THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen How Anthropologists Think: Refiguring the Exotic Friday 16 December 2011, 5.30pm, in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. This event is now fully booked The event is free, but places must be […]
Violence past and present: researching conflict in northern Mozambique Seminar by the RAI/Leach Fellow, Dr Ana Margarida Sousa Santos (Brunel) Thursday 8 March, 5pm - 7pm Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French Theatre Book shop) Free for RAI members and […]
King’s India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute cordially invite you to the First M. N. Srinivas Memorial Lecture 'An Anthropologist's View of India after Liberalisation' Speaker: Professor Akhil Gupta (Department of Anthropology, UCLA) 26 March 2012, 18.00 Room S-3.20, King's College London, Strand Campus Please note that Room S-3.20 is in Basement 3 of […]
Tracing Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in: Poetics, Land, Memory, and Well-Being in the Circumpolar North Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, MSc, MRes, PhD The Royal Anthropological Institute Goldsmiths University of London University of Aberdeen & Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute Thursday 21 June at 5pm ABSTRACT Tracing Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in discusses the lives of the Teetł’it […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2012 will be given by Professor Ian Hacking, Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto "The Anthropology (and Archaeology) of Numbers" Friday 14 September 2012, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s […]
REACHING OUT: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS CULTURAL JOURNALIST Professor Helena Wulff Department of Social AnthropologyStockholm University Leverhulme visiting professor University of East London Autumn 2012 Cultural journalism is a feature of outreach and impact activities at many universities. In the framework of Swedish university life, activities of communicating and collaborating with groups and audiences outside the […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Alan MacFarlane FBA, Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge Anthropology, Empire and Modernity Friday 14 December 2012 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The event is free, but places must be booked. Please […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices' Gods, Moneylenders and Anthropologists: Three Raj Gond Worlds in the Twentieth Century Dr Kriti Kapila, King's College London Monday, 11 February 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr […]
King's India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute cordially invite you to The Second MN Srinivas Annual Lecture Finding an Address: Reflections on an Urban Neighborhood Speaker: Professor Veena Das (Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University) 21 March 2013, 6:15pm Room S-2.08, Strand Campus, King's College London. Please note that Room S-2.08 is in Basement […]
Research seminar: Student anthropologists on fieldwork reflections Place: Royal Anthropological InstituteDate: May 31, 2013 Time: 17:00 hours to 18.30 hours This event is open and free to attend, but places are limited. Please contact Penny Searson and Narmala Halstead to book (email: pennysearson@googlemail.com; n.halstead@uel.ac.uk) Penny Searson, UEL Title: "Finding my Feet in Fieldwork: An […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Howard Morphy, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University Extended Lives in Global Spaces: the anthropology of Yolngu pre burial ceremonies Thursday 8 August 2013 The 2013 RAI Huxley Lecture will be presented at the 17th World Congress […]
The Presidential Address 2013 Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute The anthropology of deep-history Friday 20 September 2013, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson 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 […]
VISITING LECTURE BY THE 2013 HUXLEY LECTURER will be given by Professor Howard Morphy, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University The Displaced Local: multiple agency in the building of ethnographic collections Friday 8 November 2013, 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the […]
RAI History Day AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The aim of this event is to explore the history of the RAI since the Second World War, in particular concentrating on its Bedford Square days. Chair: Professor Howard Morphy, Australian National University Friday 8 November 11:00 to 16:00 Refreshments provided. This event is free, but places […]
ROUNDTABLE ANTHROPOLOGY IN PROCESS: FIELDWORK CONVERSATIONS Roundtable Speakers: Nancy Lindisfarne, SOAS, University of London Title: Taking Sides: The Politics of Fieldwork and Writing Up Andrew Sanchez, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Title: Trust and the Ethics Of Ethnography Narmala Halstead, UEL Title: Interrupting the conventional Judith Okely, University of Oxford Title: Against hypotheses: […]
King's India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute cordially invite you to the MN SRINIVAS MEMORIAL LECTURE 2014 Professor Arjun Appadurai (New York University) The Ecology of Failure: Reflections on Democracy, Participation and Development Thursday 27 March at 6:15 pm Venue: EDMOND J SAFRA LECTURE THEATRE, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS […]
Wellcome Medal Lecturewill be given by Dr Julie Livingston, Rutgers University Figuring the Tumor : Photography, Self, and Advanced Cancer in Botswana Wednesday 11 June 2014, at 5.30pm (talk to start at 6.00pm) at the Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE This talk considers a series of photographs and other visual […]
Tea Time Talk at the RAI: Wednesday 2nd July, 16.30 - 17.30 Ketaki Sheth: on photographing Bombay street life, Patel twins and the Sidi, Indians of African descent. Ketaki Sheth is one of India's leading photographers, wining the Sanskriti Award for Indian photography in 1992. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including the […]
Art & Anthropology WorkshopFriday 4 July 2014 at 10.30am at the Royal Anthropological Institute The event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://artandanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk 10.30 - Introduction 11.00 - Susanne Kuechler (UCL) The Move to the Centre: Art in the Vortex of Anthropological Theory In the wake of Alfred […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2014will be given by Professor David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London Farewell to the “Childhood of Man”: Ritual, Seasonality, and the Origins of Inequality Friday 12 September 2014, at 5pm (approximately) in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B […]
