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ISSUE: vol. 17, no. 6, December 2001

EXHIBITIONS

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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 (opened 2 March). Permanent galleries: the Mexican Gallery and the Chase Manhattan Gallery of North America (reviewed in AT 16(6)); Unknown Amazon (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.

 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: Madeline Watt, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, UK; tel. +44 1223 766291, email mmw23@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 21me 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

 MAY 2002

Fri 3 May 2002. Malinowski Lecture by Dr JeanetteEdwards. Title and venue t.b.a.

8-13 May. Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival. Submission deadline: 15 Jan 2002. Contact: GWEFW, c/o IWF, Nonnenstieg 72, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany. http://www.iwf.de/gieff.html, iwf.secr-gsw@iwf.de.

11 May 2002. Friends and foes: Greek views of Turks in everyday life, memory and imagination: Anthropological perspectives on informal, everyday perceptions of the Turks and Turkey in Greece and Cyprus. International conference. St Peter's College, University of Oxford. Contact: Renee Hirschon & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (dimitrios.theodossopoulos@spc.ox.ac.uk).

 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).

 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

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

2-4 Sep 2002 The politics of world heritage: 30 Years on from the World Heritage Convention. Organized by the International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development, University of North London. Contact: iictd@unl.ac.uk fax 44 20 7753 5796

6-8 Sep 2002 Burma-Myanma(r) research and its future. International conference at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Contact: Gustaaf Houtman , 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

21 Sep 2002 Culture and medical/psychiatry narratives. One-day conference, Burwalls Conference Centre, University of Bristol. Medical Anthropology Group of the RAI. Abstracts (not not more than 300 words) by 28 February 2002 to: Vieda Skultans, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, 12, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, V.Skultans@bristol.ac.uk. Registration fee Ł40 (incl. lunch/refreshments); incl. Friday night accommodation, dinner, breakfast, coffee, lunch & tea Ł80.

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.

* Spring 2003 Eighth RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, Venue t.b.a. Conference theme: Visual anthropological futures. Contact: .