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 […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tourism planning for economic development and poverty reduction in Ghana: historical trajectories and contemporary challenges Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, University of Lincoln Thursday 15 December 2016 at 5.30 pm Since independence in 1957, successive governments in Ghana have sought to […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marketing sustainability: greenwashing or greenhushing? Prof Xavier Font, University of Surrey Monday 16 January 2016 at 5.30 pm Tourism and hospitality businesses do not communicate persuasive sustainability messages to their potential clients, because their messages are half hearted legitimisation […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 18 January 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Kaya Genç Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey Representations of Turkey in western media has undergone a startling change after the summer of 2013, when activists staged an Occupy-style protest in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Kaya […]
Fighting for indigenous right in northern ArgentinaJohn Palmer Friday 3 February at 2pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute John Palmer (DPhil, Oxon) is a social anthropologist who has lived among the Wichí of northern Argentina since 1998. His life is the subject of the multi-prizewinning documentary, ‘El etnógrafo’. On his 1st visit to the UK […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tourism and Climate Change: resilience and resistance in Vietnam Prof Peter Burns, Professor of Tourism and International Development and Director of the Institute for Tourism Research, University of Bedfordshire Monday 20 February 2016 at 5.30 pm Abstract: Tourism is […]
The shaman and the flash-drive: singing and forgetting in Araweté verbal art.Dr Guilherme Orlandini Heurich, University College London Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 11.00 am This will take place at 11 am in the Department of Anthropology, UCL, Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW. Guilherme is an affiliated scholar of […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2017 Photographic Studies Prize to Professor Elizabeth Edwards. Friday 17 March at 5.00 pm Please join us in this celebration on 17 March between 5.00 and 7.00 pm for an introduction by Professor Chris Pinney, a talk by Professor Edwards and a drinks reception. Abstract: This […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Utopia or Dystopia? The development of Kavos, Corfu, into a tourism destination and the impacts on the local community; a pseudo-longitudinal study from 2003 to 2016. Dr Nika Balomenou, University of Hertfordshire Monday 20 March 2017 at 5.30 pm […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyMonday 8 May 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Robert Langer, Research Group Leader “Contemporary Islamic Cultures”, Study of Religions, University of Bayreuth, Germany Turkish Shiites in Germany: Conversion, Ethnicity, and ‘Germanisation’ This presentation focusses on a specific portion of the Twelver Shiites, those with a […]
On 24 May the 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture, will be held in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne's College (56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6H). The lecture will begin at 6pm. This year, the lecture will be given by Professor Pat Caplan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. The […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 6 June 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: David Barchard The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation David Barchard, veteran Turkey analyst and author lecture on 'The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation'. Turkey is entering a new era as it makes a transition from a parliamentary system of government […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Challenging Tourism Contexts for Innovation and Policy Prof Chris Cooper, Oxford Brookes University Monday 12 June 2017 at 5.30 pm Tourism can be seen as a hostile context for innovation, not only is it characterised by few leaders and […]
JRAI Special Issue LaunchMeetings: Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy, and Assembly with the special issue guest editors Dr Hannah Brown (Durham University), Dr Adam Reed (University of St Andrews), and Dr Tom Yarrow (Durham University) Wednesday 6 September at 5.30 pm Meetings, socially and institutionally prescribed spaces for coming together, are important and ubiquitous organizational […]
THE CURL LECTURE 2017will be given by Dr Andrea Migliano, University College of London, Department of Anthropology Hunter-gatherers social structure: a window into the evolution of human cumulative culture Friday 15 September 2017, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 September 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Erol Sağlam, Birkbeck, University of London The Romeika of Trabzon: Discretion, Memory, and Treasure Hunts in Contemporary Turkey Drawing on an ethnographic study in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey, this research explores dynamics of memory through the public invisibility […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 11 October 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Prof Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu Osman Zeki Bey, the Printer, His Printing Office and "The Ottoman Paper Manufacturing Company" Osman Zeki Bey (printer, calligrapher) whose accomplishments will be the topic of this talk was the First Chamberlain of Sultan […]
