Lecture

Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 3 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr John McManus Turkey and the anthropology of football Turkey is a football-mad nation. Ninety per cent of all citizens are self-confessed fans of the sport, which frequently intersects with debates about social class, politics, community and identity. […]

THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Margaret Lock, McGill University Mutable Environments and Permeable Human Bodies Friday 11 November 2016 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Mapping the human genome produced unexpected findings that paved the way for recognition of […]

Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Karst Limestone or Cast Concrete? Coastal tourism and local impacts in Vietnam: lessons from Ha Long Bay Dr Mark Hampton, University of Kent Thursday 17 November 2016 at 5.30 pm This paper explores the local impacts of rapidly growing […]

RAI EthnomusicologyThird Annual RAI Blacking Lecture The 2016 annual Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture, named in honour of esteemed ethnomusicologist and anthropologist John Blacking (1928-1990), will be hosted by the University of Roehampton Dance and Anthropology departments. 24 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the University of Roehampton’s Froebel College in the Portrait Room, London SW15 5PJ […]

King’s India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute warmly invite you to the MN Srinivas Memorial Lecture 2016 Outside caste?: The enclosure of caste and claims to castelessness in India and the UK Speaker: Professor David Mosse (School of Oriental and African Studies) Date: 29 November 2016 Time: 6:15-7:30pm* Venue: Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King's […]