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ISSUE: vol. 19, no.2 April 2003

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EXHIBITIONS

Body arts (permanent); Objects talk (until 17 Aug 2003). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927 http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, tel.: +44 (0)207 323 8299 (information desk); http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/ exhibitions/index.html.

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

 APRIL 2003

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

24 Apr 2003 Rotten trade: Traffic in humans - whole and in parts. Conference. Maude Fiffe Room, Wheeler Hall, Univ of California, Berkeley. Contact: Anthropology Department, tel. +1 510.642.3391; http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/news.html.

 MAY 2003

2-4 May 2003 Lines from the past: Towards an anthropological archaeology of inscriptive practices. Lectures by Professor Tim Ingold at the Royal Museum, Edinburgh. Contact: The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, tel. +44 (0)131 247 4115/4133, http://www.socantscot.org/ActivitiesProgrammes.html

7 May 2003, 5.00pm. The Kaberry Lecture: 'How texts transcend gender in African oral and popular cultures' by Professor Karin Barber (Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham). Venue: Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Anthony's College, Woodstock Road. Contact: cccrw@qeh.ox.ac.uk.

8-10 May 2003 The cultural inbreeding in ethnopharmacology: From indigenous knowledge to scientific knowledges, Valencia, Spain. 5th European Colloquium on Ethnopharmacology. Contact: http://www.uv.es/Etnofarmacologia; Etnofarmacologia@uv.es

8-11 May 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.

12-13 May 2003 Developing audiences - developing collections. Annual conference of the Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG), Leicester. Contact: Emma Martin, Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7EA; +44 (0)116 2666590; emma_belgrave@yahoo.co.uk

16-17 May 2003 The 'Freudian century'? The impact of psychoanalysis 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. +44 (0)207 563 5010; email bulletin@compuserve.com; http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/bpsevents.htm

22 May 2003, 5.30pm. Malinowski Memorial Lecture by Professor Yunxiang Yan, University of California (Los Angeles): 'Individualism and the transformation of bridewealth in rural China'. Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

30-31 May 2003 Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting, Michigan, WI. Contact: wgl@umich.edu; www.gypsyloresociety.org.

 JUNE 2003

15 June 2003, 3.00pm. 2003 Bill Epstein Memorial Lecture: Professor Sandra Wallman on Migrants in cities: Exclusion or absorption? Admission free. Contact: Dr. T. Scarlett Epstein, PEGS, 5 Viceroy Lodge, Kingsway, Hove, BN3 4RA, England, tel./fax:+44 (0)1273 735151; epstein@onetel.net.uk.

19-20 Jun 2003 Social science beyond Bourdieu. Venue: Docklands campus of the University of East London. Contact: Professor Derek Robbins, School of Social Sciences, University of East London, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex. RM8 2AS; fax: +44 (0)208 223 2916; d.m.robbins@uel.ac.uk.

21-26 Jun 2003 Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington. DC. Contact: http://www.american.edu/wac5/; wac5@american.edu.au

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; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/translatingthings.html

27 Jun 2003 One-day international conference on Alternative countrysides: Anthropological approaches. Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University. Contact: Jeremy MacClancy, Dept of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gypsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, jmacclancy@brookes.ac.uk

 JULY 2003

* 4-6 Jul 2003 Eighth International Festival of Ethnographic Film, University of Durham. Special theme: Islamic worlds. Contact: , http://www.durham.ac.uk/rai.festival.

5-12 Jul 2003 15t h ICAES, Florence. Humankind/nature interaction: Past, present and future. Contact: antropos@unifi.it; http://www.studioscaramuzzi.com/icaes2003/

* 14-18 Jul 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

14-18 Jul 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

* 15 Jul 2003, 6 pm RAI Huxley Memorial Lecturee by Professor Gananath Obeyesekere on 'Cannibal talk: dialogical misunderstandings in the South Seas'. During ASA2003 conference: Federal Theatre 1, Crawford House, Manchester University. All welcome; refreshments served afterwards.

20-23 Jul 2003 Tourism and photography: Still visions - changing lives. Contact: David Picard, Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus (Howard Street), Sheffield S1 1WB, UK; d.picard@shu.ac.uk

 SEPTEMBER 2003

8-12 Sep 2003 British Association Annual Festival 2003. University of Salford, Manchester, UK. Section H (Anthropology & Archaeology): 'Challenges to global science and technology'. NGOs representing local populations and development (8 Sep); Who has rights to represent the past and present? (9 Sep); President's Day: Local science versus global science (10 Sep); Challenging medical wisdom: Anthropology and health care in the 21st century (11 Sep); Evolutionary psychology (12 Sep). President: Paul Sillitoe. Recorder: David Shankland (dshankland1@yahoo.co.uk), http://www.the-ba.net.

10-14 Sep 2003 European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 9th Annual Meeting, St Petersburg, Russia. Themes: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

* 17 Sep 2003 RAI AGM (venue and time t.b.a.). Curl Lecture by Dr Ruth Mace (University College London) on 'The evolution of sexism'. All welcome; refreshments served afterwards.

26-28 Sep 2003 Fieldworks: Dialogues between art and anthropology. International conference at Tate Modern, London. Papers deadline: 5 May 2003. Contact: fieldworks@ucl.ac.uk, or Fieldworks, c/o Susanne Küchler, Dept of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/fieldworks.htm.

 OCTOBER 2003

2-5 Oct 2003 Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) / Société Canadienne d'Études Ethniques (SCEE), Banff Centre. 17th biennial conference. http://www.ucalgary.ca/CESA/.