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SUMMARY:JRAI Special Issue Launch: Beyond Public Reason
DESCRIPTION:JRAI Special Issue Launch Event \n\nThursday 14th May 2026\, 3.00 – 5.00 pm BST \nThis is an online event. Please register here for the Zoom link. \n\nJRAI 2025 Special Issue: Beyond Public Reason\nwith editors: \nCharis Boutieri (King’s College London)\nSamuel Sami Everett (Universities of Southampton\, Cambridge\, & Aix-Marseille)\nErica Weiss (Tel Aviv University) \nspecial issue contributors in attendance: \nFarhan Samanani (King’s College London)\nMoises Lino e Silva (The Federal University of Bahia)\nHeath Cabot (University of Bergen)\nNatalie Morningstar (University of Cambridge) \njoined by: the chair of the RAI Publications Committee\, Geoffrey Hughes (University of Exeter) \n\nThis special issue revisits the concept of liberal public reason\, tracing its intellectual lineage from Enlightenment philosophy through Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls to its contemporary role in shaping political institutions and global governance. Long celebrated for its universalist aspirations\, public reason has also been shown (particularly through anthropological inquiry) to rest on exclusions structured by culture\, race\, gender\, class\, and religion. The contributions gathered here interrogate how liberal public reason operates not only as a normative ideal but also as a hegemonic philosophy and pedagogical instrument\, disseminated across transnational contexts as a model of rational\, secular deliberation. At the same time\, this issue moves beyond critique. The essays examine immanent social projects that enact alternative modes of public reasoning grounded in vernacular\, embodied\, and relational practices. Emerging both within and beyond liberal institutions\, these projects articulate political horizons not fully determined by liberal assumptions. Rather than opposing liberalism to its presumed “illiberal” others\, the authors illuminate diverse forms of deliberation – from community organizing and legal argumentation to spiritual claims and practices of solidarity – that reconfigure public reason as plural\, situated\, and responsive to deep difference without demanding assimilation to liberal norms. \n\nOther contributing authors: \nCarol J Greenhouse (Princeton University)\nAndrew Shyrock (University of Michigan) \nJRAI Associate Editor: Narmala Halstead (University of Sussex) \n\nYou can read the Special issue here (open access): https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655/2025/31/4 \nIt is currently open access. \nContents:
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-launch-beyond-public-reason/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening and Reception: The Piruzai
DESCRIPTION:New exhibition opening:\nThe Piruzai – Afghanistan 1971\nWednesday 3 June 2026\, 6pm (BST) \nThis is an in-Person event at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street\, W1T 5BT London). Please book your attendance here. \n\nJoin the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Afghanistan society to celebrate the opening of Piruzai – Afghanistan 1971\, an exhibition of photographs by Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper. \nIn 1971-2\, Nancy and Richard lived for nearly a year with the Piruzai in north-central Afghanistan. A mixture of landscapes\, portraits\, documentary\, and candid images\, the photographs tell a seasonal story of work\, play\, weddings\, and the long journey to summer pastures. Reflecting what people wanted to record about their lives and families\, these photographs are a visual record of the lives of the Piruzai just before fifty years of war and other disasters which have shaped Afghanistan. \nThe evening will include an introduction by Richard Tapper and a reception. \n\nIn connection with the exhibition we are also running a book launch event on Wednesday 10 June (from 6:30pm) that will present two publications by Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper. \nFind the information here. \n\nOnce the exhibition has started with the launch\, it can be viewed during the RAI’s office hours (10am-5pm) by appointment. \nFor this\, please get in touch via info@therai.org.uk or call us on +44 (0)20 7387 0455.
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/exhibition-opening-and-reception-the-piruzai/
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Afghan Village Voices & The Piruzai of Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:Book launch in collaboration with the Afghanistan Society\nWednesday 10 June 2026\, doors opening 6:30 for a 7pm start of the talk \nThis is an in Person event at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street\, W1T 5BT London). Book your ticket here. \n\nJoin the Royal Anthropological Institute and The Afghanistan Society for the launch of two books by Richard Tapper and Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper. \nAfghan Village Voices is a collection of remarkable stories\, folktales\, and conversations recorded during field research in north-central Afghanistan in the early 1970s. The Piruzai of Afghanistan: a visual ethnography (in association with the White Horse Press) reproduces 380 photographs from the same research. These photographs tell a seasonal story of work\, play\, weddings\, and the long journey to summer pastures. Reflecting what people wanted to record about their lives\, both books offer a record of experiences just before fifty years of war and other disasters which have shaped Afghanistan. \nJoin Richard Tapper\, and panellists Veronica Doubleday and Orzala Ashraf Nemat for a discussion of the power of these stories and photographs\, their role as a historical record\, and their contemporary relevance. \n____________________________________________________________________________________ \nAfghan Village Voices is published by I.B. Tauris (an imprint of Bloomsbury) and can be purchased here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afghan-village-voices-9780755600878/ \nThe Piruzai of Afghanistan: a visual ethnography is published in association with the White Horse Press and can be purchased here: The White Horse Press
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-afghan-village-voices-the-piruzai-of-afghanistan/
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SUMMARY:Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation: When loud rumour speaks
DESCRIPTION:‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ \nThe Tenth Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar \nThursday 15 October\, 2026\, 10:00-17:00\, at 50 Fitzroy Street\, London W1T 5BT \n\nCall for Papers \n‘When Loud Rumour Speaks’:\n      Informal communication in the modern online world \n  \nAnthropologists know what it is to deal with networks of informal communication. Field research in small-scale\, face-to-face social situations\, be they villages\, neighbourhoods or organisations\, has always entailed coming to grips with this in one way or another. Folklorists\, whether collecting ‘traditional’ oral material of various sorts or documenting urban and contemporary legends and the online world of memes and viral narratives\, have always recognised the fundamental importance of informal communication. Anthropology and folklore meet here in shared and long-standing interests in rumour\, which have only been sharpened by the rise and rapid expansion of the Internet. This meeting will explore what the two disciplines have in common in this respect\, what they can learn from each other\, and how\, if at all\, rumour has changed in the online era: are we witnessing the emergence of a new mode of communication\, somewhere between the face-to-face/oral and the literate? Papers are invited that consider the social roles of rumour in the broadest senses\, whether comparatively or in case studies. Analyses of the linguistic and conceptual categories of ‘rumour’ are also welcome. \n\nPlease send your proposals for papers to Prof. Richard Jenkins r.p.jenkins@sheffield.ac.uk by the deadline of 30 June 2026 \nPresentations will be given in person\, but conference attendees may attend either on-site\, or via Zoom. There is no registration fee. For on-site attendees\, refreshments and a light lunch will be provided free of charge. \n\nImage: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/yarn-phone-communication-network-2091195/
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-and-anthropology-in-conversation-when-loud-rumour-speaks/
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