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 […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 21 March 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen Dangers of Cinema: Films and Moral Discourse in the late Ottoman Empire Silent films have been contested for various reasons. Within late Ottoman society, early cinema created concerns in relation to films’ political content, obscenity […]
BOOK LAUNCH Fragments of Nepali History in the UK Tuesday 26 March at 5.30pm by Sanyukta Shrestha ‘Fragments of Nepali History in the UK’ is a collection of essays and reviews by Sanyukta Shrestha from 2012 to 2019. The essay section includes scholarly investigation of manuscripts and artefacts of Nepali origin and scattered around the […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City Tuesday 30 April at 5.00 pm Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion […]
Social Anthropologies of the Welsh: Past and Present A Joint Symposium: 1-2 May 2019 The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the Learned Society of Wales, the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, and the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods. Publication: RAI Country Day Series: Sean Kingston Publishing. This event is […]
WELLCOME MEDAL PRESENTATIONAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anatomy Museum – the edit Dr Elizabeth Hallam, University of Oxford Friday 10 May at 5.00 pm Moving through complicated routes to publication, a work develops with many omissions, gaps, deletions, replacements, and losses. My book, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed, is no exception; its composition […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revitalising Uyghur Intangible Cultural Heritage in China and Kazakhstan Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS Wednesday 15 May at 5.30 pm Among the Uyghurs, Meshrep gatherings play a prominent role in modern imaginings of national identity, and in local processes of community making. Meshrep are sites for acts […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Josefu’s Thousand Hills Thursday 16 May 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 to present ‘Reviewer meets […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 21 May 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Noémi Lévy-Aksu, London School of Economics The Power of Discretion: Martial Law in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey İdare-i örfiyye, an equivalent of the martial law, appeared as a neologism in the 1876 Ottoman constitution. […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2019We are pleased to announce that this year’s Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Christopher Hood (Visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) on Wednesday 22 May at 6pm in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK. Playing the Numbers Game in the UK’s Public […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Afar ethnography & its future: Glynn Flood's ethnographic estate Prof Gill Shepherd (Chair), Dr Maknun Ashami, Michèle Flood, Jean Lydall, and Till Trojer Wednesday 5 June at 5.30 pm To the mark the publication: In Pursuit of Afar Nomads. Glynn Flood's Work Journal and Letters From […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Sonic Dimensions of Twelver Shi’ism in Turkey: Living with the Household of the Prophet Dr Stefan Williamson Fa, University College London Wednesday 12 June at 5.30 pm Devotion to the Household of the Prophet – the Prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima and the Twelve Imams, collectively […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 20 June 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Cengiz Güneş, Open University The Kurds in a Changing Middle East Kurdish political activism has reached a new height in the beginning of the 21st Century with Kurdish movements in Iraq, Turkey and Syria establishing themselves as […]
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 […]
RAI Ninth Annual Student Conference Anthropology: Past, Present and Future 11-12 September 2019 10.00 – 16.00 School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford Lecture Theatre, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN Programme on Wednesday 11 September 09.30 Registration 10.00 Welcome by Emma Ford (Royal Anthropological Institute) Chair: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford) 10.15 […]
Exhibition LaunchAriadne van de Ven Monday 16 September at 5.30 pm Ariadne van de Ven (1961-2017) bequeathed the archive of her photographic work to the Royal Anthropological Institute when she died of cancer in 2017. Ariadne was a member of the RAI’s Photo Committee and her observations of Kolkata’s people and streets are a rich […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 19 September 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Alan Greaves, University of Liverpool John Garstang and Turkey John Garstang of Liverpool University was a pioneer of Turkish archaeology and the founder of the British Institute at Ankara. His book The Land of the Hittites(1910) not […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2019 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2019 AGM will take place on Friday 20 September at 3.30 pm in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London, 2nd Floor, South Junction Wilkins Building, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. It will be followed by the 2019 Curl Lecture. All […]
