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Before and after Malinowski: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology 07 Jul 2022;
01:00PM - 04:30PM


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New Exhibition

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Citizens of Photography

Exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St., London W1T 5BT
June – October 2022

‘Citizens of Photography’ engages photographs as political actors and complex agents of change. It approaches images not just as records of what has already happened but as symptoms of what might be yet to come. Researchers funded by an ERC Advanced Grant undertook fieldwork in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Greece, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Focusing on the relationship between the camera and the political imagination the research illuminates questions relating to the epidemiology of images, their ‘demotic’ rather than ‘vernacular’ identity, their role in instituting revolutionary newness (and conversely in inscribing the repetition of established archetypes), and, finally, the nature of the ‘photographic event’ and the rather different temporal shape of the ‘event of photography’. ‘Citizens of Photography’ asks what it is that is normally unseen, yet see-able in photography? It also aspires to encourage further ethnographic investigations of what remains the central means through which humans represent their aspirations to themselves and to others.

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Editorial Assistant, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Editorial Assistant, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

DEADLINE Thursday 14 July 2022 (12.00 noon) - UK

Time commitment: up to 17 hours per week.
Rate of pay: £12.50 per hour.

Further particulars

The Royal Anthropological Institute is seeking to appoint an Editorial assistant for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Editorial assistant will work closely with the honorary Editor JRAI’s Editorial Collective, consisting of Hannah Knox, Adam Reed, Chika Watanabe, and Tom Yarrow.

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Call for panels

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Open Call for Panels: The RAI Film Festival 2023 Online Conference

The RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2023 is hosting an online academic conference, 6-10 March 2023. Paper presentations will be delivered live and will be followed by a Q&A with the public.

Call for Panels

Deadline: 2 July 2022

We welcome panel proposals on all current research related to visual, digital, and multimodal anthropology. We invite panel, roundtable and workshop proposals from academics and practitioners in anthropology and adjacent disciplines.

In addition to our open call for panels, for this edition we are also encouraging participants to consider the following theme:

Visual anthropology and speculative futures

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