Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 21 May 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Noémi Lévy-Aksu, London School of Economics The Power of Discretion: Martial Law in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey İdare-i örfiyye, an equivalent of the martial law, appeared as a neologism in the 1876 Ottoman constitution. […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2019We are pleased to announce that this year’s Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Christopher Hood (Visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) on Wednesday 22 May at 6pm in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK. Playing the Numbers Game in the UK’s Public […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 20 June 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Cengiz Güneş, Open University The Kurds in a Changing Middle East Kurdish political activism has reached a new height in the beginning of the 21st Century with Kurdish movements in Iraq, Turkey and Syria establishing themselves as […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 19 September 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Alan Greaves, University of Liverpool John Garstang and Turkey John Garstang of Liverpool University was a pioneer of Turkish archaeology and the founder of the British Institute at Ankara. His book The Land of the Hittites(1910) not […]
THE CURL LECTURE 2019will be given by Dr Oliver Harris, University of Leicester Archaeology and the creation of pasts Friday 20 September 2019, at 5.30pm (approximately) in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London, 2nd Floor, South Junction Wilkins Building, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. […]
THE ANNUAL WILLIAM FAGG LECTURE 2019will be given by Professor James Leach, CNRS – CREDO Aix-Marseille Université and the University of Western Australia Monday 30 September at 6.15pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Followed by a reception. Relationships in the making: negotiating knowledge […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 October 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Priscilla Mary Işın Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history—and one of the most culinarily inclined. According to Prof Robert Dankoff, the Ottomans saw their […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute in association with the Centre for Environment & Society, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University Forensic anthropology in the UK – past, present and future Public Lecture by Professor Dame Sue Black Tuesday 22 October 2019 at 6.30pm followed by a drinks reception. JHB Main Lecture Theatre (John Henry […]
RAI Anthropology and Language Committee EventThe architecture of evidence: language printed in 3D Dr Alex Pillen, University College London Friday 25 October 2019 at 6.30 pm All languages have the means for establishing ‘evidence’ for what one is saying. Evidentiality constitutes sections of verbal performance which are closely tied into observable reality. Language and perceivable […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecturewill be given by Dr Janet Topp Fargion, British Library Archiving World Music Cultures and the Impacts of Listening Thursday 31 October 2019 7:00pm, Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB The lecture will be followed by refreshments. This event is free, but tickets must be […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 14 November 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Peter Andrews A Migration of Tents; Evolution and diffusion of nomadic tent types across Central Asia The arrival of nomadic Turks in Anatolia was dependent in part on the dwelling they developed, which allowed them to cross […]
Launch of the new RAI Committee on Policy and PracticeWednesday 27 November at 5:30 pm The RAI is launching a new committee for both academic and policy/practitioner anthropologists, and those who consider themselves both, as well as social scientists interested in anthropology in the UK and overseas. The question for this committee is why, how, […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Wednesday 18 December at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Economy and Ethics in the Cosmic Process When, late in life, T.H. Huxley returned to the themes […]
Anglo-Turkish Society/RAI concert: The SOAS Silk Road Collective at the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 January 2020, 6.00 pm The SOAS Silk Road Collective is a London-based group which promotes collaboration among musicians from different cultures along the silk routes, and celebrates their shared cultural heritage. The ensemble includes musicians and dancers, both students and professionals, from […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 12 March 2020 6:00-8:00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The Urban Janissary in Eighteenth Century Istanbul Speaker: Dr Gemma Masson During the eighteenth-century the Ottoman Empire was changing, and so the long-standing institutions changed with it. By far the most famous, or, in some cases, infamous, of these institutions […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 25 June 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of this event is available here Roundtable discussion with: Prof Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford Friendship is turning out to be the single most important factor influencing our mental and physical health. […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 2 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Smartphones and the fine line between care and surveillance Prof Daniel Miller, University College London Two recent developments have made the fine line between care and […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 9 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Lockdown Babies: Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Shadow of Covid-19 in Italy Prof Vanessa Grotti, University of Bologna Dr Chiara Quagliariello, European University Institute Since the […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 16 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Strong Families and Infection – European Kinship and the Corona Virus Dr Patrick Heady, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Ms Barbara Pieta, Max Planck Institute […]
