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 […]
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 […]
