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ISSUE: vol. 20, no.1 February
2004
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EXHIBITIONS
Seeing Lhasa: British depictions
of the Tibetan capital 1936-1947 (until
30 Nov 2004); Body arts (permanent). 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
Buried Treasure (until 14 March); New Wellcome Gallery exhibition
Death and dying; The Sainsbury African Gallery
(permanent), 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.
Sahara - Photographs by Marion Bull (until 4 March);
The first permanent exhibition on African art and culture.
Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ;
http://www.horniman.ac.uk.
FEBRUARY 2004
13-15 Feb 2004
International Conference on Qiaoxiang and Chinese overseas.
Organized by the Dept of Anthropology of the Chinese University
of Hong Kong and Quanzhou Maritime Museum. Venue: Quanzhou Maritime
Museum, Guangzhou, Fujian. Contact: Prof. Tan Chee-Beng, Dept of
Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong
Kong; email: 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 http://www.mahhi.org or
email froning@mahhi.org.
MARCH 2004
15-21 Mar 2004 23me
Bilan du Film Ethnographique. 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.
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 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-3 Apr 2004
Evolution of language: Fifth International Conference, Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Further information is available at http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/
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
APRIL 2004
1-3 Apr 2004. Museum
Ethnographers Group (MEG) Conference and AGM
in honour of Peter Gathercole. Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology; www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/megconf.htm.
Contact: Anita Herle, ach13@cam.ac.uk
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 2004 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;
http://www.psy.kuleuven.ac.be/AIW25
6 May 2004 Professor
Clifford Geertz will deliver the Frazer Lecture entitled
'Crossed purposes: Anthropology and the division of knowledge' at
5pm. Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, Cambridge. Jointly sponsored by
the Department of Social Anthropology and the Centre for Research
in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University
of Cambridge.
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 http://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/
10-16 May 2004 NAFA
Film Festival 2004 - 1st Tartu Visual Culture Week
(Estonia). In association with the Nordic Anthropological Filmmakers
Association (NAFA) annual meeting. Contact and submissions: Pille
Runnel, NAFA FILM FESTIVAL 2004, Estonian National Museum, Veski
32 , Tartu 51014, Estonia. Submission deadline: 1 March 2004; email:
runnel@erm.ee, http://www.erm.ee/nafa.
17 May 2004 (to be confirmed). Learning in layers: Logical types in pathology and liberation. Lecture by Catherine Bateson. Tavistock Centre, London. For details
contact Britt Krause, bkrause@tavi-port.nhs.uk
19-24 May 2004
7th Göttingen International Film Festival (GIFF): Organized
by IWF, Knowledge and Media, Nonnenstieg 72, D 37075 Goettingen,
Germany: http://www.iwf.de/giff/.
21-22 May 2004.
Polynesian collections: Interpretations of the past in the present.
International conference. Sainsbury Research Unit, University of
East Anglia. Contact: Helen Southwood, h.southwood@uea.ac.uk.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/sru/polynesia
24-28 May 2004
Second International Festival on Visual Anthropology, Moscow.
Theme: Tradition and object(ive) lens: In search of integrity.
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, Moscow 127576, Tcherepovetskaya
ul., 4-2-58, Natalia V. Litvina. Tel./fax of the Organizational
Committee: (095) 939-4441; email: eale@yandex.ru
JUNE 2004
2-6 Jun 2004 15th
annual Beeld voor Beeld Festival, KIT
Tropentheater Amsterdam. Overall theme: Strange and familiar.
Special areas of interest: The new Europe; Farmers and peasants;
Exoticism. Contact: http://www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl
9-10 Jun 2004.
Pacific Studies: A postgraduate forum on current research.
Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia. Contact: Helen
Southwood, h.southwood@uea.ac.uk. http://www.uea.ac.uk/sru/polynesia
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, 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.
18-21 Jun 2004 Third
International Conference on hierarchy and power in the history of
civilizations, Moscow. Center for Civilizational and Regional
Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Contact: conf2004@hotmail.com.
19-20 Jun 2004.
The Eighth Asian Studies Conference, Japan, a regional conference
of the Association for Asian Studies, meeting in Tokyo. Contact:
ascj@max.icu.ac.jp or write to Asian Studies
Conference (ASCJ), c/o Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International
Christian University, 3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8585;
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~kokusai/ascj/JU
23-24 July 2004
Fifth Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Film Symposium,
Bucksport, Maine. Topic: The moving image as biography. Northeast
Historic Film, PO Box 900, Bucksport, Maine 04416, USA; email: oldfilm@acadia.net;
http://www.oldfilm.org.
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/
SEPTEMBER 2004
8-12 September 2004.
EASA Biennial, Vienna; (deadline for paper proposals 1 March
2004). EASA local Organizing Committee, Department of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Universitätsstrasse
7, A-1010-Vienna, Austria; tel.: 43-1-4277 48509; email: easa.ethnologie@univie.ac.at;
http://www.easaonline.org/confpage.htm
NOVEMBER 2004
17-21 Nov 2004.
AAA 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco Hilton and Towers,
San Francisco, CA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
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DECEMBER 2004
12-15 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-congresses.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-congresses.htm
SEPTEMBER 2005
15-18 Sep 2005. The
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology is hosting a conference
to celebrate the Centenary of Anthropology at Oxford, St
Hugh's College, Oxford. Contact: gina.burrows@anthro.ox.ac.uk
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.
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