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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
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