ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE CURL LECTURE Wednesday 24 September 2025, 5.00-6.00 pm at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. In-Person registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1537293328729?aff=oddtdtcreator Zoom registration for online attendance will follow. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI AGM, 3-5pm, same location. The 2025 Curl […]
London Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master’s degrees, careers advisers and teachers, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Go to the LAD website to find more information Join the notification list to receive a notification email when booking […]
Tuesday 7 October 2025, 4.00-6.00pm GMT This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sH9bhYrMQYy8D3IyI-N4iQ The Elemental Work of Studio Glassblowing Speaker: Erin O’Connor, sociologist and glassblower, Marymount Manhattan College, New York City Discussant: Geoffrey Gowlland, anthropologist, University of Geneva Abstract: Studio glassblowing is an art of collaborating bodies, both human and […]
Call for Papers‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’ Ninth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ Joint Seminar The Folklore Society and The Royal Anthropological Institute Date: Thursday 23 October, 2025Time: 10 AM to 5 PMLocation: 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT and online via Zoom The annual seminar series ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ encourages empirical […]
Tuesday 4 November 2025, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gBjqg1U5ShGkZXl1l1jmlw Strategies of female entrepreneurs in southern Morocco: degrees of visibility and processes of visibilisation Speaker: Myriem Naji, anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, University College London Discussant: Claire Nicholas, anthropologist and curator, University of Oklahoma Abstract: In the south of […]
Tuesday 2 December 2025, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kA7eWqa3Tk2jeeHUuf7y1w#/registration Hands, Skills, Tools: learning the craft of violin making Speaker: Sarah May, cultural anthropologist, University of Freiburg joined by Sinah Osner (photographer) Fabian Stransky (photographer & photographic artist) and Janine Wildhage (violin maker) Invited Discussant: Marie Baltazar, anthropologist, […]
Tuesday 6 January 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kgm3w5iaSuOrprxuJkz5xw Living and Created Tradition among Japanese Master Carpenters Speaker: Yukiko Oshima, architect and urbanologist, Japan Research Centre, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Invited Discussant: Edoardo Paolo Ferrari, anthropologist and architect, Hoare, Ridge & Morris Architects […]
Tuesday 3 February 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w8O119ivRQWOjrS4oTrQjA Meet Me in the Middle: collaborative printmaking and lessons in democratic thinking in Canada and South Africa Speakers: Jenn Law, social anthropologist & artist, Toronto Jillian Ross, master printmaker, Saskatoon Invited Discussant: Jacqui Ramrayka, ceramicist and educator, London […]
Image: Private archives, François Mallia, 1950. Tuesday 3 March 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AiqkX33rTBSsjY5haWh4PA#/registration ‘Amateur’ musicians? Steel workers crafting free time in the Luxembourgish mining basin Speaker: Laura Steil, cultural anthropologist, Paris and Luxembourg Invited Discussant: Jonathan Skinner, anthropologist and dancer, University of Surrey Abstract: […]
Tuesday 7 April 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SQ38aYNZStiWN28Czjw0Zw#/registration Between Notes: sound, self, and the unfolding present in the careers of Tokyo’s independent musicians Speaker: Robert Simpkins, social anthropologist and musician, Oxford Invited Discussant: Tbc Christine Guillebaud, anthropologist, CNRS LESC-CREM Abstract: This talk explores the working […]
Tuesday 5 May 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VrjHFAS2SmaANh7ISeCrhA#/registration Lives of Talent: an ethnography of dancers’ work/life in Mongolia Speaker: Raphaël Blanchier, anthropologist, Université Clermont Auvergne and IFRAE-CNRS, LESC-CREM Invited Discussant: Cassis Kilian, anthropologist and performer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Abstract: In Mongolia, recognised dancers, professional or otherwise, […]
