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 […]
A Kalahari Family Tuesday 5 November at 6pm. Royal Anthropological Institute What do animals mean to the changing realities of former hunter-gatherer communities? Certain challenges faced by these communities in relation to National Park politics, conservation and tourism projects will be discussed using John Marshall’s, classical ethnographic film series ‘A Kalahari Family’ that documents 50 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Bolivian Quechua Politics and Ontology Dr Margarita Huayhua, RAI Urgent Anthropology Fellow, Goldsmiths Wednesday 6 November at 5.30 pm Quechua social and linguistic practices reveal the way they conceptualize the world; that is, what things exist and constitute the world and the interactions among them. For […]
VISITING LECTURE BY THE 2013 HUXLEY LECTURER will be given by Professor Howard Morphy, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University The Displaced Local: multiple agency in the building of ethnographic collections Friday 8 November 2013, 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the […]
RAI History Day AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The aim of this event is to explore the history of the RAI since the Second World War, in particular concentrating on its Bedford Square days. Chair: Professor Howard Morphy, Australian National University Friday 8 November 11:00 to 16:00 Refreshments provided. This event is free, but places […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The evolution and cognition of social bonding (Provisional title) Dr Emma Cohen, University of Oxford Wednesday 13 November at 5.30 pm This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://emmacohen.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://emmacohen.eventbrite.co.uk/#
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 13 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song Christy Garland, 71 mins, Guyana The Bastard, using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana where […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Hunter-gatherer behaviour: human response during the Younger Dryas Thursday 14 November at 11.00 am (tea & coffee served from 10.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in […]
