Torres Strait Islanders, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Exhibition marking the centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait (till July 2000). Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, tel. +44 1223 333516

Transformations: The Art of Recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. The Museum has one of the world's most extensive and inventive collections of recycled objects. Also shown is the work of the photographer Joachim Schmid who documents how recycling has taken place across a range of cultures (till Autumn 2001). South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP, tel. +44 1865 270927

Revealing Bodies, Palace of Fine Arts, The Exploratorium, San Francisco. looks at the ways the human body has been parsed over time in different cultures (till September 4). 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA

Visions of the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer, British Museum. Until 13 August. Admission Charge. West Wing Exhibition Gallery (28), Tel. +44 20 7323 8525/8583/8661

Malinowski-Witkacy: Photography between Science and Art, National Museum in Kraków (for photo see page 29). Between 17 July and 13 August. Contact: Terence Wright, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, 21 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LA; Tel: +44 1608 677671, terence.wright@qeh.ox.ac.uk

JUNE 2000

21 Jun RAI AGM, 5 p.m., Gustave Tuck Theatre, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1. Followed by refreshments, 5.30 p.m., and at 6 p.m. by a 'trailer' for the Film Festival (16-20 Dec.) with a screening of The Women Who Smile by Joanna Head and Jean Lydall (50 minutes), one of the 'best' of the films awarded the RAI Film Prize since 1980 (according to a poll of members of the RAI Film Committee).

JULY 2000

10-14 Jul Professional Practice in Multi-Disciplinary Work in UK Health and Overseas Development, the University of Cambridge. A one week residential course by Group for Anthropology in Policy and Practice(GAPP) and Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth (ASA) in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology, the University of Cambridge. Registration fee is £40. Contact Anne Lynch, 72 Muswell Hill Place, London N0 3RR; tel. +44 20 8444 303, email anne@lynchlon.freeserve.co.uk (see news this issue)

10-14 JulThird AURACongress, 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, aurawww@sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au , http://sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au/aura/Welcome.html

10-14 Jul International Congress of Americanists, 50th Congress, Warsaw, http://www.cesla.ci.uw.edu.pl/501ca

15-19 Jul International Visual Sociology Association, Conference. Portland, ME. Theme: 'The Image In Field Work: Assessing Traditions And Envisioning Futures.' Deadline for papers: Mar 31, 2000. Contact Nancy Allen, Box WAK, Wheaton C, Norton, MA 02766; tel. 508 2863650, fax 508 2863640, nallen@wheatonma.edu

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, CUAA-dy@mail.263.net.cn , 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, easa@trivium.gh.ub.es, http://www.ub.es/easa/6th.htm

AUGUST 2000

30 Aug-2 Sep International Summer Course, Amsterdam. Mermaids, Hip-hop and Tattoo: Dynamics of Popular Culture. In association with Tropenmseum, Amsterdam, The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, P.O.Box 53066, 1007 RB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31 20 6200225, fax +31 20 6249368. E-mail alana@amsu.edu , http://www.amsu.edu/2000/CULT2.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 1223 335460, bioanth-eaa2000@lists.cam.ac.uk

10-17 Sep European Association of Archaeologists, Sixth Annual Meeting, Lisbon. http://www.ipa.min-cultura.pt/eaa2000/

11-22 Sep 'Cultural Aspects of Medicine and Psychiatry', a two-week course by UCLmedical 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. +44 171 5049435.

21-23 Sep 21st annual Australian Anthropological Society Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth. Also, Native Title Workshop organised in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies between 19-20 September 2000. See: http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/anthropwww/aas2000/welcome.htm

20-23 Sep 'Writing Diasporas: Axial Writers, Plural Literacies, Transnational Imagination' is a multidisciplinary conference held at the University of Wales, Swansea on the role of travelling and translating writers, artists and intellectuals in the cultural politics of diasporas and nations. See: http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm . Contact t.cheesman@swan.ac.uk or m.b.gillespie@swan.ac.uk , fax UK+44 1792 295710

23-25 Sep 'Kurdish Gender Studies', a workshop organized by the Berlin Society for the Advancement of Kurdish Studies and the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin for scholars and students with an ongoing or recently completed research project in the field of Kurdish gender studies. Contact: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Iranistik, Projekt 'Kurdische Identität und politische Bewegungen im Exil', Thielalle 52, 14195 Berlin, Germany; sukria@zedat.fu-berlin.de

OCTOBER 2000

13-15 Oct 'Going back to the sources of Swiss Americanism', Glaris, Switzerland. a conference, which focus upon the list of Swiss scholars that have contributed to the knowledge of the nature and cultures of the New World. Contact: Swiss Society of Americanists, Musée d'Ethnographie, 65-67 Bd Carl-Vogt, CH-1205 Genéve, Switzerland; tel. +41 22 418 4544, fax +41 22 418 4551, SSA2000@-anthro.unige.ch , http://anthro.unige.ch/ssa2000

16-22 Oct X International Festival of Ethnographic Films in Nuoro, Italia, organized by the Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico of Sardinia. Theme: 'Children'. Contact: Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico via Mereu, 56-08100 Nuoro, Italy; tel. +39 784 242900, fax +39 784 37484, isrenuoro@interbusiness.it , http://www.regione.sardegna.it/ital/pubb_istr/isre/index.ht

23-27 Oct International Society of Ethnobiology, 7th International Congress. Athens, GA. Contact John R Stepp and Rebecca Zarger, Dept of Anthropology, U of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602; rstepp@uga.edu, http://guallart.dac.uga.edu/ISE

25-28 Oct Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, 28th Annual Meeting, Burlington, Canada. Contact: Charles Fitzgerald, Dept of Anthropology, McMaster U, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; fitzgerl@mcmaster.ca , http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CAPA/capa.html

NOVEMBER 2000

14-18 Nov American Anthropological Association, 99th 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

24-26 Nov Postgraduate Workshop : The Anthropology of Change, London School of Economics and Political Science. Abstracts deadline: 15 July. Contact: Anthropology of Change Workshop, Dept of Anthropology, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE; Anthrochange@lse.ac.uk , http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/anthropology/Anthrochange.htm

29 Nov RAI HENRY MYERS LECTURE Prof. Jan Assmann, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, University of Heidelberg. 6 pm, Gustave Tuck Theatre, University College London

DECEMBER 2000

6 Dec RAI HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE. Prof. Pierre Bourdieu, Collège de France, Paris. Time and place to be confirmed.

8-9 Dec [change of date] 'Auf der Suche nach Identitäten: Volk-Stamm-Kultur-Ethnos' is an international conference on significance and praxis of ethnic ascription in archaeology held at the University of Leipzig. For details contact: Prof. S. Rieckhoff, Rieckhoff@rzuni-leipzig.de or Dr. Ulrike Sommer, usommer@sfb417.uni-leipzig.de

16-20 Dec RAI Seventh International Festival of Ethnographic Film, hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. See back cover

FEBRUARY 2001

23-24 Feb 2001 [change of date] Asceticism and power in the Asian context. Organized by the Royal Asiatic Society, London, in conjunction with the School of Oriental and African Studies. Deadline for submission abstracts [change of date]: 1 Sep 2000. Contact Rupert Cox on the Far East (106207.2000@compuserve.com ), Peter Flugel on South Asia (pf@cix.co.uk) Gustaaf Houtman on South East Asia . Royal Asiatic Society, 60 Queen's Gardens, London W2 3AF, http://www.therai.org.uk/anthcal/asianasceticism.html

MARCH 2001

19-23 Mar Science and Shamanism. First International Congress, Palm Springs, California. Contact: Michael Ripinsky-Naxon, Centre for Shamanism and Consciousness Studies, PMB 504, 44489 Town Center Way Suite D, Palm Desert, CA 92260-2723; congress@csacs.org , http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CAPA/capa.html

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