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Urgent RAI announcements FORTHCOMING EVENTS
The 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2009 The 11th RAI Festival will be jointly hosted by:
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The festival will be held on Wednesday July 1st – Saturday July 4th, 2009 at the brand new 'Rose Bowl' building at Leeds Metropolitan University, in central Leeds. The festival will include 4 days of screenings, a major international conference, and a targeted selection of ancillary events focusing on anthropological ethics in filmmaking, salvaging and archiving ethnographic film. Complete details can be found here. London Anthropology Day 2009 July 9th at the British Museum’s Clore Centre
The London Anthropology Day is a university taster day for Year 12, 13 and FE students, career advisors and teachers. Organised by the RAI’s Education Outreach Programme in collaboration with the British Museum and participating universities, it is one of the largest events in the UK aimed at promoting public engagement with Anthropology. The day includes interactive workshops, films and exhibitions, where participants gain hands-on experience of what its like to study anthropology at university, learn about careers and find out what 16 universities in Britain have to offer. Participating universities of this year’s event include: University of Bristol, Brunel University, University of Cambridge, Durham University, Goldsmiths, University of Kent, Liverpool John Moores University, LSE, Manchester, Oxford Brookes, Queen’s University Belfast, Roehampton, UCL, UEL, University of Sussex, and University of Wales Lampeter. The event will take place on July 9th at the British Museum’s Clore Centre from 9:30am-4:30pm. For more information and to book a free place please visit www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk. ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The 2009 AGM will take place on Thursday 17 September 2009 at 4.30 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2009 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at the AGM. Formal notification of the AGM has also been published in Anthropology Today. Programme 4.30 pm: AGM Following the AGM and lecture, there will be a drinks reception for all present. AGM AGENDA 1. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 25 September 2008 2. Annual Report of the Council for 2008 3. Appointment of Auditors (Current auditors: H.W. Fisher and Company, Chartered Accountants) 4. Election of Officers and Council for the year 2009-2010 (see overleaf for House List) 5. Announcement of elections of the Huxley Memorial Lecturer and Henry Myers Lecturer for 2010 6. Presentation of the Rivers Memorial Medal for 2009 to Professor Wendy James 7. Presentation of the two Lucy Mair Medals awarded for 2009 to Professor Tom Selwyn and Dr John Palmer 8. Any Other Business HOUSE LIST Names proposed by Council (new nominations marked with *) President: Professor Roy Ellen BSc, PhD, FLS, FBA* Elected Vice Presidents: Professor Elizabeth Edwards BA, MA* Hon Librarian: Professor C. Thomas Selwyn BSc, PhD Hon Treasurer: David Shankland MA, PhD Ordinary members of Council Simone Abram LGSM, BSc/MEng, MSt, DPhil Article 42(b) of the Articles of Association states: THE CURL LECTURE 2009 Will be given by Dr Joost Fontein Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh On “Graves, Ruins & Belonging: Towards an anthropology of proximity” Thursday 17 September 2009 in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, All welcome. Admission free without ticket. Refreshments afterwards. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM at 4.30 pm. All are welcome to the AGM; only RAI Fellows may vote. Enquiries to: RAI, 50 Fitzroy St, London W1T 5 BT; tel 020 7387 0455; email admin@therai.org.uk Abstract: This paper uses ethnographic material collected during research around Lake Mutirikwi in southern Zimbabwe, to explore how the affective presence of graves and ruins, which materialise past and present occupations and engagements with/in the landscape (by different African clans, colonial and postcolonial state institutions, war veterans, chiefs and spirit mediums as well as white commercial farmers), are entangled in complex, localised contests over autochthony and belonging, even as they are finely implicated in wider re-configurations of authority and state-craft. Situating these localised and highly contested assertions, discourses and practices of autochthony and belonging in the context of national re-definitions of citizenship and belonging as articulated in the ZANU PF’s rhetoric of ‘patriotic history’, this paper explores how these contests are made real through the consequential materiality of milieu. Although the central hook will be the very prominent role that graves, both older ancestral ‘mapa’ and very recent burials, have played in ongoing claims to land and authority in the area, its main perspective will be on how different, overlapping and intertwined notions of belonging are enabled, constrained, and structured through the materiality of place, thereby emphasising the proximity of discourses and practices of belonging that derives from the shared nature of material landscapes. In this vein, the ruins and graves of past white occupations of and interventions in the landscape co-mingle and co-exist with the resurgent appeals of local clans to ancestral territories on occupied state land and re-settled commercial farms. Its broader theoretical purpose will be to engage with recent debates over materiality and anthropology’s so-called ‘ontological turn’ to make a case for the value of focusing less on ‘radical ontological difference’ and more on material, historical and conceptual proximities. THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2009 will be given by Professor Ian Hodder Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University Title Human - Thing Entanglement: Towards an Integrated Archaeological Perspective Monday 2 November 2009 in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, All welcome. Admission free without ticket. Refreshments afterwards. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM at 4.30 pm. All are welcome to the AGM; only RAI Fellows may vote. Enquiries to: RAI, 50 Fitzroy St, London W1T 5 BT; tel 020 7387 0455; email admin@therai.org.uk Abstract: Over recent decades archaeology has experienced growth and fragmentation of theoretical perspective. This paper argues the potential for a synthetic approach centered on human-thing entanglement. The key components include human-thing co-dependence, human entrapment in relation to things, fittingness (different from fitness), and directional evolutionary (non-biological) change. The key ideas in this perspective derive as much from behavioural and materials analysis as from interpretive archaeology and theories of materiality. The approach is illustrated with studies of the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey. NEWS CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE TO APPEAR IN 2012 Following the sucessful launch of the JRAI Special Issue series in 2006 (the fifth and sixth volumes in the series will appear in 2010 and 2011) the RAI Publications Committee now invites proposals for the Special Issue to appear in 2012. Details on proposals are available here. The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2009. Library Opening Hours
Acquisitions Lists The Centre for Anthropology Library has launched a new service for RAI Fellows. Each month a list of new acquisitions will be compiled and uploaded to the RAI website. The list can be found here. This will enable Fellows to be aware of new material in their field as soon as it has been acquired. Both RAI purchases (available for loan to RAI Fellows) and BM purchases (available for reference) will be listed. Please contact the Library for priority cataloguing of any item you wish to borrow, giving at least one day's notice. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8031 Email: anthropologylibrary@britishmuseum.org Jan Ayres - CfA Senior Librarian Ted Goodliffe - RAI Library Officer RAI Library Request Calling all RAI authors. The Centre for Anthropology Library asks all RAI Fellows who publish books to remember the Library when considering recipients for copies of their work donated by the publisher. Books for donation can be mailed to the Library at: Centre for Anthropology Library British Museum Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG Copies may be delivered to the Library between 10.00 and 17.00 (Monday-Wednesday, Friday) and 12.00 and 17.00 (Thursday). Alternatively authors might ask their publisher to donate a copy directly to the Library as this brings excellent publicity to the publisher. Jan Ayres - CfA Senior Librarian Ted Goodliffe - RAI Library Officer Important New Service for Fellows One of the Fellowship benefits is borrowing rights at the Centre for Anthropology Library at the British Museum. In addition to this, we can now offer Fellows online access to the databases subscribed to by the British Museum. The main benefits of being able to access the British Museum Athens site are as follows: JStor Reference works GCE A level qualification in Anthropology The Royal Anthropological Institute and AQA Awarding Body are pleased to announce that they will work together in 2008 to develop an A level qualification in anthropology. Preliminary work on an A level has been carried out by the RAI over several years, with financial support from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Economic and Social Research Council. AQA will now develop the qualification in detail, in consultation with specialists drawn from the RAI. AQA will then seek accreditation of the qualification by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Following (and subject to) accreditation, the RAI and AQA anticipate working together in the longer term to support delivery and resourcing of the A level, which is expected to become the flagship of the RAI’s programme of education in anthropology at pre-University and FE levels. |
