BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Royal Anthropological Institute - ECPv6.15.13.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Royal Anthropological Institute
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://therai.org.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royal Anthropological Institute
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20270328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20271031T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260122T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260116T080048
CREATED:20251211T141310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T142122Z
UID:10004391-1769103000-1769103000@therai.org.uk
SUMMARY:A Kabul Music Diary (2003): Film Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Film Event organised in partnership with the Afghanistan Society \nThursday 22 January 2026\, 18.00 (GMT) \nDoors open at 17:30\, 30 minutes wine reception\, screening starts at 18:00\nLocation: RAI\, 50 Fitzroy Street\, W1T5BT London\nTickets must be booked in advance\, here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977611941553?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\nA Kabul Music Diary (2003):\nFilm Screening and Conversation\nwith John Baily and Andre Singer \nWe’re beginning the new year with a special screening dedicated to the work of John Baily\, Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology and the former Head of the Afghanistan Music Unit at Goldsmiths\, University of London. \nJohn has been closely connected to the music of Afghanistan since 1973\, and his contribution to the field has shaped how Afghan musical heritage is studied\, taught\, and understood. \nThis event — organised in partnership with the Afghanistan Society — will centre on a screening of his film A Kabul Music Diary (2003\, 52 minutes)\, followed by a Q&A moderated by André Singer. \n  \nThe film follows John’s return to Kabul a few months after the fall of the Taliban to observe how music was re-emerging in public life. The film documents a range of musical expressions — from traditional rubab performances to a student pop group experimenting with electronic instruments. Beyond its observational richness\, the film captures a moment of cultural reawakening under shifting political realities. Showing this work now feels especially important as it reminds us of the fragility and resilience of cultural practice\, and of the role film can play in witnessing\, remembering\, and honouring forms of expression that are once again under threat. \n 
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/a-kabul-music-diary-2003-film-screening-and-conversation/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://therai.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/A-Kabul-Music-Diary-7.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260203T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260116T080048
CREATED:20250617T134425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250718T075052Z
UID:10004359-1770134400-1770141600@therai.org.uk
SUMMARY:Artistry@Work: Jenn Law & Jillian Ross
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 3 February 2026\, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) \nThis is an online event. Register for the Zoom here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w8O119ivRQWOjrS4oTrQjA \n\n\nMeet Me in the Middle:\ncollaborative printmaking and lessons in democratic thinking in Canada and South Africa\nSpeakers:\nJenn Law\, social anthropologist & artist\, Toronto\nJillian Ross\, master printmaker\, Saskatoon \nInvited Discussant:\nJacqui Ramrayka\, ceramicist and educator\, London \nAbstract:\nDrawing on experiences of working in both Canada and South Africa\, Jenn Law and Jillian Ross (a Master printmaker) will reflect on the ways collaboration informs their overlapping practices. Taking the form of an exchange\, print will be discussed as a material practice-based strategy for thinking democratically. As the original “social media” and as a reproductive technology\, print has long been considered a strategic tool for disseminating knowledge\, transcending ideological and geographic boundaries\, and facilitating social activism. Reflecting on “mastery” in craft as both fundamentally collaborative and experimental\, Law and Ross will discuss the social and logistical dynamics of working with technologies\, materials and others\, often across diverse media and great distances\, to find a “middle ground” for making. In this\, as in democracy itself\, the middle ground is not at a fixed point\, but rather a moving target\, offering important lessons in navigating uncertainty and shared problem solving. \nBiographical note: \nJenn Law is an artist and anthropologist based in Toronto\, Canada. Working across print-based media\, Law’s multi-disciplinary practice explores cultural ecologies and processes of material storytelling. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from SOAS\, University of London\, UK\, a BA in Anthropology from McGill University\, Montreal\, and a BFA from Queen’s University\, Kingston. Law has exhibited her work internationally and has published widely on contemporary art and print culture\, working as a lecturer\, curator\, and editor in Canada\, the UK\, and South Africa. She is the co-founder of the experimental publishing platform\, Arts + Letters Press\, with Penelope Stewart\, and is currently working on a book and digital archive project with Jillian Ross Print focusing on collaborative print culture in Canada. \nJillian Ross is a collaborative master printer based in Saskatoon\, Canada. She holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan. From 2003–2020\, Ross ran the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, collaborating with over 100 local and international artists. During that time\, Ross became one of artist William Kentridge’s primary print collaborators\, completing over 200 prints to date. In 2021\, Ross and her partner\, Brendan Copestake\, founded Jillian Ross Print (JRP) in Saskatoon\, a collaborative print studio and publisher working primarily with South African and Canadian artists\, studios\, institutions and galleries to develop print projects\, exhibitions\, art workshops and talks. In 2024\, JRP installed Live Editions\, a working print studio at the Remai Modern art museum\, to showcase the live editioning of their latest large-scale collaborations with Kentridge\, based on his theatrical production\, The Great Yes\, The Great No. \nJacqui Ramrayka is a British-Guyanese artist and educator exploring themes of identity\, home and belonging through acts of making. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2023 and was the Adobe Global Ceramics Artist-in-Residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A\, London) in 2024. Jacqui is currently focussing on the ability of clay to transcend cultural barriers. Her V&A exhibition and residency responded in part to a number of ‘clay and conversation’ workshops held at the V&A\, MoMA (NY) and the Gardiner Museum (Toronto). Artefacts are charged with stories and associations; through conversation and working in clay\, the participants explored how these are used to house memories. \nImage : Jillian Ross with artist Wally Dion\, “Live Editions” exhibition at the Remai Modern art museum\, Saskatoon\, 2024.\n_____________________________________________ \nArtistry@Work is an online Seminar Series in the Anthropology of Artists & Artisans\, running 2024–2026 \nMaison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne\, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute \nOrganisers:  Dr Raphaël Blanchier & Professor Trevor Marchand \nThis seminar series in anthropology explores the situated practices of ‘artistry at work’ and\, more broadly\, the working lives and career trajectories of artists and artisans plying their trades in regions around the globe. The scope of the series also encompasses studies of occupations not conventionally categorised as “artistic” but that nevertheless foster creativity among (some) practitioners and even accommodate the development of “artist” identities. \nFind all events in the series here: https://therai.org.uk/series/artistrywork/
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-jenn-law-jillian-ross/
CATEGORIES:Online Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://therai.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/JillRoss_WallyDion_Remai2024-e1751984169980.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260210T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260116T080048
CREATED:20260115T131848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T142150Z
UID:10004395-1770739200-1770746400@therai.org.uk
SUMMARY:Anthropology of Play and Games: Cold War Toys in South America
DESCRIPTION:Anthropology of Play and Games \n~ A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores)\,\nKellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI~ \nTuesday 10 February 2026\,  4.00 – 6.00pm GMT \nThis is an online event. Please register here \n\nCold War Toys in South America\nSpeaker: Jordana Blejmar (University of Liverpool) \nchaired by Alyssa Grossman (University of Liverpool) \nThis paper will discuss a selection of toys manufactured\, promoted\, and commercialized in Argentina\, Chile\, and Uruguay during the second half of the twentieth century. It will approach toys as dispositifs – that is\, as cultural formations that condense the discourses\, institutions\, architectural forms\, scientific statements\, and philosophical propositions of a contested and turbulent period. The paper will present a rich compendium of manufactured objects – many inspired by European or U.S. brands – that incorporate local characters\, messages\, designs\, and materials through a process of creative adaptation\, thereby acquiring an identity of their own. These playthings are examined in part as commodities pertaining to a once-flourishing industry\, but also as creators of cultural myths\, material-narrative machines\, training tools for Cold War childhoods\, and objects imbued with memory. \n\n  \nJordana Blejmar is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts at the University of Liverpool. She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and received her doctorate at the University of Cambridge as a Gates scholar. She is author of Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017) and of Cold War Toys: Building Blocks\, Miniatures and Models in the Latin American Southern Cone (UCL Press\, forthcoming). She is also the co-editor of three books on art and politics in Latin America and has curated art and photography exhibitions in Buenos Aires\, Liverpool\, and Paris. She was the PI of the AHRC-funded project “Cold War Toys: Material Cultures of Childhood in Argentina” (2022-2024).
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-cold-war-toys-in-south-america/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://therai.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Figure-2.12-HD-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260217T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260217T180000
DTSTAMP:20260116T080048
CREATED:20260113T170150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T130354Z
UID:10004393-1771344000-1771351200@therai.org.uk
SUMMARY:RAI Research Seminar: Mark Maguire
DESCRIPTION:~ RAI Research Seminar ~ \nTuesday 17 February 2026\, 4-6pm (GMT) \nThis is a hybrid event.To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street\, W1T5BT London)\, register hereTo join us online via Zoom\, register here \n\nPublic Behaviour During Terror Attacks\nProf Mark Maguire (Maynooth University) \nFor over a decade\, Mark Maguire has studied terrorist attacks in Europe and Africa from the perspective of the public. When these terrifying events unfold on city streets\, in airports\, or in shopping malls\, ordinary people are at the mercy of their attackers for a significant time before armed responders arrive. During those critical minutes\, many people demonstrate extraordinary resilience\, while others reach the limit of their capabilities and social solidarity. By reconstructing these incidents anthropologically\, we can also identify significant patterns and thereby inform better security “preparedness.” We also come to better know the forces operating in the world of counterterrorism. This talk closes with an anthropological reflection on future challenges in emergency evacuation planning.
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-mark-maguire/
CATEGORIES:RAI Research Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://therai.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pexels-romakaiuk-3893380-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260116T080048
CREATED:20250617T134416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250718T075052Z
UID:10004361-1772553600-1772560800@therai.org.uk
SUMMARY:Artistry@Work: Laura Steil
DESCRIPTION:Image: Private archives\, François Mallia\, 1950. \n\nTuesday 3 March 2026\, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) \nThis is an online event. Register for the Zoom here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AiqkX33rTBSsjY5haWh4PA#/registration \n\n  \n\n‘Amateur’ musicians?\nSteel workers crafting free time in the Luxembourgish mining basin\nSpeaker:\nLaura Steil\, cultural anthropologist\, Paris and Luxembourg \nInvited Discussant:\nJonathan Skinner\, anthropologist and dancer\, University of Surrey \n\nAbstract:\nStudying Luxembourgish mine and factory workers’ travail à-côté (Weber\, 1989) as ballroom musicians (danzmuseker) offers rich insights into the articulation between “free time”\, industrial hierarchies\, and social aspirations. Developing from the mid-nineteenth century onwards\, the steel industry of the Greater Region (in Luxembourg) gave birth to unique working-class neighbourhoods reknowned for their talented musicians and festive venues\, often located near the entrances to industrial sites. Drawing on ethnography\, interviews\, archives and reenactment\, the three-year Dancing Esch project\, carried out at the University of Luxembourg (FNR-DFG)\, studied workers’ festivities in Esch-sur-Alzette\, 1920–1980. In this talk\, I will examine how the “work beyond work” worker-musicians opened a potential space between the “real” and the “possible” (Fouquet 2017)\, allowing creative interactions with their material\, social and cultural environments. I will explore what it meant to “work” in two worlds at once that were layered\, interdependent and antagonistic\, and how being “an amateur” truly meant loving and living by music. \nBiographical note: \nLaura Steil holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes\, Paris (2015). Her research focuses on social dance milieus in contemporary Europe: the afro and hip-hop scenes in the Paris region and twentieth-century dancehalls in the Luxembourg mining basin. She has investigated dance parties\, videoclip shootings or social media publications\, playfully experimenting with the tools of ethnography\, historiography and participatory research. She is particularly interested in learning\, transmission and (re)mediations\, as well as in cultural memory. She looks at contexts in which social or spatial ruptures\, such as those induced by migration\, have complexified modes of intergenerational transmission and community remembrance. Laura teaches research methods in various professional dance degrees and advocates for popular dance research within the international research group Pop Moves. She also remains active in the non-profit and cultural sector in Luxembourg and France and is involved in artistic and cultural education (EAC) and public history initiatives. \nDr Jonathan Skinner is Reader in the Anthropology of Events at the University of Surrey. He has a particular teaching interest in interviewing skills and qualitative research methods. He has undertaken fieldwork in the Eastern Caribbean on the island of Montserrat (carnival and festival tourism and trauma\, colonial relations and disaster recovery) and in the US/UK (social dancing\, arts health\, contested heritage and St Patrick’s Day). He recently applied his work on festivals and carnival to support sustainable lobster fishing practices in Sainte Luce\, Madagascar (2019).\nHe co-edits the award-winning book series ‘Dance and Performance Studies’ for Berghahn Publishers with Professor Helena Wulff (University of Stockholm). He is also two-times Ulster Salsa Champion (2008\, 2011) and a qualified Argentine tango instructor.\nDr Jonathan Skinner | University of Surrey \n_____________________________________________ \nArtistry@Work is an online Seminar Series in the Anthropology of Artists & Artisans\, running 2024–2026 \nMaison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne\, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute \nOrganisers:  Dr Raphaël Blanchier & Professor Trevor Marchand \nThis seminar series in anthropology explores the situated practices of ‘artistry at work’ and\, more broadly\, the working lives and career trajectories of artists and artisans plying their trades in regions around the globe. The scope of the series also encompasses studies of occupations not conventionally categorised as “artistic” but that nevertheless foster creativity among (some) practitioners and even accommodate the development of “artist” identities. \nFind all events in the series here: https://therai.org.uk/series/artistrywork/
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-laura-steil/
CATEGORIES:Online Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://therai.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Red-folder-Laura-Steil-003a-jpg-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260407T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260407T180000
DTSTAMP:20260116T080048
CREATED:20250617T134406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250718T075052Z
UID:10004363-1775577600-1775584800@therai.org.uk
SUMMARY:Artistry@Work: Robert Simpkins
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 7 April 2026\, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) \nThis is an online event. Register for the Zoom here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SQ38aYNZStiWN28Czjw0Zw#/registration \n\n  \nBetween Notes:\nsound\, self\, and the unfolding present in the careers of Tokyo’s independent musicians\nSpeaker:\nRobert Simpkins\, social anthropologist and musician\, Oxford \nInvited Discussant:\nTbc Christine Guillebaud\, anthropologist\, CNRS LESC-CREM \n \n\nAbstract:\nThis talk explores the working lives of independent musicians in Tokyo who navigate artistic careers outside of formalised institutional structures – neither embedded in the music industry nor integrated into Japan’s canonical employment system. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork\, Robert’s research considers how these musicians negotiate recognition\, legitimacy and self-worth in the absence of conventional scripts. The practices of his interlocutors often reflect ambivalent forms of moral positioning and aspiration\, and contain moments of tension and creativity that speak to how artistic careers are sustained in the gaps between legitimacy and marginality\, hope and cynicism. Increasingly\, his research also asks what role sound itself – not merely as representational layer\, but as generative medium – might play in shaping the narrative processes through which these artists make sense of their lives. \nBiographical note: \nRobert Simpkins is a social anthropologist interested in how we engage with the world through creative practices. His passion for music and sound shapes his research on performance and the relational life of sound in public space. His ethnographic work\, conducted primarily in Tokyo\, explores sound and self\, the dynamics of urban space\, and the role of the body\, gender\, affect and wellbeing. He co-founded the Sound Loss Collective and co-produces Artery\, an AHRC-supported podcast on art\, authorship\, and anthropology. He is currently developing new projects on sound as method\, including a short film about unhoused music. \nChristine Guillebaud\, an anthropologist and an ethnomusicologist\, is a Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)\, and former Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnomusicology (CREM-LESC) located at the University of Paris-Nanterre. She also teaches in the Department of Musicology at the University of Geneva. Her academic interests include anthropology of sound\, the study of urban ambiances\, and the ethnography of local noise management politics in India\, where she has conducted long-term fieldwork. She is currently leading the MILSON research program (milson.fr)\, dedicated to the study of sound environments in their sociocultural context of production and perception. She has edited the book Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound (Routledge\, 2017)\, co-edited Worship Sound Spaces. Architecture\, Acoustics and Anthropology (Routledge\, 2020)\, and Singing the Past (Nanterre University Press\, 2023). Previously\, she published numerous volumes and articles on musical creation\, multimodality\, danced knowledges\, cultural policies\, sound humour and intellectual property. She has also coproduced sound creations for radio\, including the series Écouter le monde (Radio France Internationale). \n_____________________________________________ \nArtistry@Work is an online Seminar Series in the Anthropology of Artists & Artisans\, running 2024–2026 \nMaison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne\, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute \nOrganisers:  Dr Raphaël Blanchier & Professor Trevor Marchand \nThis seminar series in anthropology explores the situated practices of ‘artistry at work’ and\, more broadly\, the working lives and career trajectories of artists and artisans plying their trades in regions around the globe. The scope of the series also encompasses studies of occupations not conventionally categorised as “artistic” but that nevertheless foster creativity among (some) practitioners and even accommodate the development of “artist” identities. \nFind all events in the series here: https://therai.org.uk/series/artistrywork/
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-robert-simpkins/
CATEGORIES:Online Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://therai.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Simpkins-image-scaled-e1750183051775.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260505T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260116T080048
CREATED:20250617T134335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250718T075051Z
UID:10004365-1777996800-1778004000@therai.org.uk
SUMMARY:Artistry@Work: Raphaël Blanchier
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 5 May 2026\, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) \nThis is an online event. Register for the Zoom here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VrjHFAS2SmaANh7ISeCrhA#/registration \n\n  \n\nLives of Talent:\nan ethnography of dancers’ work/life in Mongolia\nSpeaker:\nRaphaël Blanchier\, anthropologist\, Université Clermont Auvergne and IFRAE-CNRS\, LESC-CREM \nInvited Discussant:\nCassis Kilian\, anthropologist and performer\, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt \n\nAbstract:\nIn Mongolia\, recognised dancers\, professional or otherwise\, are viewed as special individuals endowed with an innate quality called av’’yaas (“talent”). A dancer’s av’’yaas allegedly includes a variety of aptitudes\, which include physical capacities (i.e. being flexible\, have suitable bodily proportions)\, perceptual skills (i.e. feeling the music) and motor skills (i.e. moving with fluidity\, expression and musicality). However necessary\, av’’yaas is not sufficient on its own for making a dancer. Being born with av’’yaas engages a person to prove themself worthy of their gift to become a successful dancer. By contrast\, a “talented” (av’’yaastai) person may be accused of “wasting” their talent. From childhood to old age\, a dancer’s life therefore presents a series of challenges that publicly tests their av’’yaas\, ability and life choices to live up to their expectation. This\, I argue\, follows what E. Goffman called ‘line of conduct’: an accumulation of situations confirming (or denying) the public acknowledgement of their distinctive nature. \nGrounded in an immersive style of ethnographic fieldwork among Mongolian dancers\, as well as in comprehensive interviews and self-learning\, this presentation discusses a position endorsed by French sociologists according to which “talent”\, or its correlate “vocation” should be seen as a deceitful notion crafted to exploit artists in a capitalistic world. I argue that “artistic work” should be considered as something more than mere “work” in itself and\, consequently\, that the notion of “artistry” merits closer anthropological examination. \nBiographical note: \nRaphaël Blanchier is an associate professor in the anthropology of dance (Université Clermont Auvergne\, ACTé Research Center)\, and associate researcher at IFRAE-CNRS Research Center\, and at LESC-CREM. Trained in social anthropology\, dance studies and humanities\, he conducts research on Mongolian dances\, cultural transmission and national identity in the age of globalisation. He has been granted the GIS Asie (Asian Studies Network) Award for his PhD. He has directed the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Programme Choreomundus: International Master in Dance Knowledge\, Practice and Heritage\, and he has been the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Lectures anthropologiques. His books and papers interrogate transmission and apprenticeship among dancers\, the making of a sense of community through dance (Mongolian dance\, bourrée auvergnate)\, Cultural Heritage making policies in Mongolia today and during the socialist era\, the use of digital media in the circulation of dance forms\, and\, more recently\, the “work of hope” in post-socialist urban contexts in Mongolia. \nCassis Kilian is a postdoctoral fellow in the research project “NoJoke” which studies humour as an epistemic practice of the political present [www.nojoke.net]. She was an actress before writing her PhD on African film and teaching at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Mainz University. Her publications focus on cosmopolitanism\, senses\, perception and methodology. Her most recent book is entitled “Attention in Performance: Acting Lessons in Sensory Anthropology” (Routledge\, 2021). \n_____________________________________________ \nArtistry@Work is an online Seminar Series in the Anthropology of Artists & Artisans\, running 2024–2026 \nMaison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne\, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute \nOrganisers:  Dr Raphaël Blanchier & Professor Trevor Marchand \nThis seminar series in anthropology explores the situated practices of ‘artistry at work’ and\, more broadly\, the working lives and career trajectories of artists and artisans plying their trades in regions around the globe. The scope of the series also encompasses studies of occupations not conventionally categorised as “artistic” but that nevertheless foster creativity among (some) practitioners and even accommodate the development of “artist” identities. \nFind all events in the series here: https://therai.org.uk/series/artistrywork/
URL:https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-raphael-blanchier/
CATEGORIES:Online Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://therai.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Blanchier-image.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR