Fighting for indigenous right in northern ArgentinaJohn Palmer Friday 3 February at 2pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute John Palmer (DPhil, Oxon) is a social anthropologist who has lived among the Wichí of northern Argentina since 1998. His life is the subject of the multi-prizewinning documentary, ‘El etnógrafo’. On his 1st visit to the UK […]
Gaea GirlsKim Longinotto, Jano Williams / United Kingdom / 2000 / 106 mins Friday 3rd February 2017 7.30pm - 9.45pm The Exchange Bar (The Snug room), 50 Rutland St, Cultural Quarter, Leicester LE1 1RD A film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women's wrestling. Gaea Girls focuses on the hopes […]
The Auction House: A Tale of Two BrothersEd Owles / United Kingdom / 2014 / 85 min Tuesday 7 February 2017 5.30-7.30 PM Location: Lecture Centre room 064, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH Campus map: www.brunel.ac.uk/campus-map The oldest auction house in India is fighting for survival in the age of eBay and a changing […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual Thursday 16 February at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tourism and Climate Change: resilience and resistance in Vietnam Prof Peter Burns, Professor of Tourism and International Development and Director of the Institute for Tourism Research, University of Bedfordshire Monday 20 February 2016 at 5.30 pm Abstract: Tourism is […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ‘Musicking Like a State’: Hidden Musicians and the (Musical) ‘Right to the City’ in Contemporary Shanghai Dr Ruard Absaroka, Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Dept., SOAS, University of London Wednesday 22 February at 5.30 pm Conceived from the outset as a Chinese updating (and transplanting) of The […]
NodeThursday 23 February 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Free – booking essential Book online here Hirogawara is a village with a long lasting tradition of forestry located in a mountain area of Kyoto prefecture, Japan. Although municipal records drafted in 2009 recorded a population of 120 residents amongst its five districts, over half […]
Leaving GreeceAnna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Sunday 26th February, 11AM. Cinema City, Norwich, St Andrew’s Street, Norwich, NR2 4AD When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Common ground and distinguishing features: the co-production of knowledge by the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute, c. 1883-1900 Dr Emily Hayes, University of Exeter Wednesday 1 March at 5.30 pm Geographers are beginning to discern the historical mutualism between anthropology and geography and […]
The shaman and the flash-drive: singing and forgetting in Araweté verbal art.Dr Guilherme Orlandini Heurich, University College London Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 11.00 am This will take place at 11 am in the Department of Anthropology, UCL, Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW. Guilherme is an affiliated scholar of […]
Sifinja: the Iron BrideValerie Hänsch / Sudan,Germany / 2009 / 70 minutes Thursday 9th March 2017, 6:30PM. Bromley Historic Collections The Lubbock Gallery, 2nd Floor, Central Library, High Street, Bromley BR1 1EX Winner of the Material Culture & Archaeology Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to […]
Migration and exile double billThursday 9 March, 19.30 Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, 7 Pier Road, St Helier, Jersey Leaving Greece Anna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Winner of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2015 The film tells the very personal story of three young […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment Thursday 16 March at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2017 Photographic Studies Prize to Professor Elizabeth Edwards. Friday 17 March at 5.00 pm Please join us in this celebration on 17 March between 5.00 and 7.00 pm for an introduction by Professor Chris Pinney, a talk by Professor Edwards and a drinks reception. Abstract: This […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Utopia or Dystopia? The development of Kavos, Corfu, into a tourism destination and the impacts on the local community; a pseudo-longitudinal study from 2003 to 2016. Dr Nika Balomenou, University of Hertfordshire Monday 20 March 2017 at 5.30 pm […]
Memories of the Ainu Past and PresentTuesday 21 March 2017 at 7.00pm Lecture theatre SALT, Senate House SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Free – booking essential Book online here Co-organised by the Japan Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), this is the third and last in the current […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Local dance traditions and glocalised crisis: A landscape of traditional dance in Greece under austerity Dr Maria Koutsoba, University of Athens Wednesday 22 March at 5.30 pm The present socio-economic crisis worldwide has inevitably affected dance and dancing both locally and internationally. Greece is among the […]
15th RAI Film Festivalanthropology – ethnography – archaeology 29 March - 1 April 2017 Watershed Cinema, Bristol, United Kingdom Tickets and more details available at https://raifilm.org.uk/ The RAI Film Festival is a biennial event dedicated to the celebration of the best in ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe. First held in 1985, […]
Archaeological Review from Cambridge Friday‑Saturday, 7‑8 April 2017 Jesus College, University of Cambridge Modern Climate Change and the Practice of Archaeology Conference Modern climate change has serious consequences for the knowledge of our past. Desertification, eroding coasts, rising sea levels and melting permafrost threaten the preservation of natural and cultural sites. These and other damaging […]
This year, the annual RAI student conference comes to Durham, combining with their regular student conference. Panel spaces at the conference are open to students of all levels and there are multiple other ways to get involved. If you are interested, please respond to the call for papers by 6 March 2017. For […]
