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ISSUE: vol. 18, no.4 August 2002

(for past issues see here)

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EXHIBITIONS

Body arts, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (until Sep 2002). South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927 http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/

Brief lives: Changing currencies in western Europe (until 8 Sep 2002); Queen of Sheba: Treasures from ancient Yemen (until 13 Oct). 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

 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. 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

8-13 Sep 2002 World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Mainz, Germany. Theme: State-of-the-art in Middle Eastern Studies. Contact: WOCMES Secretariat, Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), U of Mainz, Institute of Geography, 55099 Mainz, Germany; tel + 49-6131-3922846 or -3923446; fax + 49-6131-3924736; wocmes@geo.uni-mainz.de; www.wocmes.de.

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

9-17 Sep 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg Contact: http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/his/

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 École 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.

19-20 Sep 2002 [change of date] Locating European ethnology: The museum and beyond. Contact: Dr Teri Brewer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd CF37 IDL Wales, United Kingdom (tbrewer@glam.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

24-29 Sep 2002 European Association of Archaeologists 8th Annual Meeting, Thessaloniki. http://www.symvoli.com.gr/eaa8/index.html

 OCTOBER 2002

12 Oct 2002 20th Conference of the Association of South-East Asian Studies UK. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 30Q. For registration contact: P.Khng@hull.ac.uk. http://www.horniman.ac.uk/exhibitions/event.cfm?event_id=33

16-19 Oct 2002 Regards comparés - 'Brazil:Religious Identity from Candomble to Pentecostism'. 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. http://www.comite-film-ethno.net

18 Oct Celebration of the life and career of Professor Sir Raymond Firth (late afternoon). Venue: London School of Economics. All friends and colleagues welcome. Contact: Barbara Wesley, B.Wesley@lse.ac.uk.

 NOVEMBER 2002

13 Nov 2002 RAI Henry Myers Lecture by Professor Marcel Detienne of Johns Hopkins University; title and venue to be announced. Admission free to all without tickets.

16-17 Nov 2002. Second Symposium of the Belgian Society of Americanists. Roads to war and pipes of peace: Conflict and cooperation in the Americas, past and present. (http://users.swing.be/sab/). http://www.wayeb.org, collosab@ulb.ac.be.

20-24 Nov 2002 American Anthropological Association 101st Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, LA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

 DECEMBER 2002

* 4 Dec 2002 Huxley Lecture: RAI Huxley Lecture (Dr Jane Goodall). 'The scientific study of primates and its impact on contemporary world-views'. Lecture Theatre of the University Museum, Oxford. Free to Fellows and Members.

 JANUARY2003

10-11 Jan 2003 Teaching Rites of Passage: A workshop for new lecturers in anthropology, St Andrews University. Abstracts for papers to Dr Mark Harris (mh25@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Dr David Mills (d.mills@bham.ac.uk) by 30 September 2002. http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/anthropology.htm

 MARCH 2003

17-23 March 22me 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. http://www.comite-film-ethno.net.

31 Mar-1 Apr 2003.Applications of anthropology: Professional anthropology in the C21. ESRC seminar in collaboration with the ASA and C-SAP on the application of anthropology outside academic departments. Contact: Sarah Pink (Loughborough University), s.pink@lboro.ac.uk; http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/applicationsofanthropology/index.htm

 JULY 2003

* 4-6 July 2003 Eighth RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, University of Durham. Special theme: Islamic worlds. Contact: .

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

* 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: +44 (0)161 275 3998, fax: 0161 275 3970, karen.egan@man.ac.uk.