THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Howard Morphy, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University Extended Lives in Global Spaces: the anthropology of Yolngu pre burial ceremonies Thursday 8 August 2013 The 2013 RAI Huxley Lecture will be presented at the 17th World Congress […]
RAI Research SeminarSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Agency, the gift, and the corporation: Conceptualising Corporate Community Development in Melanesian mining Dr Glenn Banks, Massey University With the increasing focus on the private sector as a critical development actor, there is a need to develop a better empirical and theoretical understanding of the development […]
Teaching Amidst Change 5-6 September 2013, 15 Norham Gardens, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK Joint <a target="_blank" href="http://www.teachinganthropology.org/">Teaching Anthropology (TA), a journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.easaonline.org/networks/teaching/index.shtml">EASA Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN) Conference Public sector reforms on a national scale are being forced on European states struggling to sustain their […]
The Presidential Address 2013 Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute The anthropology of deep-history Friday 20 September 2013, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. All are […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2013 followed by the Presidential Address The 2013 AGM will take place on Friday 20 September at 3.00 pm in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2013 Presidential Address. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at the AGM. […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropological String Games Studies - The Early Years: Dr A.C. and Kathleen Haddon, Diamond Jenness, Caroline Furnace-Jayne, Honor Maude and their legacies Philip Noble At the turn of last century Dr A.C. Haddon with the help of Dr W.H. Rivers developed a nomenclature for recording string […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Bull-fights and their changing social context in Spain: thoughts based on recent fieldwork Professor Garry Marvin, Roehampton University Wednesday 2 October at 5.30 pm From Pasture to Plaza: Wild Bulls in Spain and City Discontents. The toro de lidia (the Spanish fighting bull) is a wild […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 2 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Gods and Kings Robin Blotnick, Jubilee Films, Garrett Cook, Rachel Lears, 87 mins, 2012, USA At a festival in a sleepy Guatemalan mountain town, traditional dances […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 9 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Salma Kim Longinotto, 90 mins, 2013, UK/India When Salma was 13, her parents took her out of school and locked her away in a room with a […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The roots of international co-operation in anthropology; Myres, the RAI and the founding of the IUAES Dr David Shankland, Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 9 October at 5.30 pm In 1934, the Royal Anthropological Institute organised the largest gathering of anthropologists that had, until that time, taken […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Climate Change Professor Steve Rayner, University of Oxford Wednesday 16 October at 5.30 pm This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://steverayner.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://steverayner.eventbrite.co.uk/#
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 16 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Real Time Memories - The '18 Days in Egypt ' interactive platform as instant archive In this seminar contribution, Ludovica Fales, will discuss an aspect of her […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Masons of Djenne Thursday 17 October 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 the Royal […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 23 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Playing With Nan Dipesh Kharel, Asami Saito, 88 mins , Nepal/Japan Playing with Nan is the story of a young Nepali man who migrated to work in […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Northcote W. Thomas, a Government Anthropologist in Sierra Leone, 1914-15 Dr Paul Basu, University College London Wednesday 23 October at 5.30 pm Northcote W. Thomas (1868-1936) is celebrated as the first ‘Government Anthropologist’ to be employed by the Colonial Office to conduct anthropological research that would […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to invite you to the Horniman Day held at the Horniman Museum. This will include papers by six former Horniman scholars about their fieldwork experience and the 2013 Curl Lecture by Dr Liana Chua, who was also a Horniman award holder in 2004. 11am - 1pm - Welcome and […]
2013 RAI Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen Ideas in movement: Addressing tensions in anthropology Date: 28-29 October 2013 Deadline for submission: 31 May 2013 Plenary speakers: Tim Ingold and Rane Willerslev The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/scottish_training_in_anthropological_research_star">Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) is proud to announce the 2013 RAI Postgraduate conference at the University of Aberdeen. Established […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 30 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Price of Death Rebekah Lee, 29 mins, UK 'The Price of Death' explores the cost of death in contemporary South Africa through the intertwined stories of […]
CONFLICTING INTERESTS? Exploring conservation and human-animal relationships 2 November 2013 10.30 to 17.00 Horniman Museum Garden Pavillion How do different cultural understandings and relationships with animals affect conservation practices? In this interdisciplinary event, anthropologists, biologists and conservationists will demonstrate the interconnections between the lives of people and animals in relation to conservation and ecosystem management. […]
Arctic Hunters – The Netsilik Inuit Monday 4 November at 6pm. Royal Anthropological Institute This classic ethnographic series reveals the lived reality of traditional Inuit life before European acculturation. The ‘Netsilik Eskimos’ of the Pelly Bay region in the Canadian Arctic, had long lived apart from other people and had depended entirely on animals, land […]
