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ISSUE: vol. 19, no.6 December 2003

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EXHIBITIONS

Body arts (permanent). Gonkar Gyatso 'Union Jack installation' (to 14 Jan 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 New Wellcome Gallery exhibition on Death and dying; 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.

 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; www.sha.org.

 FEBRUARY 2004

11-14 Feb 2004 The 2004 Gwendolen M. Carter Conference and the Congress on Research in dance movement: (R)evolution dialogues - contemporary performance in and of Africa, University of Florida, Gainesville, http://web.africa.ufl.edu/events/Carter2004.html

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.

14-16 Feb 15th Annual Symposium on maritime archaeology and history of Hawai'i and the Pacific, Honolulu, HI. For further information, see www.mahhi.org or email froning@mahhi.org.

 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, Durham. Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA). Contact: Simon Coleman (s.m.coleman@durham.ac.uk) or Peter Collins (p.j.collins@durham.ac.uk); http://www.theasa.org/asa04, conference@theasa.org.

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

31 Mar-3 Apr Evolution of language: Fifth International Conference, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Further information is available at www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/

 APRIL 2004

2-3 Apr 2004 Writing journeys and places: The city, Trinity College, Oxford. An informal, interdisciplinary colloquium exploring various ways in which travel experience can be transformed into travel text. Contacts: Prof. John Eade (j.eade@roehampton.ac.uk), Dr Camille O'Reilly (camilleoreilly@hotmail.com). Offers of papers by 30 January 2004, abstract deadline 5 March 2004

4-7 Apr 2004 Southern African Association of Archaeologists 2004 Biennial Meeting, McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa. Contact: Leon Jacobson, tel 053-839-2703; jake@museumsnc.co.za.

14-17 Apr American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 73rd Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL. Contact: John Relethford, 607/436-2017, relethjh@oneonta.edu.

 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

6-9 May 2004 Canadian Anthropology Society Conference, U of Western Ontario, London, Canada. Theme: 'Citizenship and Public Space'. Contact: Kim Clark, casca04@uwo.ca. For more information, see www.ssc.uwo.ca/anthropology/casca.

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

13-17 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/

 NOVEMBER 2004

17-21 Nov 2004. AAA 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco Hilton and Towers, San Franciso, CA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

 DECEMBER 2004

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

 NOVEMBER 2005

30 Nov - 4 Dec 2005. 104th AAA Annual Meeting, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC , http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm

 2006

2006 IUAES Inter-Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.