POLISH ANTHROPOLOGY DAYAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 10 November at 10.00am The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://polishanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk. 1. Michał Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań & European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder ‘Polish Anthropology: An (Impossible) Overview’ Post-war Polish ethnography/ethnology, as the discipline was called until […]
RAI Blacking Lecture in EthnomusicologyMusic, power and patronage - the case of the King's musicians of Buganda Dr Peter Cooke Monday 10 November at 5.30 pm at the Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL Musical activities flourished in successive courts of the kingdom of Buganda (Central Uganda) until the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Modernism, method and the making of Anthropology Dr David Mills, University of Oxford Wednesday 12 November at 4.00 pm In 1922, proclaimed as modernism's 'Year One' by Ezra Pound, the anthropological project was redefined by the publication of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century Thursday 20 November 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 […]
Arthur Howes’ friends, the Royal Anthropological Institute, University of Essex and SOAS present: Sudan Trilogy and Arthur Howes’ legacy revisited Free screenings, panels and dialogues Saturday 29 November 2014, 10:00am - 5:00pm SOAS, Kahlili Lecture Theatre Nearest tube: Euston Square/Russell Square This is a free event but please book your place: http://arthurhowes.eventbrite.com Arthur Howes was […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Humanitarian Intervention Professor Raymond Apthorpe, Vice-President, RAI Wednesday 3 December at 5.30 pm One of anthropology’s currently rapidly developing areas is with regard to humanitarian intervention and aid studies (see the speaker’s JRAI Review Essay in this year’s June issue ‘Anthropology and humanitarianisms across […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Monday 8 December 2014, 5.30pmThe Guga Hunters of Ness (2010, 59 minutes) Screening and Q&A with Director Mike Day Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French Theatre Book shop) Ness is the last place in the UK […]
History of the Royal Anthropological InstituteWorkshop in preparation for Volume 1: Pre 1871 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://raihistory.eventbrite.co.uk 9th December 2014 DAY 1 (1pm – 6pm) 12.00 pm: SANDWICH LUNCH 1.00 pm: Dr […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology 14 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building A Tale of Two Syrias Yasmin Fedda, 2012, 64 mins. Followed by Q&A session with director. Salem is an Iraqi fashion designer in Damascus. Botrous […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Writing the biography of an unknown African: an 'engaging' form of anthropology? Professor Pat Caplan, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 14 January at 5.30 pm This paper addresses a series of questions about ‘engaged’ anthropology, including how anthropologists may ‘give back’ to the people whom they […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Centralizing fieldwork: critical perspectives from primatology, biological and social anthropology Thursday 15 January at 11.00 am (tea & coffee served from 10.30 am) Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 16th January, 4.30 pm The extractive industries and the ‘Age of Conversation’: from corporate social responsibility to corporate diplomacy Paul Robert Gilbert, University of Sussex 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-paul-robert-gilbert-tickets-14527115995 Around the turn of […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 21 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Q2P Paromita Vohra, 2006, 55 mins Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 28 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers Ed Owles, 2014, India/UK, 85 mins. Followed by Q & A with director The oldest auction […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Pragmatism, identity, and the state: how the Nuaulu of Seram have reinvented their beliefs and practices as "religion" Professor Roy Ellen, University of Kent Wednesday 28 January at 5.30 pm The Dutch colonial state categorized animists and ancestor-worshippers and inscribed them into written records in ways […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 30th January, 4.30 pm Inside the (Dis)Organisation: Political representation and the Boaters of the southern waterways Ben Bowles, Brunel 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-ben-bowles-tickets-14533876215 The itinerant Boaters of the canals and rivers of […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Monday 2 February 2015, 5.30pm Book Launch with Author Toni de Bromhead A Film-maker's Odyssey: Adventures in film and anthropology (Intervention Press, 2014) Introduction by Colin Young With Film Clips from East Anglia to West Sicily (from Super 8 to HD), followed by wine reception This book describes the thinking of […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 4 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Final Fitting, OT: Prov Akhar Reza Haeri, Niloofar Haeri, 2008, 30 mins Mr. Arabpour is the master tailor and craftsman, and the proprietor of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Listening to ghosts Dr Sarah Buckler, Robert Gordon University Wednesday 4 February at 5.30 pm The small and isolated settlements of Peat Carr and Moorsley in the Sunderland coalfields cling to a precarious existence just as they cling to the edge of an escarpment overlooking the […]
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 […]
