BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa Robert J. Gordon Monday 5 November at 5.30pm Max Gluckman was one of the more enigmatic figures in post-World War 2 social anthropology. Some have suggested that his `Bridge´ essay is the single most important article […]
Film screening - Meeting Gorbachev, followed by Q&A with director André Singer Tuesday 6 November at 5.30pm Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Farm boy to President of the USSR; Mikhail Gorbachev helped end the Cold War and enabled the reunification of Germany, only for the Soviet empire to collapse peacefully beneath […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From Siberia Speaks the World: Ethnographic Insights in Times of Change Dr Susan Crate, Urgent Anthropology Fellow Wednesday 7 November at 5.30 pm Dr Susan Crate has conducted ethnographic research with Viliui Sakha in NE Siberia, Russia since 1991. In this talk she shares her understandings […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Playing Malinowski in Herat: Ethnomusicological fieldwork in 1970s Afghanistan Prof Jon Baily, Goldsmtihs, University of London Wednesday 14 November at 5.30 pm In 1973–74 John Baily, with the help of Veronica Doubleday, conducted fieldwork in the city of Herat, mainly focused on the invention of a […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Politics of Distinction: African Elites from Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town Thursday 15 November 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 […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 22 November 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Anderson Bakewell The concept, development and execution of the Ottoman Garden in St Louis, Missouri, USA The Bakewell Osmanlı Bahçesi, which opened in 2006 in the American city of St Louis, is the result of efforts to resurrect […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz Thursday 29 November 2018 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The More-than-Human Anthropocene As with most things, we humans have been unable to make the Anthropocene by […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Smoke, Smell & Skins: Ritual Performance in Heavy Metal Lindsay Bishop, University College London Wednesday 5 December at 5.30 pm In 2010 Lindsay Bishop conducted master’s fieldwork in the United Kingdom, her ethnography focused on British heavy metal, with an emphasis on the impact of metal […]
MA Visual Anthropology Goldsmiths 2018 Screening12 December 2018 2:00 – 9:30PM at the RAI Goldsmiths 2018 MA Visual Anthropology students invite you to a screening of a special selection of short films created as part of their final projects. We believe the future of filmmaking is anthropological and we are excited to show you our […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 December 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Diana Darke The Merchant of Syria and his Ottoman ancestors Diana Darke’s fully illustrated talk will focus on her new book “The Merchant of Syria” and his Ottoman origins. The merchant of the title was a real person […]
Food for Thought A day at the RAI with David Sutton Monday 17 December 2018 10.30 - Welcome & Coffee 10.45-13.00 - The Anthropology of Greece through the work of David Sutton 13.00-14.00 - Lunch 14.00-15.30 - Current directions in the Anthropology of Greece: A critical discussion With David Sutton Jane Cowan Elisabeth Kirtsoglou Nafsika […]
Journey to the Maggot Feeder (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 15th January 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free SoMA Edinburgh is proud to present a free film screening of Journey to the Maggot Feeder (2015). This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 January 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: John Mole Martoni’s Pilgrimage: the Levant before the Pax Ottomana In 1394 a little, short-sighted middle aged provincial lawyer from Southern Italy made a dangerous pilgrimage to Jerusalem across the Mediterranean to Alexandria, up the Nile to Cairo […]
Fighting for Nothing to Happen & Treasured Moments (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 25th January 2019, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free Fighting for Nothing to Happen After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 25 January 2019, 4.00-6.00pm The materiality of dreams and divine mediation among Shi’a artists in Kuwait Nada Al-Hudaid, University of Manchester Free, but booking advised: https://nadaal-hudaid.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Dream experiences among various communities are translated into reality in different ways; stories, sermons, specific actions and […]
Why is Mr W. Laughing? (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 31 January 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Free WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than making a film about inclusion, the film itself was produced inclusively. In an open collaborative journey […]
Mr W. et al: a community event on art & disability (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 9 February 2019, 5:00pm - 11:00pm Free Unit 15 and the RAI FILM FESTIVAL anthropology / ethnography / archaeology will come together this February to bring you a celebratory event about art and disability. The programme will include […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seen from the Atlas: Ernest Gellner and Moroccan tribes Dr Wolfgang Kraus, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna Wednesday 13 February at 5.30 pm In my ethnographic research in the Moroccan Atlas (between 1983 and 2005), Ernest Gellner’s work has been an obvious […]
Socotra, the Island of Djinns (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 19th February 2019, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Free The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 February 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Prof Ian Hodder The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, […]
