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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)); Unknown Amazon (opens 25 October 2001 until 1 April 2002) in the new Great Court Hotung Gallery, to mark the 500th anniversary of first European contact with Brazil. 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.

     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, www.ethnohistory.org.

24-28 Oct  The Aborigines of Australia. Films and other events. Musée de l'Homme, Place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris. Contact: Françoise Foucault, Responsable des Regards Comparés, Laurent  Pellé, Coordinateur, tel. 01 47 04 38 20, fax 01 45 53 52 82, cfe@mnhn.fr

25-27 Oct  Fashioning Brazil: Behind visitor's eyes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By the British Museum in collaboration with the Institute for Latin American Studies. Contact: Collin McEwan, C.McEwan@british-museum.ac.uk.

     NOVEMBER 2001

1 Nov  The Sarajevo Library and the Bridge at Mostar: Reflections from the borders of the European Union. Lecture by Tom Selwyn, European Commission London office, 8 Storey's Gate, London, SW1 3AT. Contact t.selwyn@unl.ac.uk for tickets. 

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.

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

29 Nov-1 Dec  Locating European Ethnology: Comparing Disciplinary Perspectives, University of the West of England, Bristol. First meeting of the Research Seminar in European Ethnology. Contact: Professor Ullrich Kockel, Centre for European Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, England, ullrich.kockel@uwe.ac.uk.

     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, www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/ptc.htm.  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 2002  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. 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

     MARCH 2002

18-24 Mar 2002  21st Bilan du Film Ethnographique. Contact: Françoise Foucault or Laurent Pellé, Musée de l'Homme, Place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France, Tél  : 01 47 04 38 20, Fax : 01 45 53 52 82, cfe@mnhn.fr

     APRIL 2002

8-12 Apr  ASA Annual Conference 2002: East Africa - 'Perspectives on time and society: Experience, memory, history' -- Arusha, Tanzania. 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

     JUNE 2002

26-30 Jun 2002  Islands of the world VII: New horizons in island studies. University of Prince Edward Island Charlottetown, Canada. Organized by the International Small Islands Studies Association and the Institute of Island Studies. Contact: Islands VII Conference Secretariat, Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada C1A 4P3, Telephone: 902-566-0611, Fax: 902-566-0756, E-mail: islandsvii@upei.ca, http://www.upei.ca/islandstudies/islandsvii/

     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, Tübingen. Explores  the complex and symbiotic relationship between economic processes and the well-being of the human organism, without spatial or temporal limitations. Abstracts (300 words) to Jörg 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

     AUGUST 2002

14-17 Aug 2002  7th biennial EASA Conference, Copenhagen. Engaging the World: Theoretical, Methodological and Political Challenges for a 21st Century Anthropology. Contact: László Kurti, Secretary, EASA, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, H-3515, Hungary, lkurti@helka.iif.hu, http://www.ub.es/easa/con3.htm

     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. 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: .

     APRIL 2003

t.b.a. ASA Decennial Conference: Anthropology and Science. Contact: Nasira Asghar, Project and Conference Administrator, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Tel: 0161 275 3997, Fax: 0161 275 3970, Nasira.Asghar@man.ac.uk, http://les1.man.ac.uk/asa/conferences.htm

     JULY 2003

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