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 […]
6th Annual Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar ‘Creativity during the Covid lockdown: Life and Renewal During the Pandemic’ A Virtual Two-Day Conference Date: Thursday 7 and Friday 8 October, 2021 Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm There is no conference fee. Register in advance for both days: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAucuyrqzouGNB6rW6npEi0VjpcRj-uLXsm Programme Thursday 7 October 10:00 - […]
RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 14 October 2021 at 3.00 - 5.00pm (BST) Killing space, giving life to space: interdisciplinary excursions in spatial anthropology Dr Les Roberts, University of Liverpool This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bkBCSSnvSB2AmX9KuqcHuQ In this paper I draw on […]
RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcuGuqzIuG9BYixLTZijJ7ivmKEHga1U0 Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia: a conversation with filmmaker, Ana Llacer, and Dr Esther Balboa, an Aymara and Quechua intellectual from Bolivia The event is both a […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 21 October 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SGDd7kyaRP6IuIdwBbj0Hw Where Are We Heading? The Evolution of Humans and Things The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Prof Ian Hodder (Stanford […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference 25-29 October 2021 We are very pleased to announce a major interdisciplinary conference on Anthropology and Conservation. The aim of the conference is simple: it is increasingly recognised that conservation can only be properly achieved with Indigenous Peoples, in full recognition of their rights. It is therefore […]
VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 26 October at 6.30 - 8.00pm (BST) This event is part of our Anthropology and Conservation Conference, 25-29 October 2021 The book launch is free to attend and you can register for it here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfu2uqj0iHtD0Yzzb9Fq1WsC-T__EBdY9 The book launch is a public event and you do not have to […]
