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ISSUE: vol. 20, no.2 April 2004

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


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

Enlightenment, New Wellcome Gallery exhibition Death and dying; The Sainsbury African Gallery (permanent). The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, tel.: +44 (0)207 323 8299 (information desk); http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html.

Permanent exhibition on African art and culture. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; http://www.horniman.ac.uk.

 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/AI.W25

* 6 May 2004 In whose interest? One-day workshop on the role of applied anthropology in conflict situations. Contact Dr Dianne Stadhams, d.stadhams@roehampton.ac.uk. RAIsponsored (see ad in this issue).

5-7 May 2004 Journeys of expression III: Tourism and festivals as transnational practice, Innsbruck, Austria. Contact: David Picard (d.picard@shu.ac.uk), http://www.tourism-culture.com

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, Ontario, Canada. Theme: Citizenship and public space. Contact: Kim Clark, casca04@uwo.ca. For more information, see http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/anthropology/casca.

7-8 May 2004 Warfare, representation and cultural production in the New World. Symposium at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Contact George Lau (george.lau@uea.ac.uk), (http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/sru/symposium2004).

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; email: runnel@erm.ee, http://www.erm.ee/nafa.

14-15 May 2004 [change of date]. 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/art/sru/polynesia

17 May 2004 Learning in layers: Pathology and liberation. Lecture by Catherine Bateson. Lecture Theatre of the Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA, London, 6 pm. Reserve via events@tavi-port.org, http://www.cybsoc.org/news.htm

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/.

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

30-31 May 2004 Coastal economies: International symposium on hunter-gatherer adaptation in riverine and aquatic environments. Jointly sponsored by the British Academy, the Baikal Archaeology Project, and the Northern Studies Centre and Marischal Museum of the University of Aberdeen. Contact david.anderson@abdn.ac.uk, see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/northernstudies/coastal.htm

 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/art/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.

* 17 Jun 2004 Institute of Romance Studies, London, 6 pm. Lecture by Professor Derek Robbins on Foucault's unpublished thesis of 1961 on Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797). Venue: Senate House, room 349. All welcome, but please inform the Institute of Romance Studies (irs@sas.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7862 8677) if you wish to attend. http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs/. Co-sponsored by the RAI.

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.

18-22 Jun 2004 21st International Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) Conference, at the Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: http://www.ASDreams.org/2004, asdconfinfo@aol.com, tel +45-35361203.

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/

22-24 Jun 2004 The Sahara: Past, present & future, University of East Anglia; http://www.uea.ac.uk/sahara.

 JULY 2004

22-26 July 2004,</i> Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Tourism & literature: Travel, imagination and myth. Contact: Frederic Revaz, f.revaz@shu.ac.uk, http://www.tourism-culture.com

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

6-10 Sep 2004 The BA Festival of Science 2004, University of Exeter. British Association of Science, http://www.the-ba.net

8-12 Sep 2004 EASA Biennial Conference, 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

* 15 Sep 2004 [provisional]. RAIAGM

* 20 Sep 2004 Henry Myers Lecture by Professor Wendy Doniger (Univ of Chicago) on The mythology of self-imitation in passing: Race, gender and politics. Venue t.b.a.

24-25 Sep 2004 A conference on Truth in anthropology, and the anthropology of truth. Hosted by Pembroke College, Cambridge. Contact: truth@anthropologyconference.co.uk; http://www.anthropologyconference.co.uk

 OCTOBER 2004

4-6 October 2004 Intangible cultural heritage, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography (ICME) workshop at the ICOM General Conference in Seoul, Korea. Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2004. http://icme.icom.museum http://www.icom2004.org/

 NOVEMBER 2004

15-17 Nov 2004. Ethnicity in Siberia: The past, present and future, Krasnoiarsk Museum, Russia. International conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous ethnographer Boris Osipovich Dolgikh. Contact: Nikolai P. Markarov at mnp@kkkm.ru tel: +7-3912-22-65-36, http://www.sub-arctic.ac.at/current.htm

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

20 Nov 2004 Multiple versions of the world: 100 Years of Gregory Bateson's influence, Santa Clara University's campus, Silicon Valley, California. Contact Gordon Feller, GordonF20@comcast.net, http://www.acteva.com/go/Bateson

28 Nov - 2 Dec 2004. Rock art research: Changing paradigms. The Tenth Congress of the International Federation of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO), hosted by the Rock Art Society of India (RASI). Jaypee Palace, Agra, India. Contact: Dr Giriraj Kumar, girirajrasi@yahoo.com. http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/ifrao/web/agra.html

 DECEMBER 2004

* 8 Dec 2004 Huxley Memorial Lecture by Professor Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University. Title and venue t.b.a.

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

 APRIL 2005

4-7 Apr 2005 ASA 2005 Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland. Creativity and cultural improvisation. http://www.theasa.org/conferences.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

5-9 Sep The BA Association of Science Festival 2005, Dublin. http://www.the-ba.net, bafos2004@the-ba.net .

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.