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Musical Instruments and Material Culture

Musical Instruments and Material CultureThursday 26 March 2015 The Pavilion (in the Horniman Gardens), Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ http://www.horniman.ac.uk This conference is held jointly by the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the Royal Anthropological Institute. To book please go to http://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/events/type/17/date/2015-03-01/interval/30 PROGRAMME 09:30 Registration and coffee 10:15 Welcome/ Opening Remarks Tim […]

Scottish Student Forensic Research Symposium

2ND Annual Scottish Student Forensic Research Symposium (SSFRS) 2015RAI Sponsored event Venue: Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee Date: 27th March 2015 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ssfrsymposium/home The SSFRS is a student lead research based symposium where Scottish students undertaking research in forensic disciplines can come together, share their current research and forge bonds which […]

Research in Progress: Gemma Aellah

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 27th March, 4.30 pm Hustling in the village: rural predictabilities, tensions and the flow of life in Western Kenya. Gemma Aellah, LSHTM 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-seminar-gemma-aellah-tickets-14697140543 In the context of the 2007 post-election […]

RAI Research Seminar: Simone Abram

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Meeting Anthropology, or how to talk to chairs Dr Simone Abram, Durham University and Leeds Beckett University Wednesday 1 April at 5.30 pm Almost anyone working in a university, in a political party, in government at any level, or in any large-scale organisation, knows what a […]

RAI Research Seminar: Walsh & Dudding

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Haddon in Ireland, reconstructing the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey Ciarán Walsh, Maynooth University Dr Joe Dudding, Arch and Anth Museum, Cambridge Wednesday 8 April at 5.30 pm This illustrated talk outlines a project to reconstruct the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey that was […]

BAAS Seminar

The British Association for the Advancement of Science, Anthropology and Historical LegaciesThursday 9 April at 1.00pm The event is free, but tickets must be booked.  To book tickets please go to http://baasseminar.eventbrite.co.uk. This seminar will bring together scholars interested in the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and how it functioned as a […]

RAI Research Seminar: David Shankland

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Alevis of Turkey: twenty-five years on Dr David Shankand, RAI & University of Bristol Wednesday 22 April at 5.30 pm (in conjunction with the Anglo-Turkish society) This talk looks back on twenty-five years research conducted by the speaker amongst the Alevis of Anatolia, outlining the […]

William Fagg and the Study of African Art

William Fagg and the Study of African Art14.00 – 18.00, Friday 24 April 2015 (with registration from 13.30) 09.30 – 17.30, Saturday 25 April 2015 (with registration from 09.00) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN William Fagg was the great pioneer in Britain of the study […]

Research in Progress: Fabiola Luvaro

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 24 April, 4.30 pm The Masks of the Wauja and the Timbira Indians: towards a theory of aesthetic performances in indigenous Amazonia. Fabiola Luvaro, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, University of East Anglia This event is free, but […]

Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance

A student workshop event: Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance: Art, Anthropology & the Material Culture of Markets Saturday 25th April 2015: 10.00- 17.30 Since the crisis in 2008, anthropology has established itself as a discipline with something to say about finance, whether it be in the pages of the Financial Times or from within […]

RAI Research Seminar: Joy Hendry

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom AND/OR A Retired Anthropologist rethinks her first degree in General Science Professor Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes Wednesday 29 April at 5.30 pm Joy’s “retirement” was marked by a year taking up exciting invitations to visit universities in Australia, New […]

Research in Progress: Smita Yadav

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 8 May, 4.30 pm Mapping Labour and Work Ideologies in Contemporary rural India Smita Yadav, University of Sussex How do contemporary ethnographies of labour and work reveal the redundancy of traditional ways of understanding rural societies as in India? Historically speaking, village studies on India […]

Ogling the Ethnographic

Ogling the Ethnographic5-9 pm Thursday 14th May 2015 The Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Artists: Angelina Jesson, Banna Sifri, Charlie Rumph, Jaron Hill, Joshua Tabti, Kane Brinell, Sandhya Stearman, Snail Jin, Uznain Majid, Zarina Muhammad Curators: Joshua Tabti, Kane Britnell and Zarina Muhammad Ogling the Ethnographic invites an audience to encounter […]

RAI Research Seminar: Tom Yarrow

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Subjects as Objects: how heritage practice works with the past Dr Tom Yarrow, Durham University Wednesday 20 May at 5.30 pm Based on ethnographic research with Historic Scotland, the government heritage agency, this paper considers how the historic environment is produced. Focusing on the process by […]

Reviewer Meets Reviewed: God’s Agents

REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE God’s agents: biblical publicity in contemporary England Thursday 21 May 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 conjunction […]

Research in Progress: Oliver Pattenden

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 May, 4.30 pm Trust in Charity: Continuing Two Centuries of UK Involvement in South African Education Oliver Pattenden, PhD Candidate, Rhodes University, South Africa My ethnographic research focuses upon Ngomso, a “special school” for “severely socially marginalised” young people in the Eastern Cape province […]

Mabo: Life of an Island Man

Film Screening: Mabo: Life of an Island Man + Q&A with director, Trevor Graham18.00-20.00 Tuesday 26 May 2015 Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London WC2R 2LS Entry is free but booking is required: https://mabo.eventbrite.co.uk The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal […]

Book Launch: Iside Carbone

BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE China in the Frame: Materialising Ideas of China in Italian Museums Dr Iside Carbone, Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 27 May at 5.30 pm Mechanisms of representation of the cultural Other and their connections with processes of self-expression constitute the core of China in the Frame. This original ethnographic study […]

RAI Research Seminar: Charlotte Joy

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology, UNESCO and the destruction of World Heritage: Controlling the Conversation Dr Charlotte Joy, Goldsmiths Monday 1 June at 5.30 pm In this paper, I will be looking at the recent destructions of cultural heritage in Mali from the point of view of UNESCO’s long-term work […]

Mary Douglas Lecture: Jeffrey Alexander

Mary Douglas Memorial LectureWednesday 3 June 2015 at 6pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS The Societalization of Social Problems: Recent Social Crises and the Civil Sphere Professor Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University Drawing […]

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