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ISSUE: vol. 19, no.5 October 2003

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


EXHIBITIONS

Body arts (permanent); Seeing Lhasa:British depictions of the Tibetan capital (1936-47) (until 30 Nov 2004). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927 http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/

British Museum, The medicine man: The forgotten museum of Henry Wellcome (until 16 Nov 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.

 SEPTEMBER 2003

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. (CONFERENCE POSTPONED UNTIL 2004)

 OCTOBER 2003

22-26 Oct 2003 Regards comparés: Madagascar: Histoire - identité - diversité. 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

27 Oct 2003, 5.30 pm The William Fagg lecture at the British Museum. Professor Marilyn Strathern DBE, Medicine and medicines: The whole body and its artefacts, in association with the opening of the new Wellcome Gallery. By invitation.

 NOVEMBER 2003

10-23 Nov 2003 International Conference on Public Participation and Information Technologies (ICPPIT-03), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, www.citidep.pt/icppit03.

13-15 Nov 2003 Fifth Native American Symposium, Southeastern Oklahoma State U, Durant, OK. Theme: Native being - being native: Identity and difference. Contact: Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State U, Durant, OK 74701-0609; mspencer@sosu.edu.

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.

25 Nov 2003 Piltdown Man: The context and exposure of a scientific forgery. The Natural Pfizer Annual Science Forum 2003, Natural History Museum. Professor Chris Stringer and Andy Currant (Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum) in conversation with broadcaster and journalist Quentin Cooper. Contact: Yasmin Khan, Natural History Museum, Y.Khan@nhm.ac.uk

 DECEMBER 2003

9 Dec 2003 The role of applied anthropology in building bridges between them and us. Workshop at the International Centre for Communications and Development (ICCD), University of Surrey, Roehampton. Fifty places available. Contact Dr Dianne Stadhams, ICCD, d.stadhams@roehampton.ac.uk

17-19 Dec 2003 Future fields: A national conference on fieldwork for graduate students and junior researchers, Oxford. Organized by Oxford University Anthropological Society and AnthropologyMatters. Abstracts deadline: 3 Nov. Contact: anthsoc@herald.ox.ac.uk or: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~anthsoc/

 JANUARY 2004

7-11 Jan 2004 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Union Station, St Louis, MO. Theme: Lewis and Clark: Legacy and consequences. Updated information: tel. +1 856 224-0995; hq@sha.org; http://www.sha.org.

13-15 Feb 2004 International Conference on Qiaoxiang and Chinese Overseas. Organized by the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Quanzhou Maritime Museum. Venue: Quanzhou Maritime Museum, Guangzhou, Fujian. Contact: Prof. Tan Chee-Beng, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong. E-mail: cbtan@cuhk.edu.hk; fax: (852)26035218; tel.: (852)26097673.

 MARCH 2004

18-20 March 2004 The production of food and foodways in Asia. International conference. Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Shatin, NT, 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/Conferences.

31 Mar-4 Apr 2004 Society for Medical Anthropology and Society for Applied Anthropology joint Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, http://www.sfaa.net/am.html

 MAY 2004

3-5 May 2004 Making it explicit: Presentation and representation of Native North Americans. 25th annual meeting of the American Indian Workshop. Huis van Chièvre, Leuven, Belgium. Contact: barbara.saunders@ant.kuleuven.ac.be, with cc. to L.M.Zuyderhoudt@Let.leidenuniv.nl by 30 Oct 2003. http://www.psy.kuleuven.ac.be/AIW25

7-9 May 2004 Pakistan Workshop 2004. Generational interaction and change among Pakistanis, Pakistani diaspora and Muslims of South Asia. The Rook Howe, 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 Ninth International Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology, in conjunction 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.

 AUGUST 2004

16-20 Aug 2004 RC33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology: Recent developments and applications in social research methodology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://www.siswo.uva.nl/rc33/

15-19 Dec 2004 IUAES Inter-Congress, Kolkata-Ranchi, India. Themes: Mega-urbanization, multi-ethnic societies, human rights and development (Ranchi); Strategies for development of indigenous people (Kolkata). Contact: Professor Buddhadeb Chadhuri, chau@cal2.vsnl.net or Professor Vijay S. Upadhyay, vsup@indiatimes.com, http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-01-calcuttacongress.htm

 JULY 2005

Jul 2005. IUAES Inter-congress, Pardubice, Czech Republic. Theme: Racism's many faces: Challenge for all anthropologists and ethnologists. Contact: Petr Skalnik, petr.skalnik@upce.cz, http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-02-pardubicongress.htm.

 2006

IUAES Inter-Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.