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Call for Panels
16th RAI Film Festival
anthropology / ethnography / archaeology
Deadline 30 September 2018
The 16th RAI Film Festival will take place 27-30 March 2019 at the Watershed in Bristol (UK). Alongside this, the Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce an accompanying conference:
Expanding the Frame: Ethnographic Film and its Others
Wellcome Medal 2016
The RAI is please to announce that the Wellcome Medal for 2016 has been awarded to Dr Elizabeth Hallam for her book Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed.
RAI Awards
2018 Rivers Medal - Dr Madeleine Reeves
2018 Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize - Professor Claire Smith
2018 Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World - David Lan
2018 President's Life-time Achievement Award - Professor David Parkin
2019 Curl Lecturer - Dr Oliver Harris
2019 Huxley Memorial Lecturer - Professor Chris Hann