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 (until Autumn 2001). South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP, tel. +44 1865 270927 (for a review, see p. 17 of this issue)

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

Malinowski-Witkacy: Photography between science and art, National Museum in Kraków. 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

AUGUST 2000

30 Aug-2 Sep International Summer Course, Amsterdam. Mermaids, Hip-hop and Tattoo: Dynamics of Popular Culture. In association with Tropenmuseum, 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/

12 Sep, 10:00-12:45 The social life of trees, London. Organised by the BA Archaeology and Anthropology Section of the British Association at its Festival of Science at Imperial College, London. Sponsored by the RAI. Book at: +44 870 842 2220; http://www.creatingsparks.co.uk . For details see inner front cover of this issue.

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

18-19 Sep The role of the individual vis-à-vis the family, society and state in Asia and Europe, Vienna. Organized by the Asia Europe Foundation and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for research on China and Southeast Asia. Contact:Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Josefstädterstr. 20/24, 1080 Vienna, Austria, tel. +43 1 4069793; ibichina@netway.at

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 +44 1792 295710

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

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', Thielallee 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 focusing on 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, Italy, 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/etno-film/index-etno-film.htm

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

26-29 Oct Social Science History Association's 25th annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Criminal justice, family & demography, migration & immigration, education, and women & gender. Contact: The Conference Registrar, Indiana University Conferences, 110 One City Centre, Bloomington, IN 47404. Tel. +1 812 855 4661; http://www.ipums.umn.edu/~ssha/

NOVEMBER 2000

2-3 Nov International Congress of Anthropology Students, Lisbon. Contact: 8th International Congress, Av. das Forças Armadas, Edifício ISCTE, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal; tel./fax: +351 217903940; anthropology8@hotmail.com; http://www.iscte.pt

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

20 Nov-1 Dec Gender, reproductive health and fertility, and Culture, psychology and psychiatry. Two-week intensive executive course. Amsterdam Master's in Medical Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31 20 525 4779; amma@pscw.uva.nl

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 RAIHENRYMYERSLECTURE Prof. Jan Assmann,Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, University of Heidelberg. 6 pm, Gustave TuckTheatre, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1

DECEMBER 2000

4 -15 Dec Culture, care, chronic ilness and disability and Children, health and well-being: a cultural perspective. Two-week intensive executive course. Amsterdam Master's in Medical Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31 20 525 4779; amma@pscw.uva.nl

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 RAISeventh International Festival of Ethnographic Film, hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. For more detail, see back cover and the dedicated web page: http://www.therai.org.uk/film/festival2000.html

FEBRUARY 2001

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

MARCH 2001

9-18 Mar Cinéma du réel, the 23rd International Festival of Ethnographic and Social Documentation, Paris. Submission deadline: 1 November 2000. BPI - Centre Georges Pompidou, 25 rue du Renard, 75197 Paris Cedex 04, France; tel +1 44 78 44 21, fax 1 44 78 12 24; cinereel@bpi.fr ; http://www.bpi.fr

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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