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SUMMARY:London Anthropology Day 2026
DESCRIPTION:London Anthropology Day\nLondon Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12\, 13\, FE students\, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master’s degrees\, careers advisers and teachers\, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute. \nAttendees get to learn what anthropology is about\, the types of careers anthropologists do\, and find out what it is like to study the subject at university. Attendees are able to learn about the various specialisations of participating universities and ask anthropologists from specific departments questions in live sessions. \nMore information on the programme and booking will be coming soon. \nSign Up to our Notification List
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2026/
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SUMMARY:RAI AGM 2026 Followed by the Myers Lecture
DESCRIPTION:ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2026\nfollowed by the Myers Lecture \n  \nThe 2026 AGM will take place on Wednesday 30 September 2026 at 3.00 pm\nat Kings College London\, The River Room. The Strand Campus\, The Strand\, London\, WC2R 2LS \nIt will be followed by the 2026 Myers Lecture by Professor Aparecida Vilaça on ‘ \nConflicting perspectives on other-than-human beings: Amazonian predatory animism encounters the ‘Rights of Nature’. at 6pm. \nAll are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at the AGM. \n\nBooking \nTickets for the two parts of the event should be booked separately. \n\nAGM \nIn person tickets for the AGM can be booked here \nMyers Lecture & Reception \nIn person tickets for the Myers Lecture can be booked here \nAGM AGENDA \n\n  Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 30 September 2025 (Minutes)\n  Annual Report of the Council for 2025 (TBA)\n  Appointment of Auditors (Current auditors: Friend-James\, Chartered Accountants)\n  Election of Officers and Council for the year 2026-2027 (TBA)\n  Announcement of elections of the Huxley Memorial Lecturer and Curl Lecturer for 2026\n  Marsh Award for 2026\n  Lucy Mair Marsh Medal for 2026\n  Rivers Memorial Medal for 2026\n  Public Anthropology Award for 2026\n  President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026\n  Any Other Business\n\n   The RAI AGM & Myers Lecture has been organised with the kind support of the King’s Brazil Institute.
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2026/
LOCATION:King’s College London\, Strand Campus\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:AGM
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SUMMARY:Henry Myers Lecture 2026: Professor Aparecida Vilaca
DESCRIPTION:   The Myers Lecture has been organised with the kind support of the King’s Brazil Institute. \nROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE MYERS LECTURE \nThe 2026 Myers Lecture will be given by Professor Aparecida Vilaca\, Museu Nacional\, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro \n\nWednesday 30 September 2025\, 6.00-7.15 pm BST\n\nLocation: Kings College London\, Rooms To Be Advised \nIn-Person registration: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE \nThe lecture will be followed by a drinks reception and is preceded by the RAI AGM 3pm till 5.30.pm (AGM page) \n\nConflicting perspectives on other-than-human beings: Amazonian predatory animism encounters the ‘Rights of Nature’\nAlthough the animist ontologies of Amazonian indigenous peoples are today ethnographically well-documented\, over the last few decades a kind of ‘purification’ of their predatory aspects has led to their supplantion by the idea of a benign and collaborative animism between humans and other-than-humans. \nThese idealized relationships are seen as compatible with the holistic biological models informing many contemporary environmental movements\, especially ‘Rights of Nature’ initiatives\, which attribute the status of legal persons to ‘environmental features’ such as forests and rivers. \nMy intention is to discuss the importance of predatory relationships for understanding the indigenous relational world and the equivocations generated by their eclipsing in the interaction with environmental agents and lawmakers. \nBiography: Professor Aparecida Vilaca\nAparecida Vilaça is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Museu Nacional\, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She has held the Simón Bolívar Professorship at the University of Cambridge and visiting professorships at Stanford\, Princeton\, Bergen\, UNAM (Mexico)\, and the EHESS (Paris). Since 1986\, she has conducted long-term ethnographic research among the Wari’ Indigenous people of southwestern Amazonia. Her work explores Amazonian notions of kinship\, embodiment\, and personhood\, as well as the cultural transformations associated with conversion to Christianity and the experience of formal schooling. She is the author of Strange Enemies (2010)\, Praying and Preying (2016)\, and Paletó and Me (2021)\, and co-author\, with Geoffrey Lloyd\, of Of Jaguars and Butterflies (2023) and Bodies\, Gods and Other Imponderables (2026). \n   The Myers Lecture has been organised with the kind support of the King’s Brazil Institute.
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/myers-lecture-2026/
LOCATION:King’s College London\, Strand Campus\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Durkheim and Nationalism 
DESCRIPTION:~ Workshop ~\n\n\nFriday 9 October 2026 – full day (exact times tbc) \nat the RAI in 50 Fitzroy Street\, W1T5BT London \n\n\nDurkheim and Nationalism\n\nAbstract and list of speakers tbc
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/workshop-durkheim-and-nationalism/
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SUMMARY:RAI Research Seminar: Jeremy MacClancy - On ethnographic satire
DESCRIPTION:RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR \nTuesday 13 October 2026\, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo join online via Zoom\, please register here. \nTo join in Person (at 50 Fitzroy Street\, W1T5BT London)\, please register here. \n\nOn ethnographic satire\nJeremy MacClancy\, Member of Common Room\, Wolfson College\, Oxford University \nDeploying ethnographic methods and style for satirical ends is one of the oldest\, most enduring forms of ethnography. Though the bestselling form of ethnography\, the genre has gone unrecognised\, surprisingly. As a form defined by its political purpose\, it can also be viewed as the earliest\, sustained example of critical ethnography. In this intervention\, I pass a brief critical chronology of the genre\, from Lucian to Montesquieu to today’s practitioners\, before focussing on the hitherto neglected interwar satire\, ‘Anthropological report on a London suburb’ by Vladimir Chernichewski (aka Charles Duff). \n\n(Image: Still from Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s film ‘How tasty was my little Frenchman’\, 1971\, Cagey Films.) \n 
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jeremy-macclancy-on-ethnographic-satire/
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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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