RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE State Highway 31: A Road Trip through the Heart of Modern India to How the World Works Professor Edward Simpson (SOAS) Wednesday 19 February at 5.30 pm This talk follows the route of State Highway 31 through western Madhya Pradesh, central India. The research was part […]
History of Arctic AnthropologyThursday 27 and Friday 28 February 2020 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to https://arcticanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk DAY ONE Thursday 27 February 10.00 TEA AND COFFEE 10.20 WELCOME […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) celebrates ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe at the RAI Film Festival in Bristol, UK, every two years. The USC Center of Visual Anthropology brings a USC Edition of the festival to Los Angeles in alternate years. This March, USC will host […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 5 March 2020, 4.00pm Not myself tonight, Insincerity and learning at a Japanese-style Gay Bar in Tokyo Marcello Francioni, SOAS Free, but booking advised: https://marcellofrancioni.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: This paper investigates the researcher’s experience as a foreigner miseko (gay bar help) attempting to embody the work ethics […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music, Protest and the Politics of Cultural Memory at the Día de la toma in Granada Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University of Cambridge) Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm The Día de la toma is an annual festival held on the 2nd January that celebrates the Catholic reconquest […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 12 March 2020 6:00-8:00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The Urban Janissary in Eighteenth Century Istanbul Speaker: Dr Gemma Masson During the eighteenth-century the Ottoman Empire was changing, and so the long-standing institutions changed with it. By far the most famous, or, in some cases, infamous, of these institutions […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 26 March 2020, 4.00pm Shadow lives of surveillance: technologies of control and the management of disease and health crisis Frederick Martineau, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine This seminar will be given remotely via Zoom, https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/906161455 Abstract: This paper problematises the production, performativity […]
RAI WEBINARWEBINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 'An Affair with a Village' Webinar + Q&A Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) Tuesday 12 May at 2pm BST (UK) Other time zones: 3pm CEST (Central European Summer Time) / 10pm JST (Japan) / 9am EDT (East Coast US) / 11pm AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) A video […]
JRAI Special Issue Online LaunchMind and Spirit: A Comparative Theory with the special issue editor Professor Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University) and editorial liaison Dr Nick Long (LSE) plus contributors (Felicity Aulino, Joshua Brahinsky, John Dulin, Vivian Afi Dzokoto, Emily Ng, Rachel E. Smith, Kara Weisman) A video of the event is available here Friday 29 May […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 25 June 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of this event is available here Roundtable discussion with: Prof Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford Friendship is turning out to be the single most important factor influencing our mental and physical health. […]
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 2 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Smartphones and the fine line between care and surveillance Prof Daniel Miller, University College London Two recent developments have made the fine line between care and […]
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 9 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Lockdown Babies: Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Shadow of Covid-19 in Italy Prof Vanessa Grotti, University of Bologna Dr Chiara Quagliariello, European University Institute Since the […]
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 16 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Strong Families and Infection – European Kinship and the Corona Virus Dr Patrick Heady, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Ms Barbara Pieta, Max Planck Institute […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 23 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) Lockdown: Sociality, Materiality and Placemaking Dr Maruška Svašek, Queen’s University Belfast A video of the event is available here Drawing on previous research into human mobility, emotional interaction and material mediation (Svašek 2018; 2016; […]
Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 30 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here End-of-life care in England during the Covid-19 Pandemic Dr Erica Borgstrom, Open University Prof Simon Cohn, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Dr Annelieke Driessen, […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future BRITISH MUSEUM/SOAS/RGS, 14 - 18 September 2020 The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference is jointly organised by the RAI, the RGS, the British Academy, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, and the BM’s Department for Africa, Oceania and […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2020will be given by Prof David Gellner, University of Oxford The Spaces of Religion: A View from South Asia Wednesday 16 September, 6.30pm (BST) The lecture will be part of the Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future virtual conference Do assaults on distinctions and deconstructions of concepts inherited from […]
