ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture The 2016 AGM will take place on Friday 30 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2016 Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2016will be given by Dr Ken Dark, University of Reading Returning to the Caves of Mystery: archaeology and the origins of Christian pilgrimage Friday 30 September 2016, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revitalising the Nubian Endangered Languages and Living Heritage Dr Kirsty Rowan, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London Wednesday 5 October at 5.30 pm For many millennia, the Nubian peoples have lived along a stretch of the Nile comprising northern Sudan to southern Egypt. However, during […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 7 October, 4.00 pm Rice, Soil and Strength: Food and Ecology in a Freshwater Village Camelia Dewan, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://cameliadewan.eventbrite.co.uk My overall doctoral thesis problematizes the idea of Bangladesh as a […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (Re)Presenting the daughters of Bourguiba: Tunisian women and tourism Heather Jeffrey, University of Bedfordshire Tuesday 11 October 2016 at 5.30 pm Before the Jasmine revolution and terrorist attacks of 2015 Tunisia was cited as one of the fastest growing […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times Jonathan Benthall Wednesday 12 October at 5.30pm To mark the launch of his new book, there will be a discussion between the author, Jonathan Benthall, and Prof André Singer, the President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. This book is the fruit […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 October 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Hugh Pope THE TURKISH KALEIDOSCOPE Few are more stunned by Turkey’s 15 July coup attempt than the Turkish people themselves. Even outside Turkey, analysts have reacted to the confusion by veering deep into ideological and even conspiracy […]
Visual Anthropology and the City14 & 15 October 2016 ‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ is a two-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and artists. Urban anthropology has fascinated journalists, photographers and policy makers with the emergence of the Chicago School since the 1920s. Ethnography and long-term research facilitated deeper insights into the everyday […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The British on Holiday: Charter Tourism, Identity and Consumption Thursday 20 October 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, […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 21 October, 4.00 pm Deconstructing a Rhinoceros! Voices from Molenbeek/Brussels Christine Moderbacher, University of Aberdeen This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://christinemoderbacher.eventbrite.co.uk Based on research in one of Brussels central neighbourhoods, Molenbeek, where the daily life experience […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Political Design and Cultural Creativity: Changing Dance Performances in Post-Genocide Rwanda Dr Carine Plancke, University of Roehampton Wednesday 26 October at 5.30 pm Since it took power by putting an end to the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front has initiated the project of building a […]
Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation(a joint one-day seminar with the Folklore Society) Thursday 27 October, 10.00am to 5.00pm Final programme 10.00-10.30am COFFEE 10.30-10.45 Welcome 10.45am-11.30am Dr David Shankland, Director (Royal Anthropological Institute) - The RAI and the Folklore Society: or Anthropology and Folklore The RAI and the Folklore Society have often worked closely together, and […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 3 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr John McManus Turkey and the anthropology of football Turkey is a football-mad nation. Ninety per cent of all citizens are self-confessed fans of the sport, which frequently intersects with debates about social class, politics, community and identity. […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 November, 4.00 pm Animal Economics: exchange and personhood in pastoral Mongolia Joseph Briestly, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://josephbristley.eventbrite.co.uk In pastoral Mongolia a strongly held ideology of abundance accentuates the importance of owning lots […]
Nowhere to Call HomeFriday 4 November 2016, 6.30pm 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 […]
Ukrainian Sheriffs Saturday 5 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 to keep […]
What Tomorrow Brings Sunday 6 November 2016, 4.10pm 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 remote, conservative […]
Acts of RemembranceSunday 6 November 2016, 5.00pm to 8.00pm Kino-Teatr, 43-53 Norman Rd, Saint Leonards-on-Sea TN38 0EQ On the 6th November at 5pm we will be joined by a group of World War Two veterans in the beautiful Kino-Teatr in St Leonards-on-sea (Hastings). The event includes a screening of Return of the Liberators (filmmaker Janet […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From the origins of agriculture to the spread of the Neolithic Dr Maxime Brami, Austrian Academy of Sciences Monday 7 November at 4.00 pm Archaeologists have long assumed that, as soon as sedentary farming was invented, c. 10,000 years ago in the Near East, it slowly […]
A Revolution in Four SeasonsMonday 7 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 women who show […]
