RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Instruments and Material Culture Professor Kevin Dawe, University of Kent Wednesday 25 November at 5.30 pm The seminal Handbook of Material Culture (2006) provides a broad introduction to its field of study and demonstrates how well material culture studies is embedded and established within anthropology. […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Are some experiences impossible to put into words? Professor Asifa Majid, Radboud Universiteit Thursday 26 November at 5.00 pm Language seems to be better at expressing some notions (e.g., geometric shapes), but poor at others (e.g., describing an individuals’ face). But are there ineffable […]
Life in a Turkish provincial town in 2015: Elections and New Social Directions?David Barchard Friday 27 November at 3.30 pm David Barchard looks at the structures and patterns underlying life in a small central Anatolian community and tries to relate them to broader questions about the direction of Turkish society and its political system.. A […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Sibirr and Close to Home – Film Screening ‘Sibirr’ (1989/2000) // Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes // 40min, 16mm, colour, sound; transferred to digital video. ‘Close to Home’ (1982/1987) // Nina Danino // 28min, 16mm, black and white, sound; transferred to digital video. 4pm, Saturday 28th November All Hallows […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Bx46 – Film Screening Directed by Jeremie Brugidou and Fabien Clouette FRANCE, USA / 2013 / 78 min Tuesday 1st December 18:00 – 20:00 Bx46 is an documentary film essay, an exploration of trajectories and routes between three and a half spaces in contemporary New York: the legendary fish market that […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Soundscapes and Ethnomusicology Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS Wednesday 2 December at 5.30 pm This seminar considers the burgeoning interest in soundscapes within the discipline of ethnomusicology. Drawing on diverse strands from urban geography to sound art and acoustic ecology, Rachel Harris asks what fresh insights a […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The cultural evolution of linguistic structure Dr Kenny Smith, University of Edinburgh Thursday 3 December at 5.00 pm No other species has a communication system which provides the expressive power of human language: at least at a first approximation, anything you can think, you […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Robin Dunbar, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Dunbar’s Number: How Constrained Is Your Social World? Friday 4 December 2015 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The Social Brain Hypothesis, first proposed in […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Morality or Moralising? Ethical tourism’s critique of the masses on holiday Dr Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University Monday 7 December at 5.30 pm In recent decades ‘ethical tourism’ has become a popular theme amongst […]
History of the Royal Anthropological InstituteWorkshop in preparation for Volume 2: 1871 to 1918 8th & 9th December 2015 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://raihistory2.eventbrite.co.uk 8th December 2015 DAY 1 10.30 TEA AND COFFEE 11.00 […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 11 December, 4.30 pm A Feeling for Water: Rethinking the role of affective geographies in lessening the emotional burden of research participation Dr Natalie Djohari, Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Photography in the Age of Snapchat Prof Daniel Miller, University College London Monday 14 December at 5.30pm With well over two billion photographs posted daily on social media this is now the dominant form of contemporary photography. It also means the photograph takes its place with text and voice […]
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 […]
