Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 23 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) Lockdown: Sociality, Materiality and Placemaking Dr Maruška Svašek, Queen’s University Belfast A video of the event is available here Drawing on previous research into human mobility, emotional interaction and material mediation (Svašek 2018; 2016; […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 30 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here End-of-life care in England during the Covid-19 Pandemic Dr Erica Borgstrom, Open University Prof Simon Cohn, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Dr Annelieke Driessen, […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2020will be given by Prof David Gellner, University of Oxford The Spaces of Religion: A View from South Asia Wednesday 16 September, 6.30pm (BST) The lecture will be part of the Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future virtual conference Do assaults on distinctions and deconstructions of concepts inherited from […]
The Presidential Address 2020Professor Dame Sue Black, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University Forensic Anthropology and the UK Criminal Justice System Friday 16 October 2020, at 5.30pm (approximately) via Zoom The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. Abstract: Forensic anthropologists are […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2021Living Together When We Cannot Agree On How to Live: Sectarian Factions in Ancient Judaism Professor Albert I. Baumgarten Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Wednesday 26 May 2021 6.00pm-8.00pm Online How can people live peaceably together, when they have come to be ordered in […]
The Curl Lecture 2021Dr Rachel Crellin, University of Leicester Posthumanist feminist archaeology: a becoming Monday 27 September 2021, at 5.30pm (approximately) via Zoom The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. Abstract: This paper explores the potential of posthumanist feminism in archaeology. I argue that our discipline, our present world, and our futures all […]
THE ANNUAL WILLIAM FAGG LECTURE 2019will be given by Professor Wayne Modest, Director of Content at the National Museum of World Cultures and Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Thursday 4 November at 6.00pm, in the Clore Centre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Followed by a reception. […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURES FOR 2020 & 2021 Tuesday 14 December in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. 1.30pm - the 2020 Huxley Lecture from Prof Stephen Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 3.00pm - the 2021 Huxley Lecture from Prof Stephen Shennan, University College […]
Joint Seminar With The Anglo-Turkish Society Monday 28 March 2022, 6.00pm (BST) This seminar will be held in-Person at the Royal Anthropological Institute Booking essential: https://peter-andrews-presentation.eventbrite.co.uk The Engendering of Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey, maps and book Speaker: Dr Peter Andrews Ethnic Groups in Turkey, and the accompanying maps, are the most important single reliable source of […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2022will be given by Harvey Whitehouse (Chair in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC)) Rethinking Ritual: How rituals made our world… and how they could save it Tuesday 7 June, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This event is free and will take place […]
Joint Concert With The Anglo-Turkish Society Thursday 16 June 2022, 6.00pm (BST) This seminar will be held in-Person at the Royal Anthropological Institute Booking essential: https://ferhat-tanriverdi-concert.eventbrite.co.uk A brief introduction to Alevi music and its religious context Artist: Dede Ferhat Tanrıverdi Introduction: David Shankland, Director, RAI The rich musical culture of the Alevis centres around the saz, or […]
AN EVENT BY THE RAI ETHNOMUSICOLOGY-ETHNOCHOREOLOGY COMMITTEE Monday 27 June 2022 at 5.30pm (BST) at the RAI This will be an in-person event. Please book your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-and-film-screening-john-bailey-and-return-of-the-nightingales-tickets-359539671837 Film Screening of 'Return of the Nightingales' and talk with filmmaker John Baily John Baily (Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths) chaired by David Shankland (RAI) In 2010 […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum Tuesday 7 November 2023 at 1.30 pm in the Flett Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD and on Zoom. Mostly Out of Africa: how, when and where During the last 50 years the Recent African Origin model […]
This event is a collaboration between the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Royal Anthropological Institute and CPU London HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHY?: Exploring the Overlaps Between Psychoanalysis and Anthropology In conversation with Hugh Brody and Mike Brearley Chaired by Naomi Segal Friday 17th November 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm (GMT) In their two […]
Lecture at the RAI Thursday 7 December 2023, 6.00 - 8.00pm GMT The event will happen in person at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT To reserve your spot, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-orlando-patterson-the-paradox-of-freedom-tickets-759624546467?aff=oddtdtcreator The Paradox of Freedom: A Socio-Historical Approach Prof Orlando Patterson (John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University) Introduction Prof David Scott (Columbia University) The history […]
Event at the RAI Saturday 9 December 2023, 10am - 4pm GMT The event will happen in person at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT To reserve your spot, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-and-slavery-an-open-conversation-with-professor-orlando-patterson-tickets-759673161877?aff=oddtdtcreator Freedom and Slavery: Issues of Comparative Understanding and Contemporary Social and Political Relevance ~ An Open Conversation with Prof Orlando Patterson Professor David […]
The Annual William Fagg Lecture Thursday 15 February 2024 at 6pm Clore Centre, British Museum Prof Michael W Scott, London School of Economics and Political Science When is an Object? Insights from the Cumulative Lives of a Solomon Islands Canoe House Post In May of 1936, an anthropomorphic wooden carving from the island of Owa […]
2024 MN Srinivas Lecture by Dr Piers Vitebsky: 'Adivasi futures and the vernacular afterlives of fieldnotes' 28 May 2024 18:00 to 19:30 King's Building, Strand Campus, London Dr Piers Vitebsky will deliver the 2024 MN Srinivas Lecture titled 'The village remembered, but by whom? Adivasi futures and the vernacular afterlives of fieldnotes'. Register for this […]
Make Believe: a processual and material approach to the deep history of magic and religion The Henry Myers Lecture Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 1.00-2.3-pm (BST) Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London This talk is part of the Anthropology and Education Conference, but can be attended free without registering for the conference. You will […]
RAI / Anglo-Turkish Society joint seminar Thursday, 5 June 2025, 6.00pm (BST) This is a hybrid event. Booking essential: https://gunes-duru-lecture.eventbrite.co.uk (There is a free ticket option for RAI members and those that attend via Zoom) For any questions, contact: contact@angloturkishsociety.org.uk Central Anatolian Neolithic: Tracing the Emergence of Early Sedentary Communities Speaker: Associate Professor […]
