The Creation of a Ciné Parkour This presentation explores the transformative aspects of Parkour through film-how one experiences, moves, connects and participates in the environment, challenging notions of normative behaviour, socialisation, identity and self-determining actions through explorations of the self. The films range from quiet observational pieces to montages and first person POV, reflecting Parkour […]
Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Thursday, 3rd May, 13.15pm Nuba Wrestling Colour, 43 minutes, 1991 Rolf Hussmann and Werner Sperschneider The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum take usually place between the northern and southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a hostile urban […]
Thursday, 17 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. MANENBERG Filmmaker/ Anthropologists: Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium 58 minutes, 2010 (distributed by the RAI) A beautifully shot documentary set on the outskirts of Cape Town in South Africa. The brilliance of it, is that the whole film revolves around the days leading up […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain Thursday 17th May 2012 at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30am) Centre for Anthropology, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological […]
Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Thursday, 17 May, 13.15pm TROBRIAND CRICKET: AN INGENIOUS RESPONSE TO COLONIALISM Colour, 50 minutes,1974 Jerry Leach, Gary Kildea The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974, shortly before […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute and the British Museum Press present the launch of : Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare by Max Carocci Friday 18 May 2012 at 6pm To accompany the book launch there will be an exhibition of Imagi/Nations: Native North American Photographs from the Royal Anthropological Institute, curated […]
Thursday, 24 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. Drugs and Prayers Filmmaker: Helene Basu, India/Germany, 2010
The Rise of Child Science and Psy-Expertise The Centre for Research in International Medical Anthropology, together with the Royal Anthropological Institute, will be holding a workshop entitled ‘The rise of child science and psy-expertise' on May 29 and 30. Keynote speakers include Professors Allan Young from McGill University, Rayna Rapp from New York University, and […]
Thursday, 31 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. Pink Saris Filmmaker: Kim Longinotto, India/UK, 2010 (distributed by the RAI)
Royal Anthropological Institute / British museum Centre for Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE WORLD BRITISH MUSEUM, CLORE CENTRE, 8th to 10th JUNE 2012 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology in the World’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the BM Centre for Anthropology. The […]
Tracing Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in: Poetics, Land, Memory, and Well-Being in the Circumpolar North Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, MSc, MRes, PhD The Royal Anthropological Institute Goldsmiths University of London University of Aberdeen & Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute Thursday 21 June at 5pm ABSTRACT Tracing Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in discusses the lives of the Teetł’it […]
We are screening two films as part of the Open City Festival at SOAS on Sat 23 June. 14.00 Other Europe By Rossella Schillaci, 2011, Italy, 75 minutes Somali, Arabic, English Italian (Engl.Sub) (Winner of the RAI Film Prize 2011) And 19.00 Hanoi Eclipse. The Music of Dai Lam Linh By Barley Norton, 2010, UK, […]
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 […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia Tuesday 10th July 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 […]
Royal Anthropological Institute Second Annual Postgraduate Conference 13th September 2012 School of Anthropology and Conservation University of Kent (Canterbury) The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent (Canterbury) invite postgraduate research students from ALL sub-disciplines of Anthropology (Social, Biological, Environmental, Medical etc.) currently studying at UK […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2012 followed by the 2012 Henry Myers Lecture The 2012 AGM will take place on Friday 14 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2012 Henry Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2012 will be given by Professor Ian Hacking, Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto "The Anthropology (and Archaeology) of Numbers" Friday 14 September 2012, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s […]
The British Museum are hosting their 4th LGBT Film Day in partnership with LGBT Camden Forum and with support from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Date: 22 September Time: 13.15 Venue: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Film: 'Shinjuku Boys' (followed by panel with director Kim Longinotto) SHINJUKU BOYS colour, 54 minutes, 1997 Filmmakers: Kim Longinotto and […]
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - ORANIA Film screening and discussion with director Tobias Lindner (2012, 94 minutes) 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/) Orania is situated in South Africa's barren Northern Cape province. […]
Wednesday, 10 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Q2P Film screening of Q2P by Paromita Vohra, 2006, 55 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/) Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through […]
