RAI EthnomusicologyThird Annual RAI Blacking Lecture The 2016 annual Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture, named in honour of esteemed ethnomusicologist and anthropologist John Blacking (1928-1990), will be hosted by the University of Roehampton Dance and Anthropology departments. 24 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the University of Roehampton’s Froebel College in the Portrait Room, London SW15 5PJ […]
A Revolution in Four Seasons Thursday 24 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jessie Deeter United States / 2016 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Over the course of Tunisia’s post-revolution years, we follow two politically-opposed young […]
King’s India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute warmly invite you to the MN Srinivas Memorial Lecture 2016 Outside caste?: The enclosure of caste and claims to castelessness in India and the UK Speaker: Professor David Mosse (School of Oriental and African Studies) Date: 29 November 2016 Time: 6:15-7:30pm* Venue: Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King's […]
LEAVING GREECEAnna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min with BOYA BOYA (SHINE SHINE) Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash / Jordan, UK / 2014 / 18 min 30 November 2016. 12-2PM Room 309, Watts Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ Organised by Film Festival Ambassadors Patricia Prieto Blanco and Paul Gilbert The […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Crossing the Atlantic (Once Again): The Return of a Tabom Master Drummer to Bahia Dr Juan Diego Diaz, Department of History, University of Essex Wednesday 30 November at 5.30 pm During the first half of the 19th century some eight thousand Africans and creoles resettled from […]
BAKA: A CRY FROM THE RAINFORESTPhil Agland / United Kingdom / 2013 / 89 min 30 November 2016. 6:30-9PM The Pod, The Spark, E Park Terrace, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0YN Organised by Film Festival Ambassador Roy Hanney A quarter century after his award-winning documentary Baka: People Of The Rainforest, Phil Agland revisits the same Baka […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 2 December, 4.00 pm The perennial expansion of the Venezuelan frontier (the school, the church and the government) Natalia Garcia Bonet, University of Kent This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://nataliagarciabonet.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper I explore […]
Film screening - Sow the Wind, followed by Q&A with director André SingerPresidential Address by André Singer Monday 5 December 2016 at 6pm Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Sow the Wind will tell the story of Kazakhstan’s place in the Cold War struggle for nuclear supremacy, and the power of the […]
FIRST RAI PHOTOGRAPHIC SALONWednesday 7 December at 6.00 pm The RAI Photographic Committee invites you to attend the first salon, a convivial and informal evening of conversation and drinks exploring the relationship between anthropology and photography, aimed at graduate students and early career researchers. Every participant will have the opportunity to talk about their work […]
DREAM GIRLSKim Longinotto and Jano Williams / UK / 1993 / 50 min 9 December 2016. 12-2PM Room 309, Watts Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ Organised by Film Festival Ambassadors Patricia Prieto Blanco and Paul Gilbert This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female […]
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 […]
