History of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Workshop in preparation for Volume 1: Pre 1871
Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT
The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://raihistory.eventbrite.co.uk
9th December 2014
DAY 1 (1pm – 6pm)
12.00 pm: SANDWICH LUNCH
1.00 pm: Dr David Shankland, Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute – Welcome to the Royal Anthropological Institute
1.10 pm Sarah Walpole, Royal Anthropological Institute Archivist – ‘Nuts and bolts’: a survey of the pre-1871 anthropological institutes
1.50 pm Professor Peter Riviere – The origins of the Ethnological Society of London
2.30 pm TEA BREAK
2.50 pm Dr Han Vermeulen – From Nations to Races: Rivalry between the ‘Ethnologicals’ and ‘Anthropologicals’ in Great Britain and the German Connection, 1813-1871
3.30 pm Dr Chris Manias – International Emulation and Exchange: The Ethnological & Anthropological Societies of London and the Société d’anthropologie de Paris, 1859-1871
4.10 pm TEA BREAK
4.30 pm Dr James Urry (by proxy) – The founding and organization of the first Ethnological Society of London 1843-1858: context and connections
5.00 pm Jack Webb – ‘A Second Hayti’: Jamaica, Colonial Policy and the Ethnological Society and Anthropological Society of London
5.40 pm Professor Marc Flandreau – Acts of Speculation: White-Collar Crime as Anthropology in Victorian Britain (1863-1871)
6.20 pm Discussion and drinks
10th December 2014
Day 2 (10am to 5.30pm)
10.00 am Dr David Shankland – Writing the history of an institution: what sort of book do we want?
10.40 am Professor Michael Banton – The growth of anthropological knowledge up to 1871: What contributions should be solicited concerning the conceptions of race? (Professor Michael Banton will lead a discussion)
11.20 am TEA BREAK
11.40 am David Bennett – A respectable science? Representations of anthropology in the ‘Darwinian decade’
12.20 pm Sria Chatterjee – Historiography in nineteenth century India: history of anthropology and history of art
1.00 pm SANDWICH LUNCH
2.00 pm Professor Elizabeth Edwards – Photographs and networks of anthropological knowledge
2.40 pm Professor Chris Fuller – The Anthropology of British India in the Early Victorian Age
3.20 pm TEA BREAK
3.40 pm Dr Efram Sera-Shriar (by proxy) – The Scandalous Affair of the Anthropological Review: Hyde Clarke, James Hunt and Financial Discrepancies at the Anthropological Society of London
4.20 pm Discussion and next steps – Chaired by Dr David Shankland
