The Inaugural Mary Douglas Memorial LectureThursday 23rd October 2014 at 6pm Harrie Massie Lecture Theatre, UCL, 25 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AY Irreconcilable Conflicts? Civil Wars from the Perspective of an Institutional Theory of Culture Professor Paul Richards, Njala University (Sierra Leone) The annual lecture, in memory of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007), is sponsored by […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Dance, ethnomusicology, anthropology: Same difference? Professor Andrée Grau, University of Roehampton Wednesday 29 October at 5.30 pm The seminar will look at the relation between dance and ethnomusicology, and dance and anthropology. The anthropologist and ethnomusicologist John Blacking (1928-1990) saw ethnomusicology and the anthropology of dance as […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday 31 October, 2014, 5pmMemorialising and Commemorating the Dead in Mexico City: A critical look at the Mexican Day of the Dead Research Seminar followed by some tasters with Dr Marcel Reyes-Cortez, Goldsmiths, University of London In Mexico City, the dead are very present in popular culture and are manifested in […]
Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. SHE-RIVER (la Fiuma) Rosella Schillaci, 2008, 67 mins She-River is an anthropological documentary exploring the River Po (Northern Italy) and its surrounding and people. A journey with […]
Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. THE LAST NAVIGATOR Colour, 50 minutes, 1989 Q&A with filmmaker and anthropologist: André Singer This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Voices in Music, Voices on Music: anthropology and ethnomusicology in dialogue Dr Suzel Reily, Queen’s University Belfast Wednesday 5 November at 5.30 pm The word ‘voice’ indicates the vocal production of sound, but it is also used in a metaphorical fashion to indicate an individual’s or […]
Cinematic cartographies – Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. FILM, MOBILITY AND URBAN SPACE. A cinematic ethnography of London A selection of short archive films from the London Screen Archives collection. discussant tbc This event […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Tim Ingold, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen On Human Correspondence Friday 7 November 2014 at 5.30pm, in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. I wish to propose a new theory of social life. Its premises […]
This multidisciplinary workshop/conference aims to bring together anthropologists, geographers, cartographers, archaeologists, linguists and digital media specialists to explore and discuss the interconnections between different mapping technologies. Mapping indigenous lands to secure tenure, manage natural resources, and strengthen cultures is a recent phenomenon. A variety of methodologies have made their appearance, ranging from highly participatory, community-led […]
POLISH ANTHROPOLOGY DAYAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 10 November at 10.00am The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://polishanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk. 1. Michał Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań & European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder ‘Polish Anthropology: An (Impossible) Overview’ Post-war Polish ethnography/ethnology, as the discipline was called until […]
RAI Blacking Lecture in EthnomusicologyMusic, power and patronage - the case of the King's musicians of Buganda Dr Peter Cooke Monday 10 November at 5.30 pm at the Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL Musical activities flourished in successive courts of the kingdom of Buganda (Central Uganda) until the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Modernism, method and the making of Anthropology Dr David Mills, University of Oxford Wednesday 12 November at 4.00 pm In 1922, proclaimed as modernism's 'Year One' by Ezra Pound, the anthropological project was redefined by the publication of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century Thursday 20 November 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 […]
Arthur Howes’ friends, the Royal Anthropological Institute, University of Essex and SOAS present: Sudan Trilogy and Arthur Howes’ legacy revisited Free screenings, panels and dialogues Saturday 29 November 2014, 10:00am - 5:00pm SOAS, Kahlili Lecture Theatre Nearest tube: Euston Square/Russell Square This is a free event but please book your place: http://arthurhowes.eventbrite.com Arthur Howes was […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Humanitarian Intervention Professor Raymond Apthorpe, Vice-President, RAI Wednesday 3 December at 5.30 pm One of anthropology’s currently rapidly developing areas is with regard to humanitarian intervention and aid studies (see the speaker’s JRAI Review Essay in this year’s June issue ‘Anthropology and humanitarianisms across […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Monday 8 December 2014, 5.30pmThe Guga Hunters of Ness (2010, 59 minutes) Screening and Q&A with Director Mike Day Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French Theatre Book shop) Ness is the last place in the UK […]
History of the Royal Anthropological InstituteWorkshop in preparation for Volume 1: Pre 1871 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://raihistory.eventbrite.co.uk 9th December 2014 DAY 1 (1pm – 6pm) 12.00 pm: SANDWICH LUNCH 1.00 pm: Dr […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology 14 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building A Tale of Two Syrias Yasmin Fedda, 2012, 64 mins. Followed by Q&A session with director. Salem is an Iraqi fashion designer in Damascus. Botrous […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Writing the biography of an unknown African: an 'engaging' form of anthropology? Professor Pat Caplan, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 14 January at 5.30 pm This paper addresses a series of questions about ‘engaged’ anthropology, including how anthropologists may ‘give back’ to the people whom they […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Centralizing fieldwork: critical perspectives from primatology, biological and social anthropology Thursday 15 January at 11.00 am (tea & coffee served from 10.30 am) Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, […]
