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Book Launch: Giovanni Ercolani

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 19 January 2024,  3.00-5.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DZS2Io7HSYy4Z3x8JPPjyA#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-giovanni-ercolani-tickets-772922761787?aff=oddtdtcreator The Maidan Museum: Preserving the Spirit of Maidan Dr Giovanni Ercolani (University of Murcia, Spain) chair Prof Chris Farrands (Nottingham Trent University)   […]

Book Launch: Soraya Tremayne

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 26 January 2024,  3.00-5.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. Registration links to be added soon!   INCONCEIVABLE IRAN To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce? Soraya Tremayne (Co-Founding Director of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group; Research Affiliate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford) […]

Premiere Film Screening and Director Q&A – “Azmari” by Itsushi Kawase

FILM SCREENING Tuesday 30 January 2024, 5:30pm - 7:30pm GMT This is an in person only event Location: Cinema, Goldsmiths University of London, SE14 6NW Book your free ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/musicdepartmentatgoldsmithsuniversityoflondon/1099180 The Asian Music Unit at Goldsmiths and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) are delighted to invite you to this special screening event. European premiere of […]

Book Launch: Itsushi Kawase

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Wednesday 31 January 2024,  6.00-8.00 pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RUZ3SgBiRTCx-PambWXoRg#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-itsushi-kawase-tickets-793419076817?aff=oddtdtcreator Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets Itsushi Kawase Chair: Stephen Hughes, RAI Film Translator: Jeffrey Johnson (from Japanese)   […]

Book Launch: André Chappatte

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 9 February 2024,  4.00-6.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ovJUROgNStqUc2mwEvzAIw#/registration To join in person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-andre-chappatte-tickets-773158115737 In Search of Tunga: Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town André Chappatte and Gunvor Jónsson (Honorary Research Associate in Sociology at […]

Screening and Talk: An Introduction to Neil Gordon Munro’s The Ainu Bear Ceremony

Screening and Talk In Collaboration with Japan House London 11 February 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 GMT Location: Japan House London, 101-111 Kensington High St, London W8 5SA (Map) Booking here: https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/an-introduction-to-neil-gordon-munros-the-ainu-bear-ceremony/ An Introduction to Neil Gordon Munro’s The Ainu Bear Ceremony Simon Wright (Japan House London) Dr Stephen Putnam Hughes (RAI)   The Ainu Bear Ceremony was filmedby […]

Annual Willian Fagg Lecture: Michael W Scott

The Annual William Fagg Lecture Thursday 15 February 2024 at 6pm Clore Centre, British Museum Prof Michael W Scott, London School of Economics and Political Science When is an Object? Insights from the Cumulative Lives of a Solomon Islands Canoe House Post In May of 1936, an anthropomorphic wooden carving from the island of Owa […]

Fieldwork Sketches: Blurring the Lines between Art and Anthropology

  Workshop organised by the Anthropology of Art Committee, Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI). The meeting will take place in person on 16 February 2024 at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, London. Friday 16 February 2024 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT and on Zoom Friday 16 February 2024, 10am - 5pm GMT […]

Book Launch: María Cruz-Torres

ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 23 February 2024,  4.00-6.00pm GMT To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2PY_ciYCQQmWGtq391Ew6A#/registration   Pink Gold Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico María L. Cruz-Torres (Arizona State University) The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part […]

RAI Research Seminar: Razia Sultanova

RAI Research Seminar organised by the RAI's Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology Committee Tuesday 27 February 2024,  4:00-6:00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L_fgARJYShWx-auttxyzhg#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-seminar-razia-sultanova-tickets-807045082567?aff=oddtdtcreator Afghanistan Dispossessed:  Burka, Bans and Music in the time of Taliban - […]

Book Launch: Ross Bowden – ‘The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik’

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Monday 25 March 2024,  1.00 - 3.00pm GMT To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oEht-kTwRYKSxZKW1J9DFQ  The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik Dr Ross Bowden with Dr Robert Welsch as discussant This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of […]

Film Webinar: Anna Grimshaw

Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 26 March 2024,  2:00-4:00pm GMT To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1V2OrPdxRIWom5rdJYz2Yg#/registration Extending the Frame: Ethnographic Film and the Potential of Multipart Work Anna Grimshaw (Emory University) For a century or more, ethnographic filmmakers have been expected to produce discrete, bounded films of […]

RAI Research Seminar: Ken Dark

RAI Research Seminar Tuesday 2 April 2024,  3:00-5:00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT), register here (Image: Ken Dark. ''Tintagel - where archaeology, long-term memory and legend collide') Beyond the Horizon: rethinking the long-term […]

RAI Research Seminar: Tom Western

RAI Research Seminar organised by the RAI's Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology Committee Tuesday 9 April 2024,  4:00-6:00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L_fgARJYShWx-auttxyzhg#/registration  To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-seminar-tom-western-tickets-809192465447?aff=oddtdtcreator Mediterradio – a sonic geopoetics on four wavelengths Dr Tom Western (University College […]

RAI Film Online Roundtable: Merging Horizons

Merging horizons: visual anthropology, indigenous communities and the work of online media archives A VIRTUAL EVENT BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 April 2024, 4-6pm BST To join us via Zoom, register here Chair: Aparna Sharma (UCLA) Discussants: Michael York (filmmaker and anthropologist), Hercules Singh Munda (Edinburgh) and Arpit Gaind (UCLA)   This roundtable considers strategies […]

Hybrid Book Launch: Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale

HYBRID BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Tuesday 30 April 2024,  3.00 - 5.00pm BST   This is a hybrid event. To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kAQf9bUFQSaPEAeosj6uWw#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1196881 Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality with authors Nancy Lindisfarne […]

Webinar: Anthropology and Education Across Different Cultures and Countries

Anthropology and Education Across Different Cultures and Countries Friday 3 May 2024,   1.00-3.00pm BST (12.00-2.00pm UTC / 2.00pm CEST / 3.30pm IRST / 8pm AWST / 7am CDT / 9am BRT) To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZBkqqohtQGWFZEX3DbnteQ#/registration   The webinar is sponsored by RAI, IUAES Commission on Anthropology and Education, and IUAES Commission on Documentation and part […]

Applying Anthropology: Career Insights from Professionals – Online Roundtable

Unlock the World of Opportunities with Anthropology! Are you a graduate or student of anthropology, curious about the diverse career paths your degree might take you? Look no further! Join us for our upcoming online roundtable event: "Applying Anthropology: Career Insights from Professionals."   Date: Monday 13 May 2024 Time: 12:00 - 13:30 BST Location: […]

Precarity and the Teaching of Anthropology

WEBINAR Tuesday 21 May 2024  at 2.00-4.00pm (BST) To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y-5JCJVQSluSCz7wfgevZA Precarity and the Teaching of Anthropology The webinar is organised by the RAI in collaboration with the IUAES Commissions (Migration and Education), the WCAA, SEPHIS and PrecAnthro It is part of a series of online events prior to the Anthropology and Education […]

2024 MN Srinivas Lecture: Dr Piers Vitebsky

2024 MN Srinivas Lecture by Dr Piers Vitebsky: 'Adivasi futures and the vernacular afterlives of fieldnotes' 28 May 2024 18:00 to 19:30 King's Building, Strand Campus, London Dr Piers Vitebsky will deliver the 2024 MN Srinivas Lecture titled 'The village remembered, but by whom? Adivasi futures and the vernacular afterlives of fieldnotes'. Register for this […]