The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2020 Photographic Studies Prize to Prof Darren Newbury. Sadly last year's live event had to be cancelled. We are now following up with a virtual event. ------------------------ Friday 16 April 2021 at 6.30 - 8:00pm (BST) Please join us in this celebration for a talk by […]
RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 12-13.30pm (BST) Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898 Dr Anita Herle (University of Cambridge) Dr Jude Philp (University of Sydney) chaired by Prof Haidy Geismar […]
RAI RESEARCH WEBINARA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 6 May 2021 at 10am-12pm (BST) Forensic Social Anthropology Dr James Rose (University of Melbourne) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6phN-VnZQ8OULRzUkagZZA If forensic physical anthropology is the science of biological processes with causal links to death, then forensic […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 13 May 2021, 1.00-2.30pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: with Government Policymakers Picture: Howard Lake/(CC BY-SA 2.0) With confirmed speakers: Brendan Donegan (Dept for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, International Climate Finance) Carrie Heitmeyer (Government Office for Science, SAGE Covid Behaviour Team) […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDAN VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse from Paris to Kinshasa Thursday 20 May 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0rbHbrBtR-SjhbIDUtjE5Q The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2021Living Together When We Cannot Agree On How to Live: Sectarian Factions in Ancient Judaism Professor Albert I. Baumgarten Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Wednesday 26 May 2021 6.00pm-8.00pm Online How can people live peaceably together, when they have come to be ordered in […]
JRAI 2021 Special Issue Online Launch Event Thursday 27 May 2021, 4:00-5:30pm (BST) TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF DATA with the special issue editors Dr Rachel Douglas-Jones, Dr Antonia Walford and Dr Nick Seavers, reader/assessor Dr Katherine Smith, and contributors Dr Vijayanka Nair, Prof Tahani Nadim, Dr Alexander (A.R.E.) Taylor, Dr Cori Hayden, Dr Hannah Knox, Dr Sarah Blacker […]
A VIRTUAL LAUNCH EVENT OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTETuesday 1 June 2021 at 13:30-15.30pm (BST) Publication Launch: Asia Collections outside Asia: Questioning Artefacts, Cultures and Identities in the Museum with editors Dr Iside Carbone (RAI) Dr Helen Wang (British Museum) chaired by Prof Elisabetta Colla (University of Lisbon) and special issue contributors: Dr Sofia Campos Lopes (Orient […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 10 June 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: with Corporations With confirmed panel speakers: Catherine Dolan (SOAS, University of London) Rebecca Prentice (University of Sussex) Dinah Rajak (University of Sussex) chaired by Richard Axelby (SOAS) Anthropologists often criticise corporations for contributing to the harmful environmental […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Vital diplomacy: the ritual everyday on a dammed river in Amazonia Thursday 17 June 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2kSOAYoQQZOYHL1uxPtMdg The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is […]
RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 22 June 2021 at 4.00 - 5.30pm (BST) Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life Dr Gillian Tett (Financial Times) with Dr James G. Carrier (Max Planck Institute) as discussant. This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go […]
RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 24 June 2021 at 4.00 - 6.00pm (BST) At the Intersection of Urban Anthropology and Migration Studies: Locating the French in London Prof Deborah Reed-Danahay, University at Buffalo (SUNY) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sTU4efahQdKlU1ZX9ieHmg In this seminar […]
Tuesday 29th June 2021, 10am- 14:30pm (BST) - Online The London Anthropology Day is an annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. This year it will happen all online. For more information on the participating universities and to book, please go here: https://londonanthropologyday.co.uk/ Programme: 10:00 – 11:30 Welcome and […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 8 July 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: for Global Challenges Research With confirmed panel speakers: Prof Laura Hammond (SOAS, University of London) Prof Helen Lambert (University of Bristol) chaired by Emma Crewe (SOAS) The Global Challenges Research Fund […]
RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 9 September 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApduyhrDMpE9Rg-KBLVABTLKguZ4cACoYs Multimodal inventions in conversation with Dr Isaac Marrero-Guillamón (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Dr E. Gabriel Dattatreyan (Goldsmiths, University of London) This talk discusses our experiences and experiments in multimodal anthropology […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 16 September 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates in Schools and Colleges With confirmed panel speakers: Prof Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes; Scottish Qualifications Authority) Tomislav Maric (Bentley Wood High School) Emma Ford (Secretary IUAES Commission on Anthropology and Education) Dr Kevin […]
VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 23 September at 3.00 - 4.30 pm (BST) This event will take place online on Zoom. Please register for it here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zQyXjVXlQnm0mgSm46X_XQ Objects as Insights: R. H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia Dr Nick Stanley (British Museum) Robert Codrington (1830-1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University. […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTEANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2021 followed by the 2021 Curl Lecture The 2021 AGM will take place on Monday 27 September 2021 at 3.00 pm on Zoom. It will be followed by the 2021 Curl Lecture Only RAI Fellows can attend the AGM. Please contact admin@therai.org.uk for a registration link. Formal notification of the […]
The Curl Lecture 2021Dr Rachel Crellin, University of Leicester Posthumanist feminist archaeology: a becoming Monday 27 September 2021, at 5.30pm (approximately) via Zoom The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. Abstract: This paper explores the potential of posthumanist feminism in archaeology. I argue that our discipline, our present world, and our futures all […]
A VIRTUAL EVENT BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 28 September 2021 at 1.00 - 3.00pm (BST) This event will be held on Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcOuvpz4rHtOGNtBY5BASagM4q0OzVe81 Anthropology, Tourism and Development: A reflection on the work of Professor David Harrison (1941-2021) Contributors: Professor Clemen Aquino, University of the Philippines-Diliman Dr Raoul Bianchi, Manchester Metropolitan University Professor Vijay […]
