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ISSUE: vol. 19, no.3 June 2003

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


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, Museum of the Mind (until 7 Sep 2003) 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.

  JUNE 2003

18-21 Jun 2003 Third International Conference on Hierarchy and power in the history of civilizations, Moscow, Russia, http://civreg.ru, civ-reg@inafr.ru

19-20 Jun 2003 Social science beyond Bourdieu. University of East London (Docklands campus). 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

30 Jun 2003 Applications of Anthropology II: Meeting users' needs. Contact: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/applicationsofanthropology/index.htm A limited number of postgraduate bursaries available. Contact Sarah Pink s.pink@lboro.ac.uk

  JULY 2003

* 4-6 Jul 2003 Eighth International Festival of Ethnographic Film, University of Durham. Special theme: Islamic worlds. (See this issue for programme.) Contact: <, http://www.durham.ac.uk/rai.festival.

5-12 Jul 2003 15th 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/asa

14-18 Jul 2003 51st International Congress of Americanists Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Chile, Santiago. For more information contact: ica51@uchile.cl, http://www.uchile.cl/vaa/americanista

* 15 Jul 2003, 6.00pm RAI Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Gananath Obeyesekere on 'Cannibal talk: Dialogical misunderstandings in the South Seas'. During ASA 2003 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

  AUGUST 2003

10-14 Aug 2003. International conference on ethnic cultures and globalization. Departments of International Relations and Chinese Southwest Borderland Ethnic Minority studies, No.521 Science Hall, Yunnan University, 52 Cuihu North Rd, Kunming, 650091 P R China. Contact Prof. Fang Tie on ggzx@ynu.edu.cn or Fax 0086 871 503 5645.

  SEPTEMBER 2003

8-12 Sep 2003 British Association Annual Festival 2003. Univ. 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

16-21 Sep 2003. International Conference on Visual Anthropology: Opening up to the future: The role of Visual Anthropology in the 21st Century, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.

* 17 Sep 2003 RAI AGM (Assembly Hall G2, SOAS, London WC1). Curl Lecture by Dr Ruth Mace (University College London) on 'The evolution of sexism'. All welcome; refreshments served afterwards.

19 Sep 2003 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl I. Maison des Science de l'Homme, 54 Bd Raspail, 75006-Paris. Contact: Dominique Merllié, merllie@msh-paris.fr

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/. ?

  NOVEMBER 2003

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

21 Nov 2003 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl II. Contact: Dominique Merllié, merllie@msh-paris.fr

21-23 Nov 2003 Hellenic Anthropological Association, Athens. International Congress of Anthropology. Homo sapiens past, present and future & Paleoanthropology and modern human populations of Eastern Mediterranean (under the auspices of the President of the Hellenic Republic), http://anthrop.med.uoa.gr/. Contact: granthropology@med.uoa.gr.

  MARCH 2004

18-20 March 2004. The production of food and foodways in Asia. International conference. Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. Contact: Ms Viki Li at: Foodconference@cuhk.edu.hk.

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.

  MAY 2004

7-9 May 2004. Pakistan Workshop 2004. Generational interaction and change among Pakistanis, Pakistani diaspora and Muslims of South Asia. The Rook How, Lake District, England. Contact: Steve Lyon, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, 43 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 2LD, UK. S.M.Lyon@durham.ac.uk, http://psg.anthropology.ac.uk/Workshop2004/

  JUNE 2004

14-18 Jun 2004. The Ninth International Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology, in collaboration with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, will be hosted by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury.Special theme: Ethnobiology, social change and displacement. Contact: ice2004@ukc.ac.uk, or see http://www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/ice2004.