Welcome to the Royal Anthropological Institute

Welcome to the home page of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, a scholarly association dedicated to anthropology in all its many fields and applications.

Programme

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The Being Human Show

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Being Human Show podcast.

This podcast brings together anthropologists from different areas of the discipline in conversation about issues of public interest. In each episode a panel of anthropology experts speak about one central topic from different angles. This podcast is produced by Jennifer Cearns and Laura Haapio-Kirk, and is supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

The podcast is available on Spotify here https://open.spotify.com/show/3L8S0oqLsTOwYe5QQOVybf?si=EOJpp7EvS7WpEEuEUh2A_g

Film Submissions

RAI Film Festival 2021

The RAI Film Festival will take place 25-28 March 2021.

Please note that due to the ongoing uncertainty about COVID-19 the RAI Film Festival 2021 and the conference will take place online.

Accepting film submissions now:
calling for short, mid- and feature length documentaries, ethnographic/anthropological films, student films. Open to all. Waivers available.

Early Bird deadline: 31 March 2020
Regular deadline: 15 August 2020
Late deadline: 15 September 2020

Notification date: 11 January 2021

Please submit via the website here.

RAI Building Closure

With great sadness, because of the ongoing situation with regard to the COVID-19, we will be closing the institute’s building on Monday 16 March 2020 indefinitely. All in person events until 1 September 2020 are postponed or cancelled. The RAI’s staff will be continuing to work as usual remotely.

We hope very much that our large conference ‘Anthropology and Geography’ can be reconvened for June 2022, and will discuss this possibility with our partners: SOAS, the BM, RGS and the British Academy.