Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 20 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Delhi at Eleven Ravi Shivhare, Anshu Singh, Aniket Kumar Kashyap, Shikha Kumar Dalsus, David MacDougall, 82 mins, 2013, India/Australia This film presents the work of four young […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 27 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh Barley Norton, 56 mins, 2010, Vietnam This film follows the challenges faced by the controversial Vietnamese band Lam Linh, while […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 4 December Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Himself He Cooks Valérie Berteau, Phillipe Witjes, 65 mins, 2011, India/Belgium In the Golden Temple in Amritsar hundreds of volunteers prepare 100,000 free meals every day. The spontaneous […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revisiting: Cultural concepts through cycles of keywords and phrases. OR: What happened to linguistic anthropology in the UK? Opportunity or obsolescence in an age of superdiversity. Chair: Professor David Parkin, University of Oxford Wednesday 4 December at 5.30 pm Abstract: We are rightly reluctant to use […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The English Breakfast / The King’s Christmas Pudding Thursday 5 December at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT In a departure from the normal format, the British […]
ROUNDTABLE ANTHROPOLOGY IN PROCESS: FIELDWORK CONVERSATIONS Roundtable Speakers: Nancy Lindisfarne, SOAS, University of London Title: Taking Sides: The Politics of Fieldwork and Writing Up Andrew Sanchez, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Title: Trust and the Ethics Of Ethnography Narmala Halstead, UEL Title: Interrupting the conventional Judith Okely, University of Oxford Title: Against hypotheses: […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 11 December Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Tracks Across Sand – Overture & Aftermath Hugh Brody, 30/52 mins, 2013, South Africa For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE We are Playing Football: Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity Thursday 16 January 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Defining 'a sense of place': working with local communities to explore the social meaning of language variation Dr Emma Moore, University of Sheffield Wednesday 29 January at 5.30 pm Research in the field of sociolinguistics has explored the many ways in which language correlates with different […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Gordon Childe, Neolithic Diffusion: a new model Maxime Brami, University of Liverpool Wednesday 5 February at 5.30 pm Vere Gordon Childe, a founding father of modern archaeology, defined the Neolithic 'revolution' as the shift from food- gathering to food-producing. Central to this theory is the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Biology, Genetics and Blood Groups at the Royal Anthropological Institute 1930-1956. Dr Jenny Bangham, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Wednesday 12 February at 5.30 pm In 1951, Herbert Fleure—geographer, anthropologist and recent president of the Royal Anthropological Institute—chaired a meeting of “anthropologists, […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Post-War Polity Thursday 13 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, […]
LGBT Film Day: MusicIn Partnership with LGBT Camden Forum Sunday 16 February 2013, 10.45 – 17.30 Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum 14.00 - 15.45 Mirror Mirror Director/anthropologist: Zemirah Moffat 58 minutes, 2006 ‘Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE People-wildlife interactions and the human dimensions of conservation. Human-Wildlife Conflicts, People-Wildlife Interactions, or People-People Conflicts? Professor Catherine M Hill, Oxford Brookes University Wednesday 26 February at 5.30 pm Once the undisputed domain of biologists and ecologists, conservation science is increasingly recognised as a multidisciplinary field that […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Royal Anthropological Institute’s ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX ON-LINE HALF A CENTURY OF ANTHROPOLOGY: 50 YEARS OF PUBLISHED RESEARCH Dr Max Carocci and Helen Earl-Fraser, Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 5 March at 5.30 pm The AIO as it is fondly known, has been a source of inspiration for […]
Royal Anthropological Institute 13th International Ethnographic Film Festival 7th-9th March 2014 at USC LOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. All screenings at Seeley G. Mudd Hall on USC campus. Click here to VIEW pdf festival schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT WARNING): RAI_USCCVA_filmfest_schedule Friday 7-10pm Premiere: THE ACT OF KILLING (director's cut […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Political Economy of 'Applied Anthropology': Cases of tourism development in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Palestine, and Ethiopia. Professor Tom Selwyn, SOAS Wednesday 12 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will reflect on some of the political, intellectual, and ethical issues raised in the context of participation by anthropologists […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A turbulent quarter-century with the RAI: 1974-2000 Jonathan Benthall, former director of the Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 19 March at 5.30 pm As part of the RAI's current investigation of its history, Jonathan Benthall, who was Director between 1974 and 2000, will give a personal assessment […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh Thursday 20 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mother’s milk: reconsidering milk-kinship in our understanding of family and kinship in Europe Dr Elena Soler, Charles University, Prague Wednesday 26 March at 5.30 pm Human milk has long been linked to the construction of motherhood, with breastfeeding and maternity constituing a cultural ideal in many […]
