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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 ?

 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.