Saturday 28th May, 20:00 PEAK Hannes Lang Germany, Italy / 2011/ 91min As part of the Anthropology, Climate Change and Weather conference, the RAI, in partnership with Bertha DocHouse Screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, presents a curated programme of films open to conference delegates and to the general public. Are You Listening! and Peak […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 3 June 2016, 4.30pm Getting In: ‘rank’ as biographical number at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Anna Ruddock, King's College London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaruddock.eventbrite.co.uk The All India Institute of Medical […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Evolving perspectives on tourism's interaction with nature- connecting at last? Professor Andrew Holden, University of Bedfordshire Monday 13 June at 5.30 pm Our relationship to nature is under re-evaluation as society faces environmental challenges driven […]
Never mind the notation: Understanding music through performance in Japan and JavaDr David W Hughes, SOAS and Durham University Wednesday 15 June at 11.00am In many non-Western traditions, even when written notation exists, music is still learnt and understood primarily through performance: imitating one’s teacher, learning from one’s mistakes when performing in public, ‘stealing’ from […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnographic Wax Cylinder Recordings, Technology and Archival Issues Dr Adrian Poole, University College London Wednesday 15 June at 5.30 pm Phonographic wax cylinder equipment was the principal means by which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anthropologists, comparative musicologists and linguistics recorded and played back the sounds […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 17 June 2016, 4.30pm Thinking with Rap: Thinking, Anthropocene, Racism Emilio G. Berrocal This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://emiliogberrocal.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper, I will try to offer answers to the following questions: 1) What does […]
Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic films by anthropologists interested in the subject of care for the elderly and for people suffering from dementia. The screenings, which will be followed by a discussion, aim to investigate how films explore notions of access and visibility of ‘care’ […]
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 […]
Symposium No. 2: Slow Cinema ScreeningsFriday 8 July 2016 11:00am to 5:00pm Location: UCL Slow Cinema Screenings A series of slow cinema film screenings will be held at UCL on 8 July. This event follows on from the inaugural Slow Cinema Symposium held at the Institute of Archaeology in April 2016. Filmmakers are invited to […]
photography + (con) text Photography in Academic Research 8 & 9 September 2016 Conference Programme ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to invite you to our conference on ‘Photography in Academic Research’ hosted by UCL Heritage Studies, Institute of Archaeology, in collaboration with RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Birkbeck, Department of Politics. There are […]
An|Other Representation. Final film screening MA Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths 2015-16Saturday 17 September 5.00-8.00pm Sunday 18 September 5.00-8.00pm Students graduating from the MA Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University present an exclusive selection of their final short-films. Come and discover a myriad of serendipitous realities from Jamaica to Berlin, San Francisco to Catalonia, Kenya to Norfolk over […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture The 2016 AGM will take place on Friday 30 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2016 Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2016will be given by Dr Ken Dark, University of Reading Returning to the Caves of Mystery: archaeology and the origins of Christian pilgrimage Friday 30 September 2016, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revitalising the Nubian Endangered Languages and Living Heritage Dr Kirsty Rowan, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London Wednesday 5 October at 5.30 pm For many millennia, the Nubian peoples have lived along a stretch of the Nile comprising northern Sudan to southern Egypt. However, during […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 7 October, 4.00 pm Rice, Soil and Strength: Food and Ecology in a Freshwater Village Camelia Dewan, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://cameliadewan.eventbrite.co.uk My overall doctoral thesis problematizes the idea of Bangladesh as a […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (Re)Presenting the daughters of Bourguiba: Tunisian women and tourism Heather Jeffrey, University of Bedfordshire Tuesday 11 October 2016 at 5.30 pm Before the Jasmine revolution and terrorist attacks of 2015 Tunisia was cited as one of the fastest growing […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times Jonathan Benthall Wednesday 12 October at 5.30pm To mark the launch of his new book, there will be a discussion between the author, Jonathan Benthall, and Prof André Singer, the President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. This book is the fruit […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 October 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Hugh Pope THE TURKISH KALEIDOSCOPE Few are more stunned by Turkey’s 15 July coup attempt than the Turkish people themselves. Even outside Turkey, analysts have reacted to the confusion by veering deep into ideological and even conspiracy […]
Visual Anthropology and the City14 & 15 October 2016 ‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ is a two-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and artists. Urban anthropology has fascinated journalists, photographers and policy makers with the emergence of the Chicago School since the 1920s. Ethnography and long-term research facilitated deeper insights into the everyday […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The British on Holiday: Charter Tourism, Identity and Consumption Thursday 20 October 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, […]
