K-Peritia (funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme - COST)

The RAI is pleased to announce that K-Peritia, a project funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme (COST), will be based at the institute for the next four years. The project’s objectives revolve around cultural expertise and include the development of a network which will bring together scholars (particularly those at the outset of their careers) who have preliminary experience as experts in court, members of the legal professions who are interested in cultural expertise, senior scholars with experience of expert witnessing, and representatives of key international organisations, NGOs and capacity-building institutions. The RAI is particularly pleased to have this opportunity to work with this COST programme, not just because of the project’s contemporary relevance but also because it dovetails so well with initiatives that we have been developing on Cultural Expertise and Forensic Expert Social Anthropology. The COST action is led by Professor Livia Holden. More details may be found here. K-Peritia will open with a plenary conference at Pembroke College in Oxford from the 3^rd to the 6^th January 2024.

Honorary Editor(s) of the JRAI

DEADLINE: 6 FEBRUARY 2024

Honorary Editor(s) of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is one of the world’s premier anthropology journals, and has been the journal of record in the United Kingdom since its inception. The RAI seeks to appoint a new honorary editor or editors that will take over from the current editors Professor Hannah Knox, Dr Adam Reed, Dr Chika Watanabe, and Professor Tom Yarrow, whose present term of office comes to an end on 30 September 2024, with the completion of volume 30 (December 2024). Applications from individuals will be considered, as will those from an editorial team or collective.

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Haddon and the Aran Islands

New Exhibition

Haddon and the Aran Islands: the beginning of visual anthropology

Alfred Cort Haddon and Andrew Francis Dixon spent a week in the Aran Islands in 1890. They documented the glacio-karst landscape, the people, their mode of life, beliefs, customs, folklore and numerous archaeological sites. Haddon summarised the work as follows:

I can't tell you all the excursions we made in Aran. it wd be as tedious for you to read as for me to write suffice it to say that Dixon & I left very little unseen & what with sketches & photographs we have a good deal on paper.

Haddon, 1890, S.S. Fingal Journal: 50.

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