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The 17th RAI Film Festival will take place 25-28 March 2021 in Bristol, UK.
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.
Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture: Professor Steve Shennan (UCL) for his very great contribution to cross-disciplinary studies between pre-history, archaeology and anthropology.
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.