RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 11 December, 4.30 pm A Feeling for Water: Rethinking the role of affective geographies in lessening the emotional burden of research participation Dr Natalie Djohari, Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 January 2016, 4.30pm Understanding Health Seeking Practices: reflections on doing ethnography as a native anthropologist in Nepal Kapil Dahal, Tribhuvan University, Nepal/Durham University (Visiting Research Student) This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://kapildahal.eventbrite.co.uk Doing ethnographic […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 5 February, 4.30 pm Embodied Ghosts of Phantom Lynchings: A 'hauntography' of El Alto's hanging puppets Martyn Wemyss, LSE This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://martynwemyss.eventbrite.co.uk El Alto's markets and residential streets are marked by the phenomenon […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 19 February, 4.30 pm Passive, voiceless victims or actively seeking a religious education? Qur’anic school students in Senegal Anneke Newman, University of Sussex This presentation will problematise dominant representations in grey and academic literature of Qur'anic school students in Senegal as passive victims, 'marginalised' or […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 March, 4.30 pm Erasure of the individual: Interruptions, egalitarianism, and equality in the context of deaf people in the UK Kelly Fagan Robinson, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://kellyrobinson.eventbrite.co.uk This paper will address […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 April 2016, 4.30pm Auditing Muslim Audition Adeel Khan, University of Cambridge This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://adeelkhan.eventbrite.co.uk Discussing the place of propriety of speech and act in Euro-America has from George Minois to J. M. […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 6 May, 4.30 pm Living well despite it all; exploring the impacts of protected areas on edge-dwellers' attempts towards health Amber Abrams, University of Kent This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://amberabrams.eventbrite.co.uk Protected areas often appear […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 20 May, 4.30 pm Reciprocity: materiality and technicality in credit transactions Syed Mohammed Faisal, University of Sussex This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://syedmohammedfaisal.eventbrite.co.uk The aim of the paper is to understand Islamic norms and their limits […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 3 June 2016, 4.30pm Getting In: ‘rank’ as biographical number at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Anna Ruddock, King's College London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaruddock.eventbrite.co.uk The All India Institute of Medical […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 17 June 2016, 4.30pm Thinking with Rap: Thinking, Anthropocene, Racism Emilio G. Berrocal This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://emiliogberrocal.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper, I will try to offer answers to the following questions: 1) What does […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 7 October, 4.00 pm Rice, Soil and Strength: Food and Ecology in a Freshwater Village Camelia Dewan, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://cameliadewan.eventbrite.co.uk My overall doctoral thesis problematizes the idea of Bangladesh as a […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 21 October, 4.00 pm Deconstructing a Rhinoceros! Voices from Molenbeek/Brussels Christine Moderbacher, University of Aberdeen This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://christinemoderbacher.eventbrite.co.uk Based on research in one of Brussels central neighbourhoods, Molenbeek, where the daily life experience […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 November, 4.00 pm Animal Economics: exchange and personhood in pastoral Mongolia Joseph Briestly, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://josephbristley.eventbrite.co.uk In pastoral Mongolia a strongly held ideology of abundance accentuates the importance of owning lots […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 2 December, 4.00 pm The perennial expansion of the Venezuelan frontier (the school, the church and the government) Natalia Garcia Bonet, University of Kent This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://nataliagarciabonet.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper I explore […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 January, 1.00 pm Fear and Epistemic Murkiness: Fieldwork Under the Possibility of Fire Sandro Simon, University of Cologne Free, but booking advised https://sandrosimon.eventbrite.co.uk In late Summer 2017, around the time of Kenya's general election and when I was about to engage into longterm fieldwork […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 21 September 2018, 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm. Pure water: purity and power in ritual meanings and uses of water in Ghana Kirsty Wissing, Australian National University Free, but booking advised https://kirstywissing.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Water, being essential to life and fluid in form, is a useful metaphor […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 25 January 2019, 4.00-6.00pm The materiality of dreams and divine mediation among Shi’a artists in Kuwait Nada Al-Hudaid, University of Manchester Free, but booking advised: https://nadaal-hudaid.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Dream experiences among various communities are translated into reality in different ways; stories, sermons, specific actions and […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 16 January 2020, 4.00pm Refocussing the Self: Life After and Beyond Sight Loss Annamaria Dall’Anese, UCL Free, but booking advised: https://dallanese.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Adventitious sight loss often leads to reduced employability or unemployment. In a British context, where success at work is one of the […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 5 March 2020, 4.00pm Not myself tonight, Insincerity and learning at a Japanese-style Gay Bar in Tokyo Marcello Francioni, SOAS Free, but booking advised: https://marcellofrancioni.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: This paper investigates the researcher’s experience as a foreigner miseko (gay bar help) attempting to embody the work ethics […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 26 March 2020, 4.00pm Shadow lives of surveillance: technologies of control and the management of disease and health crisis Frederick Martineau, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine This seminar will be given remotely via Zoom, https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/906161455 Abstract: This paper problematises the production, performativity […]
