Oxford Brookes’ Anthropology Society is hosting the 6th Annual RAI Student Conference on 18 May 2016. The theme is ‘Anthropology in the 21st Century’; this conference is hoping to cover various areas of anthropology and display the broad range of research being conducted in the field. The day will consist of a series of student talks […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Dance, morality and self in urban Senegal Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University College London Wednesday 18 May at 5.30 pm In Dakar, in predominantly Muslim Senegal, dance is tabloid matter on a daily basis. Indeed, dance is regarded as morally ambiguous: on the one hand, certain […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Writing the Dark Side of Travel Thursday 19 May 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 […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 20 May, 4.30 pm Reciprocity: materiality and technicality in credit transactions Syed Mohammed Faisal, University of Sussex This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://syedmohammedfaisal.eventbrite.co.uk The aim of the paper is to understand Islamic norms and their limits […]
States of AlterityWORKSHOP AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 23 May at 10.00am 10.00–10:30: Welcome and introductions 10.30–11.00: Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti: The indigenous cosmopolitics of citizenship in Peru, or becoming Peruvian to keep the state away 11.00–11.30: Liana Chua: Christian cosmopolitics, ontology and the problem of difference: reflections on a legal victory in Malaysian […]
Torres Strait Trilogy Film Screenings + Q&A with Director Frances Calvert11.00-17.00 Monday 23 May 2016 Nash Lecture Theatre Second Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London WC2R 2LS The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, are excited to […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2016 25 May 2016 The 3rd Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be held on Wednesday 25 May at 6pm in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, followed by a drinks reception. How BOFIs (Banks and Other Financial Institutions) Think Dr Michael Thompson International Institute of […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE / DEPARTMENT OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUMAnthropology, Weather and Climate Change British Museum, Clore Centre, 27-29 May 2016 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the […]
Friday 27th May, 20:30ARE YOU LISTENING! Kamar Ahmad Simon Bangladesh / 2012 / 90 min As part of the Anthropology, Climate Change and Weather conference, the RAI, in partnership with Bertha DocHouse Screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, presents a curated programme of films open to conference delegates and to the general public. Are You […]
Saturday 28th May, 20:00 PEAK Hannes Lang Germany, Italy / 2011/ 91min As part of the Anthropology, Climate Change and Weather conference, the RAI, in partnership with Bertha DocHouse Screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, presents a curated programme of films open to conference delegates and to the general public. Are You Listening! and Peak […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 3 June 2016, 4.30pm Getting In: ‘rank’ as biographical number at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Anna Ruddock, King's College London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaruddock.eventbrite.co.uk The All India Institute of Medical […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Evolving perspectives on tourism's interaction with nature- connecting at last? Professor Andrew Holden, University of Bedfordshire Monday 13 June at 5.30 pm Our relationship to nature is under re-evaluation as society faces environmental challenges driven […]
Never mind the notation: Understanding music through performance in Japan and JavaDr David W Hughes, SOAS and Durham University Wednesday 15 June at 11.00am In many non-Western traditions, even when written notation exists, music is still learnt and understood primarily through performance: imitating one’s teacher, learning from one’s mistakes when performing in public, ‘stealing’ from […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnographic Wax Cylinder Recordings, Technology and Archival Issues Dr Adrian Poole, University College London Wednesday 15 June at 5.30 pm Phonographic wax cylinder equipment was the principal means by which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anthropologists, comparative musicologists and linguistics recorded and played back the sounds […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 17 June 2016, 4.30pm Thinking with Rap: Thinking, Anthropocene, Racism Emilio G. Berrocal This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://emiliogberrocal.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper, I will try to offer answers to the following questions: 1) What does […]
Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic films by anthropologists interested in the subject of care for the elderly and for people suffering from dementia. The screenings, which will be followed by a discussion, aim to investigate how films explore notions of access and visibility of ‘care’ […]
The London Anthropology Day is an annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. The event is held at the British Museum's Education Clore Centre. On the day, participants get to learn what anthropology is about, the types of careers anthropologists do, as well as gain hands-on experience of […]
Symposium No. 2: Slow Cinema ScreeningsFriday 8 July 2016 11:00am to 5:00pm Location: UCL Slow Cinema Screenings A series of slow cinema film screenings will be held at UCL on 8 July. This event follows on from the inaugural Slow Cinema Symposium held at the Institute of Archaeology in April 2016. Filmmakers are invited to […]
photography + (con) text Photography in Academic Research 8 & 9 September 2016 Conference Programme ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to invite you to our conference on ‘Photography in Academic Research’ hosted by UCL Heritage Studies, Institute of Archaeology, in collaboration with RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Birkbeck, Department of Politics. There are […]
An|Other Representation. Final film screening MA Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths 2015-16Saturday 17 September 5.00-8.00pm Sunday 18 September 5.00-8.00pm Students graduating from the MA Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University present an exclusive selection of their final short-films. Come and discover a myriad of serendipitous realities from Jamaica to Berlin, San Francisco to Catalonia, Kenya to Norfolk over […]
