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 […]
Learning from Women in AfghanistanVeronica Doubleday (vocal and daireh frame drum) (Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths) accompanied by John Baily (Herati dutar lute) Thursday 5 March at 11.30am Veronica will perform some of the traditional women’s music that she learnt in Afghanistan in the 1970s. Between 1973-7 she and her husband the ethnomusicologist John Baily spent two […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 11 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building In Pursuit of Happiness Ray Ono, Japan/UK, 2009, 31 mins Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ‘The greatest delight to all present’: public engagement with Aboriginal performances and displays in Melbourne Victoria, 1836-1914. Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm This paper emerges from a book length project on the Racial Thought at the Edge of the World: […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 13th March, 4.30 pm Towards an anthropology of coups in Fiji Jas Kaur, SOAS 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-jas-kaur-tickets-14634166185 Jas’ research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Fiji, and looks at how people talk […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 18 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The City Beautiful Rahul Roy, 2003, 78 mins Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Forensic Anthropology in the 21st Century Dr Lucina Hackman, University of Dundee Wednesday 18 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will look at the development of the profession of forensic anthropology from its first use in a criminal case through to its utilisation in casework today. […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Under a watchful eye: self, power and intimacy in Amazonia Thursday 19 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Westermarck and Muslim Saint Worship in North Africa: Thoughts Based on Recent Fieldwork Dr Tsuyoshi Saito, Kobe University, Japan Wednesday 25 March at 5.30 pm This seminar takes up a particularly significant phenomenon in the social anthropology of Islam: maraboutism in North Africa, and looks at […]
