Welcome to the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Leach/RAI Fellows in Public Anthropology
The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Cearns and Laura Haapio-Kirk as Leach/RAI Fellows in Public Anthropology for 2020.
This is a new Fellowship, supported by the Esperanza Trust, intended to improve the profile of anthropology in public debate. Despite the potential of anthropologists to make vital contributions, politicians and the press are much more likely to consult economists, psychologists and a variety of other specialists. This Fellowship intends to amplify the voice of anthropologists in public arenas on topical issues such as climate change, migration, and global health, through a variety of media and events.
Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology
2020 Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Medical Anthropology Committee in collaboration with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dates: 3-4 September 2020
Venue: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London.
CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS
Deadline 11 February 2020
Medical anthropology is a practice of continual empirical negotiation. Our work is situated in cross-disciplinary intellectual spaces and its investigative tools and means of analysis are shaped accordingly, often influencing, and being influenced by, methods in other fields.
Honorary Obituary Editor
Expressions of interest – Honorary Obituary Editor
Closing date 1 Feburary 2020
The Manuscripts and Archive Committee of the RAI invites expressions of interest in the position of Honorary Obituary Editor, following the highly successful inaugural tenure of Dr Nichola Kahn. The aim of this position is to facilitate and otherwise commission obituaries of distinguished deceased anthropologists (especially, but not restricted to RAI Fellows). The postholder will liase closely with academic anthropologists, the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) at the British Museum, and the Chair of the Manuscripts and Archive Committee.