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ISSUE: vol. 18, no. 2 April 2002

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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 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. +44 (0)20 7323 8041/8044. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethnography/exhib.html.

  APRIL 2002

19 April 2002Opportunities and problems in the exhibition of ethnographic materials. Sainsbury Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Contact f.hunt@uea.ac.uk, tel. +44 (0)1603 592498.

 MAY 2002

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

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

10-12 May 200217th Annual Pakistan Workshop, Rook How, Lake District, England.Themes: 1. Purity and hybridity; 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. +44 (0)1227 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).

29-30 May 2002 Rencontres anthropologie et politique.Association française des anthropologues. MSH. 54 bd Raspail. 75006 Paris, suzanne.chazan@mpl.ird.fr

 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

Note: change of date!! 19 Jun 2002 Mon 17 Jun RAI day of ethnographic film on Afghanistan (for details contact by and see advert in this issue)

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

23-24 Jun 2002 Inuit films: Stories from Arctic Canada. Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London. Contact: the Education Department +44 20 7323 8851/8854, email education@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk.

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, www.upei.ca/islandstudies/islandsvii/

27-29 Jun 2002 Body arts and modernity: a colloquium organized by the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford (see advert in this issue). Contact rachel.walker@prm.ox.ac.uk

 JULY 2002

4-7 Jul 2002Second international conference on hierarchy and power in the history of civilizations, Saint Petersburg, Russia. 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: 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, (A.Barnard@ed.ac.uk) and Tim Ingold (tim.ingold@abdn.ac.uk); www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/chags9.htm

12-14 Sep 2002 International Workshop on Management&Anthropology, Venice Italy. Contact: Barbara Czarniawska (barbara.czarniawska@gri.gu.se) or Fabrizio Panozzo (f.panozzo@unive.it), www.eiasm.be/events/WsManagement&Anthropology.html

20-21 Sep 2002 Claude Lévi-Strauss: Interdisciplinary perspectives, Durham University. In conjunction with the Forum for European Philosophy and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Contact: Dr B. Wiseman, boris.wiseman@durham.ac.uk

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

21-25 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.

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.

  DECEMBER 2002

* 4 Dec 2002 Huxley Lecture: RAI Huxley Lecture (Dr Jane Goodall); details t.b.a.

 Spring/SUMMER 2003

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

 JULY2003

5-12 July 2003XVth ICAES, Florence. Humankind/nature interaction: Past, present and future. Contact: antropos@unifi.it, http://www.studioscaramuzzi.com/icaes2003/

* 14-18 July 2003Association 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, karen.egan@man.ac.uk