RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE In association with the Anglo-Albanian Association Bektashism in Albania: An insight into Bektashi places, practices and beliefs Dr Nathalie Clayer, CNRS-EHESS Wednesday 18 April at 5.30 pm Bektashism has a central position when one speaks about Islam in Albania. Babas (spiritual leaders), teqes (dervish lodges), tyrbes […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The invention of prehistory and the rediscovery of Europe: Exploring the deeper intellectual roots of Gordon Childe’s early writings (1925-1936) Dr Maxime Brami, RAI Library Fellow 2018 Thursday 19 April at 5.30 pm If the 18th century was the century of the rediscovery of man, in […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seligman, the RAI and the Race Debate 1933-1945 Dr Peter Rohrbacher, Anthropology, University of Vienna Wednesday 25 April at 5.30 pm Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) undoubtedly represented an outstanding founding figure in British anthropology. The RAI and the LSE remain those two institutions his name was […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marathon Music: Soundscapes of Running Dr Fred Moehn, King’s College London Wednesday 2 May at 5.30 pm In this lecture I present material from my ongoing research into the topic of running, music, and sound. I start by considering how music is mapped onto ‘the race […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Early Modern Zimbabwean Art History in British Archives Dr Jonathan Zilberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wednesday 13 June at 5.30 pm There is a surprising amount of data on the early history of modern art in Zimbabwe to be found in archives in the UK. […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From illustration to evidence in native title: the potential of photographs Michael Aird, Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum Wednesday 12 September at 5.30 pm By working with photographs from the collections of museums and libraries, Michael Aird is testing whether historical photographs can […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From Siberia Speaks the World: Ethnographic Insights in Times of Change Dr Susan Crate, Urgent Anthropology Fellow Wednesday 7 November at 5.30 pm Dr Susan Crate has conducted ethnographic research with Viliui Sakha in NE Siberia, Russia since 1991. In this talk she shares her understandings […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Playing Malinowski in Herat: Ethnomusicological fieldwork in 1970s Afghanistan Prof Jon Baily, Goldsmtihs, University of London Wednesday 14 November at 5.30 pm In 1973–74 John Baily, with the help of Veronica Doubleday, conducted fieldwork in the city of Herat, mainly focused on the invention of a […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Smoke, Smell & Skins: Ritual Performance in Heavy Metal Lindsay Bishop, University College London Wednesday 5 December at 5.30 pm In 2010 Lindsay Bishop conducted master’s fieldwork in the United Kingdom, her ethnography focused on British heavy metal, with an emphasis on the impact of metal […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seen from the Atlas: Ernest Gellner and Moroccan tribes Dr Wolfgang Kraus, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna Wednesday 13 February at 5.30 pm In my ethnographic research in the Moroccan Atlas (between 1983 and 2005), Ernest Gellner’s work has been an obvious […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE “I am sorry that we made you bleed”: Locality and Apprenticeship Among Mande Hunters Dr Theodore Konkouris, Queen's University Belfast Wednesday 6 March at 5.30 pm Abstract: This article considers apprenticeship among Mande hunters’ musi-cians in Mali. By drawing on the concepts of ‘locality’ and ‘musicking’, […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Modern Art and the Scientific Aesthetics of Radcliffe-Brown: Towards ‘The Social Organisation of Australian Tribes’ (1931) Dr Isak Niehaus, Brunel University London Wednesday 13 March at 5.30 pm In this seminar, I suggest that modern art was a major inspiration for the social structural approach in […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marginal like you! Reconfiguring white upper class identity and citizenship through fusion music in post-war Lima. Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz, Keele University Wednesday 20 March at 5.30 pm Between 1980 and 2000 Peru was engulfed in an internal war between the state and two armed groups, Shining […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revitalising Uyghur Intangible Cultural Heritage in China and Kazakhstan Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS Wednesday 15 May at 5.30 pm Among the Uyghurs, Meshrep gatherings play a prominent role in modern imaginings of national identity, and in local processes of community making. Meshrep are sites for acts […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Afar ethnography & its future: Glynn Flood's ethnographic estate Prof Gill Shepherd (Chair), Dr Maknun Ashami, Michèle Flood, Jean Lydall, and Till Trojer Wednesday 5 June at 5.30 pm To the mark the publication: In Pursuit of Afar Nomads. Glynn Flood's Work Journal and Letters From […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Sonic Dimensions of Twelver Shi’ism in Turkey: Living with the Household of the Prophet Dr Stefan Williamson Fa, University College London Wednesday 12 June at 5.30 pm Devotion to the Household of the Prophet – the Prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima and the Twelve Imams, collectively […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Indigenous Australia in British museums: the relational museum as practice Dr Lissant Bolton (British Museum), Dr Gaye Sculthorpe (British Museum) and Prof Howard Morphy (Australian National University) Wednesday 16 October at 5.30 pm This seminar is a reflection on an ongoing research project, The Relational Museum […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tremulous Images: visualising sound as a memory of place and conflict in Okinawa Dr Rupert Cox, University of Manchester Wednesday 6 November at 5.30 pm Sound is a way of understanding how the memory of conflict resides in place through resonance, reverberation and reflection. This presentation […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seduction of the Senses - Re-imagining Dance Performance in the 19th century Kabul Court through oral, archival and cinematic resources Dr Menaka PP Bora and Prof John Baily, Afghanistan Music Unit, Goldsmiths Wednesday 13 November at 5.30 pm In Afghanistan there is a type of multi-part […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music Videos and Prosthetic Memories in Pakistan’s Coke Studio Dr Richard Williams, SOAS Wednesday 22 January at 5.30 pm Since 2007, Coke Studio has rapidly become one of the most influential platforms in televisual, digital and musical media, and has assumed a significant role in generating […]
