Sifinja: the Iron BrideValerie Hänsch / Sudan,Germany / 2009 / 70 minutes Thursday 9th March 2017, 6:30PM. Bromley Historic Collections The Lubbock Gallery, 2nd Floor, Central Library, High Street, Bromley BR1 1EX Winner of the Material Culture & Archaeology Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to […]
Migration and exile double billThursday 9 March, 19.30 Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, 7 Pier Road, St Helier, Jersey Leaving Greece Anna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Winner of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2015 The film tells the very personal story of three young […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment Thursday 16 March 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 […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2017 Photographic Studies Prize to Professor Elizabeth Edwards. Friday 17 March at 5.00 pm Please join us in this celebration on 17 March between 5.00 and 7.00 pm for an introduction by Professor Chris Pinney, a talk by Professor Edwards and a drinks reception. Abstract: This […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Utopia or Dystopia? The development of Kavos, Corfu, into a tourism destination and the impacts on the local community; a pseudo-longitudinal study from 2003 to 2016. Dr Nika Balomenou, University of Hertfordshire Monday 20 March 2017 at 5.30 pm […]
Memories of the Ainu Past and PresentTuesday 21 March 2017 at 7.00pm Lecture theatre SALT, Senate House SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Free – booking essential Book online here Co-organised by the Japan Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), this is the third and last in the current […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Local dance traditions and glocalised crisis: A landscape of traditional dance in Greece under austerity Dr Maria Koutsoba, University of Athens Wednesday 22 March at 5.30 pm The present socio-economic crisis worldwide has inevitably affected dance and dancing both locally and internationally. Greece is among the […]
15th RAI Film Festivalanthropology – ethnography – archaeology 29 March - 1 April 2017 Watershed Cinema, Bristol, United Kingdom Tickets and more details available at https://raifilm.org.uk/ The RAI Film Festival is a biennial event dedicated to the celebration of the best in ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe. First held in 1985, […]
Archaeological Review from Cambridge Friday‑Saturday, 7‑8 April 2017 Jesus College, University of Cambridge Modern Climate Change and the Practice of Archaeology Conference Modern climate change has serious consequences for the knowledge of our past. Desertification, eroding coasts, rising sea levels and melting permafrost threaten the preservation of natural and cultural sites. These and other damaging […]
This year, the annual RAI student conference comes to Durham, combining with their regular student conference. Panel spaces at the conference are open to students of all levels and there are multiple other ways to get involved. If you are interested, please respond to the call for papers by 6 March 2017. For […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE RAI Aliens and Strangers: The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals Wednesday 3 May at 10.30 am (tea & coffee served from 10.00 am) at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyMonday 8 May 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Robert Langer, Research Group Leader “Contemporary Islamic Cultures”, Study of Religions, University of Bayreuth, Germany Turkish Shiites in Germany: Conversion, Ethnicity, and ‘Germanisation’ This presentation focusses on a specific portion of the Twelver Shiites, those with a […]
Photography, Alterity & EpidemicsAn exhibition of the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project Thursday 11 May 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Based in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic has […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Writing the Dark Side of Travel / Thanotourism: Case Studies in Travel to the Dark Side Thursday 18 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 […]
Breaking the Chains: film screening and DVD Launch followed by discussion with the directorTuesday 23 May at 6.00pm The practice of using shackles and chains (known in Bahasa Indonesian as 'pasung') to physically restrain people with mental illness is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other low-middle income countries) and almost universally ignored. This ethnographic […]
On 24 May the 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture, will be held in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne's College (56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6H). The lecture will begin at 6pm. This year, the lecture will be given by Professor Pat Caplan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. The […]
CALLING ALL TEACHERS AND LECTURERS CONSIDERING THE NEW SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY UNITS Tuesday 30 May 2017 Time: 10.00am - 3.30pm Location: Charteris Land, University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ To celebrate and support the introduction by the SQA of social anthropology units into Scottish schools and colleges, the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and the Scottish […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE William Robertson Smith's Influence on the "Myth and Ritual School" Prof Aleksandar Bošković, Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade Wednesday 31 May at 5.30 pm Scottish Semitist William Robertson Smith (1846-1894), who was at the time of his death Chair and […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 6 June 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: David Barchard The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation David Barchard, veteran Turkey analyst and author lecture on 'The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation'. Turkey is entering a new era as it makes a transition from a parliamentary system of government […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Challenging Tourism Contexts for Innovation and Policy Prof Chris Cooper, Oxford Brookes University Monday 12 June 2017 at 5.30 pm Tourism can be seen as a hostile context for innovation, not only is it characterised by few leaders and […]
