RAI Photographic Studies Award NEW DATE: Thursday 6 March at 5:00pm (GMT), followed by a drinks reception Register here for the Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pEspSU1TQfWCvPHXyPNYNw#/registration Register here to come in Person to the RAI: https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1523508 If you have an in Person ticket but can't make the new date, please let us know. Thank you. […]
“Becoming a Dancer, Becoming Mobile”: Navigating mobility regimes in the field of European contemporary dance This event had unfortunately be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstance. Speaker: Julien Debonneville, Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale Discussant: Robert Simpkins, social anthropologist Abstract This seminar will examine the way in which mobility acts to structure artistic careers in the […]
RAI Research Seminar Tuesday 25 March 2025, 4.00-6.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us in person at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us via Zoom, register here. Lt. (RN) H.B.T. Somerville and HMS Penguin in Solomon Islands, 1893-1895: Entanglements of archival, local, anthropological, and naturalist knowledges, past and present […]
RAI Research Seminar organised by the RAI's Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology Committee Monday 31 March 2025, 4:00-6:00pm BST This is a hybrid event. To join us in person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London): https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1583322 To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q6o-BofMTQipkMH2LdRWCg#/registration Collaborative Intercultural Assemblages: Between Ethnography and Aesthetic Experimentation with Indigenous Qom […]
RAI Research Seminar Thursday 3 April 2025, 3.00-5.00pm BST This is a hybrid event To join us at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us online via Zoom, register here Whose Medicine? Sowa Rigpa between Tibetan Culture and Indian Geopolitics Stephan Kloos, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences Are Tibetans losing control over […]
This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8pOX1wpMRuSczwVQyyjDZw On the Art of Being a Female Entrepreneur in the Skilled Trades Speaker: Dorothee Hemme, anthropologist & entrepreneur, Göttingen Discussant: Myriem Naji, University College London Abstract The exhibition project "Women in Crafts from Here!" aims to show the diversity of female craftsmanship in the region of South Lower Saxony […]
Health, Environment, and AnThropology 1 (HEAT1) As the world is getting fuller, faster, hotter, and sicker, HEAT1 asks how can anthropologists contribute to unfolding debates around health and environment on a changing and unequal planet? In what ways can medical and environmental anthropology work together and with other disciplines, communities, and stakeholders to help support […]
Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Society and Co-organised by Durham and Edinburgh universities, HEAT1 is a two-day international conference on planetary health and the environment. The conference will be hosted by Durham’s Department of Anthropology, one of only a few in the UK to integrate social, health, and evolutionary fields. Drawing from that diversity, HEAT […]
Workshop ~ organised by the RAI Medical Anthropology Committee ~ Wednesday 30 April 2025, 1.00-5.00pm BST In-Person event at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT The workshop is now fully booked. Workshop on early career researchers in medical anthropology What? An opportunity for medical anthropologists at all career stages to come together to reflect on […]
RAI Wellcome Medal Lecture Wednesday 30 April 2025, 6.00-7.00pm BST Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event had to be cancelled. If we are able to find a new date for the event, we will notify everybody via our newsletter. Many thanks for your understanding. On the occasion of Professor Venkat’s being awarded the RAI Wellcome […]
Discussant: Dr Thomas Chambers, Oxford Brookes University Abstract:In the 1990s and early 2000s, much of the scholarship on the performing arts celebrated the new insights afforded by the transnationalism paradigm and the ‘mobilities’ turn. There was both enthusiasm and concern about the intensified global circulation of people, things, ideas and capital, as well as art […]
Kent Anthropology DayTuesday 3 June 2025, 10.00 -17:00 BSTYou can register here for joining via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lAclTMGPQaywr5PTChOhpQKent Anthropology and its Impact 1965-2025A daylong event examining the history and impacts of anthropologists, anthropological research and teaching at the University of Kent, which has been closed by the University after 60 years. The day will include guest […]
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 […]
Royal Anthropological Institute & UCL Institute of Archaeology Cycles of Theory: a critical review of 60 years of archaeological theory and practice 6-7th June 2025 This is a two-part in-Person event. Please sign up for each part individually. __________ Friday 6 June 4.15 – 6.30pm: Opening Discussion - Register here Saturday 7 June 10am-6:30pm: One-day […]
RAI FILM Festival 2025 The RAI FILM Festival is a biennial event providing a leading showcase for the best in groundbreaking and innovative anthropological documentary filmmaking from around the globe. Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute since 1985, the festival has created a vital space where cinema, academia, and public dialogue intersect. The 19th RAI […]
RAI FILM Festival 2025 | Online The 19th RAI FILM Festival will take place from 11 to 15 June 2025 in Bristol, UK. If you can’t join us in person in Bristol – or simply want to revisit what moved you there – the festival continues online from 16 June to 16 July 2025. This […]
Forest Peoples Programme & RAI Joint Event Monday 23rd June 2025, 3.30 – 5.30pm BST To join the Zoom event, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XFp8PGzDSue8SXj6R8u83Q#/registration Just alternatives for climate finance Exploring rights-based and non-market mechanisms, including direct funding of Indigenous peoples as well as local communities Languages – Spanish and English Public discussions of climate finance […]
RAI Research Seminar Tuesday 24 June 2025, 4.00-6.00pm BST This is a hybrid event. To join us in person at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us via Zoom, register here. The Origins Of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology Dr Otto Pipatti Edward Westermarck (1862–1939) was one of the most renowned sociologists and […]
Where Are We Now? Visual and Multimodal Anthropology 1-4 July, online To view panels and calls, and general info about this conference, please go to our main page RAI FILM Conference 2025
Book Launch Thursday 17 July 2025, 4.00-6.00pm BST This is a hybrid event To join us at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us online via Zoom, register here Dance, Performance and Visual Art: Intersections with Material Culture with editors Linda E. Dankworth, Henia Rottenberg, and Deborah Williams This book offers a research framework for […]
