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 […]
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 […]
Health, Environment, and AnThropology 1 (HEAT1) As the world is getting fuller, faster, hotter, and sicker, HEAT1 asks how can anthropologists contribute to unfolding debates around health and environment on a changing and unequal planet? In what ways can medical and environmental anthropology work together and with other disciplines, communities, and stakeholders to help support […]
