Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Wednesday 9 December 2020 at 11:00-13:00 (GMT) Engaging Anthropologically with UK Parliamentary Select Committees This session will be led by: Emma Crewe, Director of Global Research Network on Parliaments and People, SOAS, University of London and Abbi Hobbs, Head of Social […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Wednesday 13 January 2021 at 10:00-12:00 (GMT) A Mission to Accomplish: communicating anthropology to international governmental and non-governmental development organisations This session will be led by Professor Raymond Apthorpe (RAI), with confirmed speakers: Amy Croome (Oxfam) Alex Fenwick (Welthungerhilfe) and chaired […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Being Bedouin Around Petra: Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century Tuesday 19 January 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5YLbHtpJT2mq8X0sWnGDMQ The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological […]
VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE This event - hosted jointly by the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Centre for Biocultural Diversity at the University of Kent - marks the publication of two complementary books by Prof Roy Ellen. The event will be chaired by Dr Rajindra Puri (University of Kent). The Nuaulu […]
RAI Research Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 4 February 2021 at 3-5pm (GMT) The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: craftwork in 21st century England Prof Trevor Marchand (SOAS) With an introduction by Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscOygpzMvEtPvRWN5MePRMrLgQuM3sEgy Against the backdrop of […]
RAI FILM Festival programme launchFriday 12 February 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) Register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqfuqgqTwrEtcxHcejlDqIrF_DhP20z5TG Join us for the launch of the 17th RAI FILM Festival 2021 programme. The festival team will reveal for the first time the full line-up of feature length documentaries, shorts, student films and music docs competing for our 5 prizes, as well […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Empire's New Clothes: the Myth of the Commonwealth Thursday 18 February 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Prof Philip […]
RAI Research Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 22 February 2021 at 3-5pm (GMT) Anthropology and/of the future with Ezri Carlebach presented by the RAI’s Anthropology of Policy and Practice Committee with speakers: Professor Kathleen Richardson, De Montfort University, author of An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 11 March 2021 at 3:00-05:00pm (GMT) Forensic anthropology - no longer a cowboy! Prof Dame Sue Black (President of the RAI and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University) chaired by Dr Emma Crewe (SOAS) This event will be held on Zoom. To […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File Thursday 18 March 2021 at 2.00-4.00pm (GMT) The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author […]
RAI Film Festival 2021 The RAI Film Festival will take place 19-28 March 2021. Please note that due to the ongoing uncertainty about COVID-19 the RAI Film Festival 2021 and the conference will take place online. Details aboiut the Film festival can be found here https://raifilm.org.uk/rai-film-festival-2021/
VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH AND SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 1 April at 3.00 - 5.00 pm (BST) Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859 Prof Clive Gamble (University of Southampton) with Prof Felix Driver (Royal Holloway) as discussant. This event will take place online on Zoom. Please register for it here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2lBmKc1lRiKyW2h2SthNQQ One […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 8 April 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: with Civil Society With confirmed speakers: Alex Clegg (Senior community coordinator at Sense about Science) Ingrid Abreu Scherer (Civil Society Lead at What Works Wellbeing) Prof Danny Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL) […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDAN VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marital Breakdown Among British Asians: Conjugality, Legal Pluralism and New Kinship Thursday 15 April 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iI2L-0bAQDSNqW7JfeyXGg The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2020 Photographic Studies Prize to Prof Darren Newbury. Sadly last year's live event had to be cancelled. We are now following up with a virtual event. ------------------------ Friday 16 April 2021 at 6.30 - 8:00pm (BST) Please join us in this celebration for a talk by […]
RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 12-13.30pm (BST) Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898 Dr Anita Herle (University of Cambridge) Dr Jude Philp (University of Sydney) chaired by Prof Haidy Geismar […]
RAI RESEARCH WEBINARA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 6 May 2021 at 10am-12pm (BST) Forensic Social Anthropology Dr James Rose (University of Melbourne) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6phN-VnZQ8OULRzUkagZZA If forensic physical anthropology is the science of biological processes with causal links to death, then forensic […]
Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 13 May 2021, 1.00-2.30pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: with Government Policymakers Picture: Howard Lake/(CC BY-SA 2.0) With confirmed speakers: Brendan Donegan (Dept for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, International Climate Finance) Carrie Heitmeyer (Government Office for Science, SAGE Covid Behaviour Team) […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDAN VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse from Paris to Kinshasa Thursday 20 May 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0rbHbrBtR-SjhbIDUtjE5Q The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2021Living Together When We Cannot Agree On How to Live: Sectarian Factions in Ancient Judaism Professor Albert I. Baumgarten Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Wednesday 26 May 2021 6.00pm-8.00pm Online How can people live peaceably together, when they have come to be ordered in […]
