RAI EthnomusicologyFourth Annual RAI Blacking Lecture The 2017 annual Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture, named in honour of esteemed ethnomusicologist and anthropologist John Blacking (1928-1990), will be hosted by the University of Cardiff School of Music. 14 November 2017 at 4.30pm at the Large Lecture Theatre, School of Music, University of Cardiff, Carbett Road, Cardiff […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 21 November 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Bettany Hughes Istanbul: The World’s Desire Award-winning historian, broadcaster and author Bettany Hughes presents an epic new biography of Istanbul, the city with three names -Byzantium, Constantinople, stanbul, the gateway between the East and the West, and […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley Field Walking, Walking the Field: Anthropological Archaeology as Viewed from Deep Time Friday 15 December 2017 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. In this talk I will begin […]
The History of the Waiwai from the Arrival of the Missionaries to the Demarcation of Land: an indigenous point of viewThursday 25 January at 5.30 pm Rodrigo Waiwai, from the indigenous village Mapuera, in the northern part of the Brazilian Amazon, is in London to research the collections of Waiwai objects at the British Museum, […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 28 February 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The Turkish Makam: Sounds of Istanbul Baha Yetkin: Oud Alexandros Koustas: Klasik Kemençe Constantly evolving since the 13th century, the Turkish Makam has become one of the worlds’ great music traditions. With Istanbul as its centre, folk, religious and […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2018We are pleased to announce that this year’s Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday 23 May at 6pm in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW. The Politicization […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2018 Photographic Studies Prize to Dr Karen Strassler.Friday 21 September at 5.30 pm Please join us in this celebration on 21 September between 5.30 and 7.30 pm for a talk by Dr Strassler and a drinks reception. The Eventfulness of Images Focusing on political images in […]
JRAI Special Issue LaunchDislocating Labour: Anthropological Reconfigurations with the special issue guest editors Prof Penelope Harvey (University of Manchester) and Dr Christian Krohn-Hansen (University of Oslo) Tuesday 25 September at 5.30 pm The contributors to this volume interrogate the labour/capital relation, exploring the ways in which industrial outsourcing and subcontracting transform the conditions, possibilities, and […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 27 September 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Şebnem Şenyener The Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, its influence on literature and on my work Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, is a literary mystery. The hero, whose identity is the central riddle of the book, […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2018will be given by Prof Simon Coleman, University of Toronto Laterality: A Sideways Look at Ritual Thursday 4 October 2018, at 5.30pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. All are […]
Joint seminar with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, University College London and King's College LondonWhat fire cannot destroy: memories, networks and projects Prof João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho, Head of Ethnography at the National Museum of Brazil Tuesday 16 October at 6.30 pm at the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL The talk will present a brief history […]
Joint concert with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 23 October 2018 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Musicians: Esbe, Jeff Rodrigues (guitar) An Evening with Rumi Composer and singer, Esbe, has produced an album featuring lush cinematic strings, delicate Early Music arrangements and Arabic scales. These arrangements, combined with her clear and resonant vocal style, bring […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecturewill be given by Professor Ruth Finnegan FBA, Open University Where Does Music Come From? Thursday 1 November 2018 3:00pm, Meeting Room 1, Floor 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, 75 Bedford Rd, Aberdeen AB24 3UE All welcome, no need to book. The lecture will be followed by […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 22 November 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Anderson Bakewell The concept, development and execution of the Ottoman Garden in St Louis, Missouri, USA The Bakewell Osmanlı Bahçesi, which opened in 2006 in the American city of St Louis, is the result of efforts to resurrect […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz Thursday 29 November 2018 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The More-than-Human Anthropocene As with most things, we humans have been unable to make the Anthropocene by […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 December 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Diana Darke The Merchant of Syria and his Ottoman ancestors Diana Darke’s fully illustrated talk will focus on her new book “The Merchant of Syria” and his Ottoman origins. The merchant of the title was a real person […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 January 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: John Mole Martoni’s Pilgrimage: the Levant before the Pax Ottomana In 1394 a little, short-sighted middle aged provincial lawyer from Southern Italy made a dangerous pilgrimage to Jerusalem across the Mediterranean to Alexandria, up the Nile to Cairo […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 February 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Prof Ian Hodder The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, […]
RAI President’s Lifetime Achievement AwardTuesday 19 March 2019 at 3.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The presentation of the RAI President's Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof David Parkin. 3.30 Prof Richard Fardon, SOAS The African foundations of David Parkin's anthropological thought The taken-for-granted relationship between ethnography and anthropology has recently become contentious, and rightly so. […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 21 March 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen Dangers of Cinema: Films and Moral Discourse in the late Ottoman Empire Silent films have been contested for various reasons. Within late Ottoman society, early cinema created concerns in relation to films’ political content, obscenity […]
