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 […]
The seminar series ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ encourages empirical and conceptual dialogue between the two related disciplines of folklore and anthropology The symposium is a one-day event held at the offices of the Royal Anthropological Institute and The Folklore Society at 50 Fitzroy Street, London on Thursday 24 October 2024. Presentations will be given […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2024
followed by the Huxley Lecture
Anthropology and the Humanitarian Encounter: Famine, Societal Trauma and the Academy
Fun as Detour: An Anthropology of Play in Disaster Preparedness
Drawing: Cultivating freedom in South Korea’s highly standardised creative industries This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R0eAIhcxSSimZfEUVGHyoA Speaker: Chloé Paberz, INALCO, Institut Français de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est Discussant: Jenn Law, social anthropologist & artist Abstract With the growing global success of manga, anime and video games, East Asia has become a key player in […]
BORDER LISTENING: ETHNOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE BEYOND NATION THE 2024 BLACKING LECTURE will be given by Professor Rachel Harris (School of Arts, SOAS University of London) ~ with live music by Ozan Baysal and Shohret Nur On 15 November 2024, 5.30-7pm GMT at Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS. To book an in-person ticket please go to: […]
Early Career Researcher Showcase: Choosing Fun, Becoming Through Storytelling and Cruel Play A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores University), Kellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI This is an online event. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pg6csvrWT2Ggc6NlWLLxLQ#/registration Speakers ken tianyuan Ge, PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kellynn Wee, University College London Adriano De […]
The art of 'vitesse': ntcham music, banditry, and the digital fabric of a pirate industry This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zSf_DZ4zTl266_Tv7cby2g Speaker: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Université de Neuchâtel Discussant: Jamila Dorner, SOAS Abstract “Vitesse” (speed), “vivacité” (liveliness) and “rapidité” (quickness): the texts and videos of Ntcham music are filled with references (textual, musical and gestural) to rhythm and its […]
