Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyMonday 8 February 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Pat Yale The explorer, archaeologist and writer Gertrude Bell is best known for her travels in Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia but as a young woman she spent a lot of time in what is now […]
To mark the conferment of the RAI Photography Studies AwardAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Australian Aboriginal Transformations of the Colonial Archive Professor Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia) Monday 22 February at 5.30 pm Many European photographic archives contain images of Australian Aboriginal people, produced from the mid-nineteenth century for scientific and popular purposes – […]
An evening with Edith DurhamIn association with the Anglo-Albanian Association Dr Robert Elsie Wednesday 24 February 2016, 5.30pm-7.30pm Edith Durham was at once one of the most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a well-known war-correspondent, lecturer, writer, photographer and artist of Albania and the Balkans. A former Member of Council and Vice-President, […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Gaining access to tourist markets: female craft producers in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Dr Dorothea Meyer, Sheffield Hallam University Monday 29 February at 5.30 pm Abstract Tourism accounts for 40% of all international arrivals into less economically […]
