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 3rd to the 6th January 2024.