The President of the RAI, Professor Roy Ellen FBA, delivered his Presidential Address on 9 April in Bristol, during the Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists. Professor Ellen’s title was ‘Theories in anthropology and anthropological theories’. We are grateful to the ASA and the University of Bristol for hosting this event.
Annual General Meeting 2009. The AGM will be held on Thursday 17 September, at 4.30 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed at approximately 5.30 by the 2009 Curl Lecture, which will be given by Dr Joost Fontein of Edinburgh University. Dr Fontein’s provisional title is ‘Graves, ruins and belonging in southern Zimbabwe: Towards an anthropology of proximity’. The full programme for the event will be advertised in the August issue of AT.
The Huxley Lecturer and Medallist for 2009 will be Professor Ian Hodder of Stanford University. Professor Hodder’s Huxley Lecture, entitled ‘Human-thing entanglement: Towards an integrated archaeological perspective’, will be given on Monday 2 November in the Stevenson Lecture theatre, British Museum, London WC1 (start time tba).
RAI Fellows should now have received their copy of the 2009 Special Issue of the JRAI, Islam, politics, anthropology, edited by Benjamin Soares and Filippo Osella. The 2010 Special Issue, Making knowledge, edited by Trevor Marchand, will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in early 2010. We expect to announce the Special Issue for 2011 towards the end of this year. A call for proposals for the 2012 Special Issue appears in this issue of AT (submission deadline 30 October 2009).
The 2009 London Anthropology Day for Schools, organized by the RAI in association with the British Museum, will take place in the Museum’s Clore Education Centre on Thursday 9 July. For information and to book free places, visit www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk.
Leach-RAI Fellowships. The Trustees of the Esperanza Trust, which supports the Leach-RAI Fellowship Programme together with the hosting university, announce that 2010-2011 will be a fallow year for the programme following the conclusion of NUI Maynooth’s term as host. We expect to issue a call for offers to host the Fellowship programme shortly, and to resume the programme in 2011-12.
Summer closure. The RAI offices will be closed from Monday 24 to Monday 31 August, reopening on Tuesday 1 September.
