RAI Research Seminar

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seduction of the Senses - Re-imagining Dance Performance in the 19th century Kabul Court through oral, archival and cinematic resources Dr Menaka PP Bora and Prof John Baily, Afghanistan Music Unit, Goldsmiths Wednesday 13 November at 5.30 pm In Afghanistan there is a type of multi-part […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music Videos and Prosthetic Memories in Pakistan’s Coke Studio Dr Richard Williams, SOAS Wednesday 22 January at 5.30 pm Since 2007, Coke Studio has rapidly become one of the most influential platforms in televisual, digital and musical media, and has assumed a significant role in generating […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Evolution of Childhood Dr Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum, London Wednesday 29 January at 5.30 pm Life history incorporates a series of milestones that define the pace of life and the transitions between different lifetime stages. Modern human life histories incorporate several unique and derived […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Globalization of Anthropology and the Creation of the WAU, World Anthropological Union Junji Koizumi International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Osaka University and the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Monday 03 February at 5.30 pm The Globalization of anthropological studies in terms of differentiated […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mohamed Wardi and his contribution to the kisir (tambour) music of Sudan Ahmed A Rahman (MMus Ethnomusicology) Wednesday 12 February at 5.30 pm Since relatively little is known about Sudanese music, this presentation will give an introduction to Sudanese music and culture by means of interactive […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE State Highway 31: A Road Trip through the Heart of Modern India to How the World Works Professor Edward Simpson (SOAS) Wednesday 19 February at 5.30 pm This talk follows the route of State Highway 31 through western Madhya Pradesh, central India. The research was part […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music, Protest and the Politics of Cultural Memory at the Día de la toma in Granada Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University of Cambridge)  Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm The Día de la toma is an annual festival held on the 2nd January that celebrates the Catholic reconquest […]

RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 12-13.30pm (BST)   Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898  Dr Anita Herle (University of Cambridge) Dr Jude Philp (University of Sydney) chaired by Prof Haidy Geismar […]

RAI RESEARCH WEBINARA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 6 May 2021 at 10am-12pm (BST)   Forensic Social Anthropology Dr James Rose (University of Melbourne) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6phN-VnZQ8OULRzUkagZZA  If forensic physical anthropology is the science of biological processes with causal links to death, then forensic […]

RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 24 June 2021 at 4.00 - 6.00pm (BST)   At the Intersection of Urban Anthropology and Migration Studies: Locating the French in London Prof Deborah Reed-Danahay, University at Buffalo (SUNY) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sTU4efahQdKlU1ZX9ieHmg  In this seminar […]

RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 14 October 2021 at 3.00 - 5.00pm (BST)   Killing space, giving life to space: interdisciplinary excursions in spatial anthropology   Dr Les Roberts, University of Liverpool This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bkBCSSnvSB2AmX9KuqcHuQ  In this paper I draw on […]

RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 9 December 2021 at 4.00 - 6.00pm (GMT)   This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqceGtqj0iE9SKYFfVmYi1fNaMD-3VDifo    BREAKING THE SILENCE: MUSIC IN AFGHANISTAN Screening and Q&A with Simon Broughton Chaired by Prof John Baily (Goldsmiths, London) and with Mirwaiss Sidiqi (Director of the Aga Khan […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 25 February 2022,  3.00pm-5.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6uqTstHtca8DbC5S4RrS5sVvkeXJu8    Hyphen Dr Pardis Mahdavi (Dean of Social Sciences at Arizona State University) and Dr David Shankland (Royal Anthropological Institute) as chair   To hyphenate or not […]

RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 12 May 2022 at 3.00 - 5.00pm (BST)   This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DAN-i1BtRYS-_XffcC5pPA       Image: Fresco displayed on the front cover of 'Траките/The thracians' by Alexander Fol and Valeria Fol. From WikiCommons Alexander Fol: or […]

RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR  A SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 18 July 2023 at 4.00 - 6.00 pm (BST)   This is a hybrid event.→ To join us in person at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT, please register here→ To join us on Zoom, please register here    History of anthropology as an anthropological problem Aleksandar Bošković, Departmento de Antropologia, […]