RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 16th January, 4.30 pm The extractive industries and the ‘Age of Conversation’: from corporate social responsibility to corporate diplomacy Paul Robert Gilbert, University of Sussex 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-paul-robert-gilbert-tickets-14527115995 Around the turn of […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 21 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Q2P Paromita Vohra, 2006, 55 mins Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 28 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers Ed Owles, 2014, India/UK, 85 mins. Followed by Q & A with director The oldest auction […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Pragmatism, identity, and the state: how the Nuaulu of Seram have reinvented their beliefs and practices as "religion" Professor Roy Ellen, University of Kent Wednesday 28 January at 5.30 pm The Dutch colonial state categorized animists and ancestor-worshippers and inscribed them into written records in ways […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 30th January, 4.30 pm Inside the (Dis)Organisation: Political representation and the Boaters of the southern waterways Ben Bowles, Brunel University 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-ben-bowles-tickets-14533876215 The itinerant Boaters of the canals and rivers of […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Monday 2 February 2015, 5.30pm Book Launch with Author Toni de Bromhead A Film-maker's Odyssey: Adventures in film and anthropology (Intervention Press, 2014) Introduction by Colin Young With Film Clips from East Anglia to West Sicily (from Super 8 to HD), followed by wine reception This book describes the thinking of […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 4 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Final Fitting, OT: Prov Akhar Reza Haeri, Niloofar Haeri, 2008, 30 mins Mr. Arabpour is the master tailor and craftsman, and the proprietor of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Listening to ghosts Dr Sarah Buckler, Robert Gordon University Wednesday 4 February at 5.30 pm The small and isolated settlements of Peat Carr and Moorsley in the Sunderland coalfields cling to a precarious existence just as they cling to the edge of an escarpment overlooking the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnographic biography: telling leprosy through a life Dr James Staples, Brunel University Wednesday 11 February at 5.30 pm This seminar addresses the question of how anthropologists might write in ways that better allow the objects of our fieldwork to be represented as themselves – or in […]
Inaugural Conference: Anthropological Visions of Sustainable Futures The inaugural CAOS (Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability) conference will be held at UCL between 12th to14th February 2015. Registration is now open! Keynote address and 2015 Daryll Forde Lecture: Prof. Bruno Latour (Sciences Po, Paris) 12th February 2015, 6pm Closing event:Gaia: Global Circus, at the Bloomsbury […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 13th February, 4.30 pm Nature as a circulating entity: hybrid semantics and cultural identity among the Bajo of North Sulawesi, Indonesia Elena E. Burgos-Martínez, Durham University 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-elena-burgos-martinez-tickets-14534038701 The way we […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 18 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Other Europe Rosella Schillaci, 2011, Italy, 75 mins What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Socioeconomics and the supernatural amongst the Miskitu and Ulwa of eastern Nicaragua Dr Mark Jamieson, University of East London Wednesday 18 February at 5.30 pm This seminar considers in comparative terms the relationships between socioeconomic processes, misfortune and belief in supernatural agency amongst the people of […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Envisioning Eden: mobilizing imaginaries in tourism and beyond Thursday 19 February 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, in […]
LGBT Film DayIn partnership with Camden LGBT Forum 21 February 2015, 12.00 - 17.30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free, tickets required for each section http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/tickets/films/icat/films A part of Camden & Islington LGBT History Month 2015. Films inspired by LGBT lives 12.00-13.00 Paradise Bent: Boys will be Girls in Samoa (1999) (TBC) Documentary / Cert. […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 25 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody Allen Laura Halilovic, 2009, Italy, 50 mins A very intimate journey about the ending of a nomadic life […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnomusicology and Filmmaking Dr Barley Norton, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 25 February at 5.30 pm This seminar will examine filmmaking in ethnomusicology and its relationship with ethnographic film more broadly. The historical development of ethnomusicological film, I will argue, is characterized by a movement from […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 27th February, 4.30 pm Making relations visible: corporate form and the aesthetics of transparency investigations Taras Fedirko, Durham University 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-taras-fedirko-tickets-14534173103 Based on an on-going fieldwork among London-based NGO professionals, my […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 4 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Salma Kim Longinotto, 2013, UK/India. Followed by Q&A with director (tbc) When Salma was 13, her parents took her out of school and locked […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Christian dividual and sacrifice: Personal partibility and religious efflorescence among North Mekeo (PNG) Professor Mark Mosko, ANU/LSE Wednesday 4 March at 5.30 pm I take it to be indisputable that Melanesian anthropology has received its greatest theoretical impetus over the past three decades in the […]
