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 […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Morality or Moralising? Ethical tourism’s critique of the masses on holiday Dr Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University Monday 7 December at 5.30 pm In recent decades ‘ethical tourism’ has become a popular theme amongst […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE All forms of tourism can be more responsible. The mass matters...... Prof Harold Goodwin, Manchester Metropolitan University Monday 25 January at 5.30 pm Abstract Using satellite accounting, leaders in travel and tourism present themselves as […]
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 […]
RAI SEMINARSEMINAR AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A publisher's perspective Marion Berghahn, Berghahn Books Wednesday 9 March at 5.30 pm Drawing on her many years in publishing, Marion Berghahn, an anthropologist by training, will present an overview of the industry and where, in particular, the monograph fits into the spectrum. As a major publisher in […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic (EVDE) and its Unexpected Effects on Tourism in The Gambia and Sierra Leone Dr Marina Novelli, University of Brighton Monday 21 March at 5.30 pm Abstract Over the past 20 […]
"Love Terrestrial and Love Divine": Women and Dutar in UzbekistanDr Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge Wednesday 6 April at 11.00am Playing the Uzbek Dutar (plucked lute) and doira (frame drum), Dr Razia Sultanova will give a rendition of Uzbek female music. This feminine repertoire was performed exclusively indoors, far from the eyes and ears of […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE International volunteer tourism: decommodified moral encounters or a search for moral meaning? Peter Smith, St Mary's University Monday 25 April at 5.30 pm In recent decades there has been a boom in international volunteer tourism, […]
States of AlterityWORKSHOP AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 23 May at 10.00am 10.00–10:30: Welcome and introductions 10.30–11.00: Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti: The indigenous cosmopolitics of citizenship in Peru, or becoming Peruvian to keep the state away 11.00–11.30: Liana Chua: Christian cosmopolitics, ontology and the problem of difference: reflections on a legal victory in Malaysian […]
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2016 25 May 2016 The 3rd Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be held on Wednesday 25 May at 6pm in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, followed by a drinks reception. How BOFIs (Banks and Other Financial Institutions) Think Dr Michael Thompson International Institute of […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Evolving perspectives on tourism's interaction with nature- connecting at last? Professor Andrew Holden, University of Bedfordshire Monday 13 June at 5.30 pm Our relationship to nature is under re-evaluation as society faces environmental challenges driven […]
Never mind the notation: Understanding music through performance in Japan and JavaDr David W Hughes, SOAS and Durham University Wednesday 15 June at 11.00am In many non-Western traditions, even when written notation exists, music is still learnt and understood primarily through performance: imitating one’s teacher, learning from one’s mistakes when performing in public, ‘stealing’ from […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2016will be given by Dr Ken Dark, University of Reading Returning to the Caves of Mystery: archaeology and the origins of Christian pilgrimage Friday 30 September 2016, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (Re)Presenting the daughters of Bourguiba: Tunisian women and tourism Heather Jeffrey, University of Bedfordshire Tuesday 11 October 2016 at 5.30 pm Before the Jasmine revolution and terrorist attacks of 2015 Tunisia was cited as one of the fastest growing […]
Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 October 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Hugh Pope THE TURKISH KALEIDOSCOPE Few are more stunned by Turkey’s 15 July coup attempt than the Turkish people themselves. Even outside Turkey, analysts have reacted to the confusion by veering deep into ideological and even conspiracy […]
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. […]
