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Chartered Forensic Anthropologist

We are delighted to announce that Dr Catriona Davies (BSc PhD FRAI ChFA), Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee has recently been successful in passing the
Forensic Anthropologist I chartership examination and is now a Chartered Forensic Anthropologist. Forensic Anthropology Chartered Level I is the highest professional certification offered by the RAI in Forensic Anthropology and I am sure you will join us in congratulating Dr Davies on her high achievement.  Dr Davies’professional details are published on the RAI's Chartered Forensic Anthropologist list https://www.therai.org.uk/forensic-anthropology/certified-fai

New Exhibition

Citizens of Photography

Exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St., London W1T 5BT
June – October 2022

‘Citizens of Photography’ engages photographs as political actors and complex agents of change. It approaches images not just as records of what has already happened but as symptoms of what might be yet to come. Researchers funded by an ERC Advanced Grant undertook fieldwork in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Greece, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Focusing on the relationship between the camera and the political imagination the research illuminates questions relating to the epidemiology of images, their ‘demotic’ rather than ‘vernacular’ identity, their role in instituting revolutionary newness (and conversely in inscribing the repetition of established archetypes), and, finally, the nature of the ‘photographic event’ and the rather different temporal shape of the ‘event of photography’. ‘Citizens of Photography’ asks what it is that is normally unseen, yet see-able in photography? It also aspires to encourage further ethnographic investigations of what remains the central means through which humans represent their aspirations to themselves and to others.

Editorial Assistant, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Editorial Assistant, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

DEADLINE Thursday 14 July 2022 (12.00 noon) - UK

Time commitment: up to 17 hours per week.
Rate of pay: £12.50 per hour.

Further particulars

The Royal Anthropological Institute is seeking to appoint an Editorial assistant for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Editorial assistant will work closely with the honorary Editor JRAI’s Editorial Collective, consisting of Hannah Knox, Adam Reed, Chika Watanabe, and Tom Yarrow.