Artistry@Work Series   by Maison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne, in collaboration with the RAI Tuesday, 01 October 2024  4:00-6:00pm BST This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kkKWJwoUThmJ_JwGYED54A#/registration  Image: Kôji molds blooming on soybeans and wheat at Suzuki Shôten brewery (Fukushima, March 2024) ©Alice Doublier-Akakpo Cultivating the most beautiful kôji: the aesthetics of brewing soy-sauce in twenty-first century Japan Discussant: Iza Kavedžija, Associate […]

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Thursday 10 October 2024, 4:00-6:00pm BST This is a hybrid event.To join online via Zoom, register here:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FVWbAZW3Qxa7P3lysP3T7w#/registrationTo join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here:https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1398892 Inclusive Ethnography Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical with editors Dr Caitlin Procter - European University InstituteDr Branwen Spector - […]

Talk organised by Tairona Heritage Trust in collaboration with the RAI Tuesday 15 October 2024,  4:30pm BST  This is a hybrid event.To join online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zbiKBTgyRJush7GFCB93HA#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1381576  Why the climate is changing from a Kogi perspective Narciso Coronado  In the […]

Anthropology and the Humanitarian Encounter: Famine, Societal Trauma and the Academy

Drawing: Cultivating freedom in South Korea’s highly standardised creative industries This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R0eAIhcxSSimZfEUVGHyoA  Speaker: Chloé Paberz, INALCO, Institut Français de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est Discussant: Jenn Law, social anthropologist & artist Abstract With the growing global success of manga, anime and video games, East Asia has become a key player in […]

The Humble Basket: following a path from cordage and containers to measurement and space Prof Stephanie Bunn, University of St Andrews The invention of string, baskets and related forms of weaving is told in countless creation myths, from the invention of string by the Wawilak Sisters, Ancestral Beings in Northwest Arnhem Land, to the discovery […]

BORDER LISTENING: ETHNOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE BEYOND NATION THE 2024 BLACKING LECTURE will be given by Professor Rachel Harris (School of Arts, SOAS University of London) ~ with live music by Ozan Baysal and Shohret Nur On 15 November 2024, 5.30-7pm GMT at Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS. To book an in-person ticket please go to: […]

The art of 'vitesse': ntcham music, banditry, and the digital fabric of a pirate industry This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zSf_DZ4zTl266_Tv7cby2g Speaker: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Université de Neuchâtel Discussant: Jamila Dorner, SOAS Abstract “Vitesse” (speed), “vivacité” (liveliness) and “rapidité” (quickness): the texts and videos of Ntcham music are filled with references (textual, musical and gestural) to rhythm and its […]

This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ATz3WvLQC6VvZmbRb90tg Crafting Indigeneity in Taiwan Speaker: Geoffrey Gowlland, University of Geneva Discussant: Michele Feder-Nadoff, artist & anthropologist Abstract Why is it that the revitalisation of forms of art and craft has, for Indigenous peoples around the world, taken such a significance in self-presentations and political engagements? What is it about […]

JRAI Special Issue Launch Event Monday,  13 January 2025   4:00-5:30pm GMT This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e_8Y5B0xSiCZpNDKly62lA#/registration   JRAI 2024 Special Issue: Religious Suasion   Co-editors and authors: Sam Victor, McGill University Danny Cardoza, Brigham Young University   Contributing authors: Julia Cassaniti, University of Virginia Michal Kravel-Tovi, Tel-Aviv University Courtney Handman, University of Texas […]

Screening (Part one of two in-Person events) Date & Time: Friday 24 January 2025, 2.00-6.00 pm (GMT) Locations: 2-3pm 221 Hong Kong Alumni Room, Bentham House, UCL 3-6pm G04 Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences & Anatomy Building, UCL The walking distance between the two venues is about 10 minutes. You can find the […]

Friday 14 February 2025,  2.30 - 4.30pm GMT This is an online event. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uPMjHdHJSTKandbViEMpsA#/registration Fun-ing: Education for a changing world Dr Sarah Huxley (University of Lincoln) chaired by Dr Emily Dowdeswell (Director at Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination) Abstract At a time when many educational and research practices, more specifically those that consider […]

Workshop (Part two of two events) Date & Time: Friday 14 February 2025, 6.00 - 9.00pm (GMT) Location: Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6, UCL (full address below) Free in Person event. No ticket needed.   Conquistador  Freud ~ Imaginaries, Fables, Fantasies A video Essay by Richard Werbner Workshop, consisting of two panels PROGRAM 6:00     Welcome […]

Discussant: Dr Lydia Arantes, University of Graz Abstract:What is the incommensurability of making? How and under what circumstances can craft production be seen as a practice of care, a kind of love? And, how does this inversion of careful and caring labor become a method of hope? These questions emerged through my mentor-apprenticeship as an […]