What can anthropologists learn from documentary film-art practices 'made in India'?Tuesday 20 March at 6pm Dr Giulia Battaglia, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 This talk will be a reflection about the theoretico-methodological approach of the discipline of social and cultural anthropology and that of filmmaking and art creation with reference to the Indian subcontinent. It […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Fine-tuning the anthropologist’s body as fieldwork instrument Dr Eline Kieft, Coventry University, Centre for Dance Research Wednesday 21 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will introduce the NCRM project “Research with a Twist: A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers” that I am currently developing in collaboration with […]
Royal Anthropological Institute 15th International Ethnographic Film Festival 23-25 March 2018 at USCLOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Screenings Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 23-25, 2018. For full details please see the website here.
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE In association with the Anglo-Albanian Association Bektashism in Albania: An insight into Bektashi places, practices and beliefs Dr Nathalie Clayer, CNRS-EHESS Wednesday 18 April at 5.30 pm Bektashism has a central position when one speaks about Islam in Albania. Babas (spiritual leaders), teqes (dervish lodges), tyrbes […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology Thursday 19 April 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The invention of prehistory and the rediscovery of Europe: Exploring the deeper intellectual roots of Gordon Childe’s early writings (1925-1936) Dr Maxime Brami, RAI Library Fellow 2018 Thursday 19 April at 5.30 pm If the 18th century was the century of the rediscovery of man, in […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seligman, the RAI and the Race Debate 1933-1945 Dr Peter Rohrbacher, Anthropology, University of Vienna Wednesday 25 April at 5.30 pm Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) undoubtedly represented an outstanding founding figure in British anthropology. The RAI and the LSE remain those two institutions his name was […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marathon Music: Soundscapes of Running Dr Fred Moehn, King’s College London Wednesday 2 May at 5.30 pm In this lecture I present material from my ongoing research into the topic of running, music, and sound. I start by considering how music is mapped onto ‘the race […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land Thursday 17 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 […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 May 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Book launch by Özlem Warren: Özlem’s Turkish Table: Recipes from My Homeland 10 years in the making this book will be officially released on 26th April 2018 and the author will inform and entertain us on this journey of […]
FILM SCREENING AND TALKAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic Cathy Greenhalgh Tuesday 22 May at 6.30 pm In this talk I will show clips from my films Undercurrent (2001), Aftermath (2006), Switch (2013), Drone (2013) and Cottonopolis (2019 forthcoming). I employ documentary techniques, reflexive essay and meditation, sensory and […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2018We are pleased to announce that this year’s Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday 23 May at 6pm in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW. The Politicization […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, THE DEPARTMENT OF AFRICA, OCEANIA AND THE AMERICAS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT SOASArt, Materiality and Representation British Museum/SOAS, 1-3 June 2018 We are very pleased to announce the fourth of the RAI’s recent major conferences. As before, it will be jointly organised by the RAI and […]
RAI PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON – ARCHIVAL AFFORDANCESTuesday 12 June 2018 at 6.00pm The RAI Photography Committee invites you to attend our second salon, an informal and convivial evening of conversation exploring the relationship between anthropology and photography. This salon is focused on photographic archives and the concept of ‘affordances’. What do photographs in the archive afford? […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Early Modern Zimbabwean Art History in British Archives Dr Jonathan Zilberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wednesday 13 June at 5.30 pm There is a surprising amount of data on the early history of modern art in Zimbabwe to be found in archives in the 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 […]
Photography+(Con)TextSecond International Conference Photography in Academic Research: Images in the Post-Truth Era Call for Papers, Panels and Visual Submissions Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX 6-8 September 2018 Donald Trump’s presidency began with a battle over images. Photographs had been reframed, his administration insisted, to detract from the largest inauguration […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From illustration to evidence in native title: the potential of photographs Michael Aird, Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum Wednesday 12 September at 5.30 pm By working with photographs from the collections of museums and libraries, Michael Aird is testing whether historical photographs can […]
RAI Pop-up Student Conference 13 & 14 September 2018 University of Bristol Where are we going? Reflections on the future of human beings and the anthropological disciplines The annual Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Student Conference returns for 2018 at the University of Bristol. We will have presentations of work by students from institutions all over […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 21 September 2018, 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm. Pure water: purity and power in ritual meanings and uses of water in Ghana Kirsty Wissing, Australian National University Free, but booking advised https://kirstywissing.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Water, being essential to life and fluid in form, is a useful metaphor […]
