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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE “Play Music Without Dancers and It’s a Waste of Music”: Sounding Movements, Changing Contexts, and the Sean Nós Dancer Dr Catherine Foley, University of Limerick Wednesday 16 March at 5.30 pm This seminar ethnochoreologically examines sean nós dancing, a solo, vernacular semi-improvisatory percussive dance practice performed […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Anthropology and Anthropologists: the Modern British School Thursday 17 March 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 […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic (EVDE) and its Unexpected Effects on Tourism in The Gambia and Sierra Leone Dr Marina Novelli, University of Brighton Monday 21 March at 5.30 pm Abstract Over the past 20 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Listening to the ‘voice of the body’: revisiting the concept of embodied ethnography in the anthropology of dance Dr Ann R David, Head of Dance, Reader in Dance Studies, University of Roehampton Wednesday 23 March at 5.30 pm Whilst Radcliffe-Brown, Malinowski, Mead and other early eminent […]
"Love Terrestrial and Love Divine": Women and Dutar in UzbekistanDr Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge Wednesday 6 April at 11.00am Playing the Uzbek Dutar (plucked lute) and doira (frame drum), Dr Razia Sultanova will give a rendition of Uzbek female music. This feminine repertoire was performed exclusively indoors, far from the eyes and ears of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Scale, Cohesion and Complexity: Understanding Fali community chiefdoms of the Mandara Mountains James H. Wade Wednesday 20 April at 5.30 pm A combination of dispersed powers and ego-centred networks generated within the trajectory of the Fali of the southern Mandaras is shown to achieve a high […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The House of Commons: an Anthropology of MPs at Work Thursday 21 April 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 […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 April 2016, 4.30pm Auditing Muslim Audition Adeel Khan, University of Cambridge This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://adeelkhan.eventbrite.co.uk Discussing the place of propriety of speech and act in Euro-America has from George Minois to J. M. […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE International volunteer tourism: decommodified moral encounters or a search for moral meaning? Peter Smith, St Mary's University Monday 25 April at 5.30 pm In recent decades there has been a boom in international volunteer tourism, […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The complex origins and evolution of our species Professor Robert Foley, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge Wednesday 27 April at 5.30 pm Nearly thirty years ago the idea that Homo sapiens evolved recently in Africa and dispersed rapidly from there took hold, […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 6 May, 4.30 pm Living well despite it all; exploring the impacts of protected areas on edge-dwellers' attempts towards health Amber Abrams, University of Kent This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://amberabrams.eventbrite.co.uk Protected areas often appear […]
Oxford Brookes’ Anthropology Society is hosting the 6th Annual RAI Student Conference on 18 May 2016. The theme is ‘Anthropology in the 21st Century’; this conference is hoping to cover various areas of anthropology and display the broad range of research being conducted in the field. The day will consist of a series of student talks […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Dance, morality and self in urban Senegal Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University College London Wednesday 18 May at 5.30 pm In Dakar, in predominantly Muslim Senegal, dance is tabloid matter on a daily basis. Indeed, dance is regarded as morally ambiguous: on the one hand, certain […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Writing the Dark Side of Travel Thursday 19 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 with […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 20 May, 4.30 pm Reciprocity: materiality and technicality in credit transactions Syed Mohammed Faisal, University of Sussex This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://syedmohammedfaisal.eventbrite.co.uk The aim of the paper is to understand Islamic norms and their limits […]
States of AlterityWORKSHOP AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 23 May at 10.00am 10.00–10:30: Welcome and introductions 10.30–11.00: Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti: The indigenous cosmopolitics of citizenship in Peru, or becoming Peruvian to keep the state away 11.00–11.30: Liana Chua: Christian cosmopolitics, ontology and the problem of difference: reflections on a legal victory in Malaysian […]
Torres Strait Trilogy Film Screenings + Q&A with Director Frances Calvert11.00-17.00 Monday 23 May 2016 Nash Lecture Theatre Second Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London WC2R 2LS The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, are excited to […]
