ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2017 AGM will take place on Friday 15 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2017 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at […]
THE CURL LECTURE 2017will be given by Dr Andrea Migliano, University College of London, Department of Anthropology Hunter-gatherers social structure: a window into the evolution of human cumulative culture Friday 15 September 2017, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Custom, Power and Ideology in the Papua New Guinean Mining Industry Dr Nick Bainton, University of Queensland Monday 18 September at 5.30 pm The popular characterisation of the relationship between indigenous people and mining companies is often forced into a crude binary where untrammelled capital devastates […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 September 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Erol Sağlam, Birkbeck, University of London The Romeika of Trabzon: Discretion, Memory, and Treasure Hunts in Contemporary Turkey Drawing on an ethnographic study in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey, this research explores dynamics of memory through the public invisibility […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Atmospheres, Ecstasis, Thick Participation: Towards an Aesthetic Anthropology Prof Andreas Ackermann, University Koblenz-Landau Wednesday 27 September at 5.30 pm Going back to the phenomenology of perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, my paper introduces approaches towards an aesthetic anthropology that tries to link David MacDougall’s concept of social […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 4 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS J. C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer by Steven Feld, 55 min / 2016 This film presents an exceptional fifty-year artistic career, from Accra’s streets to Ghana’s villages to international TV. In […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Vidigal Favela Chic: the moral geography of a slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro Dr Angela Torresan, University of Manchester Wednesday 4 October at 5.30 pm Nestled on the hill between two of the wealthiest South Zone beach neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro, with staggering city […]
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 […]
