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ISSUE: vol. 20, no.2 April 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
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.
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