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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 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. +44 (0)20 7323 8041/44. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethnography/exhib.html.

 MARCH 2002

* Wed 6 March, 5.30pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Professor Nicholas Thomas (Goldsmiths College) delivers the First ASA Firth Lecture entitled 'Genealogies, art and anthropology'. Preceded, at 4pm in the same venue, by the Annual Business Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists. There will be a reception to honour Sir Raymond Firth, and to launch the consolidated ASA/RAI Firth Fund, from 7pm onwards. All are welcome without ticket.

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, tel. +33 (0)1 47 04 38 20, fax +33 (0)1 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 (0)1865 274630; email: asa2002@anthro.ox.ac.uk, http://les1.man.ac.uk/asa/Arusha.htm

 MAY 2002

Fri 3 May 2002, 5:30pm. Malinowski Lecture by Dr JeanetteEdwards. Venue: London School of Economics

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.

10-12 May 2002 17th Annual Pakistan Workshop, Rook How, Lake District, England.Themes: 1. Purity and Hybridity and 2. Pakistan, Islam and Terrorism. Contact Steve Lyon, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK CT2 7NS, S.M.Lyon@ukc.ac.uk, tel. 01227 764 000 Ext. 3948.

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

 JUNE 2002

13-15 Jun 2002. First Inter-Dialogue Conference on Southern Thailand. Contact: Saroja Dorairajoo, dorairaj@fas.harvard.edu, http://www.pn.psu.ac.th

20 -22 Jun 2002 Communicating cultures. ESRC Research Seminar in European Ethnology, University of Ulster (Belfast)/ Contact: Máiréad Ni, M.NicCraith@ulst.ac.uk/

20 -22 Jun 2002 Anthropology and the health of populations: Global trends & Local Contexts at The Centre for the Study of Health, Brunel University, West London, UK. Contact: medanth2002@brunel.ac.uk, www.brunel.ac.uk/research/cshsd

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Brunel University, West London, UK

The 3rd Annual International Social Anthropology Conference
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE HEALTH OF POPULATIONS
GLOBAL TRENDS AND LOCAL CONTEXTS

20-22 June 2002

Plenary Speakers will include:
Mary Douglas
Paul Farmer
Robert Hahn
Paul Rabinow
Deadline for the Submission of Abstracts
Monday March 25th 2002

For Further information: www.brunel.ac.uk/research/cshsd
e-mail: medanth2002@brunel.ac.uk

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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, tel. +1 902-566-0611, fax +1 902-566-0756, email: 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. 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

4-7 July 2002 Recovering the past: Resources, representations and ethics of Research in Oceania. 5th Conference of European Society for Oceanists - Vienna, Austria/Europe. Contact: Dr Hermann Mückler (Univ. of Vienna), Universitaetsstrasse, 7/NIG/IV, A-1010 Vienna. Tel. +43-1-4277-48508, Fax. +43-1-4277-9485, hermann.mueckler@univie.ac.at, http://www.univie.ac.at/esfo-conference/

11-14 Jul 2002 First international conference on economics and human biology, Tübingen. 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://easa.uni-miskolc.hu/

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 (0)20 7753 5796

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; http://www.abdn.ac.uk/chags9/

* 21 Sep 2002 Culture and medical/psychiatry narratives. One-day conference, Burwalls Conference Centre, University of Bristol. Medical Anthropology Group of the RAI. Contact: Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, 12, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, V.Skultans@bristol.ac.uk.

21-25 Sep 2002 [changed dates] Burma-Myanma(r) research and its future. International conference at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Contact: Gustaaf Houtman, http://www.therai.org.uk/
anthcal/myanmarburma2002.html.

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

* Spring 2003 (provisional) Eighth RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, Dates and venue t.b.a. Special theme: Islam. Contact: .

 JULY2003

5-12 July 2003 XVth ICAES, Florence. Humankind/Nature Interaction:Past, Present and Future. Contact: antropos@unifi.it, http://www.studioscaramuzzi.com/icaes2003/

* 14-18 July 2003 Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth Decennial Conference: Anthropology and science. Contact: Karen Egan, University of Manchester, Department of Social Anthropology, Roscoe Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL. Tel: 0161 275 3998, fax: 0161 275 3970, email: karen.egan@man.ac.uk.