Third Folklore Society / Royal Anthropological Institute Joint SeminarThe Third Joint Seminar of the Society and the RAI will be held on Thursday 26 October, 2017 from 10am to 5pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT. The general theme will be 'Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation', continuing on from last […]
Carnival, King of Europe: DVD launch & presentationFriday 27 October at 6.00pm Visual Anthropology Series Carnival King of Europe is a research project of the Ethnographic Museum of San Michele all’Adige, Italy (Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina), that aims to bring into light the important similarities that can be observed among specific aspects of […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 1 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Socotra, the Island of Djinns by Jordi Esteva, 64 min / 2016 The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off […]
CONFERENCE SOUTH ASIA AND ITS DIASPORA: MUSICAL PERFORMANCES IN THE CULTURES OF DECOLONIZATION The Pavilion, Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ, UK 4 November 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR TINA K. RAMNARINE Decolonization is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one. Interdisciplinary critical attention to creative […]
Travel: film screening with director Nick MaiTuesday 7 November at 7.00pm Visual Anthropology Series TRAVEL Nick Mai France / 2016 / 63 minutes Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was going to sell sex in France, but she was unaware of the degree of exploitation that she would […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea The RAI Series Volumes One & Two by Prof Paul Sillitoe, Durham University Thursday 9 November at 6.00pm Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology Beyond the Comfort Zone: Expanding Our Work into Climate Change Politics and Action on a Global Scale Prof Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen Friday 10 November at 5.30 pm There is rapid growth and diversification of anthropology’s engagement with global climate change. Major conferences, substantial […]
RAI EthnomusicologyFourth Annual RAI Blacking Lecture The 2017 annual Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture, named in honour of esteemed ethnomusicologist and anthropologist John Blacking (1928-1990), will be hosted by the University of Cardiff School of Music. 14 November 2017 at 4.30pm at the Large Lecture Theatre, School of Music, University of Cardiff, Carbett Road, Cardiff […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 15 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Ignacio's Legacy by Titus Fossgard-Moser. 52 min / 2016 Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE RAI The Great Reimagining: Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland Thursday 16 November at 5.00 pm Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 21 November 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Bettany Hughes Istanbul: The World’s Desire Award-winning historian, broadcaster and author Bettany Hughes presents an epic new biography of Istanbul, the city with three names -Byzantium, Constantinople, stanbul, the gateway between the East and the West, and […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 22 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Cinema Travelers by Shirley Abraham Amit Madheshiya, 96 min / 2016 An affectionate but melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the travelling cinema. The huge projector has […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Craniofacial anthropology in forensic identification and archaeological investigation Prof Caroline Wilkinson, Director of Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University Wednesday 22 November at 5.30 pm This presentation will describe how craniofacial anthropology can contribute towards the depiction of faces from the past and from contemporary forensic […]
How do you see me? Screening and discussion with filmmaker Nariman MassoumiTuesday 28 November at 7.00pm EMERGING VOICES SERIES HOW DO YOU SEE ME? Nariman Massoumi UK / 2017 / 30 minutes How do you see me? is a quietly observed documentary portrait of the filmmaker’s mother, Manijeh, an Iranian immigrant who has lived in […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 29 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Treasured Moments by Ravi Hart Lloyd 33 min/2016 This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 6 December 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Changa Revisited by Peter Biella Leonard Kamerling 60 min / 2016 This is the story of Tanzania Maasai elder Toreto ole Koisenge and his passage through three decades of cultural […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Scorched trees. What date palm fires in Northern Sudan can tell about socio-ecological and political vulnerability Dr Enrico Ille, Urgent Anthropology Fellow, British Museum and Royal Anthropological Institute. Wednesday 6 December at 5.30 pm In recent years, many major fires in Northern Sudan’s date palm groves […]
Teaching Anthropology Annual Conference 2017 Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus 10am-4pm, 7 December, 2017 In collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Attendance is free but spaces are limited. Please click here to register. Conference Programme MORNING 9.30-10.00 Coffee and registration (FG11) 10.00-10.15 Welcome (Patrick Alexander) 10.15-10.40 Thoughts on the Teaching […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 13 December 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Kivalina by Gina Abatemarco, 64 min / 2016 More than a hundred miles above the Arctic Circle, an Inupiaq Eskimo community is living on an island that is fast disappearing […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley Field Walking, Walking the Field: Anthropological Archaeology as Viewed from Deep Time Friday 15 December 2017 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. In this talk I will begin […]
