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 […]
FILM SCREENING AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Man who Loved Books (Homage to JR Llobera) Dr Roger Canals, Universitat de Barcelona Wednesday 10 January at 5.30 pm Any personal library is much more than a collection of books, is like material biography, a living archive, a sort of geographical legacy of one's interests, projects […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece Thursday 18 January at 2.00 pm 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, is pleased […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Dialogues in the Cold War: Cultural Diplomacy between Cuba and West Africa (1960s-1970s) Dr Elina Djebbari, King’s College London Wednesday 24 January at 5.30 pm Based on fieldwork and archives research in Cuba and Mali, the paper will address the political and musical issues revealed […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 January, 1.00 pm Fear and Epistemic Murkiness: Fieldwork Under the Possibility of Fire Sandro Simon, University of Cologne Free, but booking advised https://sandrosimon.eventbrite.co.uk In late Summer 2017, around the time of Kenya's general election and when I was about to engage into longterm fieldwork […]
The History of the Waiwai from the Arrival of the Missionaries to the Demarcation of Land: an indigenous point of viewThursday 25 January at 5.30 pm Rodrigo Waiwai, from the indigenous village Mapuera, in the northern part of the Brazilian Amazon, is in London to research the collections of Waiwai objects at the British Museum, […]
Observation and Participation: Rossella Schillaci presents her films Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSATuesday 30 January 6:30PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute Rossella Schillaci, prolific documentary filmmaker and anthropologist trained at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, will present two of her films (Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSA) and speak about the different filmic […]
The Desert Prince – screening and discussion with Howard Reid and Jeremy KeenanTuesday 6 February 6:00PM – 8:00PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute THE WORLD OF GEO SERIES The Desert Prince Director: Howard Reid, 1994. 1995 Best Documentary Golden Gate Award. San Francisco International Film Festival. UK PREMIERE With Director Howard Reid, Series Producer André Singer and Social Anthropologist Jeremy […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Muslim Families, Politics and the Law: A Legal Industry in Multicultural Britain Thursday 15 February at 2.00 pm 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 […]
When multilingualism is your mother tongue: the documentary Kanraxël and associated teaching resourcesTuesday 20 February 6:00PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute On the eve of world mother tongue day, we would like to take you on a journey to Agnack, at tiny village in the south of the West African country of Senegal. […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music in the West Country: History or Anthropology? Prof Stephen Banfield, University of Bristol Wednesday 21 February at 5.30 pm How much music does a community need, and does the equation vary across time and place? To what extent has the musician’s role in English society […]
Journeys through Colour: experimentation, realism and artifice in non-fiction travel filmTuesday 27 February at 6pm Introduced and chaired by Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London) With Jeffrey Geiger, Jan Faull and Liz Watkins A study of colour in film – its multifarious technologies and practices - offers a way to question a teleological film history […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 28 February 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The Turkish Makam: Sounds of Istanbul Baha Yetkin: Oud Alexandros Koustas: Klasik Kemençe Constantly evolving since the 13th century, the Turkish Makam has become one of the worlds’ great music traditions. With Istanbul as its centre, folk, religious and […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography Thursday 15 March at 2.00 pm 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, […]
What can anthropologists learn from documentary film-art practices 'made in India'?Tuesday 20 March at 6pm Dr Giulia Battaglia, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 This talk will be a reflection about the theoretico-methodological approach of the discipline of social and cultural anthropology and that of filmmaking and art creation with reference to the Indian subcontinent. It […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Fine-tuning the anthropologist’s body as fieldwork instrument Dr Eline Kieft, Coventry University, Centre for Dance Research Wednesday 21 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will introduce the NCRM project “Research with a Twist: A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers” that I am currently developing in collaboration with […]
