On 24 May the 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture, will be held in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne's College (56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6H). The lecture will begin at 6pm. This year, the lecture will be given by Professor Pat Caplan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. The […]
CALLING ALL TEACHERS AND LECTURERS CONSIDERING THE NEW SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY UNITS Tuesday 30 May 2017 Time: 10.00am - 3.30pm Location: Charteris Land, University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ To celebrate and support the introduction by the SQA of social anthropology units into Scottish schools and colleges, the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and the Scottish […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE William Robertson Smith's Influence on the "Myth and Ritual School" Prof Aleksandar Bošković, Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade Wednesday 31 May at 5.30 pm Scottish Semitist William Robertson Smith (1846-1894), who was at the time of his death Chair and […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 6 June 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: David Barchard The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation David Barchard, veteran Turkey analyst and author lecture on 'The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation'. Turkey is entering a new era as it makes a transition from a parliamentary system of government […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Challenging Tourism Contexts for Innovation and Policy Prof Chris Cooper, Oxford Brookes University Monday 12 June 2017 at 5.30 pm Tourism can be seen as a hostile context for innovation, not only is it characterised by few leaders and […]
Thursday 22 June 10:00am to 5.00pm Location: UCL: South Cloisters, Main Quad, Gower Street WC1E 6BT Explore the possibilities of a future in the past at the inaugural University Archaeology Day, being held at UCL, on 22 June. An archaeology degree can open doors to all kinds of careers, and at the University Archaeology Day […]
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 […]
JRAI Special Issue LaunchMeetings: Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy, and Assembly with the special issue guest editors Dr Hannah Brown (Durham University), Dr Adam Reed (University of St Andrews), and Dr Tom Yarrow (Durham University) Wednesday 6 September at 5.30 pm Meetings, socially and institutionally prescribed spaces for coming together, are important and ubiquitous organizational […]
EXHIBITION LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A Tale of Two Rivers: The Lower Wye and the Nubian Nile Dr Kirsty Rowan, The Wye Valley Society and the Nubian Languages and Culture Project Thursday 14 September at 5.30pm Wye Valley The exhibition focuses on two sites of outstanding natural beauty - the Lower Wye and […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2017 AGM will take place on Friday 15 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2017 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at […]
THE CURL LECTURE 2017will be given by Dr Andrea Migliano, University College of London, Department of Anthropology Hunter-gatherers social structure: a window into the evolution of human cumulative culture Friday 15 September 2017, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Custom, Power and Ideology in the Papua New Guinean Mining Industry Dr Nick Bainton, University of Queensland Monday 18 September at 5.30 pm The popular characterisation of the relationship between indigenous people and mining companies is often forced into a crude binary where untrammelled capital devastates […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 September 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Erol Sağlam, Birkbeck, University of London The Romeika of Trabzon: Discretion, Memory, and Treasure Hunts in Contemporary Turkey Drawing on an ethnographic study in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey, this research explores dynamics of memory through the public invisibility […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Atmospheres, Ecstasis, Thick Participation: Towards an Aesthetic Anthropology Prof Andreas Ackermann, University Koblenz-Landau Wednesday 27 September at 5.30 pm Going back to the phenomenology of perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, my paper introduces approaches towards an aesthetic anthropology that tries to link David MacDougall’s concept of social […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 4 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS J. C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer by Steven Feld, 55 min / 2016 This film presents an exceptional fifty-year artistic career, from Accra’s streets to Ghana’s villages to international TV. In […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Vidigal Favela Chic: the moral geography of a slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro Dr Angela Torresan, University of Manchester Wednesday 4 October at 5.30 pm Nestled on the hill between two of the wealthiest South Zone beach neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro, with staggering city […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Popular Digital Photography and Anthropology: Cases from Iran Dr Shireen Walton, Teaching Fellow in Material and Visual Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London Thursday 5 October at 5.30 pm ‘Popular photography’ as a topic of anthropological enquiry is undergoing a significant transformation in the digital […]
The Block: film screening with director Maria ȘalaruTuesday 10 October at 7.00pm EMERGING VOICES SERIES THE BLOCK Maria Șalaru Romania / 2016 / 60 minutes From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, The Block explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment building. It follows the story of the […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Handbook of Education in China Edited by W. John Morgan, Professor Emeritus, School of Education; Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham; Honorary Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University and Qing Gu, Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK and Fengliang Li, Associate Professor […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 11 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Day the Sun Fell by Aya Domenig, 78 min / 2015 The Swiss-Japanese filmmaker is the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 […]
