THE CURL LECTURE 2015will be given by Dr Noel Lobley, Pitt Rivers Museum Experiencing Sound: Curation, Art, Practice Friday 18 September 2015, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. All are welcome to […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Introducing Anthropology: What Makes Us Human? Laura Pountney, Colchester Sixth Form College Tomislav Maric, Heston Community School Friday 25 September at 7.00pm Introducing Anthropology is the first book of its kind. It offers a serious but accessible introduction to anthropology and is the perfect starting point for anyone new […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 2 October, 4.30 pm Half an Hour in Belfast: theatricality (and a haircut) in the ethnographic present Karen Lane, St Andrews University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://karenlane.eventbrite.co.uk Sometimes, an unexpected encounter in the field […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 'Museum ethnography and the origins of anthropology in the mid-19th century'? Dr Jonathan King, Von Hügel Fellow, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Wednesday 7 October at 5.30 pm ‘Thinking is always the negation of what we have immediately before us’ (Hegel). During the mid-nineteenth century […]
Folklore, Archaeology and Religion in Republican Turkey: Thoughts from Çatalhöyük and the Konya Plain.Thursday 8 October 2015 18:00—19:00 At The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB A Folklore Society lecture by Dr David Shankland (Director, Royal Anthropological Institute) The aim of this lecture is to outline the relationship between religion, folklore and archaeology in […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seaside towns in the age of austerity Professor Steve Fothergill, Sheffield Hallam University Monday 12 October at 5.30 pm Britain’s seaside towns are home to a substantial population and a visitor destination for millions. But […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer’s Tale Professor John Baily, Goldsmiths Tuesday 13 October at 5.30pm In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, […]
THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY and THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE will host a joint symposium Folklore and Anthropology Friday 16 October, 10.00am to 5.00pm Anthropology and Folklore Studies had a common origin, and today have many areas of common interest in topics, research methods and theory. In this one-day symposium, which is intended to be an […]
LGBT Film Event – ‘Family and Parenting’In partnership with Camden LGBT Forum 18th October 2015 Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum FREE, tickets required for each session. You are welcome to join us for one session or for the whole afternoon! Tickets will be available for booking via the website, the ticket office on 020 7323 […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology at the Crossroads: The View from France Volume One of the RAI Country Series edited by Sophie Chevalier Monday 19 October at 5.30pm The influence of French intellectual thought on anthropology worldwide has been immense. This set of outstanding essays examines the influence of Lévi-Strauss, internal debates concerning […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Bodies: Orchestrating personhood, self and place among shamanic nomadic peoples of the Altai-Sayan Mountains of southern Siberia Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge Wednesday 21 October at 5.30 pm In the face of recent aggressive Russification policies, the shamanic semi-nomadic peoples of the republics of […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 23 October, 4.30 pm Lampedusa caught between shipwreck and tourism Dr Anna Arnone, SOAS Research Associate This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaarnone.eventbrite.co.uk October 2013, la spiaggia dei conigli is Tripadvisor-rated most beautiful beach in the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Touching and being touched – how we shape the world Professor Christina Toren, University of St Andrews Wednesday 28 October at 5.30 pm Skin, hands, and touch – we cannot separate them from one another, neither does it make sense (at least, from an ethnographic perspective) […]
Norwegian Anthropology Day Friday 30 October 2015 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://norwegiananthropology.eventbrite.co.uk 09:00-10:00 Registration 10:00 Opening remarks by Prof. Edvard Hviding, Univ. of Bergen 10:15 – 13:00 PRESENTATIONS (25 minutes each including short […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Fürer-Haimendorf's early academic career: A case study in exploring methodologies for the history of anthropology Professor Andre Gingrich, University of Vienna Wednesday 4 November at 5.30 pm This seminar will discuss various methods in elaborating the history of anthropology, such as genealogies of ideas, network analysis, […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Linguistic ethnography in Britain and Europe: Origins, organisation and perspective Professor Ben Rampton, King's College London Professor Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University Thursday 5 November at 5.00 pm Drawing on US linguistic anthropology but infusing it with interdisciplinary and applied concerns of its own, linguistic […]
'A tale of two women: Recreating Sattriya Dance Theatre from a 15th century Indian monastic performance tradition of male monks from Assam'A spoken word and dance performance By Dr. Menaka PP Bora (University of Oxford) and Indira PP Bora (Co-founder-Kalabhumi India). Friday 6 November at 11.00am This event is free, but tickets must be booked. […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 6 November, 4.30 pm ‘We were ready to leave’: Imagination, Migration & Cosmopolitanism between Uttar Pradesh (India) & the Gulf Tom Chambers, Sussex University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://tomchambers.eventbrite.co.uk This article examines migration and imagination […]
Behind the Screen–World: Visualizing Markets & Hacking Finance7th November 2015 10.00-17.00 Open University Campus, Camden http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact//maps.aspx?contactid=1 (Room 2). Building on the Royal Anthropological Institute and London School of Financial Arts’ 25th April 2015 symposium on Mapping High Finance, this one–day design workshop will begin with by introducing participants to academic work produced by sociologists, geographers and […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Magaluf, Mamading and Moral Panic Dr Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University Monday 9 November at 5.30 pm At the start of July 2014 The Sunday Mirror newspaper published a story under the headline: 'Magaluf […]
