Royal Anthropological Institute

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 […]

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 […]

This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ATz3WvLQC6VvZmbRb90tg Crafting Indigeneity in Taiwan Speaker: Geoffrey Gowlland, University of Geneva Discussant: Michele Feder-Nadoff, artist & anthropologist Abstract Why is it that the revitalisation of forms of art and craft has, for Indigenous peoples around the world, taken such a significance in self-presentations and political engagements? What is it about […]

Clay Figuration in Barcelos, Portugal: Crafting futures by re-imagining the past This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DihhqB12QZSXzF-fuIUsaQ  Speaker: Sónia Mota Ribeiro, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Discussant: Stephanie Bunn, University of St Andrews Abstract This seminar will focus on the practice of a group of artisans from the Barcelos region, in the north of Portugal. These “barristas” […]

Discussant: Dr Lydia Arantes, University of Graz Abstract:What is the incommensurability of making? How and under what circumstances can craft production be seen as a practice of care, a kind of love? And, how does this inversion of careful and caring labor become a method of hope? These questions emerged through my mentor-apprenticeship as an […]

“Becoming a Dancer, Becoming Mobile”: Navigating mobility regimes in the field of European contemporary dance This event had unfortunately be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstance. Speaker: Julien Debonneville, Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale Discussant: Robert Simpkins, social anthropologist Abstract This seminar will examine the way in which mobility acts to structure artistic careers in the […]

This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8pOX1wpMRuSczwVQyyjDZw On the Art of Being a Female Entrepreneur in the Skilled Trades Speaker: Dorothee Hemme, anthropologist & entrepreneur, Göttingen Discussant: Myriem Naji, University College London Abstract The exhibition project "Women in Crafts from Here!" aims to show the diversity of female craftsmanship in the region of South Lower Saxony […]

Discussant: Dr Thomas Chambers, Oxford Brookes University Abstract:In the 1990s and early 2000s, much of the scholarship on the performing arts celebrated the new insights afforded by the transnationalism paradigm and the ‘mobilities’ turn. There was both enthusiasm and concern about the intensified global circulation of people, things, ideas and capital, as well as art […]