RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Giving messages to small people: Hip hop music and identity in post-genocide Rwanda Dr Andrea Mariko Grant, University of Cambridge Wednesday 16 November at 5.30 pm This paper explores the development of Rwanda’s post-genocide music industry, particularly the booming popularity of Kinyarwanda-language hip hop. Like elsewhere […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Art, Anthropology and the Gift Thursday 17 November at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Karst Limestone or Cast Concrete? Coastal tourism and local impacts in Vietnam: lessons from Ha Long Bay Dr Mark Hampton, University of Kent Thursday 17 November 2016 at 5.30 pm This paper explores the local impacts of rapidly growing […]
What Tomorrow Brings Friday 18 November 2016, 4.00pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Beth Murphy Afghanistan / United States / 2015 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. A year in the life of the first all-girls school in a […]
GAEA GIRLS(Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams / UK / 2000 / 106 min) 18 November 2016. 6:50PM Studio Space, Byre Theatre, Abbey St, St Andrews KY16 9LA. The screening will be introduced by Dr. Mattia Fumanti, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Saint Andrews. Organised by Film Festival Ambassador Angelica Cabezas Pino in collaboration with […]
Latin American Music Seminar: Music and the State in Latin AmericaThe Pavilion, Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ Saturday 19th November 2016 SESSION 1: (10.00-11.00) WHAT IS THE STATE? HOW DOES IT RELATE TO MUSIC/CULTURE? Introduction to the Day: Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Frederick Moehn […]
Nueva Venecia Saturday 19 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Emiliano Mazza de Luca Uruguay / 2016 / 80mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. The fishing community of Nueva Venecia is like any other, with one extraordinary difference: […]
Ukrainian Sheriffs Sunday 20 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Roman Bondarchuk Germany / Latvia / Ukraine / 2015 / 85mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Welcome to Stara Zburyevka, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying […]
Nowhere to Call HomeWednesday 23 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jocelyn Ford China / United States / 2014 / 76mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. "This story breaks all the rules and upends popular perceptions of Tibetans […]
RAI EthnomusicologyThird Annual RAI Blacking Lecture The 2016 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 Roehampton Dance and Anthropology departments. 24 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the University of Roehampton’s Froebel College in the Portrait Room, London SW15 5PJ […]
A Revolution in Four Seasons Thursday 24 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jessie Deeter United States / 2016 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Over the course of Tunisia’s post-revolution years, we follow two politically-opposed young […]
King’s India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute warmly invite you to the MN Srinivas Memorial Lecture 2016 Outside caste?: The enclosure of caste and claims to castelessness in India and the UK Speaker: Professor David Mosse (School of Oriental and African Studies) Date: 29 November 2016 Time: 6:15-7:30pm* Venue: Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King's […]
LEAVING GREECEAnna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min with BOYA BOYA (SHINE SHINE) Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash / Jordan, UK / 2014 / 18 min 30 November 2016. 12-2PM Room 309, Watts Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ Organised by Film Festival Ambassadors Patricia Prieto Blanco and Paul Gilbert The […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Crossing the Atlantic (Once Again): The Return of a Tabom Master Drummer to Bahia Dr Juan Diego Diaz, Department of History, University of Essex Wednesday 30 November at 5.30 pm During the first half of the 19th century some eight thousand Africans and creoles resettled from […]
BAKA: A CRY FROM THE RAINFORESTPhil Agland / United Kingdom / 2013 / 89 min 30 November 2016. 6:30-9PM The Pod, The Spark, E Park Terrace, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0YN Organised by Film Festival Ambassador Roy Hanney A quarter century after his award-winning documentary Baka: People Of The Rainforest, Phil Agland revisits the same Baka […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 2 December, 4.00 pm The perennial expansion of the Venezuelan frontier (the school, the church and the government) Natalia Garcia Bonet, University of Kent This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://nataliagarciabonet.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper I explore […]
Film screening - Sow the Wind, followed by Q&A with director André SingerPresidential Address by André Singer Monday 5 December 2016 at 6pm Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Sow the Wind will tell the story of Kazakhstan’s place in the Cold War struggle for nuclear supremacy, and the power of the […]
FIRST RAI PHOTOGRAPHIC SALONWednesday 7 December at 6.00 pm The RAI Photographic Committee invites you to attend the first salon, a convivial and informal evening of conversation and drinks exploring the relationship between anthropology and photography, aimed at graduate students and early career researchers. Every participant will have the opportunity to talk about their work […]
DREAM GIRLSKim Longinotto and Jano Williams / UK / 1993 / 50 min 9 December 2016. 12-2PM Room 309, Watts Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ Organised by Film Festival Ambassadors Patricia Prieto Blanco and Paul Gilbert This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female […]
Royal Anthropological InstituteThird conference on the History of Anthropology and the RAI 1918-1945: the rise of university departments 13-14 December 2016 The conference will take place at the RAI’s rooms, 50 Fitzroy Street, London. There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided. To book your place please go to http://thirdhistoryday.eventbrite.co.uk Day One: Tuesday […]
