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

AUGUST 2001

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

* 3-4 Sep 2001 - Narrative-based medicine: A 2-day interdisciplinary conference – research, teaching and practice. Homerton College, Cambridge, UK. BMJ Publishing Group in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute. Contact: BMA/BMJ Conference Unit, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP, UK; tel.: +44 (0)20 7383 6605; fax: +44 (0)202 7383 6663; confunit@bma.org.uk, http://web3.bma.org.uk/confweb.nsf

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.britassoc.org.uk/festivalofsci/default.htm

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

12-14 Sep Dialogue and Difference. An international conference at SOAS, University of London. Contact: Dialogue and Difference, Room 232, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. email: dialogue01@hotmail.com.

14 Sep 2001, 7-8.30 pm. Hugh Brody - Anthropologist, film-maker and author of The other side of Eden: Hunter gatherers, farmers and the shaping of the world in conversation with psychoanalyst Michael Brearley. Contact: Events, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, 112a Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ; tel.: 020 7563 5017; EventsBPAS@compuserve.com

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 PakWorkshop2001

20-23 Sep 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)

OCTOBER 2001

17-21 Oct Ethnicity and ecology/Borderlands – Roles of tribal museums, Tucson AZ. American Society for Ethno History Annual Meeting. Contact Tsianina Lomawaima, American Indian Studies Program, Harvill 430, PO Box 210076, U of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; tel.: 520/621-2269, fax: 520/621-7952.

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.

Fri 9 Nov Symposium: Popular religion and visual culture, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in association with Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford-Contact: Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 92 Woodstock Road, Oxford, enquiries@brazil.ox.ac.uk.

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, 6 pm 'Merchants', Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor John Middleton (Yale University), Main Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, London WC1.

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, 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', 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

JANUARY 2002

11-12 Jan The New Higher Education? Learning and Teaching in a 'Knowledge Society'. C-SAP Interdisciplinary conference: Centre for Learning & Teaching – Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. Lakeside Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Abstracts to: Mary Smith (mary.smith@c-sap.bham.ac.uk) by [DEADLINE EXTENDED]. Contact: Sue Wright, C-SAP Director (sue.wright@c-sap.bham.ac.uk) or the Anthropology co-ordinator (david.mills@c-sap.bham.ac.uk), http://www.c-sap.bham.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: [DEADLINE EXTENDED]. 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

4-7 Jul 2002.: 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. Includes a panel on Ernest Gellner. 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 2002 First international conference on economics and human biology, T・ingen. 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 Jg Baten (Joerg.Baten@uni-tuebingen.de) or John Komlos (jk@econhist.de).

30 Aug-2 Sep 2002 13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Zagreb. A quarter of a century of the European Anthropological Association: Reflections and perspectives. Abstracts deadline: 2 May 2002. Contact:.Institute for Anthropological Research, Amruseva 8, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385 1 48 16 903; fax: +385 1 48 13 777; eaacongreess@luka.inantro.hr, http://luka.inantro.hr

SEPTEMBER 2002

6-8 Sep 2002 [tentative dates, venue t.b.a.]. International conference on Burma-Myanma(r) research and its future: Implications for scholars and policymakers. Contact: Gustaaf Houtman Website: http://www.therai.org.uk/anthcal/myanmarburma2002.html.

9-13 Sep 2002 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; www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/chags9.htm

22-27 Sep 2002 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.

* 30 Nov-2 Dec 2002 Eighth RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, University of Kent, Canterbury. Conference theme: Visual anthropological futures. Contact by

JULY 2003

5-12 Jul 2003 Humankind/nature interaction: past, present, and future. 15th IUAES Congress, Florence. http://ruls01.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/~nas/10-congresses.htm
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