King's India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute cordially invite you to the MN SRINIVAS MEMORIAL LECTURE 2014 Professor Arjun Appadurai (New York University) The Ecology of Failure: Reflections on Democracy, Participation and Development Thursday 27 March at 6:15 pm Venue: EDMOND J SAFRA LECTURE THEATRE, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Innovation and originality in traditional Oceanic art Dr Harry Beran Wednesday 2 April at 5.30 pm Most survey books on traditional Oceanic art give the impression that this art is timeless — that the range of artworks produced at the time of early contact with the […]
Monday, 7 April, 5.30pm Film Screening 'Under the Palace Wall' (2014, 53 mins) followed by Q&A with David MacDougall. The RAI Film Committee is pleased to welcome Prof David MacDougall (ANU) for the presentation and discussion of his latest film 'Under the Palace Wall'. Under the Palace Wall David MacDougall 53 minutes, 2014 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Security Studies Dr Christopher Farrands, Nottingham Trent University, and Dr Giovanni Ercolani, Universidad de Murcia Wednesday 9 April at 5.30 pm Aim of the Seminar is to develop the argument of the need of an anthropological approach to security studies. For this purpose, the […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey Thursday 17 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 Centre, in conjunction with […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Light and Dark Tourism from Montserrat to the Maze Prison: Anthropological Reflections Dr Jonathan Skinner, Roehampton University Wednesday 7 May at 5.30 pm Dark tourism is a newly scripted phenomenon now being applied in the anthropology of tourism. Where does the expression come from, how is […]
Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 13 May, 6pm PHOTO WALLAHS 60 minutes, 1991, Filmmakers: David and Judith MacDougall The film is set in Mussoorie, a famous hill station in northern India, which has attracted […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Edith Durham: on the trail of an Edwardian traveller in Kosovo. Elizabeth Gowing (Author) Wednesday 14 May at 6.30 pm Mary Edith Durham was the first woman Vice President of the RAI, a woman who broke up a fight between two soldiers on a train in […]
Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 20 May, 6pm, FUTURE REMEMBRANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE ARTS IN GHANA 54 minutes, 1998, Filmmaker/ Anthropologists: Tobias Wendl, Nancy du Plessis The film portrays a vibrant range of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The evolution of human behaviour - evidence from Kanjera South, Kenya. Dr Laura Bishop, John Moores University Wednesday 21 May at 5.30 pm Palaeoanthropologists investigate how our ancestors lived, and how humans’ interactions with and place in the landscape changes through time. We can see how […]
Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 27 May, 6pm THE ART OF REGRET 60 mins, 2007, Filmmaker: Judith MacDougall, Anthropologist: Kathy Zhang Photography is known in China as the “Art of Regret”. In the rapidly […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE / BRITISH MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTREAnthropology and Photography British Museum, Clore Centre, 29-31 May 2014 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology and Photography’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre. The aim […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology in pre-university Education: negotiating a presence Professor Brian Street, King's College London Wednesday 4 June at 5.30 pm I will discuss the work of the RAI Education Committee in helping to develop anthropological perspectives in pre-university education in the UK. In particular the development of […]
Wellcome Medal Lecturewill be given by Dr Julie Livingston, Rutgers University Figuring the Tumor : Photography, Self, and Advanced Cancer in Botswana Wednesday 11 June 2014, at 5.30pm (talk to start at 6.00pm) at the Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE This talk considers a series of photographs and other visual […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Empire of Mt. Sion: A Korean Millenarian Group Born in a Time of Crisis. Professor James H. Grayson, Sheffield University Wednesday 18 June at 5.30 pm In 1940, during the middle of the Second World War, a millenarian movement emerged in the south-eastern corner of […]
Tea Time Talk at the RAI: Wednesday 2nd July, 16.30 - 17.30 Ketaki Sheth: on photographing Bombay street life, Patel twins and the Sidi, Indians of African descent. Ketaki Sheth is one of India's leading photographers, wining the Sanskriti Award for Indian photography in 1992. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including the […]
The London Anthropology Day is an annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. The event is held at the British Museum's Education Clore Centre. On the day, participants get to learn what anthropology is about, the types of careers anthropologists do, as well as gain hands-on experience of […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Thursday, 3rd July 2014, 6.30 pmPost-cinematic Ethnography: Miyarrka Media's Christmas Birrimbirr (Christmas Spirit) Anthropologist and filmmaker, Jennifer Deger, will show and discuss recent experiments with multi-screen installation in galleries and museums. Collaboratively produced by a team of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous performers and filmmakers in Australia’s North East Arnhem Land, Christmas Birrimbirr […]
Art & Anthropology WorkshopFriday 4 July 2014 at 10.30am at the Royal Anthropological Institute The event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://artandanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk 10.30 - Introduction 11.00 - Susanne Kuechler (UCL) The Move to the Centre: Art in the Vortex of Anthropological Theory In the wake of Alfred […]
Who are 'we'? Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropologyVenue: Division of Social Anthropology, Cambridge Dates: 3-5 Sept 2014 Website: anthrowho.wordpress.com This workshop will provide a space for anthropologists and other scholars from around the world to explore the key themes of the ‘Who are “we”?’ project. The emphasis here will be on close readings of […]
