RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Popular Digital Photography and Anthropology: Cases from Iran Dr Shireen Walton, Teaching Fellow in Material and Visual Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London Thursday 5 October at 5.30 pm ‘Popular photography’ as a topic of anthropological enquiry is undergoing a significant transformation in the digital […]
The Block: film screening with director Maria ȘalaruTuesday 10 October at 7.00pm EMERGING VOICES SERIES THE BLOCK Maria Șalaru Romania / 2016 / 60 minutes From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, The Block explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment building. It follows the story of the […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Handbook of Education in China Edited by W. John Morgan, Professor Emeritus, School of Education; Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham; Honorary Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University and Qing Gu, Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK and Fengliang Li, Associate Professor […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 11 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Day the Sun Fell by Aya Domenig, 78 min / 2015 The Swiss-Japanese filmmaker is the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 11 October 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Prof Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu Osman Zeki Bey, the Printer, His Printing Office and "The Ottoman Paper Manufacturing Company" Osman Zeki Bey (printer, calligrapher) whose accomplishments will be the topic of this talk was the First Chamberlain of Sultan […]
A ONE-DAY SEMINAR ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ELIZABETH COLSONThursday 12 October, 10.00am to 5.00pm Royal Anthropological Institute The late Elizabeth Colson was for many years a Fellow of the RAI. This day will recall her great contribution in several fields, including the anthropology of Africa, the anthropology of migration and displaced peoples, applied […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 18 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The King of the Cockroaches by Timothy Cooper 70 min / 2016 The degraded surfaces of mass-copied films - the glitches, scanlines, errors, and coding artifacts - rather than the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Incomplete Film Maker: Reflections of a Dilettante Prof John Baily, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 18 October at 5.30 pm In this seminar John Baily will trace his work as an ethnomusicological film maker, starting with the naïve films he made as a result of […]
Goldsmiths MA Visual Anthropology End of Year ScreeningSaturday 21 October 4PM – 8PM The Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT 4PM – 5:15PM Misia Zoccoli - Where is home (20’) A woman in the street can be everyone, and a smile can hide many experiences. A single-person ethnography, this short film is […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 25 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Journey to the Maggot Feeder by Liivo Niglas and Priit Tender, 68 min / 2015 This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Why Music Is Everywhere (and why we need it to be) Bill Barclay, Director of Music, Shakespeare's Globe Wednesday 25 October at 5.30 pm How can we leverage humankind's anthropological need for music over the entertainment sector and into creativity, learning, consensus, and expression? Never before […]
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), […]
