Professor Roy Ellen FB, President of the RAI, will deliver his second Presidential Address on Friday 16 April 2010, during the Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists at Queens University, Belfast. Professor Ellen’s provisional title is ‘On the concept of cultural transmission’. We thank the ASA and University for their hospitality.
The 2010 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 23 September in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum. It will be followed by the 2010 Myers Lecture, to be given by Professor Geoffrey Lloyd of Cambridge University. Professor Lloyd’s provisional title is ‘Humanity between gods and beasts? Ontologies in question’.
The Huxley Memorial Lecturer and Medallist for 2010 is Professor Johannes Fabian of the University of Amsterdam. The lecture will take place on Thursday 25 November in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum (details tba).
Call for offers: 12th RAI International Film Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2011. Offers are invited from anthropology departments in the UK and Ireland and other bodies interested in hosting this event. Deadline: 15 March 2010. See Urgent RAI Announcements on http://www.therai.org.uk for further details.
