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 […]
BOOK LAUNCH AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Celebrating Exotic No More/ Professor Jeremy MacClancy Cultural Relativism and Indigenous Rights: rethinking some dilemmas in applied anthropology Dr Marcus Colchester, Forrest Peoples Programme Wednesday 15 January at 5.30 pm We are pleased to announce the launch of the second, revised edition of the best-selling publication Exotic No […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Evolution of Childhood Dr Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum, London Wednesday 29 January at 5.30 pm Life history incorporates a series of milestones that define the pace of life and the transitions between different lifetime stages. Modern human life histories incorporate several unique and derived […]
RAI PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON – PHOTOGRAPHY AND TOURISMJanuary 30, 2020, 6-8 pm, Royal Anthropological Institute The RAI Photographic Committee invites you to attend our third photography salon, a convivial and informal evening of conversation and drinks exploring the relationship between anthropology and photography. This salon explores tourism and especially the role of photography in it. How […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Globalization of Anthropology and the Creation of the WAU, World Anthropological Union Junji Koizumi International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Osaka University and the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Monday 03 February at 5.30 pm The Globalization of anthropological studies in terms of differentiated […]
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Archaeology in Anatolia SOAS, 10th February 2020 The Royal Anthropological Institute, SOAS, Anglo-Turkish Society and the British Institute at Ankara are delighted to announce a one-day symposium: Archaeology in Anatolia Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG 10th February 2020, 9.30am-4.30pm. The aim of this symposium is to […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mohamed Wardi and his contribution to the kisir (tambour) music of Sudan Ahmed A Rahman (MMus Ethnomusicology) Wednesday 12 February at 5.30 pm Since relatively little is known about Sudanese music, this presentation will give an introduction to Sudanese music and culture by means of interactive […]
LANDSCAPES OF HUMAN EVOLUTION Organisers: James Cole, John McNabb, Matt Grove, and Robert Hosfield Thursday 13 and Friday 14 February 2020 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to https://landscapeshuman.eventbrite.co.uk […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE State Highway 31: A Road Trip through the Heart of Modern India to How the World Works Professor Edward Simpson (SOAS) Wednesday 19 February at 5.30 pm This talk follows the route of State Highway 31 through western Madhya Pradesh, central India. The research was part […]
History of Arctic AnthropologyThursday 27 and Friday 28 February 2020 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to https://arcticanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk DAY ONE Thursday 27 February 10.00 TEA AND COFFEE 10.20 WELCOME […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) celebrates ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe at the RAI Film Festival in Bristol, UK, every two years. The USC Center of Visual Anthropology brings a USC Edition of the festival to Los Angeles in alternate years. This March, USC will host […]
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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music, Protest and the Politics of Cultural Memory at the Día de la toma in Granada Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University of Cambridge) Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm The Día de la toma is an annual festival held on the 2nd January that celebrates the Catholic reconquest […]
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 […]
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 […]
