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ISSUE: vol. 18, no.5 October 2002

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EXHIBITIONS

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

Discovering ancient Afghanistan: The Masson Collection (until 9 Jan 2003); Queen of Sheba: Treasures from ancient Yemen (until 13 Oct). The British Museum, 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1X 2EX, tel. +44 (0)20 7323 8041/8044.

www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno

Machu Picchu and the camera (4 Nov-31 Dec). Oxford University Museum, Parks Rd, Oxford.

 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 3DQ. For registration contact: P.Khng@hull.ac.uk. www.horniman.ac.uk

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. www.comite-film-ethno.net

18 Oct, 5.30-6.30 pm Celebration of the life and work of Professor Sir Raymond Firth. Followed by a reception. Venue: Shaw Library, The Old Building (Sixth Floor), London School of Economics, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE. All friends and colleagues welcome. Contact: Timm Lau by email: t.lau@lse.ac.uk or Beverlyn Denis by telephone: +44 (0)20 7955 6775.

25 Oct Reprogenetic encounters: Ethnographies and technoscience. One-day workshop Venue: Lancaster University. Contact:Professor Sarah Franklin, s.franklin@lancaster.ac.uk, www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk

 NOVEMBER 2002

5-10 Nov 2002 7th European Maya Conference Jaws of the underworld: Life, death and rebirth among the ancient Maya. Contact: EMconference@ucl.ac.uk, http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/mayaconf.html

13 Nov 2002, 6 pm.The gods of politics in early Greek cities. RAI Henry Myers Lecture by Professor Marcel Detienne of Johns Hopkins University. In the Clore Education Centre, British Museum, Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG. Admission free to all without ticket; refreshments afterwards.

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, collosab@ulb.ac.be

19-20 Nov 2002 Locating European ethnology: The museum and beyond. ESRC Research Seminar in European Ethnology. Butetown History and Arts Centre, 5 Dock Chambers, Bute Street, Cardiff, CF10 5AG, Tel: 029 20256757, http://www.bhac.org/intro.html.

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

29 Nov 2002 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl between France and Britain, 1900-1940.One-day seminar. Venue: Docklands campus of the University of East London. Speakers include Cristina Chimisso, Johan Heilbron, Adam Kuper, and Derek Robbins. Contact: Derek Robbins at d.m.robbins@uel.ac.uk.

 DECEMBER 2002

* 4 Dec 2002 RAI Huxley Memorial Lecture (Dr Jane Goodall). 'The scientific study of primates and its impact on contemporary world-views'. Lecture Theatre of the University Museum, Oxford. Admission to the lecture and following reception by ticket or at the door; free to RAI fellows and members (including Student Associates for 2003); £2 admission charge to others. For ticketing arrangements please contact the RAI by phone or by , or see the RAI website at www.therai.org.uk.

 JANUARY 2003

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. www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk

 FEBRUARY 2003

21-23 Feb 2003 Powwow Conference, British Museum, London. Contact: R. Storrie, The British Museum, Department of Ethnography, Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3EX, rstorrie@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk, http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/powwow.html

 MARCH 2003

8-13 March 2003, Lijiang, China. International symposium on female anthropology and matriarchal culture in the women-dominating Kingdom around the Lugu Lake. Contact: AHL@xc-public.sc.cninfo.net,

http://www.lugu-lake.com.

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; www.lboro.ac.uk

 APRIL 2003

3-4 Apr 2003 C-SAP Annual Conference 2003 Dynamics of change in higher education. Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. Abstract proposals by 29th November to Sue.Wright@c-sap.bham.ac.uk. Further information available on www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk

 JUNE 2003

19-20 Jun 2003 Social science beyond Bourdieu. Venue: Docklands campus of the University of East London. Outlines of papers (200 words) by end October to: Professor Derek Robbins (School of Social Sciences, University of East London, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex. RM8 2AS; fax: 020-8223 2916; e-mail: d.m.robbins@uel.ac.uk).

 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/icaes2003/

* 14-18 July 2003 Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth Decennial Conference: Anthropology and science. Contact: Rohan Jackson, University of Manchester, Department of Social Anthropology, Roscoe Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL. Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3998, fax: +44 (0)161 275 3970, asa2003@man.ac.uk, http://les.man.ac.uk/sa.

 SEPTEMBER 2003

8-12 Sep 2003 British Association Annual Festival 2003, University of Salford, Manchester, U.K.