Ogling the Ethnographic5-9 pm Thursday 14th May 2015 The Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Artists: Angelina Jesson, Banna Sifri, Charlie Rumph, Jaron Hill, Joshua Tabti, Kane Brinell, Sandhya Stearman, Snail Jin, Uznain Majid, Zarina Muhammad Curators: Joshua Tabti, Kane Britnell and Zarina Muhammad Ogling the Ethnographic invites an audience to encounter […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Subjects as Objects: how heritage practice works with the past Dr Tom Yarrow, Durham University Wednesday 20 May at 5.30 pm Based on ethnographic research with Historic Scotland, the government heritage agency, this paper considers how the historic environment is produced. Focusing on the process by […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE God’s agents: biblical publicity in contemporary England Thursday 21 May 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 conjunction […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 May, 4.30 pm Trust in Charity: Continuing Two Centuries of UK Involvement in South African Education Oliver Pattenden, PhD Candidate, Rhodes University, South Africa My ethnographic research focuses upon Ngomso, a “special school” for “severely socially marginalised” young people in the Eastern Cape province […]
Film Screening: Mabo: Life of an Island Man + Q&A with director, Trevor Graham18.00-20.00 Tuesday 26 May 2015 Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London WC2R 2LS Entry is free but booking is required: https://mabo.eventbrite.co.uk The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE China in the Frame: Materialising Ideas of China in Italian Museums Dr Iside Carbone, Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 27 May at 5.30 pm Mechanisms of representation of the cultural Other and their connections with processes of self-expression constitute the core of China in the Frame. This original ethnographic study […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology, UNESCO and the destruction of World Heritage: Controlling the Conversation Dr Charlotte Joy, Goldsmiths Monday 1 June at 5.30 pm In this paper, I will be looking at the recent destructions of cultural heritage in Mali from the point of view of UNESCO’s long-term work […]
Mary Douglas Memorial LectureWednesday 3 June 2015 at 6pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS The Societalization of Social Problems: Recent Social Crises and the Civil Sphere Professor Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University Drawing […]
Anthropology and the politics of engagement5th Royal Anthropological Institute Postgraduate Conference University of Manchester 4-5 June 2015 What is the position of engagement within anthropology and academia as a whole? While in a European context anthropologists have long debated the extent to which their discipline should critically engage with issues beyond academic discourse, in other […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE What did Ted Hughes learn from anthropology? Professor Bob Layton, Durham University Wednesday 10 June at 5.30 pm During the second year of his undergraduate career in Cambridge, Ted Hughes found that study in the English Department was stifling his creativity, and he transferred to Anthropology. […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 12 June, 4.30 pm Chocolate and politics: An ethnographic contextualisation of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó Gwen Burnyeat, National University of Colombia and Leverhulme study-abroad scholar. The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is a peasant farmer community in Urabá, North-West […]
The AAA and Anthropology: Today's ViewDr Edward Liebow, American Anthropological Association Monday 15 June at 5.30 pm Abstract: This talk will offer a jazz riff weaving together three themes. First, what is distinctively "American" about the American Anthropological Association today? Has the "four-field" approach, which encompasses archaeology, linguistic, biological, and cultural anthropology, framed some special […]
The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2015 will be held in Bristol, 16 - 19 June 2015Sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) jointly with The Watershed Cinema in Bristol, The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and The Center for Visual Anthropology, USC Dornsife, LA, California RAI Film Festival Festival […]
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSAT THE 14TH RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM Anthropology, Genocide and Imagery Prof André Singer, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute Tuesday 16 June at 4.30 pm The anthropological literature about genocide is sparse although the subject matter of huge relevance in the 20th and 21st centuries. Film imagery has transformed the information […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday 26 June 2015, 17.30pm Working Method: Digitising and Cataloguing Arthur Howes’ Mini DV Tapes Film-Archive-Seminar and Discussion with Harry Chapman Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French Theatre Book shop) A presentation by Harry Chapman on […]
The London Anthropology Day is an annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. The event is held at the British Museum's Education Clore Centre. On the day, participants get to learn what anthropology is about, the types of careers anthropologists do, as well as gain hands-on experience of […]
Tourism: Visuality and Memory. An interdisciplinary conference University of Plymouth 3 – 5th August 2015 Organised in collaboration with the Tourism Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute Call for papers From the early days of the Grand Tour and the collecting of paintings and drawings, to the advent of the first still and movie cameras, […]
MAGic2015 - Anthropology and Global Health: interrogating theory, policy and practiceUniversity of Sussex 9-11 September 2015 Organised jointly by the RAI Medical Anthropology Committee, and the EASA Medical Anthropology Network The conference seeks to interrogate the paradigms and practice of global health. We invite reflective contributions from anthropologists working at policy, programme or community levels […]
ISLAND HOME COUNTRY18:00 - 20:00 Wednesday 16 September 2015 A film screening and Q&A with director Jeni Thornley Location: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London WC2R 2LS This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required through our Eventbrite page http://thornley.eventbrite.co.uk. Please direct enquiries to […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2015 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2015 AGM will take place on Friday 18 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2015 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at […]
