AnthCal

The Anthropology Today Calendar of events

ISSUE: vol. 15, no. 5, October 1999

  OCTOBER 1999

21 Oct  5.30-7.30, refreshments 7.30-8 RAI EVENT: SEMINAR-PRESENTATION by Barbara Glowczewski with  her CD-ROM on the Warlpiri  (Australian Aboriginals), Gustave Tuck Theatre, University College London, with discussants. See under RAINews for details.

 23 Oct 'Belgium's Africa: Assessing the Belgian Legacy in and on Africa.' Conference jointly organized by the Department of African Languages and Cultures (University of Ghent), and the Royal Museum of Central Africa at Tervuren. Contact: Belgium's Africa, Conference Secretariat, Dep. African Languages and Cultures, University of Ghent, Rozier 44, 900 Ghent, Belgium, tel +32 92643824, fax +32 92644180, email belgiumsafrica@africana.rug.ac.be, website http://africana.rug.ac.be/Belgiumsafrica.htm.

27 Oct 4.30pm RAI Huxley Lecture

Professor Sally Falk Moore. Opening academic event of 50th Anniversary conference, Dept of Soc. Anth., U. of Manchester (27-31 Oct). 'Certainties undone: fifty turbulent years of legal anthropology, 1949-99', at Manchester Town Hall. Confirm details with conference organizers.

27-31 Oct Manchester 99: Visions and Voices. Fiftieth anniversary conference. Fee £50. For further details contact Angela McLachlan, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Roscoe Building, Brunswick St, Manchester M13 9PL, tel 0161-275-2601, fax 0161-275-3970, email anthro99@man.ac.uk, website http://les.man.ac.uk/sa/visions.htm.

NOVEMBER 1999

12-13 Nov 'Quality Controls? Anthropology, Pedagogy and Higher Education', a National Network for Teaching and Learning Anthropology conference at University College London. Contact Caroline White, 27 Gladwell Road, London N8 9AA, tel 0181-348-6169, email Cwhiten8@aol.com.

16, 17, 23, 24 Nov, 1 Dec Evans-Pritchard Lectures 1999.  Dr. Akira Okazaki will delver a series of lectures entitled 'Recapturing the shadow: dream consciousness, healing and civil war in the borderlands between Northern and Southern Sudan' at 5pm in the Old Library, All Souls College, Oxford.

17-21 Nov American Anthropological Assn 98th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Contact AAA Mtgs Dept, 4350 N Fairfax Dr, Suite 640, Arlington, VA. 22203-1620, email jmeier@ameranthassn.org.

18-20 Nov 'Africa Ten Years After:Re-examing the Post Cold War period and the challenges, achievements and failures of the Organization of African Unity' an Organisation for Peace and Appropriate Development for the Horn of Africa conference at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leiden. Contact The Pada Foundation, PO Box 857, 2300 AW Leiden, The Netherlands.

24-27 Nov International Congress on European Rock Art at Vigo, with four themes: 1) Ways of research; 2) Meanings, interpretations, relations; 3)Preservation; 4)Social importance. Details from: Congreso International de Arte Rupestre, Museo Municipal 'Quiñones de León', Parques de Castrelos s/n, 36213 VIGO, Spain, fax (34) 986 23 93 72.

DECEMBER 1999

10-12 Dec 'Dis-ease with Post-modern Anthropology: anthropologists facing towards the 21st century', the Anthropological Association of Ireland Conference at LSB College, Dublin. Enquiries to Dr David Slattery, LSB College, Dublin, Balfe Street, Dublin 2, tel +353-1-6794844, fax +353-1-6794205, email Dean@LSB.ie.

11-12 Dec New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore - 'A permeability of boundaries?' A conference organized by post-graduates from the department of archaeology, University of Southampton. For details contact Robert Wallis at the Dept of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, email rjw2@soton.ac.uk or see website at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~kj131/confer.htm.