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RAI Office Manager and Conference Assistant
The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) is seeking to appoint an Office Manager and Conference Assistant. The RAI is the oldest learned society devoted to anthropology and plays a leading role in the dissemination and creation of anthropological knowledge. Registered as a charity, it has its own freehold building in Fitzroy Street, and approximately 20 staff (full and part-time). Its library is jointly run with the British Museum, and it works with many institutions in the UK and overseas.
Call for Correspondence
Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard
At the RAI, we recently held a memorial event on the life and works of Evans-Pritchard. This was a great success, and our recent President André Singer is now editing the proceedings from it.
Prof Michael Banton Day
A DAY TO HONOUR THE LIFE AND WORK OF PROFESSOR MICHAEL BANTON (1926-2018)
Call for Papers. Deadline 10 June 2019.
In 2018, we were very sorry to lose our former president, Professor Michael Banton. Additionally the winner of the RAI Lucy Mair medal in 2013, it may truly be said that throughout his entire academic career he fought to impede or alleviate racism. He did so without the slightest drop in academic standards. Indeed, it may be stated conversely, that he began his deliberations by regarding racism as a problem that needed to be solved, and developed a sophisticated intellectual appreciating how this might be done.