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The Royal Anthropological Institute’s first annual one-day postgraduate conference was hosted by the Department of Anthropology at Durham University on 20 September 2011. In their opening remarks, Bob Simpson, and Stephen M Lyon referred to the RAI’s vision for this annual conference, where 30 postgraduate students from more than 17 universities and institutes presented their research. Stephen Lyon then introduced the use of the Anthropological Index Online in anthropological research. \nRAI’s Film Officer, Susanne Hammacher and Education and Communication Officer, Nafisa Fera introduced the range of RAI’s activities, inviting participants to take an active role. Both sessions showed how the RAI can help to increase the visibility of students’ research in the discipline. \nIn an interactive session with journal editors (Stephen M. Lyon of History and Anthropology, Claudia Merli of Durham Anthropology Journal, and Simone Gritter and Ely Rosenblum of the online multimedia journal ART/E/FACT), students gained information about getting published in anthropological journals

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