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 […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tourism planning for economic development and poverty reduction in Ghana: historical trajectories and contemporary challenges Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, University of Lincoln Thursday 15 December 2016 at 5.30 pm Since independence in 1957, successive governments in Ghana have sought to […]
BAKA: PEOPLE OF THE RAINFORESTPhil Agland / United Kingdom / 1987 / 104 min 11 January 2017 6:30PM UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY London The screening will be introduced by Dr. Jerome Lewis, UCL. This film, made for Channel 4 Television, is about the Baka Pygmies and their life in the […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marketing sustainability: greenwashing or greenhushing? Prof Xavier Font, University of Surrey Monday 16 January 2016 at 5.30 pm Tourism and hospitality businesses do not communicate persuasive sustainability messages to their potential clients, because their messages are half hearted legitimisation […]
BAKA: A CRY FROM THE RAINFORESTPhil Agland / United Kingdom / 2013 / 89 min 18 January 2017 6:30PM UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY London A quarter century after his award-winning documentary Baka: People Of The Rainforest, Phil Agland revisits the same Baka family in the Cameroon. For the first time […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 18 January 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Kaya Genç Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey Representations of Turkey in western media has undergone a startling change after the summer of 2013, when activists staged an Occupy-style protest in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Kaya […]
Gaea GirlsTuesday 24 January 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Free – booking essential Book online here Filmed over a period of three months, Gaea Girls (Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 2000) is a film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women’s wrestling or joshi puroresu. It marked the fifth […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE His Master’s Voice: Media, Sensory Politics, and Islamic Sociality in Northwest China Dr Guangtian Ha, SOAS Wednesday 25 January at 5.30 pm Jahriyya Sufism in northwest China can be characterized by its juxtaposition of opposites: its name means “loud” and “public,” proclaiming the centrality of dramatic […]
Fighting for indigenous right in northern ArgentinaJohn Palmer Friday 3 February at 2pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute John Palmer (DPhil, Oxon) is a social anthropologist who has lived among the Wichí of northern Argentina since 1998. His life is the subject of the multi-prizewinning documentary, ‘El etnógrafo’. On his 1st visit to the UK […]
Gaea GirlsKim Longinotto, Jano Williams / United Kingdom / 2000 / 106 mins Friday 3rd February 2017 7.30pm - 9.45pm The Exchange Bar (The Snug room), 50 Rutland St, Cultural Quarter, Leicester LE1 1RD A film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women's wrestling. Gaea Girls focuses on the hopes […]
The Auction House: A Tale of Two BrothersEd Owles / United Kingdom / 2014 / 85 min Tuesday 7 February 2017 5.30-7.30 PM Location: Lecture Centre room 064, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH Campus map: www.brunel.ac.uk/campus-map The oldest auction house in India is fighting for survival in the age of eBay and a changing […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual Thursday 16 February 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 […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tourism and Climate Change: resilience and resistance in Vietnam Prof Peter Burns, Professor of Tourism and International Development and Director of the Institute for Tourism Research, University of Bedfordshire Monday 20 February 2016 at 5.30 pm Abstract: Tourism is […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ‘Musicking Like a State’: Hidden Musicians and the (Musical) ‘Right to the City’ in Contemporary Shanghai Dr Ruard Absaroka, Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Dept., SOAS, University of London Wednesday 22 February at 5.30 pm Conceived from the outset as a Chinese updating (and transplanting) of The […]
NodeThursday 23 February 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Free – booking essential Book online here Hirogawara is a village with a long lasting tradition of forestry located in a mountain area of Kyoto prefecture, Japan. Although municipal records drafted in 2009 recorded a population of 120 residents amongst its five districts, over half […]
Leaving GreeceAnna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Sunday 26th February, 11AM. Cinema City, Norwich, St Andrew’s Street, Norwich, NR2 4AD When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Common ground and distinguishing features: the co-production of knowledge by the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute, c. 1883-1900 Dr Emily Hayes, University of Exeter Wednesday 1 March at 5.30 pm Geographers are beginning to discern the historical mutualism between anthropology and geography and […]
The shaman and the flash-drive: singing and forgetting in Araweté verbal art.Dr Guilherme Orlandini Heurich, University College London Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 11.00 am This will take place at 11 am in the Department of Anthropology, UCL, Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW. Guilherme is an affiliated scholar of […]
Sifinja: the Iron BrideValerie Hänsch / Sudan,Germany / 2009 / 70 minutes Thursday 9th March 2017, 6:30PM. Bromley Historic Collections The Lubbock Gallery, 2nd Floor, Central Library, High Street, Bromley BR1 1EX Winner of the Material Culture & Archaeology Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to […]
Migration and exile double billThursday 9 March, 19.30 Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, 7 Pier Road, St Helier, Jersey Leaving Greece Anna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Winner of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2015 The film tells the very personal story of three young […]
