therapeutic outcome and more as an abiding object in our collective medical imaginary, a possibility first presented to Venkat during fieldwork in an HIV clinic in India.
RAI Publications Officer
DEADLINE: 25 March 2024
RAI Publications Officer
Part-time (2 days a week)
Status: Permanent after probation
Further particulars
The Royal Anthropological Institute is a flourishing and busy learned society, which has a long record of first-class publishing, including the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the publication of record for anthropology in Britain. The RAI now seeks a Publications Officer to help administer these publications. Amongst the core duties will be to oversee the reviews section of the JRAI, administer the annual Special Issue competition, and act as secretary to the RAI Publications Committee. As with all the RAI’s staff, the successful candidate will be expected to develop the areas to which they contribute with flair and acumen.