The 2010 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 23 September in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum. It will be followed by the 2010 Henry Myers Lecture to be given by Professor Geoffrey Lloyd of Cambridge University. Professor Lloyd’s title is ‘Humanity between gods and beasts? Ontologies in question’. The full programme for the event will be advertised in the August issue of AT.
The Huxley Memorial Lecturer and Medallist for 2010 is Professor Johannes Fabian of the University of Amsterdam. The lecture will take place on Thursday 25 November in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum (time tba). Professor Fabian’s title is ‘Cultural anthropology and the question of knowledge’.
Shaping the Field: Medical Anthropology in Europe: St Antony’s College, Oxford, 1-2 July 2010. Registration is open for this conference, jointly organized by the RAI’s Medical Anthropology Committee and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University. Registration form and details available on the RAI website at http://www.therai.org.uk.
The 2010 London Anthropology Day, an annual taster session for teachers and 6th-form students interested in studying anthropology at university, will take place at the British Museum on Thursday 8 July. We thank the ESRC for an extension of its funding support to the Education Programme.
The 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film will be held at University College London in late June 2011 (dates and details tba).
RAI Fellows should now have received their copy of the 2010 Special Issue of the JRAI, Making knowledge, edited by Trevor Marchand. The 2011 Special Issue, The aesthetics of nations: Anthropological and historical approaches, edited by Nayanika Mookherjee and Christopher Pinney, will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in early 2011. We expect to announce the Special Issue for 2012 towards the end of this year. A call for proposals for the 2013 Special Issue appears in this issue of AT (submission deadline 1 November 2010).
Urgent Anthropology Fellowship Programme. Goldsmiths College will succeed the University of Kent as host of the Fellowship programme for a three-year term; see separate announcement in this issue of AT.
We are delighted to announce that the 2009 AM Hocart Essay Prize has been awarded to Megan Wainwright of Durham University, for an essay entitled ‘Taking constipation seriously: An ethnographic study of the patient’s perspective on illness and interactions in healthcare’.
Library news. We are delighted to welcome the British Museum’s introduction of the new online catalogue at the Centre for Anthropology, for which contracts have now been signed and which is expected to be launched later this year. The catalogue will make a great difference to the Library’s accessibility for all users.
Summer closure. The RAI offices will be closed from Monday 23 to Monday 30 August inclusive.
