Learning from Women in AfghanistanVeronica Doubleday (vocal and daireh frame drum) (Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths) accompanied by John Baily (Herati dutar lute) Thursday 5 March at 11.30am Veronica will perform some of the traditional women’s music that she learnt in Afghanistan in the 1970s. Between 1973-7 she and her husband the ethnomusicologist John Baily spent two […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 11 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building In Pursuit of Happiness Ray Ono, Japan/UK, 2009, 31 mins Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ‘The greatest delight to all present’: public engagement with Aboriginal performances and displays in Melbourne Victoria, 1836-1914. Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm This paper emerges from a book length project on the Racial Thought at the Edge of the World: […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 13th March, 4.30 pm Towards an anthropology of coups in Fiji Jas Kaur, SOAS This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-jas-kaur-tickets-14634166185 Jas’ research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Fiji, and looks at how people talk […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 18 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The City Beautiful Rahul Roy, 2003, 78 mins Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Forensic Anthropology in the 21st Century Dr Lucina Hackman, University of Dundee Wednesday 18 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will look at the development of the profession of forensic anthropology from its first use in a criminal case through to its utilisation in casework today. […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Under a watchful eye: self, power and intimacy in Amazonia Thursday 19 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 and Research […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Westermarck and Muslim Saint Worship in North Africa: Thoughts Based on Recent Fieldwork Dr Tsuyoshi Saito, Kobe University, Japan Wednesday 25 March at 5.30 pm This seminar takes up a particularly significant phenomenon in the social anthropology of Islam: maraboutism in North Africa, and looks at […]
Musical Instruments and Material CultureThursday 26 March 2015 The Pavilion (in the Horniman Gardens), Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ http://www.horniman.ac.uk This conference is held jointly by the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the Royal Anthropological Institute. To book please go to http://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/events/type/17/date/2015-03-01/interval/30 PROGRAMME 09:30 Registration and coffee 10:15 Welcome/ Opening Remarks Tim […]
2ND Annual Scottish Student Forensic Research Symposium (SSFRS) 2015RAI Sponsored event Venue: Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee Date: 27th March 2015 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ssfrsymposium/home The SSFRS is a student lead research based symposium where Scottish students undertaking research in forensic disciplines can come together, share their current research and forge bonds which […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 27th March, 4.30 pm Hustling in the village: rural predictabilities, tensions and the flow of life in Western Kenya. Gemma Aellah, LSHTM This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-seminar-gemma-aellah-tickets-14697140543 In the context of the 2007 post-election […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Meeting Anthropology, or how to talk to chairs Dr Simone Abram, Durham University and Leeds Beckett University Wednesday 1 April at 5.30 pm Almost anyone working in a university, in a political party, in government at any level, or in any large-scale organisation, knows what a […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Haddon in Ireland, reconstructing the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey Ciarán Walsh, Maynooth University Dr Joe Dudding, Arch and Anth Museum, Cambridge Wednesday 8 April at 5.30 pm This illustrated talk outlines a project to reconstruct the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey that was […]
The British Association for the Advancement of Science, Anthropology and Historical LegaciesThursday 9 April at 1.00pm The event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://baasseminar.eventbrite.co.uk. This seminar will bring together scholars interested in the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and how it functioned as a […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Alevis of Turkey: twenty-five years on Dr David Shankand, RAI & University of Bristol Wednesday 22 April at 5.30 pm (in conjunction with the Anglo-Turkish society) This talk looks back on twenty-five years research conducted by the speaker amongst the Alevis of Anatolia, outlining the […]
William Fagg and the Study of African Art14.00 – 18.00, Friday 24 April 2015 (with registration from 13.30) 09.30 – 17.30, Saturday 25 April 2015 (with registration from 09.00) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN William Fagg was the great pioneer in Britain of the study […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 24 April, 4.30 pm The Masks of the Wauja and the Timbira Indians: towards a theory of aesthetic performances in indigenous Amazonia. Fabiola Luvaro, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, University of East Anglia This event is free, but […]
A student workshop event: Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance: Art, Anthropology & the Material Culture of Markets Saturday 25th April 2015: 10.00- 17.30 Since the crisis in 2008, anthropology has established itself as a discipline with something to say about finance, whether it be in the pages of the Financial Times or from within […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom AND/OR A Retired Anthropologist rethinks her first degree in General Science Professor Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes Wednesday 29 April at 5.30 pm Joy’s “retirement” was marked by a year taking up exciting invitations to visit universities in Australia, New […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 8 May, 4.30 pm Mapping Labour and Work Ideologies in Contemporary rural India Smita Yadav, University of Sussex How do contemporary ethnographies of labour and work reveal the redundancy of traditional ways of understanding rural societies as in India? Historically speaking, village studies on India […]
