FILM SCREENING AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Man who Loved Books (Homage to JR Llobera) Dr Roger Canals, Universitat de Barcelona Wednesday 10 January at 5.30 pm Any personal library is much more than a collection of books, is like material biography, a living archive, a sort of geographical legacy of one's interests, projects […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece Thursday 18 January 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Dialogues in the Cold War: Cultural Diplomacy between Cuba and West Africa (1960s-1970s) Dr Elina Djebbari, King’s College London Wednesday 24 January at 5.30 pm Based on fieldwork and archives research in Cuba and Mali, the paper will address the political and musical issues revealed […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 January, 1.00 pm Fear and Epistemic Murkiness: Fieldwork Under the Possibility of Fire Sandro Simon, University of Cologne Free, but booking advised https://sandrosimon.eventbrite.co.uk In late Summer 2017, around the time of Kenya's general election and when I was about to engage into longterm fieldwork […]
The History of the Waiwai from the Arrival of the Missionaries to the Demarcation of Land: an indigenous point of viewThursday 25 January at 5.30 pm Rodrigo Waiwai, from the indigenous village Mapuera, in the northern part of the Brazilian Amazon, is in London to research the collections of Waiwai objects at the British Museum, […]
Observation and Participation: Rossella Schillaci presents her films Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSATuesday 30 January 6:30PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute Rossella Schillaci, prolific documentary filmmaker and anthropologist trained at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, will present two of her films (Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSA) and speak about the different filmic […]
The Desert Prince – screening and discussion with Howard Reid and Jeremy KeenanTuesday 6 February 6:00PM – 8:00PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute THE WORLD OF GEO SERIES The Desert Prince Director: Howard Reid, 1994. 1995 Best Documentary Golden Gate Award. San Francisco International Film Festival. UK PREMIERE With Director Howard Reid, Series Producer André Singer and Social Anthropologist Jeremy […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Muslim Families, Politics and the Law: A Legal Industry in Multicultural Britain Thursday 15 February 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 […]
When multilingualism is your mother tongue: the documentary Kanraxël and associated teaching resourcesTuesday 20 February 6:00PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute On the eve of world mother tongue day, we would like to take you on a journey to Agnack, at tiny village in the south of the West African country of Senegal. […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music in the West Country: History or Anthropology? Prof Stephen Banfield, University of Bristol Wednesday 21 February at 5.30 pm How much music does a community need, and does the equation vary across time and place? To what extent has the musician’s role in English society […]
Journeys through Colour: experimentation, realism and artifice in non-fiction travel filmTuesday 27 February at 6pm Introduced and chaired by Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London) With Jeffrey Geiger, Jan Faull and Liz Watkins A study of colour in film – its multifarious technologies and practices - offers a way to question a teleological film history […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 28 February 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The Turkish Makam: Sounds of Istanbul Baha Yetkin: Oud Alexandros Koustas: Klasik Kemençe Constantly evolving since the 13th century, the Turkish Makam has become one of the worlds’ great music traditions. With Istanbul as its centre, folk, religious and […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography Thursday 15 March 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, […]
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 […]
