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ISSUE: vol. 17, no. 2, April 2001

EXHIBITIONS

Transformations: The art of recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (until June 2002). South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927 (reviewed in AT 16(4)).
http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/prm/temp.exhibitions/Exhibitions.html

Sainsbury African Galleries (open 2 March). Permanent galleries: The Mexican Gallery and the Chase Manhattan Gallery of North America (reviewed in AT 16(6)). Dept of Ethnography, The British Museum, 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1X 2EX, 020 7323 8041/44
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethnography/exhib.html

APRIL 2001

27-28 Apr 'Labor'. Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Contacts: E. Paul Durrenberger, Dept of Anthropology, 409 Carpenter Hall, University Park, PA, 16802-3404, USA; tel 814/865-2509; fax 814/863-1474; epd2@psu.edu; & Judith Marti, Dept of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge CA, 91330-8244, USA; tel 818/677-3331; fax 818/677-2873; judith.marti@csun.edu, http://nautarch.tamu.edu/anth/sea/meeting2001.htm

MAY 2001

2-6 May Culture, difference, inequality. American Ethnological Society, Canadian Anthropological Society, and The Society for Cultural Anthropology, Joint Annual Meetings at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Meeting website: http://casca2001.mcgill.ca

16 May, 7pm Beatrice Blackwood Lecture, 'Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived Through the Feet', by Professor Tim Ingold. Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Theatre, South Parks Rd, Oxford. Further details from rosemary.lee@talk21.com

25 May, 6pm People of the Rivermouth. CD-ROM presentation by Les Hiatt and Kim McKenzie, makers of the film Waiting for Harry. School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG, +44 (0)20 7637 2388

30 May, 5pm Dangerous designs: Diaspora Asian women creating new cultural and commercial economies. Barbara Ward Commemorative Lecture by Prof Parminder Bhachu, sponsored by the Centre for Cross-cultural Research on Women, Oxford. Taylor Institute, Oxford, 5 pm, all welcome.

JUNE 2001

9-16 Jun Children and young people in a changing world: a holistic approach. Agrigento, Sicily. IUAES Inter-Congress. Contact: Prof. B. Chiarelli, Scientific Secretariat, Istituto di Antropologia, Research, Via del Proconsolo 12, 50122 Firenze, Italy. Tel. +39 055-2398065, fax +30 055 283358, antropos@cesit1.unifi.it http://www.studioscaramuzzi.com/icaes2003/information.htm

21-23 Jun Culturally recontextualising children. International conference in social anthropology, Brunel University, West London, UK. http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/c-far or contact Ian Robinson ian.robinson@brunel.ac.uk

Wed 27 Jun, 5 pm RAI Annual General Meeting. Chadwick Room, University College, London. Followed by refreshments at 5:30 pm and the Presidential address by Professor John Davis, Warden of All Souls College (title t.b.a.) at 6 pm.

JULY 2001

4-11 Jul International Council for Traditional Music, 36th World Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact Anthony Seeger, ICTM Program Chair-Brazil 2001, 2308 Blaine Dr, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA; tony@folkways.si.edu http://www.music.columbia.edu/~ictm/

18-21 Jul Exploitation and overexploitation in societies past and present. Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) 2001. Contact: c/o IWF, Nonnenstieg 72, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany, tel. +49 551 5024-170, fax: +49 551 5024-403, iwf.secr.-gsw@iwf.de, http://www.iwf.de/iuaes-goettingen-2001

29 Jul - 3 Aug Migration: Population, territory and culture. Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, 26th Mesa Redonda, Zacatecas, Mexico. Abstracts deadline: 31 March. Contact Julieta Arechiga or Paul Schmidt, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico, DF 04510, Mexico; tel: 525/622-9545, 525/622-9565, jular@servidor.unam.mx paul@servidor.unam.mx

AUGUST 2001

13-17 Aug Historical linguistics, 15th International Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Proposals for workshops are welcome immediately. Abstracts deadline: April 2001. Send to B.Blake@latrobe.edu.au or Barry J. Blake, Director, ICHL 2001, Dept of Linguistics, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia.

SEPTEMBER 2001

3-7 Sep British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Glasgow University. Anthropology offerings include the following symposia: 5 Sep (all day): Science and democracy: Karl Popper's Open Society revisited; 6 Sep (morning): Contemporary Scottish identities. Contact: Professor Nigel Rapport, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews; tel: 01334-462977; fax: 01334-462985; email: njr2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Wed 5 Sep Curl Lecture, Glasgow University (during the above BAAS Conference). By Dr Steven Mithen (University of Reading) Title t.b.a..

15-17 Sep Economy and power of Pakistan, Pakistani diaspora and Muslims of South Asia. 16th Annual Pakistan workshop. Rook How, Lake District, England. Abstracts deadline: 1 Jun 2001. Contact Steve Lyon, Dept of Anthropology, Eliot College, U of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS, UK; s.m.lyon@ukc.ac.uk, http://anthropology.ac.uk/PakWorkshop2001

20-23 Sept Working images. Joint meeting of the Visual Anthropology Network and Teaching Anthropology Network of the EASA, in collaboration with the Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon. Panels on: Photography (Sarah Pink s.pink@lboro.ac.uk). Iconography (Ana Isabel Afonso ai.afonso@fcsh.unl.pt) and on the work of Paul Fejos (Laszlo Kurti lkurti@helka.iif.hu); visual images in anthropological Museums (Joaquim Pais de Brito jpbrito@yahoo.com Clara Carvalho, Clara.Carvalho@iscte.pt)

NOVEMBER 2001

3-6 Nov Anthropology, archaeology and heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia or the life and times of F.W. Hasluck (1888-1920). Contact: David Shankland (Anthropology Dept, University of Wales Lampeter), DShankland1@yahoo.co.uk. Closing date for abstracts: 1 June 2001.

Wed 14 Nov Huxley Memorial Lecture (venue and title t.b.a.). Professor John Middleton (Yale University).

28 Nov-2 Dec American Anthropological Association, 100th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Submission information in the January 2001 AN and posted on http://www.aaanet.org. Contact AAA Meetings Dept, 4350 N Fairfax Dr, Suite 640, Arlington, VA 22203-1620, USA; 703/528-1902 ext 2, jmeier@aaanet.org, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

DECEMBER 2001

13-15 Dec Innovation, creation and new economic forms: Approaches to intellectual and cultural property. Conference at University of Cambridge, organized by Cambridge-Brunel research project 'Property, transactions and creations: New economic relations in the Pacific', http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/ptc.htm. Abstracts deadline: 1 June 2001. Contact: Dr Melissa Demian, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, UK; tel. +44 1223 762341, fax +44 1223 766291, email mad21@cam.ac.uk

APRIL 2002

8-12 Apr ASA Annual Conference 2002: East Africa - 'Perspectives on Time and Society: Experience, Memory, History' - Arusha, Tanzania. Panel deadline: April 2001; Paper abstracts deadline: June 2001. Contacts: Professor Wendy James (University of Oxford), Dr David Mills (University of Birmingham), 51 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE, UK; fax: +44 1865 274630; email: asa2002@anthro.ox.ac.uk, http://les1.man.ac.uk/asa/Arusha.htm

JULY 2002

Jul 2002 (dates t.b.a.): Second international conference on hierarchy and power in the history of civilizations, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Panel organizers deadline: 1 Sep 2001. Paper deadline: 1 Dec 2001. Contact: Dr. Sergei Frantsuzov, Institute of Oriental Studies, 18, Dvortsovaya nab., 191186 St. Petersburg, Russia; tel.: +7-812-315-84-90, fax: +7-812-312 14 65; invost@mail.convey.ru http://130.225.203.37/agenda/Details/General/2973

SEPTEMBER 2002

9-13 Sep International conference on hunting and gathering societies (CHAGS 9), Edinburgh, Scotland. Abstracts deadline: 30 Apr 2001. Contact: Alan Barnard, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, Scotland; A.Barnard@ed.ac.uk; and Tim Ingold, Dept of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3QY, Scotland; tim.ingold@abdn.ac.uk; http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/chags9.htm

22-27 Sep The human body in anthropological perspectives. IUAES Inter-Congress, Toshi Center Hall, Tokyo, Japan. c/o The Convention, 2-6-12, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062, Japan. Tel: +81-3-3423-4180. Fax: +81-3-3423-4108, the-conv@mxd.mesh.ne.jp, http://ruls01.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/~nas/10-03Tokyo.htm

NOVEMBER 2002

20-24 Nov 2002 American Anthropological Association 101st Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, LA.

JULY 2003

5-12 Jul 2003 Humankind/nature interaction: past, present, and future. 15th IUAES Congress, Florence. http://www.studioscaramuzzi.com/icaes2003/humankind.htm