Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 December 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Diana Darke The Merchant of Syria and his Ottoman ancestors Diana Darke’s fully illustrated talk will focus on her new book “The Merchant of Syria” and his Ottoman origins. The merchant of the title was a real person […]
Food for Thought A day at the RAI with David Sutton Monday 17 December 2018 10.30 - Welcome & Coffee 10.45-13.00 - The Anthropology of Greece through the work of David Sutton 13.00-14.00 - Lunch 14.00-15.30 - Current directions in the Anthropology of Greece: A critical discussion With David Sutton Jane Cowan Elisabeth Kirtsoglou Nafsika […]
Journey to the Maggot Feeder (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 15th January 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free SoMA Edinburgh is proud to present a free film screening of Journey to the Maggot Feeder (2015). This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 January 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: John Mole Martoni’s Pilgrimage: the Levant before the Pax Ottomana In 1394 a little, short-sighted middle aged provincial lawyer from Southern Italy made a dangerous pilgrimage to Jerusalem across the Mediterranean to Alexandria, up the Nile to Cairo […]
Fighting for Nothing to Happen & Treasured Moments (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 25th January 2019, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free Fighting for Nothing to Happen After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 25 January 2019, 4.00-6.00pm The materiality of dreams and divine mediation among Shi’a artists in Kuwait Nada Al-Hudaid, University of Manchester Free, but booking advised: https://nadaal-hudaid.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Dream experiences among various communities are translated into reality in different ways; stories, sermons, specific actions and […]
Why is Mr W. Laughing? (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 31 January 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Free WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than making a film about inclusion, the film itself was produced inclusively. In an open collaborative journey […]
Mr W. et al: a community event on art & disability (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 9 February 2019, 5:00pm - 11:00pm Free Unit 15 and the RAI FILM FESTIVAL anthropology / ethnography / archaeology will come together this February to bring you a celebratory event about art and disability. The programme will include […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seen from the Atlas: Ernest Gellner and Moroccan tribes Dr Wolfgang Kraus, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna Wednesday 13 February at 5.30 pm In my ethnographic research in the Moroccan Atlas (between 1983 and 2005), Ernest Gellner’s work has been an obvious […]
Socotra, the Island of Djinns (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 19th February 2019, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Free The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 February 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Prof Ian Hodder The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method Thursday 21 February at 2.00 pm 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 Anthropological Institute, is pleased […]
The Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro DisasterThursday 21 February 2019 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH 2.00pm tea and coffee 2.30pm Welcome Paper 1 3.00-4.00pm: Luiz F. D. DuarteThe National Museum in Rio de Janeiro: its history, its role in Brazilian science, its tragic fire, and some prognostications. […]
Brazilian Anthropology DayFriday 22 February 2019 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Provisional Programme 9.30-10.00am: tea and coffee 10.00am Welcome Paper 1 10.15-10.45am: João Pacheco de Oliveira Ethnic territories formation in contemporary Brazil Paper 2 10.45-11.15am: Andréa Zhouri Environmental deregulation, disasters and violence in Brazil: a political ecology approach […]
BOOK LAUNCH DUNBAR’S NUMBER Wednesday 27 February at 5.30pm Edited by David Shankland, Director, RAI Sean Kingston: RAI Occasional Publication Number. 45 The RAI is delighted to announce that the launch of the RAI’s most recent occasional publication ‘Dunbar’s Number’ will take place at the offices of the RAI on 27th February 2019, 5.30pm. This […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE “I am sorry that we made you bleed”: Locality and Apprenticeship Among Mande Hunters Dr Theodore Konkouris, Queen's University Belfast Wednesday 6 March at 5.30 pm Abstract: This article considers apprenticeship among Mande hunters’ musi-cians in Mali. By drawing on the concepts of ‘locality’ and ‘musicking’, […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Modern Art and the Scientific Aesthetics of Radcliffe-Brown: Towards ‘The Social Organisation of Australian Tribes’ (1931) Dr Isak Niehaus, Brunel University London Wednesday 13 March at 5.30 pm In this seminar, I suggest that modern art was a major inspiration for the social structural approach in […]
RAI President’s Lifetime Achievement AwardTuesday 19 March 2019 at 3.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The presentation of the RAI President's Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof David Parkin. 3.30 Prof Richard Fardon, SOAS The African foundations of David Parkin's anthropological thought The taken-for-granted relationship between ethnography and anthropology has recently become contentious, and rightly so. […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marginal like you! Reconfiguring white upper class identity and citizenship through fusion music in post-war Lima. Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz, Keele University Wednesday 20 March at 5.30 pm Between 1980 and 2000 Peru was engulfed in an internal war between the state and two armed groups, Shining […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Democracy as death: the moral order of anti-liberal politics in South Africa Thursday 21 March at 2.00 pm 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 […]
