As contribution to the Black History Month the IBM Film Festival and Black History Walks are organising films and talks ‘Performing Black Bodies in White Spaces’ to explore how African Descendants use African and Caribbean dance as expression of cultural identity and self-discovery. Saturday 13 October, 6pm – 9pm Peckham Plex, Reye Lane, SE15 This […]
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Other Europe (Altra Europa) Film screening of Other Europe (Altra Europa) by Rossella Schillaci, 2011, 75 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) What happens to African migrants once […]
Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Law and War in Rural Kenya Film screening of Law and War in Rural Kenya by : Suzette Heald, 2010 , 64 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) […]
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Sifinja - The Iron Bride Film screening of Sifinja - The Iron Bride by Valerie Hänsch, 70 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) This is a film about […]
ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters: Documenting and sustaining endangered languages Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 6.15 pm Sand Drawings of Vanuatu Presentation and film screening with Mike Franjieh Sand drawing is a unique art form only found in the Vanuatu archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. Sand drawings are elegant geometric patterns produced […]
ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters: Documenting and sustaining endangered languages Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 6 pm Tracks Across Sand: N/uu language and the =Khomani San of the southern Kalahari (2012) Film screening & discussion with director Hugh Brody Photo: Kirk Tougas 2008 In 1996, as part of land claims research with the […]
ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters: Documenting and sustaining endangered languages Thursday, 8 November 2012, 6 pm WRITING PANARE: Portrait of a linguist at fieldwork (1996, 30 minutes) Film screening & discussion with director Paul Henley Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people […]
Friday, 9 November 2012, 4 - 7 pm ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Room G2, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) This Open Day Language Forum will promote a public understanding of the place that languages hold in the […]
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Awareness Film screening of Awareness by David and Judith MacDougall, 2011, 67 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Filmed in South India, Andhra Pradesh, at Rishi Valley School, […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 6 pm Light on the Lotus Hill (2011) Film screening and discussion about the use of archival material to create a documentary with Chan Chow Wah The Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT "Light on the Lotus Hill" is a research project and film […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Origins of Grammar: an Anthropological Perspective Monday 19 November at 10.30 am (tea & coffee served from 10.00am) Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), is delighted to present a […]
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Black Mountain Film screening of Black Mountain by Charlotte Whitby-Coles, Amin Hajee, 2008, 84 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Thursday, 22 November 2012, 6 pm FRAGMENTS FROM THE PAST Film screening and discussion with Julie Scott A Mediterranean Voices film by Vedide Kaymak and Hakan Demiralay, 27 mins, 2006 An Oral History book with portraits by Barbara and Zafar Baran and interviews by Vrdede Kaymak will be available for sale […]
Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W Film screening of Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W, by Anni Seitz and Sophie Elixhauser, 2008, 64 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) The people of East Greenland […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday, 30 November 2012, 6.30 pm LETTERS FROM PALESTINE (2011, 36 minutes) Film screening and discussion about the use of archival material to create a documentary with Ludovica Fales The Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French […]
REACHING OUT: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS CULTURAL JOURNALIST Professor Helena Wulff Department of Social AnthropologyStockholm University Leverhulme visiting professor University of East London Autumn 2012 Cultural journalism is a feature of outreach and impact activities at many universities. In the framework of Swedish university life, activities of communicating and collaborating with groups and audiences outside the […]
Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Unity through Culture Film screening of Unity through Culture by Christian Suhr and Ton Otto, 2011, 60 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Soanin Killangit is determined to […]
Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - The Professional Foreigner - Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography Film screening of The Professional Foreigner - Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography by Rolf Husmann. 2009, 60 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, […]
THE BODY CANVAS EXHIBITION & FILM SCREENING At the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St., London W1T 5BT 13th December 6:00 pm -7:30 pm SUSPEND YOUR BELIEFS Film screening and Q&A with film maker Simone Clifford-Jaeger Director: Simone Clifford-Jaeger Release: 2004 Length: 29 mins Suspension of the living body from hooks has been practiced in […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Alan MacFarlane FBA, Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge Anthropology, Empire and Modernity Friday 14 December 2012 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The event is free, but places must be booked. Please […]
