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Call for Papers
Karin Barber Day
Deadline: 1 December 2019
Date of Event: Thursday 30 April 2020 2020
Location: Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT
Professor Karin Barber was recently awarded the Presidential life-time achievement award at the RAI’s AGM. This is a new award, the first recipient of which was Professor David Parkin. As part of these awards, we intend to hold a day at the RAI discussing the work of the recipient. On this occasion, it will take place on 30 April 2020.
Leach/RAI Fellowship in Public Anthropology
Exciting Opportunity to Increase Public Awareness of Anthropology
The Royal Anthropological Institute, supported by the Esperanza Trust, is seeking to appoint a colleague or colleagues to a Leach/RAI Fellowship in Public Anthropology. The Fellowship is named after Sir Edmund Leach, who was particularly talented in communicating with a wide range of publics. Applicants are invited to propose a programme of public engagement activities, such as writing articles for the print and online press, contributing to social media, blogs and podcasts, giving public talks, including for the internet, radio and television, and/or other innovative activities. The period of the Fellowship is for one year and offers a grant of £18,000. The grant can be used as basic employment, or to contribute to replacement teaching costs, but generally to support the delivery of the proposal and cover other associated expenses.
Deadline 14 October 2019
Call for Papers
Endangered Fieldwork
A joint seminar with the Association of Social Anthropologists and the Royal Anthropological Institute.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 1 December 2019
Date of event: 19 March 2020
The traditional model of long-term fieldwork, at the heart of social anthropological practice for much of the twentieth century, appears to be endangered. It is increasingly difficult to gain fieldwork permission in many countries where anthropologists have formerly worked. Doubts surround the viability of participant observation in the light of regulatory frameworks, frameworks that may appear to demand compulsory open access of fieldwork data, and knowing the questions in advance that will be asked by the fieldworker.