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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/.
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