Lecture

RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Linguistic ethnography in Britain and Europe: Origins, organisation and perspective Professor Ben Rampton, King's College London Professor Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University Thursday 5 November at 5.00 pm Drawing on US linguistic anthropology but infusing it with interdisciplinary and applied concerns of its own, linguistic […]

'A tale of two women: Recreating Sattriya Dance Theatre from a 15th century Indian monastic performance tradition of male monks from Assam'A spoken word and dance performance By Dr. Menaka PP Bora (University of Oxford) and Indira PP Bora (Co-founder-Kalabhumi India). Friday 6 November at 11.00am This event is free, but tickets must be booked. […]

Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Magaluf, Mamading and Moral Panic Dr Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University Monday 9 November at 5.30 pm At the start of July 2014 The Sunday Mirror newspaper published a story under the headline: 'Magaluf […]

RAI EthnomusicologyRAI Blacking Lecture 10 November 2015 Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast Music and Citizenship Professor Martin Stokes, King's College London Citizenship debates - traditionally focused on questions about property, liberty of the person, and representation - shifted radically in the 1990s. Globalization pushed questions about ‘flexible citizenship’, about problems of inclusion and exclusion in […]

RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Koryak Ethnopoetics: Stories from Herders and Maritime Villagers Dr Alexander King, University of Aberdeen Thursday 12 November at 5.30 pm I present an initial analysis of a documentation project that is 20 years in the making. Funded by a large project grant from the […]

RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Naming and other veiled speaking among the Bwa People of Mali: A contribution to pragmatic anthropology Professor Cecile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Thursday 19 November at 5.00 pm In France, linguistics and anthropology have developed independently of each other. First-generation ethnographers […]

RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Are some experiences impossible to put into words? Professor Asifa Majid, Radboud Universiteit Thursday 26 November at 5.00 pm Language seems to be better at expressing some notions (e.g., geometric shapes), but poor at others (e.g., describing an individuals’ face). But are there ineffable […]

Life in a Turkish provincial town in 2015: Elections and New Social Directions?David Barchard Friday 27 November at 3.30 pm David Barchard looks at the structures and patterns underlying life in a small central Anatolian community and tries to relate them to broader questions about the direction of Turkish society and its political system.. A […]

RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The cultural evolution of linguistic structure Dr Kenny Smith, University of Edinburgh Thursday 3 December at 5.00 pm No other species has a communication system which provides the expressive power of human language: at least at a first approximation, anything you can think, you […]

THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Robin Dunbar, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Dunbar’s Number: How Constrained Is Your Social World? Friday 4 December 2015 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The Social Brain Hypothesis, first proposed in […]