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 […]
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 […]
