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Calendar of Events in Anthropology,
February 2000

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EXHIBITIONS

British Museum Gilded Dragons: buried treasures from China's golden ages (till 20 February 2000), Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, tel 0171-323-8525.

University of Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Torres Strait Islanders: exhibition marking the centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait (till July 2000). Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, tel 01223-333516

EVENTS   

MARCH 2000

10-19 Mar Cinéma du Réel, the 22nd International Festival of Visual Anthropology and Social Documentation at Centre Georges Pompidou. 
Film details to be submitted by 1 Nov. Contact: Cinéma du Réel, BPI, Centre Georges Pompidou, 25 rue du Renard, 75197 Paris, tel 1 44 78 44 21, fax 1 44 78 12 24, website http://www.bpi.fr, email cinereel@bpi.fr 

15-17 Mar from today, a conference for documentary producers and publishers focusing on new technologies for fieldwork, production and distribution. Contact David Reville and Sara Gady, Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University Box 1841, Providence, RI 02912, USA,  tel 401-862-2934, fax 401-863-9313, email fromtoday@brown.edu , website http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/fromtoday/ 
24-25 Mar Postgraduate Conference: 'identity and movement' , on topics related to the way identities are reinvented in an era of globalization. For details contact: Caroline Oliver/Stef Jansen, Dept of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Hull, Cottingham Rd, Hull, HU6 7RX, tel 01482-466215, email c.j.oliver@cas.hull.ac.uk 

APRIL 2000

date to be confirmed 'The Challenge of Difference: articulating gender, race and class', contact Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Socias, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Estrada de São Lázaro 197, Federação, Salvador, Bahia 40210 730, Brazil, fax (55) 71 235 4635, email cecimcc@neth.com.br 

1 Apr Primate Society of Great Britain millenium meeting on 'Primates: Our Past, Their Future'. Hosted by the Natural History Museum (London). Details from Mark Collard, Department of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Email m.collard@ucl.ac.uk

2-5 Apr ASA conference
'Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge' at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh St, London, WC1H 0XG. Details from Alan Bicker, Social Anthropology Department, Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NS, tel 01227-764000, fax 01227-827289, email a.bicker@ukc.ac.uk , OR Paul Sillitoe, Anthropology Department, 43 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, tel 0191-374-2856, fax 0191-374-2870, email paul.sillitoe@durham.ac.uk 

27 Apr-1 May Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival. Information and forms for registration and film submission available from Institute für Wissenschaftlichen Film, c/o Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, Nonnenstieg 72, D-37075, Göttingen, Germany, tel 0551/50 24 160, fax 0551/50 24 400, email iwf.secr-gsw@iwf.de 

MAY 2000

4-5 May Sixth International Euro-Asia Research Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland. Abstracts should be submitted by the 1st October. Contact Ms Barbara Merigeault, IAE de Poitiers, 20 Rue Guillaume VII le Troubadour, BP639, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France, fax (33) 5 49 45 44 90, email euroasie@iae.univ-poitiers.fr  (see news this issue).

10 May Phyllis Kaberry Commemorative Lecture, 5pm at the Taylor Institution, St Giles, Oxford. Entitled Interpreting cultural narratives: the presence and absence of Phyllis Kaberry's anthropology and to be given by Dr. Sandy Toussaint, University of Western Australia. For details contact Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LA, tel 01865 273644, fax 01865 273607, email cccrw@qeh.ox.ac.uk

11-13 May The 4th European Congress on Ethnopharmacology   in Metz, France, entitled 'From the source of knowledge to the medicines of the future'. For details email sfc-see@wanadoo.fr 

17 May The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Beatrice Blackwood Lecture, 7pm, 'Tales of the unexpected: board games ancient and modern' by Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Theatre, South Parks Road, Oxford. Contact Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP, tel 01865 270927.

24-28 May Beeld voor Beeld, visual anthropology festival in Amsterdam with the theme of 'transitions' and a special focus on Eastern Europe and the Balkans. See website www.xs4all.nl/~savan, email beeldvoorbeeld@savan.nl  or tel. +31-20-6201368, +31-20-6832759 or +31-20-6828534.

JUNE 2000

25-28 Jun 'Intersecting Times: The Work of Memory in South-Eastern Europe.' A workshop organized by the University of Wales Centre for the Study of South-Eastern Europe at Clyne Castle, Swansea, Wales, UK. Contact Yannis Hamilakis at Dept. of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter SA48 7ED, email cssee@lamp.ac.uk 

JULY 2000

10-14 Jul Third AURA Congress, Alice Springs, Australia.. International rock art conference, including the 2000 IFRAO Meeting, 16 Symposia, extensive field trip programme. Contact AURA, PO Box 216, Caulfield South 3162, Australia, tel & fax (613) 9523 0549, email aurawww@sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au, website http://sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au/aura/Welcome.html 

24-28 Jul International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress: Metropolitan Ethnic Cultures: Maintenance and Interaction at the Olympic Hotel, Beijing, China. Contact 2000 Inter-Congress, China Urban Anthropology Association, 252 Taipingqiao avenue, Beijing, 100800, P.R. China, tel +86-10-66068146, fax +86-10-66024923, email CUAA-dy@mail.263.net.cn, website http://ruls01.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/~nas/07-IUAES-news.htm  (See news this issue)

26-29 Jul 6th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference: Crossing Categorical Boundaries: Religion as Politics/Politics as Religion in Krakow, Poland. Contact Secretariat EASA, Urgell 259, s.s.3, E-08026 Barcelona, Spain, tel/fax +34 9 33212259, email easa@trivium.gh.ub.es, URL http://www.ub.es/easa/6th.htm 

SEPTEMBER 2000

8-11 Sep 12th Congress of the European Anthropological Association - 'Millennial Perspectives: Past, Present and Future'. At Cambridge University. For details contact Dr Nick Mascie-Taylor, Head, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, fax 44-(0)1223-335460, email bioanth-eaa2000@lists.cam.ac.uk 

11-22 Sep 'Cultural Aspects of Medicine and Psychiatry', a two week course by UCL medical anthropologists for those from health and social services backgrounds. Fee £600. Contact Dr Simon Dein, Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Royal Free & University College Medical School, Wolfson Building, 48 Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA. Tel 0171-504-9435.

NOVEMBER 2000

14-18 Nov American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.,CA.  Theme: Public face of anthropology. Deadline for submissions: 1 Apr 2000. Contact AAAMtgs Dept, 4350 NFairfax Dr, Suite 640, Arlington,VA. 22203-1620; tel 703/528-1902 ext. 2, jmeier@aaanet.org

DECEMBER 2000

16-20 Dec [provisional] RAI Seventh International Festival of Ethnographic Film, hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. http://www.therai.org.uk/film/festival2000.html.

FEBRUARY 2001

23-24 February 2001 [change of date] Asceticism and power in the Asian context. Royal Asiatic Society, London. Deadline for submission of abstracts [change of date]: 1 Sep 2000. Contact Rupert Cox (106207.2000@compuserve.com ) or Gustaaf Houtman (ghoutman@tesco.net ). Royal Asiatic Society, 60 Queen's Gardens, London W2 3AF. Website: http://www.therai.org.uk/anthcal/asianasceticism.html.

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