RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Festive Tales of the Fitzroys: evolutionary stories from the past Dr Simon Underdown, Oxford Brookes University Wednesday 16 December at 5.30 pm The cabin and conversations shared by a young Charles Darwin and Captain Robert Ftizroy onboard the HMS Beagle produced one of the most well […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 13 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars Berit Madsen, 2013, 90 mins The film follows the story of Sepideh, a young Iranian who dares to pursue her dream […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Divination’s Grasp: Uncertainty and the Intersubjective Predicament Prof Richard Werbner, Emeritus Professor in African Anthropology, University of Manchester Tuesday 19 January at 5.30pm This lecture introduces the launch of Divination’s Grasp (2016, Indiana University Press), a book I began in fieldwork in 1972 among Moremi villagers in the Tswapong […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 20 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Behind the Screen, Aung Nwai Htway Yangon Film School, 2012, 35 mins Lady of the Lake, Zaw Naing Oo Yangon Film School, 2014, 22 mins Tyres, […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer’s Tale Thursday 21 January 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 […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 January 2016, 4.30pm Understanding Health Seeking Practices: reflections on doing ethnography as a native anthropologist in Nepal Kapil Dahal, Tribhuvan University, Nepal/Durham University (Visiting Research Student) This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://kapildahal.eventbrite.co.uk Doing ethnographic […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE All forms of tourism can be more responsible. The mass matters...... Prof Harold Goodwin, Manchester Metropolitan University Monday 25 January at 5.30 pm Abstract Using satellite accounting, leaders in travel and tourism present themselves as […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Tuesday 26 January 7.00pm PICK OF THE FESTIVAL A selection of award winning films from the 2015 edition of the RAI FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM KALANDA - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BUSH Director/Anthropologist: Lorenzo Ferrarini UK / 2014 / 62 min Location: Burkina Faso Language: Jula with English subtitles The […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 27 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest, Phil Agland, 2013, 89 mins Phil Agland returns to south east Cameroon to rediscover the Baka family he filmed 25 […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Tuesday 2 February 7.00pm PICK OF THE FESTIVAL A selection of award winning films from the 2015 edition of the RAI FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM THE AUCTION HOUSE: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS Director/Anthropologist: Ed Owles UK / 2014 / 85 min Country of Production: Location: India Ethnic Group: Indian […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 3 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Body Games, Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção, Christine Dettmann, 2014, 87 mins The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mistakes About Race: a discussion Michael Banton, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol Wednesday 3 February at 5.30pm The expression `race relations’ was adopted by the London School of Economics in 1947. It was the title of a course, and a lectureship, in the Anthropology Department. At that time Michael […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 5 February, 4.30 pm Embodied Ghosts of Phantom Lynchings: A 'hauntography' of El Alto's hanging puppets Martyn Wemyss, LSE This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://martynwemyss.eventbrite.co.uk El Alto's markets and residential streets are marked by the phenomenon […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyMonday 8 February 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Pat Yale The explorer, archaeologist and writer Gertrude Bell is best known for her travels in Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia but as a young woman she spent a lot of time in what is now […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Choreographing Brain: Cognition, Emotion, and Dance Dr Judith Lynne Hanna, Affiliate Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, USA Wednesday 10 February at 5.30 pm Recent technological advances in neuroscience are unraveling secrets about the cognitive, emotional, and exercise power of dance. Hidden from […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 17 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Damiana Kryygi, Alejandro Fernández Mouján, 2015, 96 mins Paraguay, 1896. A three year-old girl is captured by settlers after they had massacred of a group of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARJoint seminar with the Folklore Society SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Texts of Charms, the Contexts of Charming Dr Jonathan Roper (Estonia) Wednesday 17 February at 5.30 pm Complementing the work of Social Anthropologists and Linguistic Anthropologists, Folklorists have centred their attention on traditional verbal genres. Although pride of place […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China Thursday 18 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 Research Centre, in […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 19 February, 4.30 pm Passive, voiceless victims or actively seeking a religious education? Qur’anic school students in Senegal Anneke Newman, University of Sussex This presentation will problematise dominant representations in grey and academic literature of Qur'anic school students in Senegal as passive victims, 'marginalised' or […]
To mark the conferment of the RAI Photography Studies AwardAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Australian Aboriginal Transformations of the Colonial Archive Professor Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia) Monday 22 February at 5.30 pm Many European photographic archives contain images of Australian Aboriginal people, produced from the mid-nineteenth century for scientific and popular purposes – […]
