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ISSUE: vol. 18, no.6 December 2002

ELECTRONIC CALENDARS AnthCal (this calendar). AnthCalLink (calendar links).


EXHIBITIONS

Body arts (permanent); Objects talk (until 17 Aug 2003). 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); Antony Gormley's Field for the British Isles (until 26 Jan 2003). The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, telephone: (+44) 020 7323 8299 (information desk) http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/
exhibitions/index.html.

Aztecs (until 11 April). Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J OBD. Tel 020 7300 8000. http://www.aztecs.org.uk/?lid=510

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

African Worlds. The first permanent exhibition on African Art and Culture. Hornimann Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ, http://www.horniman.ac.uk.

 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.

. 14 Jan-2 March 2003. Presence. Leighton House Museum. Interventions by contemporary artists exploring embodiment and staging, created in collaboration with the RAI Photographic Committee. At Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14 8LZ. Tel: 020 7602 3316, LeightonHouseMuseum@rbkc.gov.uk, http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/leightonhousemuseum.

Fri 17 Jan 2003, 5 pm. Portraits: Visual intelligence and social networks. Rivers Lecture: Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (School of World Arts Studies, University of East Anglia) at the Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Room 3. All welcome.

 FEBRUARY2003

21-23 Feb 2003 Powwow Conference , British Museum, London. A joint venture with Native groups. 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

 MARCH2003

8-13 March 2003, Lijiang, China. International symposium on female anthropology and matriarchal culture in the woman-dominated 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.

March 19-23, 2003 Building bridges: Collaborating beyond boundaries. Portland, Oregon, USA. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Contact: info@sfaa.net, http://www.sfaa.net/am.html.

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

 APRIL 2003

3-4 Apr 2003 C-SAP Annual Conference 2003 Dynamics of change in higher education. Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. Contact: Sue.Wright@c-sap.bham.ac.uk, http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk

Apr 23-26 2003 American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), 72nd Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ. www.physanth.org. Contact: John Relethford, relethjh@oneonta.edu, http://www.physanth.org/annmeet

 MAY 2003

May 8-11 2003 Canadian Anthropology Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Theme: 'On edge: Anthropology in troubling times'. Contact: CASCA 30, casca30@dal.ca, http://www.dal.ca/~casca30.

16-17 May 2003 The 'Freudian century'? The impact of psycho-analysis on intellectual life in Britain. The British Psycho-Analytical Society, London. Charles Stewart contributes on 'The impact of psychoanalysis on twentieth-century social anthropology'. Contact Linda Carter Jackson at the BPAS, 112A-114 Shirland Road London W9 2EQ. Tel. 0207 563 5010; email bulletin@compuserve.com, http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/bpsevents.htm

 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; email: d.m.robbins@uel.ac.uk).

23-25 Jun 2003 Translating things: Clothing and innovation in the Pacific. ESRC/Wenner Gren-funded conference. University College London. Contact: Graeme Were at clothingthepacific@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk.

 JULY2003

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</i> 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.

14-18 July 2003 51st International Congress of Americanists annual interdisciplinary conference. To be held at the University of Chile, Santiago. For more information contact: ica51@uchile.cl, or see http://www.uchile.cl/vaa/americanista

 SEPTEMBER 2003

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

10-14 Sep 2003 European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 9th Annual Meeting, St Petersburg, Russia. 1. Theory and interpretation of material culture; 2. Cultural heritage and the management of the archaeological record; 3. Archaeology in the modern world. Contact: petra.nordin@raa.se, http://www.e-a-a.org/europe2.htm

19-23 Nov 2003 American Anthropological Association (AAA), 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago Hilton and Towers, Chicago, IL. Contact: jmeier@aaanet.org

 MARCH 2004

29 Mar-1 Apr 2004 (tentative). Locating the field: Metaphors of space, place and context in anthropology. Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA). Contact: Simon Coleman (s.m.coleman@durham.ac.uk) or Peter Collins (p.j.collins@durham.ac.uk), http://les1.man.ac.uk/asa/Conferences.