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 (opened 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, tel. 020 7323 8041/44. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethnography/exhib.html

JUNE 2001

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@brunel.ac.uk

21-25 June 2001 Origins of visual anthropology: Putting the past together. Organized by IWF. Taking place at Göttingen University. Registration and information: Origins of Visual Anthropology, Putting the Past Together, c/o IWF, Nonnenstieg 72, 37075 Göttingen, Germany,Telke Reeck, telke.reeck@iwf.de, http://www.iwf.de/va-origins/

Wed 27 Jun, 5 pm RAI Annual General Meeting. Chadwick Room, University College, London. Followed by refreshments at 5.30pm and the Presidential address by Professor John Davis, Warden of All Souls College, on Kinship and corporation at 6pm.

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://roar.music.columbia.edu/~ictm/first0.htm

17-20 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.

24-27 Aug Writing the city: Urban life in the era of globalisation, Dublin. Inter-disciplinary conference. Keynote speakers include Edward W. Soja and Immanuel Wallerstein. Contact: MMaguire@Ireland.com,
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=127477

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. For full programme details see: http://www.sidlothian.com/festivalofsci/programme/sub.htm

Wed 5 Sep RAI Curl Lecture: The impact of global warming on human society: Evidence from prehistory. Gregory Room, Glasgow University (during the BAAS Conference), approx. 5.30pm. By Dr Steven Mithen (University of Reading). Followed by an informal reception for all present.

5-9 Sep 'Certain Peasants'. Third Eco-Ethno-Folk Film Festival, Slatioara, Jud.Valcea, Romania. For short films completed after January 2000. Contact Ada Roseti (adaroseti@yahoo.com): Fundatia 'Niste Tarani', Strada Jean-Louis Calderon nr.33, etaj 3, sectorul 1, cod 70201, Bucharest, Romania.

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)

21-23 Sep. First Working Seminar of young European scholars of Siberia, Borek u Suchomast, Czech Republic. To establish links between young anthropologists and sociologists working in Siberia (MA, PhD, post-doctoral level). Sessions: Identity/nationalism, Religion/worldviews, Economy/subsistence. Contact: seminar.siberia@email.cz. Also: Ludek Broz (brozl@email.cz), Agnieszka Halemba (aeh31@hermes.cam.ac.uk)

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.

10 Nov Russia, Siberia and Central Asia: Interrelation of peoples and cultures, 3rd International Conference, Barnaul, Altai Region, Russia. Topics: relations of Russia/Soviet Union with bordering states, territories, civilizations; migration. Contact Vladimir Boyko, Center for Regional Studies, Barnaul State Pedagogical U, Molodezhnaya Street 55, Barnaul 656031, Russia; boyko@bspu.secna.ru.

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

14-18 Nov Chacmool 2001- An odyssey of space, 34th Annual Conference, Alberta, Canada. Topics: spatial analysis; landscapes; geoarchaeology; sacred space; archaeoastronomy. Contact Program Committee, Chacmool 2001, Dept of Archaeology, U of Calgary, Calgary, AB Canada T2N 1N4; fax 403/282-9567, cjcluney@hotmail.com.

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 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, 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 August 2001 (changed deadline). 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

11-14 Jul First International Conference on Economics and Human Biology, Tübingen. Explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between economic processes and the well-being of the human organism, without spatial or temporal limitations. Subsidy of travel expenses for most participants. Abstracts (300 words) to Jörg Baten (Joerg.Baten@uni-tuebingen.de) or John Komlos (jk@econhist.de).

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.

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