The Inaugural Mary Douglas Memorial LectureThursday 23rd October 2014 at 6pm Harrie Massie Lecture Theatre, UCL, 25 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AY Irreconcilable Conflicts? Civil Wars from the Perspective of an Institutional Theory of Culture Professor Paul Richards, Njala University (Sierra Leone) The annual lecture, in memory of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007), is sponsored by […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Tim Ingold, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen On Human Correspondence Friday 7 November 2014 at 5.30pm, in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. I wish to propose a new theory of social life. Its premises […]
RAI Blacking Lecture in EthnomusicologyMusic, power and patronage - the case of the King's musicians of Buganda Dr Peter Cooke Monday 10 November at 5.30 pm at the Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL Musical activities flourished in successive courts of the kingdom of Buganda (Central Uganda) until the […]
Learning from Women in AfghanistanVeronica Doubleday (vocal and daireh frame drum) (Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths) accompanied by John Baily (Herati dutar lute) Thursday 5 March at 11.30am Veronica will perform some of the traditional women’s music that she learnt in Afghanistan in the 1970s. Between 1973-7 she and her husband the ethnomusicologist John Baily spent two […]
The British Association for the Advancement of Science, Anthropology and Historical LegaciesThursday 9 April at 1.00pm The event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://baasseminar.eventbrite.co.uk. This seminar will bring together scholars interested in the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and how it functioned as a […]
A student workshop event: Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance: Art, Anthropology & the Material Culture of Markets Saturday 25th April 2015: 10.00- 17.30 Since the crisis in 2008, anthropology has established itself as a discipline with something to say about finance, whether it be in the pages of the Financial Times or from within […]
Mary Douglas Memorial LectureWednesday 3 June 2015 at 6pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS The Societalization of Social Problems: Recent Social Crises and the Civil Sphere Professor Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University Drawing […]
The AAA and Anthropology: Today's ViewDr Edward Liebow, American Anthropological Association Monday 15 June at 5.30 pm Abstract: This talk will offer a jazz riff weaving together three themes. First, what is distinctively "American" about the American Anthropological Association today? Has the "four-field" approach, which encompasses archaeology, linguistic, biological, and cultural anthropology, framed some special […]
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSAT THE 14TH RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM Anthropology, Genocide and Imagery Prof André Singer, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute Tuesday 16 June at 4.30 pm The anthropological literature about genocide is sparse although the subject matter of huge relevance in the 20th and 21st centuries. Film imagery has transformed the information […]
THE CURL LECTURE 2015will be given by Dr Noel Lobley, Pitt Rivers Museum Experiencing Sound: Curation, Art, Practice Friday 18 September 2015, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. All are welcome to […]
Folklore, Archaeology and Religion in Republican Turkey: Thoughts from Çatalhöyük and the Konya Plain.Thursday 8 October 2015 18:00—19:00 At The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB A Folklore Society lecture by Dr David Shankland (Director, Royal Anthropological Institute) The aim of this lecture is to outline the relationship between religion, folklore and archaeology in […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seaside towns in the age of austerity Professor Steve Fothergill, Sheffield Hallam University Monday 12 October at 5.30 pm Britain’s seaside towns are home to a substantial population and a visitor destination for millions. But […]
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 […]
