UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Tuesday 2 February 7.00pm PICK OF THE FESTIVAL A selection of award winning films from the 2015 edition of the RAI FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM THE AUCTION HOUSE: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS Director/Anthropologist: Ed Owles UK / 2014 / 85 min Country of Production: Location: India Ethnic Group: Indian […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 3 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Body Games, Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção, Christine Dettmann, 2014, 87 mins The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mistakes About Race: a discussion Michael Banton, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol Wednesday 3 February at 5.30pm The expression `race relations’ was adopted by the London School of Economics in 1947. It was the title of a course, and a lectureship, in the Anthropology Department. At that time Michael […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 5 February, 4.30 pm Embodied Ghosts of Phantom Lynchings: A 'hauntography' of El Alto's hanging puppets Martyn Wemyss, LSE This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://martynwemyss.eventbrite.co.uk El Alto's markets and residential streets are marked by the phenomenon […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyMonday 8 February 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Pat Yale The explorer, archaeologist and writer Gertrude Bell is best known for her travels in Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia but as a young woman she spent a lot of time in what is now […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Choreographing Brain: Cognition, Emotion, and Dance Dr Judith Lynne Hanna, Affiliate Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, USA Wednesday 10 February at 5.30 pm Recent technological advances in neuroscience are unraveling secrets about the cognitive, emotional, and exercise power of dance. Hidden from […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 17 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Damiana Kryygi, Alejandro Fernández Mouján, 2015, 96 mins Paraguay, 1896. A three year-old girl is captured by settlers after they had massacred of a group of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARJoint seminar with the Folklore Society SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Texts of Charms, the Contexts of Charming Dr Jonathan Roper (Estonia) Wednesday 17 February at 5.30 pm Complementing the work of Social Anthropologists and Linguistic Anthropologists, Folklorists have centred their attention on traditional verbal genres. Although pride of place […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China Thursday 18 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 […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 19 February, 4.30 pm Passive, voiceless victims or actively seeking a religious education? Qur’anic school students in Senegal Anneke Newman, University of Sussex This presentation will problematise dominant representations in grey and academic literature of Qur'anic school students in Senegal as passive victims, 'marginalised' or […]
To mark the conferment of the RAI Photography Studies AwardAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Australian Aboriginal Transformations of the Colonial Archive Professor Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia) Monday 22 February at 5.30 pm Many European photographic archives contain images of Australian Aboriginal people, produced from the mid-nineteenth century for scientific and popular purposes – […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 24 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Queens of Syria, Yasmin Fedda, 2014, 70 mins Boya Boya (Shine Shine), Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash, 2014, 18 mins The first film tells the story […]
An evening with Edith DurhamIn association with the Anglo-Albanian Association Dr Robert Elsie Wednesday 24 February 2016, 5.30pm-7.30pm Edith Durham was at once one of the most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a well-known war-correspondent, lecturer, writer, photographer and artist of Albania and the Balkans. A former Member of Council and Vice-President, […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Gaining access to tourist markets: female craft producers in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Dr Dorothea Meyer, Sheffield Hallam University Monday 29 February at 5.30 pm Abstract Tourism accounts for 40% of all international arrivals into less economically […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 2 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Ainu: Paths to Memory, Marcos Centano, 2014, 82 mins The film sets out to discover the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan. The film shows a […]
Royal Anthropological Institute 14th International Ethnographic Film Festival 4th-6th March 2016 at USCLOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Screenings Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 4-6th, 2016. All screenings at Seeley G. Mudd Hall [SGM}on USC campus. Vermont Avenue Entrance at 36th Place (Gate #6). The prize winning films at The 14th RAI International […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 March, 4.30 pm Erasure of the individual: Interruptions, egalitarianism, and equality in the context of deaf people in the UK Kelly Fagan Robinson, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://kellyrobinson.eventbrite.co.uk This paper will address […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 9 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Mr Coperthwaite: Spring in Dickinson's Reach, Anna Grimshaw, 2014, 82 min. In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the […]
RAI SEMINARSEMINAR AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A publisher's perspective Marion Berghahn, Berghahn Books Wednesday 9 March at 5.30 pm Drawing on her many years in publishing, Marion Berghahn, an anthropologist by training, will present an overview of the industry and where, in particular, the monograph fits into the spectrum. As a major publisher in […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 16 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS The Halfmoon Files- A Ghost Story, Philip Scheffner, 2008. 87 min. This experimental film follows the history of a brief sound recording of the voice of […]
