RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 21 October, 4.00 pm Deconstructing a Rhinoceros! Voices from Molenbeek/Brussels Christine Moderbacher, University of Aberdeen This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://christinemoderbacher.eventbrite.co.uk Based on research in one of Brussels central neighbourhoods, Molenbeek, where the daily life experience […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Political Design and Cultural Creativity: Changing Dance Performances in Post-Genocide Rwanda Dr Carine Plancke, University of Roehampton Wednesday 26 October at 5.30 pm Since it took power by putting an end to the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front has initiated the project of building a […]
Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation(a joint one-day seminar with the Folklore Society) Thursday 27 October, 10.00am to 5.00pm Final programme 10.00-10.30am COFFEE 10.30-10.45 Welcome 10.45am-11.30am Dr David Shankland, Director (Royal Anthropological Institute) - The RAI and the Folklore Society: or Anthropology and Folklore The RAI and the Folklore Society have often worked closely together, and […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 3 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr John McManus Turkey and the anthropology of football Turkey is a football-mad nation. Ninety per cent of all citizens are self-confessed fans of the sport, which frequently intersects with debates about social class, politics, community and identity. […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 November, 4.00 pm Animal Economics: exchange and personhood in pastoral Mongolia Joseph Briestly, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://josephbristley.eventbrite.co.uk In pastoral Mongolia a strongly held ideology of abundance accentuates the importance of owning lots […]
Nowhere to Call HomeFriday 4 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jocelyn Ford China / United States / 2014 / 76mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. "This story breaks all the rules and upends popular perceptions of Tibetans […]
Ukrainian Sheriffs Saturday 5 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Roman Bondarchuk Germany / Latvia / Ukraine / 2015 / 85mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Welcome to Stara Zburyevka, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying to keep […]
What Tomorrow Brings Sunday 6 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Beth Murphy Afghanistan / United States / 2015 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. A year in the life of the first all-girls school in a remote, conservative […]
Acts of RemembranceSunday 6 November 2016, 5.00pm to 8.00pm Kino-Teatr, 43-53 Norman Rd, Saint Leonards-on-Sea TN38 0EQ On the 6th November at 5pm we will be joined by a group of World War Two veterans in the beautiful Kino-Teatr in St Leonards-on-sea (Hastings). The event includes a screening of Return of the Liberators (filmmaker Janet […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From the origins of agriculture to the spread of the Neolithic Dr Maxime Brami, Austrian Academy of Sciences Monday 7 November at 4.00 pm Archaeologists have long assumed that, as soon as sedentary farming was invented, c. 10,000 years ago in the Near East, it slowly […]
A Revolution in Four SeasonsMonday 7 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 women who show […]
Anthropology in Austria From the “Blue Danube“ to studying the diversity of the world Tuesday 8 November 2016 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH 09:00-09:50 – Registration and Coffee & tea service 10:00-10:30 - Opening remarks 10:30-11:30 – Presentations 11:30-12:00 – Coffee & tea break 12:00-13:00 - Presentations 13:00-14:00 […]
Nueva VeneciaWednesday 9 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Emiliano Mazza de Luca Uruguay / 2016 / 80mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. The fishing community of Nueva Venecia is like any other, with one extraordinary difference: The village is […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Margaret Lock, McGill University Mutable Environments and Permeable Human Bodies Friday 11 November 2016 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Mapping the human genome produced unexpected findings that paved the way for recognition of […]
Ukrainian Sheriffs Friday 11 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Roman Bondarchuk Germany / Latvia / Ukraine / 2015 / 85mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Welcome to Stara Zburyevka, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying […]
What Tomorrow Brings Saturday 12 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Beth Murphy Afghanistan / United States / 2015 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. A year in the life of the first all-girls school in a […]
Nueva Venecia Sunday 13 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Emiliano Mazza de Luca Uruguay / 2016 / 80mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. The fishing community of Nueva Venecia is like any other, with one extraordinary difference: […]
Nowhere to Call HomeMonday 14 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jocelyn Ford China / United States / 2014 / 76mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. "This story breaks all the rules and upends popular perceptions of Tibetans […]
A Revolution in Four Seasons Wednesday 16 November 2016, 4.10pm 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Giving messages to small people: Hip hop music and identity in post-genocide Rwanda Dr Andrea Mariko Grant, University of Cambridge Wednesday 16 November at 5.30 pm This paper explores the development of Rwanda’s post-genocide music industry, particularly the booming popularity of Kinyarwanda-language hip hop. Like elsewhere […]
